According to the Brookings Institution (2004) and several other key economic and technology thinktanks, there is a notable skills gap occuring in the marketplace that is affecting businesses (especially businesses in the tech sector) in their ability to find skilled employees to fill entry & mid-level job openings. This session...
ARTICLE I – Organization Section 1. The name of this division shall be the Game Studies interest division of the National Communication Association. Section 2. The organization may at its pleasure by a vote of the membership body change its name. ARTICLE II – PurposeThe following are the purposes for...
BEA 2014 Business Meeting April 8, 2014 District 7 Meeting 8:20 : Jim Crandall starting the District 7 meeting Report from the board meeting: (District 6) indicated that we should court high school teachers, which is one of the major tenets of our interest division/district. Promoting Elkhorn Valley/District 7 Media...
The cover of my first chapter publication. Facebook is one of the more popular online social networks that took advantage of the computer-mediated communication (CMC) services such as instant messaging, forums and direct messaging with publication services such as blogging and sharing of content to form a service that connected...
Since the completion of my dissertation, the only step left is to submit my research for award consideration. Name of AwardAssociationDate of ConferenceLocation of ConferenceStatusKenneth Harwood Outstanding Dissertation AwardBroadcast Education AssociationApril 7-10, 2013Las Vegas, NVWonHerbert S. Dordick AwardInternational Communication Association, Communication and Technology SectionJune 17-21,2013London, EnglandNominatedAoIR 2013 Dissertation AwardAssociation of...
(From L to R) R. Stuart Geiger, Daniel Greene, Shannon Sindorf, and Bonnie Stewart are preparing to present at the “Infostructure of Knowledge” panel at TtW13. I was the moderator for the panel. (photo/Shane Tilton) This weekend, I was asked to moderate a panel at the Theorizing the Web conference (#TtW13) in New...
Dmitry Sklyarov, a 27-year-old programmer for ElcomSoft Co. Ltd., was arrested after giving a speech at DEFCon, a major annual technical conference. He was arrested for trafficking software, which could circumvent the technological protection on eBooks in Adobe’s eBook format. He was charged with five criminal offensives. With his arrest...
NCA Communication and the Future Interest Division By-Laws ARTICLE I – OrganizationSection 1. The name of this division shall be the Division on Communication and the Future of the National Communication Association.Section 2. The organization may at its pleasure by a vote of the membership body change its name. ARTICLE...
“Birds of a Feather” (#181998)Time: Tue, Apr 9 – 4:00pm – 5:15pmPlace: LVH, Conference Room 2 Abstract: “Birds-of-a-Feather” (BOF) sessions are moderated, open discussions on technology-related topics proposed by BEA2013 attendees. A topic may be related to BEA2013 content, or any other technology topic that would be of interest to...
The third method that I used in my dissertation was the guided ethnography. The purpose of the post is to describe in some detail the process I used and the rationale why I followed this process. This section began at the end of the interview stage. The ethnography was designed...
