Publications & Media Appearances
Releases about publications, speaking engagements, and reprints of news articles that report on my work or include my commentary on society, media, technology, and education.
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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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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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Interns score backstage credentials at DNC
The following story was featured here on the Queens University of Charlotte website, September 12, 2012: Raulston Boger and Anna Kirwan had no idea what to expect when they received their DNC internship assignment from the Knight School of Communication. They were appointed to the DNC Host Committee, responsible for planning and executing the entire…
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Charlotte and the Convention – recapping #COMM360
Two days of seminars (followed by a week of volunteering) would normally be enough to leave students glassy-eyed and exhausted. The “Charlotte and the Convention” conference at Queens University of Charlotte was a clear exception. After over 30 different speakers and as many topics, students poured out of the classroom enthusiatic about engaging with the Democratic National…
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DNC Insights 20 seconds at a time
The following article was featured by Queens University of Charlotte on Sept. 5, 2012: In precisely 40 minutes and 120 slides, five Queens’ faculty members and an alumnus regaled students with six presentations tied to the Democratic National Convention. The topics ranged from the history of political protests to the increasing role of influence that…
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Opening Remarks for #COMM360
Welcome to COMM 360: Charlotte and the Convention! On behalf of my colleagues in the Knight School of Communication at Queens University of Charlotte, I am pleased to welcome you to an innovative learning opportunity like none we’ve tried before at Queens. Next week, Charlotte will play host to a nation as the Democratic National…
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Charlotte and the Convention
This morning, Jennifer Hull and I appeared on Fox News Rising in Charlotte to promote the COMM 360 experience starting August 30, 2012 at Queens University of Charlotte. Watch the video on the FoxCharlotte website. If you’re interested in joining us for the events, here is the full schedule: Joining us for Charlotte and the…
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Queens students – and Charlotte – can go to school on DNC
Queens students – and Charlotte – can go to school on DNC This column ran in the Charlotte Observer on September 30, 2011 on the opinion/editorial page. The link above will take you to the column on the Observer’s website. Our city might learn a lot from the Democratic National Convention this September, if we…
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Pedagogy, then Technology
Want to integrate technology into your classroom? Choose technology that supports your pedagogical aims. That’s the message of my workshop conducted this morning at the Teaching Professor Conference in Washington, DC. Attendees worked together to create opportunities to infuse their courses with technology. I presented 4 experiments that I’ve tried in my classroom with social…
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“Design Thinking” at ACBJ’s Digital Speaker Series
Our Community 2.0 project is starting to generate some attention, and I was honored to be invited to share my work in the Digital Speaker Series hosted by American City Business Journals in Charlotte, North Carolina, last week. Here is the slide deck from the presentation, which focused on applying design thinking to the issues of…
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