One of my favorite states to visit in Kentucky. It feels like a second home. Therefore, I knew that I had to attend the 2018 Fall National College Media Convention in Louisville, KY, a.k.a. #CollegeMedia18. This conference is special as it is one of the rare times that I take...
One of the areas of focus in my research on the past few years has been the ephemeral nature of modern journalism within the newer platforms of communication. The use of Instagram and Snapchat as a means to deliver news has been of interest to me as it represents news...
One of the biggest honors I received this fall was winning the Distinguished Innovative Teacher Award from the Ohio Communication Association earlier this month. It was nice to be recognized by my colleagues at Ohio Northern University and other communication professionals across Ohio. One of the areas that earned me...
Review of the 2018 Trip to the United Kingdom I had the pleasure of representing Ohio Northern University in the United Kingdom in July. My primary reason for traveling was to work out the final arrangements for our University of Salford workshop. We co-partnered with Point Park University in 2017 to...
One of the more consistent requests for a class from my students was a course on memes and their impact on culture and society. Most of the students would share gifs and memes via our Slack channels. There are times that I am a little lost in the visual language,...
