Publications & Scholarship
Posts about my academic publications and other forms of scholarship
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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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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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Mediated Group Communication
Queens University of Charlotte Media Release March 31, 2010 Dr. John A. McArthur, assistant professor in the School of Communication, wrote a book chapter that was published in the recently released text “Interpersonal Relations and Social Patterns in Communication Technologies: Discourse Norms, Language Structures and Cultural Variables.” The book, edited by Dr. Jung-Ran Park and Dr.…
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Dr. McArthur Honored with Top Ten Paper Award at NCA
Queens University of Charlotte Media Release November 18, 2009 Dr. John A. McArthur, assistant professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in the School of Communication, was honored at the National Communication Association’s annual conference in Chicago, Illinois, held November 11-15, 2009. His teaching presentation titled, “What Happened? Teaching Attributions with Ambiguous Prompts” received a Top…
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Can Groups Successfully Gather in Digital Space?
Queens University of Charlotte Media Release February 12, 2009 Dr. John A. McArthur, Assistant Professor in the School of Communication, had an article published in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of Communication Inquiry. The article, titled “Digital Subculture: A geek meaning of style” investigated groups in Internet-based chat rooms to assess indicators of…
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Queens Professor Publishes Guide to Podcasting in the Classroom
Queens University of Charlotte Media Release January 12, 2009 Dr. John A. McArthur, Assistant Professor in the School of Communication, had an article published in the January 2009 issue of Communication Teacher. The article, Composing Podcasts: Engaging ‘digital natives’ in the communication classroom, serves a guide for educucators seeking to engage students with digital media…
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Queens Professor featured at NCA
Queens University of Charlotte Media Release November 24, 2008 Dr. John A. McArthur, Assistant Professor in the School of Communication, presented his research during a featured panel at the annual conference of the National Communication Association in San Diego, CA, Nov. 21-24, 2008. His paper, Instructional Proxemics: Making a case for the study of space…