Microsoft Social Computing Symposium

Here is a video of my “audience choice” talk at the 2015 Microsoft Social Computing Symposium.    

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Learning from documents: Applying new theories of materiality to journalism

This article briefly reviews theories of materiality emerging in communication technology studies and organizational communication and then suggests three ways that journalism scholars might apply these theories to studies of news production. How journalists work, how journalism is shaped within newsrooms, the ways the news industry is changing, and ultimately, the effects of digital transitions […]

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The La Jolla School

  I wrote this about the “La Jolla School” of Communication for the 30th anniversary of that department.  I was on the faculty there as a professor from 2003-5.   For the last few years, I have jokingly referred to a “La Jolla School” of Communication. This invisible college has grown up around the Communication Department […]

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