For my last talk of the year, I was honored to be invited to the classroom of the ASU Prep Poly Experience. These ASU Prep high school students have been hearing lectures from faculty in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts all semester about a wide array of topics. I gave a lecture on […]
Category: Teaching
Service Learning Project!
This Spring semester, my students in Social Media in the Workplace had the great opportunity to work with the Arizona Site Steward Program Foundation to redevelop a social media plan for the organization. The organization supports the Arizona Site Steward program, which consists of volunteers who monitor and help manage historic sites of archaeological interest […]
Online Coverage of a New Class!
I’m delighted to announce that ASU Now took the time to interview me about the work I’ve been doing in relation to digital ethics and online controversies. I’ve been thinking about digital ethics for a long time via my co-hosted podcast Winning Slowly, and so I am thrilled to be moving toward integrating those ideas […]
Why Facebook and Twitter Will Never Win at the Content Moderation Game
I was discussing a Stratechery article on Mark Zuckerberg’s choices regarding moderation/censorship or lack thereof with my friend Chris. I thought that the argument I was making was worth setting down in a public channel. Here’s a lightly edited version of my thoughts: Legally, Facebook and Twitter can do whatever they want in regards to […]
Crowdsource TPC
At CPTSC 2019, I discussed ways forward for teachers of social media in technical communication. There are few resources for tech comm social media teachers, and I argued that a centralized place to share materials would be a boon to teachers. Enter Crowdsource TPC, an initiative built by Chris Lam at the University of North […]
Interviewed!
I was honored when one of my former students asked me to participate in an interview about my involvement in civic life. I talked for much longer than the five minutes allowed (but of course). You can see the edited-down version here: I’d like to note that fantastic Christian rock band Bleach is a co-star […]
How YouTube Could Eat Cable (Maybe, In the Future)
While talking about YouTube in my Social Media for the Workplace class, a student asked if YouTube would someday eat cable. I decided to answer this intriguing question by nabbing Ben Thompson of Stratechery‘s art style and (implicitly) some of his ideas on aggregation/disaggregation. I ended up with this: To explain what the board says: […]
A New Article!
I’m pleased to announce that I have a new article out today. It’s called “Artist Communication: An Interdisciplinary Business and Professional Communication Course.” It focuses on a course I taught while a doctoral student at the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program at North Carolina State University. If you’re looking for a communications course focused […]
2018 Recap
Happy new year! As we charge ahead into 2019, I’d like to take a moment to look back on the year that was. The 2018 year was my first full year as an assistant professor at ASU. While I did complete some projects, I primarily laid groundwork that I hope will come to fruition in […]
Assessment
Now that my first semester in Arizona State University’s Technical Communication program is over, I have a moment to take a breather and assess. Before the semester started, I traveled to Halifax to present my paper “Working outside: a problems-based approach for studying musicians and other extra-institutional individuals” at SIGDOC 2017. The paper was the […]