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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Popular Music meets Digital Subcultures
“Digital Subculture: A geek meaning of style” was selected as a chapter for the Sage Benchmarks in Culture and Society reference text, Popular Music. The research article — originally published in the Journal of Communication Inquiry — was an argument that subcultures could gather in digital spaces the same way that they convened in coffee houses and…
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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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Going Mobile: Phones in Class
A student glances quickly around before secretly texting a classmate. Holding the phone just out of sight of her professor, her attention turns to the keypad on her blackberry. The message is sent. She looks quickly up and feigns interest. Her classmate sees the text pop up on his iPhone. He glances around. Holding the…
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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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Teaching Attribution Theory
Dr. John A. McArthur, Assistant Professor in the Knight School of Communication, had an article published in the January 2011 issue of Communication Teacher. The article, “What Happened? Teaching Attribution Theory through ambiguous prompts,” describes an interactive teaching activity to assist with instruction of the attribution theory in communication and other social science courses. The article includes…
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No names, just rants and raves
The Charlotte Observer’s social media columnist Eric Frazier wrote a feature on Charlotte-based startup Fastnote.com, published on December 28, 2010. Below are excerpts from the article: Richard Shaffner hardly fits the hip young social media CEO stereotype. He’s a 55-year-old father of six, a former banker who’s still finding his way around the new world…
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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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A Month with @Mashable
When I decided to immerse myself in Twitter in early 2009, my goal was to learn the means whereby a business might effectively tweet. I chose Pete Cashmore of Mashable (then named “Mashup”) as a guide for my learning and performed a content analysis of his 747 tweets in the month of May 2009. The…
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Introducing Dr. Fareed Zakaria
Last week, I had the honor of introducing Dr. Fareed Zakaria for his lecture given for Queens University of Charlotte’s Learning Society Lecture Series at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte, NC. Zakaria, the popular host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and editor for Time magazine, gave an hour lecture without a note and delighted…
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Speaking and Learning in Tweets: a field guide to Twitter language
This presentation is intended for Twitter beginners, to explore the language used to link information in Twitter. I delivered it as part of the Knight School of Communication’s digital media learning workshops series offered at Queens University of Charlotte and shared it here for interested others. As always, your comments and feedback on this presentation…
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