Today, Facebook rolled out some pretty dramatic changes to the front pages of the users. The gradual shift from a welcome portal to a centralized news feed has taken place over the past several months. From the most part, it is hard for casual users of social networks to tell the functional differences between Facebook …
I had the chance to finally catch my first Columbus Crew. The fact that I never attend a professional soccer match before Wednesday was a little weird. I played soccer in Junior High. It was one of my favorite sports at camp. Hell, I was a licensed OHSAA Soccer referee for three years. So, when I …
I’m trying to create a new word in the hope that I can make it the Webster’s Word of the Year for 2012. That word is wisdomatic. I’m defining it to mean “the ability to dispense wisdom at a moment’s notice.” As a means of creating a working example of this word, I would point …
One of the key areas that I wanted to focus on this academic year was to create classes that would be beneficial to the local community. According to the Associate Dean and other colleagues of mine, a key skill set that could help the local community was knowing how to create e-Portfolios.
When I applied for my current job, I had to give a short class on mobile media. I thought this was up my alley, so I decided to have some fun with it. I enjoyed some of the Prezi presentations I saw at a conference and decided to run with a thematic presentation placing the concept of …
The one regret I had from attending SxSW was that I didn’t plan out the panels that I wanted to watch. I was more concerned about finishing my presentation that was going out and enjoying myself. My plan for SxSW if I get accepted to present this year is to have my presentation completely done …
Another class that I’ll be teaching this spring is “Introduction to Visual Communication,” which will be offered 1 to 3 PM, Monday and Wednesday at Ohio University Lancaster. The base description of the class is “A survey of visual communication theory and technology of visual communication from ancient cave drawings to digital computer images. Visual …
This is a survey course designed to introduce you to the broad range of theoretical, formal, and historiographic issues specific to cinema & new media. We will pay careful attention to how the film medium differs from other media as a condition of its stylistic and formal properties, its institutional production, and its historical reception. …
The SxSW 2012 Panelpicker has finally opened up and our panel is listed. The battleplan for our panel “Festivals in the Age of Instant Access” will be to answer these questions in the first half of the panel: How do presenters communicate with connected conference community? How do attendees transition information from the conference to …
During the first half of 2010, I decided to study the impact that social media was playing on traditional media channels. The feud between Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien about the Tonight Show was happening during the same time. The original plan was to conduct a multi-method study looking at the online artifacts related to …