These are great. I have students play a few games and then interview each other about the experience and write up the interview. Students love it

Yep. Now what?

This doesn’t help them learn! I give students my notes and tell them to rewrite them in their own words. Thinking about it in their own words and connecting it to existing knowledge is how they learn

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance. Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

We are hiring 11 Doctoral Researchers (100%) in the DFG-RTG "The Experience of Stories in the Digital Age". Uni Wuerzburg, Germany. Disciplines: Communication, Psychology, Computer Science. Topics: VR / XR, storytelling robots, influencers, misinformation. More: go.uniwue.de/rtg3087jobs Please share

Present here in this meaningful place in Dresden with @mcewan.bsky.social

The trifling is supposed to be pleasant??

Seems like a useful resource!

For anyone on the Communication job market this year S. Rutherford McEwan has put together an excellent spreadsheet for 2025-2026 openings. Highly recommend checking it out (whether you're applying or hiring): docs.getgrist.com/rHppfvPrMDQd... #commsky #academicsky #communication

Join us for our talk with #CAISfellow @elizabethahintz.bsky.social, University of Connecticut: "The Blue Pill, Red Pill, & Black Pill: Understanding Triadic Discursive Interplay and Animating Meanings of Violence in Online Incel Forums" 🗓️July 16 | 🕜 1:30-2:30 PM www.cais-research.de/en/event/lun...

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Don't do any of this.

If you work at a public university, your emails are likely FOIA-able. If you mix your personal & work email accounts, it may make your personal email FOIA-able.

Yes. This is how our university now handles travel

I am searching for an email from a month ago. This will take about 5 hours and I will probably forget why I needed it before I find it. Living the dream!

BREAKING: "Given these circumstances, we have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during this administration and have delayed our contract with Chicago until May 2029." #ICA25

This is a great resource. I had students play games in class and they were surprised at how poorly they did at identifying fake stories

Yes! Inverse correlation does not mean what he thinks it means

SAVE THE PENGUINS. STOP TRUMP’S TARIFFS.

In short, were the university to choose to defend itself, some simple arithmetic suggests that — at least financially — it could. Easily. It’s not too bold to predict that every university president will face a similar choice in the coming months.

I urge faculty members to join the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). We have few organizations that represent us and offer us collective power. #Yale has a new chapter. You can start one if your campus doesn't have one yet. And you can join now too. www.aaup.org/membership/d...

I’m very disappointed by the support our senator has given to cabinet members @whitehouse.senate.gov

“My opponent calls me ‘woke’ but he never says what that means. I wonder why he wants our eyes closed, and what he wants them closed to. I wonder what he’s afraid we’ll see if we look around. Well my eyes are wide open and I’m fully awake. I say the time for us to be fooled by rich thieves is over.”

Great example of AI hallucination I am going to use in class

“If you believe in the eighteenth-century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy,” @george-lakoff.com wrote in 2008. Is there a better way to describe how Democrats have mostly responded thus far to Musk's assault on democracy?

The Communication and Technology (CAT) Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) seeks nominations for the Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award. Deadline: 1 Mar 2025. https://buff.ly/3MX1hGS #ICA25

This is a powerful explanation of framing for communication media teachers www.theframelab.org/framing-powe...

AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

An elderly and unpopular felon who narrowly won the popular vote in the 2024 election was sworn in as president of the United States in a tiny ceremony Monday, held indoors because it was slightly chilly outside.

Both sides…

Yesterday I helped another friend get a good coat, which is apparently my thing. Now Duolingo is preparing me to continue my efforts to keep people geared up in Italian!

Steve Chaffe’s book on how to use theory is the classic (but dated) answer in Comm. A pdf is available here www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Oof, here’s the faculty diversity report for UConn:

With my collaborators at @stanfordvr.bsky.social and also an article from @bowmanspartan.bsky.social

Hello? Media studies? How do we let them know that this is what we do?

Say goodbye to conference rooms in VR. We studied 100s of people in small groups over months in 192 wide-open spaces or small closed worlds. Large, open spaces improved nonverbal behavior, restorativeness and group cohesion. In VR space is free (and beneficial). news.stanford.edu/stories/2022...

This seems like a great resource!

PhD students whose work connects with Communication and Technology and/or Mobile Communication theories, methods, and topics are encouraged to apply to the Doctoral Consortium, an #ICA25 pre-conference to be held on Thurs Jun 12. https://buff.ly/3USZB4A

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Hey everybody! With NCA 2024 coming up this week, we thought that we would do a trial run using BlueSky to connect with folks this year. We'll also be using this page to share info about our panels and business meetings, and to signal boost announcements and other posts from around NCA!

Seats available! NCA peeps: As you finalize conference plans, Marco Dehnert and I are leading a qualitative short course Thurs, Nov. 21 from 2:30-5:15 p.m. Info here: www.xcdsystem.com/nca/program/... Please share with whoever you think may be interested and reach out if you have questions.

Helluva front page at UConn today. Full story here: dailycampus.com/2024/10/21/a...

I would just like to get students to read the syllabus

Questioning Reality with some experts @sunjooahn.bsky.social @mcewan.bsky.social

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. - The Buddha

If you’re at NCA, be sure to drop by the UConn reception TONIGHT! 8-10pm, National Harbor 6. #nca23

I’m going to respond to the next reviewer comment that VR is not communication with this picture