Life in Academe
Events and experiences that remind me that I’m a professor and I love working in higher education.
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Voicing a Campus Icon
Where do information design theory, digital media, and community engagment intersect? One location is on the Queens University of Charlotte campus inside a fountain in the middle of a major courtyard. That’s the home of @QueensDiana. At the National Communication Association annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, I presented a paper on the hyperlocal community engagement enhanced…
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Online Credibility and Digital Ethos
How has the digital landscape changed the way that we view credibility? As credibility emerges as a core struggle in the online environment, researchers are discussing this issue at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association (NCA) this week in New Orleans, Louisiana. I had the privilege of responding to a set of four…
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Digital Media Consumption
Consumption of online media is a hot topic in the study of digital literacies and at NCA 2011, the annual meeting of the National Communication Association occurring this week in New Orleans, Louisiana. This morning, I had the pleasure of responding to competitive research surrounding the topics of Facebook, social networking and online media consumption.…
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Rebuilding Communities after Crisis – NCA’s Opening Address
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans rebuilt its community – a task that is still in process. At the opening keynote of the National Communication Association’s 97th annual convention, the convention team looked to the host city for inspiration. To amplify the voice of the city, NCA invited Jim Pate and Andrew Shahan…
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Voices in Strategic Communication and Social Media
Strategic communication in the digital world can be advanced by quality research like that presented in a public relations division session at the National Communication Association 2011 Annual Conference in New Orleans. Practitioners might better be able to target particular demographics utilizing social media based upon the work found here. A Strategic Framework for Targeting Generation Y…
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Twitter and Teacher Behaviors
Does Twitter influence student perceptions of teacher behaviors? As part of a session surrounding new and emerging technologies in instruction, I presented my research (co-authored with Kristen Bostedo-Conway) on Twitter’s role in the classroom at the National Communication Association 2011 National Convention in New Orleans, LA. We conducted this research in Spring 2010 to better understand…
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e-Books, Tenure and Promotion
“The ‘Publish or Perish’ model in academia might be missing a third ‘P’ – Profit,” says Mel Odom, a successful e-book publisher and faculty member at the University of Oklahoma. Odom, alongside Michael Kent of the University of Oklahoma and Lisa Schreiber of Millersville University, led a pre-conference on e-publishing at the National Communication Association 2011…
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e-Books and the Changing Dynamics of Publishing
The front page of this morning’s USA Today Money section heralded the importance of e-books and the high quality of digital book readers in an article by Edward C. Baig. The early beginning of the e-publishing industry can be traced back to July 4, 1971, when Michael Stern Hart founded Project Gutenburg. Forty years later, with…
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A Training Plan for NCA 2011
Some of my colleagues say that I “out-conference” them. It might be true. I’ve seen some of them at past conferences juggling the enormous conference guides, trying to decide which session to see next, and asking me for tips toward a better conference experience. You know who you are. Even among large conferences, NCA is…
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10 Tips for Improving Group Presentations
You’ve been asked to do a group presentation and don’t know where to start. Many group presentations fail because of diffusion of responsibility. You think, “as long is my part is good, I don’t need to think about the rest of the presentation.” You couldn’t be more wrong. Group presentations are only different from typical,…
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