I posted new photo on my Flickr: The Sentinel @ RIT #SMACSRIT

http://flic.kr/p/arwjAR

I posted new photo on my Flickr: Strange Lights @ Rochester Airport

http://flic.kr/p/aryV6s

Cue music from Close Encounters.




 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Two-Disc Ultimate Edition)

Just finished pres. Gr8t questions n suggestions. SM syllabus. #smacsrit

Who's interested in developing a syllabus for a social media course?

Clay Shirky now speaking @SMACSRIT #smacsrit

Here is one of his TED presentations

This afternoon @SMACSRIT #smacsrit

"1:30: KEYNOTE (Ingle): How the Web Changes Everything
- Clay Shirky, a new media expert who analyzes the social and economic effects of Internet technologies, faculty member at New York University and author of six books including Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations"

"2:15: Panel 3 – Social Media and Communication in Relationships, for Social Support and in Journalism and Education
Time Issues in our Communication using Facebook Ellen Taricani, Penn State University
The Role of Social Capital and Social Support in the Phenomenon of Mommy Bloggers Federica Fornaciari, University of Illinois at Chicago
Social Media Use within Mass Communication and Journalism William Hart, Norfolk State University"

Do Mass Comm & Journalism Depts Use Social Media? (My @SMACSRIT Conference Presentation) #smacsrit [SLIDES]

Social Media and Communication Symposium (SMACS) II


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RePost: I'm Presenting My Social Media Research @ the Rochester Institute of Technology #smacsrit

UPDATE: I'll be tweeting some from the conference. Follow me and others there.
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On Thursday September 29th I'll present a social media research paper at the Rochester Institute of Technology's Social Media and Communication Symposium (@SMACSRIT).

Video used to promote the symposium.


My paper is titled "Social Media Use within Mass Communication and Journalism" and the abstract is below.

Abstract: Along with the skyrocketing increase in the number of social media users in the past several years, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have also grown in terms of influence and importance. Given the popularity and importance of social media and given that mass communication and journalism departments and schools have the knowledge, skills and equipment to write and produce social media content, it would be expected that these departments and schools are strong proponents of social media use. However, results of this study show otherwise. Using diffusion of innovations theory to help explain the results, this paper answers the following three sets of questions: (1) How many mass communications departments or schools offer a social media course? How many courses include some coverage of social media? (2) To what degree are social media covered in introductory mass communications textbooks? (3) How many mass communications departments/schools have adopted the use of social media to help promote and building community within the department or school? How does this compare to social media use by their universities as a whole? Is there a difference between small departments and larger schools?

If you are interested in learning more, please let me know.  Send an email or leave a comment below.

Very soon after this conference I'll be submitting this paper for possible publication in an academic journal.  Your questions and feedback would greatly help.

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Research Update: 9/11, Muslim Americans, Crime Novels, Adaptation, Racism and Social Media

Currently I'm working on four research projects.  I do have others in the works, but these four are the ones getting my attention right at this time.

1) Social Media Use

Over the summer I researched and wrote a paper on the use of social media by U.S. universities and, specifically, by mass communications and journalism departments in the U.S.  Next week I'll be presenting this research at a conference and shortly after I'll submit this for possible publication in an academic journal.

The paper is titled ""Social Media Use within Mass Communication and Journalism" and will be presented on September 29th, at 2:15 p.m. at the the Rochester Institute of Technology's Social Media and Communication Symposium (@SMACSRIT).




2) Kiss the Girls and In the Heat of the Night

Also, I recently finished a paper on these two novels and their film adaptations. Both novels, Kiss the Girls and In the Heat of the Night, are about African-American detectives traveling into North Carolina and attempting to solve crimes while there. Both of these crime novels were adapted to film.  Both novels clearly addressed issues of race and racism.  However, only the In the Heat of the Night film kept the issues in.  The Kiss the Girls film did not.  My paper explores the differences between the two adaptations.  The paper was submitted to North Carolina Literary Review for possible publication.

I also submitted some of my photography to this journal.  I am a photographer and teach digital photography. I recently posted some of the photos.

The paper is titled "The Case of the Missing Voice: A Critique of the 1997 Film Kiss the Girls" and was submitted at the end of August. Hope to hear back in a couple of months.


3) Portrayal of Muslim-Americans in Post-9/11 Television Dramas

My co-author and I continue to advance this line of research. Now that we've presented papers on this topic during the summer and have received some feedback, we are reworking this research into one paper for possible publication.  We've also noticed that we can extend this line of research and "spin-off" two other related papers.  So, with these three 9/11 papers in mind, we are currently, carefully mapping out where we'd send each of these papers for publication. We've identified a few journals, but are looking for more possibilities.

The paper is tentatively titled "Portrayal of Muslim-Americans in Post-9/11 Television Dramas" and we'll begin submitting our papers to journals in mid-October.


4) What Do Mass Comm Students Learn?

I teach a grad level introduction to mass media course.  As part of this course we are studying 10 current, undergrad intro to mass comm textbooks.  We are looking at what is covered and not covered in such textbooks.  This line of research will, at least, result in a conference paper.  One or two graduate students will co-author.

This paper is tentatively titled "What Do Mass Comm Students Learn?" and we plan to have a final draft during winter break (Dec. '11/Jan. '12).  We plan to submit it to a national or international conference in early Spring '12.

If you'd like to know more about these and my other research projects, please let me know.  Send email or comment below.


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I'm Presenting My Social Media Research @ the Rochester Institute of Technology #smacsrit

On Thursday September 29th I'll present a social media research paper at the Rochester Institute of Technology's Social Media and Communication Symposium (@SMACSRIT).

Video used to promote the symposium.


My paper is titled "Social Media Use within Mass Communication and Journalism" and the abstract is below.

Abstract: Along with the skyrocketing increase in the number of social media users in the past several years, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have also grown in terms of influence and importance. Given the popularity and importance of social media and given that mass communication and journalism departments and schools have the knowledge, skills and equipment to write and produce social media content, it would be expected that these departments and schools are strong proponents of social media use. However, results of this study show otherwise. Using diffusion of innovations theory to help explain the results, this paper answers the following three sets of questions: (1) How many mass communications departments or schools offer a social media course? How many courses include some coverage of social media? (2) To what degree are social media covered in introductory mass communications textbooks? (3) How many mass communications departments/schools have adopted the use of social media to help promote and building community within the department or school? How does this compare to social media use by their universities as a whole? Is there a difference between small departments and larger schools?

If you are interested in learning more, please let me know.  Send an email or leave a comment below.

Very soon after this conference I'll be submitting this paper for possible publication in an academic journal.  Your questions and feedback would greatly help.


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