The Information and Interactions of Communication Scholarship
My view of communication scholarship is that it is the “study the information exchanges and interactions patterns between members of a given community and/or society.”
A Conceptual Framework
This post is the summary of the third day of the CAMS 2391: Memetic Communication course at Ohio Northern University. The focus for this day was to discuss the connection between culture, social networks, communities, and ways of reading mediated and cultural work to the larger discussion of memetic communication. This summary reflects the material taught January 18, 2019.
How “No Man’s Sky” Helps Apply Face-work to Emotional Interactions in the Real World
Another area of theory that can help a person use the knowledge from maps and guides in video games and apply that knowledge towards evaluating real-world emotional experiences comes from an era before mass-produced video games. Erving Goffman was one of the more recognized and well-respected sociologists in the 20th century. Goffman (1985) developed the …
Facebook’s Future: Organic or Processed?
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’ve been thinking a lot about soccer lately…*
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 …
e-Portfolios
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.
Our Tools and Gadgets
A reaction to Dan Patterson’s comment regarding the development of tools and technology online.