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...
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2020 Game Studies Preconference, "The Crossroads of Information, Interaction, Meaningfulness, and Fun." I am Shane Tilton, the vice-chair elect for the Game Studies Interest Division. I am coming to you live from Ada, OH, and the campus of Ohio Northern University,...
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...
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....
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...
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 pasta1.5 cups of water1 TBSP of olive oil1/2 cup of sweet white wine1 minced...
An issue that I have with discussing an area of the tenure review like professional service is that I don’t perform those actions for the purpose of recognition. I, like others those that perform the most service for a discipline, an association, an interest division, or even a conference, do...
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...
One of the pieces of wisdom that I acquired during grad school was that supposedly a good scholar could explain their research agenda, with clarity and precision, in around 200 words. I could have followed this sage wisdom if my research followed a specific, specialized route. I’ve learned over the...
Note: This post represents the first of several narratives that I need to provide the Tenure Committee before the end of September. The focus of this post will be related to my teaching over the past five years at Ohio Northern University. One of the areas that have been an...
