The National Communication Association (for all of its issues) still feels like my academic home. This feeling goes beyond its direct connection to my department (I’m part of the Department of Art & Communication and the program lead for Digital Communication & Content Creation). I am directly involved in four...
The week or so after being named as a Shortlisted Finalist for “Digital Culture in the Platform Era” for the ICA Popular Media and Culture Outstanding Book of the Year at the 2026 International Communication Association’s Annual Conference in Cape Town, South Africa has given me a chance to reflect...
The last three years as the Irene Casteel Endowed Chair for Education, Professional, and Social Sciences at Ohio Northern University have been an amazing honor. "Meme Life: The Social, Cultural, and Psychological Aspects of Memetic Communication" was given an extended tour, which gave it the necessary exposure to earn the 2023...
As the moderator for the #NCA22 Game Studies Top Papers session as I am reminded of the wisdom of one of my mentors Raymond Puchot, who stated that moderators must: “be able to cheer the work of the scholars, provide a clear summary of the individual papers & the connective...
The last few months leading up to the National Communication Association's 2020 Annual Conference was marked by the continuous denunciations of the journalistic organizations and platforms that perform the role of maintaining an informed public. Rhetorical attacks came from the bully pulpits and were invoked by those that followed political...
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2020 Game Studies Preconference, "The Crossroads of Information, Interaction, Meaningfulness, and Fun." I am Shane Tilton, the vice-chair elect for the Game Studies Interest Division. I am coming to you live from Ada, OH, and the campus of Ohio Northern University,...
An issue that I have with discussing an area of the tenure review like professional service is that I don’t perform those actions for the purpose of recognition. I, like others those that perform the most service for a discipline, an association, an interest division, or even a conference, do...
I am happy to report that SAGE Open has published my presentation from the 2015 National Communication Association Game Studies Pre-Conference ("Introducing Game Studies to the National Communication Association"). “Winning Through Deception: A Pedagogical Case Study on Using Social Deception Games to Teach Small Group Communication Theory” was modified from...
One of my favorite classes that I teach yearly is “Communication Research Methods.” The course acts as the perfect balance between the abstract quest for understanding the cultural world that surrounds society and the concrete reality of explaining the communal relationships that currently exist. I try to make the concepts...
“All right, big, big week up at the Lodge this week.”Red Green from "The Red Green Show" This academic year has been hectic for me. I’m typically used to presenting at a few conferences and publishing one or two articles during the school year. It seems that this term has...
