In the News
Recaps and reprints of media appearances
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Honored by Lambda Pi Eta
Thank you to the members of the Lambda Pi Eta Chapter at Queens University of Charlotte for honoring me with the Lambda Pi Eta Award for service to the Knight School’s undergraduate programs. I feel humbled that the students in our school chose me for this award from among a very talented and caring faculty…
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Ballantyne Magazine
Ballantyne Magazine, a Charlotte-area publication, released its Spring 2011 issue featuring the wired generation of “echo-boomers.” Alongside other Charlotte-area twenty- and thirty-somethings, I was included in the cover story, by Carol Gifford, as both an example of and researcher of the intersection between daily life and technology. Check out the Spring 2011 issue of Ballantyne…
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Taming the Social Media Beast
“Can the benefits of social media outweigh the risks involved in its use?” Thus began the conversation about social media at Center Stage in Charlotte’s NoDa District on Tuesday night. The National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate, WFAE 90.7, hosts a Public Conversations Series in Charlotte to encourage community dialogue on current events. On Tuesday, February 15,…
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Social Media & Education: School, Teacher, Student & Classroom
The leaders of Social Media Charlotte invited me to speak at the December 2010 breakfast meeting titled, “Social Media & Education: School, Teacher, Student & Classroom.” The panel – which included Dr. Jeri Langford (Associate Professor at Johnson & Wales University), Adam Brooks (Communications Director for Central Piedmont Community College), and Brian Baute (IT Director…
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Would you give up Facebook for $300?
In his article, “Can she go a month without Facebook,” the Charlotte Observer‘s Eric Frazier chronicles the quest of a Rock Hill mother who bet her daughter $300 to go a month without Facebook. Why? So the daughter can focus on her studies at the University of South Carolina – Upstate. Below is an excerpt…
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Mixing Reporters and Students: A “Live” lesson in media relations
When the news of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s generous grant (to name the James L. Knight School of Communication) was announced, I knew it wouldn’t be long before the gift impacted my teaching opportunities in the classroom; but I never thought that the impact would be so strong on the very…
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Teaching (and learning) with Twitter
Can Twitter impact students’ perceptions of their teachers? Even though these findings may come as no surprise to educators who already use Twitter, our study (described below) suggests that students who are active on Twitter alongside their instructors may actually perceive their instructors to be more approachable and interactive than they would otherwise. Thus, the…
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Charlotte Observer: Queens Professor asks class to tweet
Article reprinted from The Charlotte Observer April 5, 2010 Eric Frazier Social Media Columnist Last week, Queens University professor John McArthur committed what some in his line of work would consider sacrilege. He used precious lecture time in his communications seminar to let kids – avert your eyes, academic traditionalists – go on Twitter. He…
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Twitter in the Classroom: For good or evil?
Should we use Twitter in our classrooms? Communication students in Dr. John A. McArthur’s social media seminar at Queens University of Charlotte set out to open the door to that conversation by hosting a Twitter chat on March 31, 2010 and inviting educators and students to join in the conversation. Students and faculty from Queens…
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Announcing Apple’s iPad
The grand announcement of the iPad by Apple’s Steve Jobs came with a flurry of media opportunities. Below are links to two features surrounding the hype leading up to and following Apple’s announcement and demonstration of the iPad. Both were written by enterprise reporter Peter St. Onge of the Charlotte Observer: Apple Tablet: A behavior changer?…
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