Last week, Brian Ekdale made a really important post on his blog about the value of poster sessions, prompting me to add my own insights to this very valuable topic. I also went through the same changes in perspective that Brian describes about poster sessions – from feeling like it is a dismissal of my …
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Well, I didn’t think I’d have an opportunity to post while on vacation, but my experience has forced me to reflect on an earlier blog post about the pros and cons of bringing technology on vacation. I just spent the last two days in Rocky Mountain National Park, where cell service is basically non-existant. It …
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The Political Communication Interest Group held its first inaugural meeting last night at AEJMC. The group elected Tom Johnson, of the University of Texas-Austin, as our new Head. In the course of the meeting, I have been elected the new graduate student liaison for the group. I will be keeping my readers updated on developments …
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Hey everyone! I have arrived in Denver, Colorado, for the 2010 conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication! It will be a busy couple of days – I will be presenting our paper entitled “The Correspondent, the Comic, and the Combatant: How moderator style and guest civility shape news credibility” at …
For anyone who’s been a J201 TA, this comic (thanks to Hans for sending me this link) speaks to what we spend the first few weeks of the course discussing – and what our students write their first paper on (or at least they did when I taught the class). I really enjoyed the distilling …
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