A multimedia journalist must be able to process the world around them and publish works on a regular basis.

Convergent Publishing Syllabus

Convergent publishing is one of the harder courses to prepare for going into a given semester. I want to provide a platform for students to create content that reflects their interest and allows those students to apply what they have learned in the first two years of the Multimedia Journalism...

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Rule #9

My office door has a multitude of signs, notices, and other documents of various interest and concerns. The text in particular that causes the most reading is a pair of papers called "Tilton's Laws of the Academic Universe." This document has been on my office door since I taught at...

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Mobile Media

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...

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Introduction to Visual Communication

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...

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Film and New Media Criticism

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...

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