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My thoughts and the thoughts of talented others on digital strategic communication, digital & media literacy, information design, education & instruction, and the field of human communication.
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The Election has Facebook seeing Red – and Blue
The following article was featured on the Social Media Club’s national Social Media Education blog on Election Day, November 6, 2012: If you’re like me, your friends on Facebook have been talking about the election. I’m friends with supporters of President Obama and Governor Romney, and even a few who are advocating for Governor Johnson.…
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Space Invaders, episode one
As a child in the American south in the 1980’s, secondhand smoke was part of growing up. It was in the house, the car, on school playgrounds, at every restaurant and shopping mall. On trips, my brothers and I observed miles of tobacco fields from the car windows. I’ve never smoked a day in my…
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Navigating the campus with new eyes
Students in my communication seminar on proxemics in the Knight School conducted a wheelchair accessibility audit of campus. The audit helped students to better understand how people different from themselves understand and use built space. The following story was featured on the Queens University of Charlotte website about the project: Navigating the campus with new eyes…
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Digital Entrepreneurship with #AwesomeNick
In a talk on the campus of Queens University of Charlotte, Nick Such inspired students and community leaders to consider the role of digital entrepreneurship in society. Such is the co-founder of Awesome, Inc., a Hashtag for tonight’s @AeroSuch discussion: #AwesomeNick ? The Knight School Mon, Oct 08 2012 13:42:10 ReplyRetweetFavorite RT @TheKnightSchool: RT @theknightschool:…
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Mapping Innovation: a discussion with digital entrepreneur Nick Such
When was the last time you got lost? Self-proclaimed “indoor map nerd” Nick Such wants to come to the rescue. “People getting lost in buildings is a problem we can solve,” says Such, CEO of BuildingLayer and founder of Awesome Inc. As CEO of BuildingLayer, much of his current work focuses on indoor mapping of built spaces.…
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Giant Ledge in Big Indian, NY
Last year in a graduate seminar, I made the claim that all experiences of space and place are designed for us. One student in the seminar rolled her eyes and, face aghast, said, “I don’t believe that.” As I pressed her on the issue, she relayed a story of a hike she took through the…
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I took my graduate students to Walmart. Don’t judge.
Everytime I write an paper about user-experience design, I try to illuminate the main concept by comparing Ikea and Walmart. So, it made sense to me that instead of talking about this comparison in my graduate course in “Space, Technology & User Experience,” I would utilize the actual spaces to make the comparison for me. My…
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Unfriending leaves a mark.
Whether you were once BFFs, Facebook friends, more-than friends, or friends of friends, unfriending someone leaves a record – a history. My family and I were strolling through a park a few weeks ago and sat on a bench swing. Bench swings, trees, and fence posts have a rich history of serving as markers. People throughout the…
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Proxemics for Blogs: Using digital space to your advantage
I’ve spent the past few days assessing blog sites full of observations about spaces. A blog is a digital space worthy of analysis in the context of proxemics. The objects placed into a blog post all have individual attributes (size, color, location) that impact their perceived use of space on a page. The trick for bloggers is…
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Experimenting with Pinterest in the college classroom
The article below was featured on the Social Media Club’s Education Blog on September 17, 2012. I embarked on another classroom teaching and learning experiment this fall on Pinterest. One hundred of our students at Queens University of Charlotte were dispatched into the venues and streets of Charlotte as student interns and volunteers during the 2012 Democratic…
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