The nature of studying communication and its impact on society means highlighting the gaps of knowledge in the realm of the known that I’ve spent most of my adult life researching, critiquing, and explaining. I felt a particular knowledge gap was worth discussing in the postscript of my latest book, “Meme Life.” As we perceive …
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 …
In addition to working on my SxSW proposals for 2016, two conference presentations, and the various other academic pieces I written in the past six weeks, I have also been hired in by Geek Bar DLC to be a quasi “academic-in-residence” and write a series of articles. This assignment was kicked off by my article that I wrote …