Tag: media effects

The Future of News: Introduction, Review of Literature, and Research Questions

The Future of News: Introduction, Review of Literature, and Research Questions

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 …

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Gaia as a Cybergoddess

Gaia as a Cybergoddess

After finishing my dissertation, I wanted to archive some of my previous presentations. During the course of looking through old submissions, I came across the first presentation I did as a grad student and academic professional. Ohio University hosted Global Fusion 2005. My masters’ cohort at the time figured that conference would be a reasonable …

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Cyberbullying and Sexting

Cyberbullying and Sexting

It seems that the issues that I get requested to speak on most during the last couple of months have been the issues of cyberbullying and sexting. Most of the time it comes in the form of an educator who has heard of me and wanted me to talk to other teachers about these technological issues. There was a rare occurrence that I had …

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