Convergent publishing is one of the harder courses to prepare for going into a given semester. I want to provide a platform for students to create content that reflects their interest and allows those students to apply what they have learned in the first two years of the Multimedia Journalism program towards a representation of …
Restarting the recipe part of my site with one of my favorite homestyle variations to dumplings.
It’s been more than three years since Jon Stewart left the Daily Show and placed the hosting responsibilities in the capable hands of Trevor Noah. The show has changed from an editorializing platform that used comedy as the medium of discourse to a show that satirizes current events to create a shared social experience via …
One of the first orders of business I had after finishing my Master’s degree work was to start writing more. Producing academic articles and essays was an area of weakness. It was difficult to synthesize and analyze theories and apply those thoughts to what was happening in the world. I figured reformating my website to …
One of the central projects that have defined my time at Ohio Northern University has been to develop a new study aboard program between Communication and Media Studies and the University of Salford in Manchester, England. This partnership led to a one-off workshop between our two institutions and Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA. The …
This list represents the first fifty rules and represents the list that is on my office door.
My office door has a multitude of signs, notices, and other documents of various interest and concerns. The text in particular that causes the most reading is a pair of papers called “Tilton’s Laws of the Academic Universe.” This document has been on my office door since I taught at the Ohio University of Lancaster. I …
News and media organizations have been attempting to figure out their futures since the beginning of mass-produced journalism. One such example of sensing where the trends are going can be found in Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson’s 2004 video entitled, “EPIC 2014.” “EPIC 2014” (and the follow-up video “EPIC 2015”) tried to anticipate how markets …
Communication at Play was a beautiful theme for the National Communication Association 2018 annual conference (NCA2018). I thought the event as a whole was an excellent opportunity for scholars from various locations, academic backgrounds, and research practices to come together and celebrate what defines our discipline. This post is a brief overview of my experiences …
The National Communication Association’s 2018 Legislative Assembly kicked off the 2018 Annual Conference with 123 delegates willing to discuss the issues of the membership and run the business needs of the association. Ronald Jackson started the meeting on time. National Office After a brief instruction of the delegates in attendance, the first report came from …