Meal #6: Hearty Turkey Soup
A hearty turkey soup perfect for cold evenings and Thanksgiving leftovers.
Meal #5: Spiced Turkey Rolls
One of my favorite variations of a dumpling meal, combined with Thanksgiving leftovers.
A Critical View of the Blurred Lines of Journalism
The last few months leading up to the National Communication Association’s 2020 Annual Conference was marked by the continuous denunciations of the journalistic organizations and platforms that perform the role of maintaining an informed public. Rhetorical attacks came from the bully pulpits and were invoked by those that followed political leaders’ ideological whims. Researchers in …
The Crossroads of Information, Interaction, Meaningfulness, and Fun: An Opening Thought and Remarks
My opening remarks from the 2020 National Communication Association Game Studies Interest Division’s Virtual Preconference.
Bourdain as the Curious Food Journalist
One of the strongest themes from the chapter I wrote about Anthony Bourdain for the Eating Fandom book related to the reasons that his fans enjoyed his work was due to his ability to present his curiosity about the world throughout the various series he produced. His ability to go beyond the basic premise of …
Six Community Archetypes
My last post discussed the four journalistic communities and the platforms journalists use to tell audiences the communities’ stories. These nexus of platforms formed the foundation of the Journalism Breakdown and developed the techniques that I used to teach journalists how to explain those communities’ realities to the broader population. I also provided a chart …
Communicating Effectively about the Four Types of Journalistic Communities
Those that have been following this website should have noticed that there have been no postings for a year. The reason for the silence from me is due to an opportunity that came up in April 2018. There were several book publishers at the Broadcast Education Association annual conference in Las Vegas. One of them …
Meal #4: Lemon Capered Bowties
This is a simple one pan dish that I often make (with some variations) when I’m hungry and don’t have a lot of time to prepare a meal for two. Ingredients: 2 cups of dried bowtie pasta 1.5 cups of water 1 TBSP of olive oil 1/2 cup of sweet white wine 1 minced clove …
A Narrative of My Professional Service
This post is the third in a series for my tenure file. The focus of this post is about the value of my professional service to the larger academic community.
Heidegger & Final Fantasy’s Technological Adaptation
Square Enix created a series of worlds designed to push the player’s understanding of how social development and interactions could be crafted within the Japanese Role Playing Game genre of video games. The three continents of World A from Final Fantasy I (FF I) to the lonely star known as Eos in Final Fantasy XV …