Exploring Cultural Identities: Renewing the Family Interview Assignment

Objectives: Through an examination of their cultural and familial histories, students will develop an awareness of how they are situated within the socio-cultural landscape of the US and the global village. Students will identify how family histories assist in their construction of cultural identities.

Courses: Intercultural Communication and Family Communication     

Public television and the crisis of democracy: A review essay

Public Service Broadcasting in a Multichannel Environment: The History and Survival of an Ideal. Robert K. Avery. White Plains, NY: Longman, 1993.

Public Television for Sale: Media, the Market, and the Public Sphere. William Hoynes. Boulder and San Francisco: Westview Press, 1994.

Public Television: Panacea, Pork Barrel, or Public Trust? Marilyn Lashley. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.     

Speech teacher certification: Communication and self reception: An editorial

Professor Andrew T. Weaver has a remarkable record of leadership in Speech for the last fifty years. His contributions as a writer, as a teacher and as an officer in the Speech Association of America can well serve as an example and an inspiration to people interested in teaching Speech.     

Metaphorically Examining Organizational Communication: A Student's Perspective

Courses: Organizational Communication (assignment can be adapted easily for other theory courses, such as Interpersonal Communication, Rhetorical Theory, Communication Theory, or Persuasion)

Objectives: Students who successfully complete this assignment will be able to analyze critically and describe creatively an organizational concept or theory.     

1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Cyborg Discourse: Technology's Transformation of Communication

Ralph Lee Smith's The Wired Nation: The Electronic Communications Highway (New York: Harper Colophone Books, 1972---$1.95, paper)

Jerrold Oppenheim's Soapbox Television: Introduction to Model Code of Regulations Cable Television-Broad, and Communications (Chicago: ACLU, South Clark, First Revision of November 1971-- 2.00, paper)

Robert K. Yin, Cable on the Public's Mind

Rolla Edward Park, Computer Code for a Cable Television System Financial Model

Rolla Edward Park, The exclusivity Provisions of the Federal Communications Commission's Cable Television Regulations

S.M. Genensky, et. al. Advances in Closed Circuit TV Systems for the Partially Sighted

Broadband Communications Report (Broadband Information Services Inc. 274 Madison Ave., New York 10016)

The Videocassette &; CATV Newsletter (Martin Roberts &; Associates, Inc., Box 5128N, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210)     

Community Connections: Advocating for Libraries through Effective Brand Advocacy

ABSTRACT

Information professionals strive to understand the needs of communities in order to discover ways to connect and engage them in library resources and services. Positive word-of-mouth communication remains one of the most powerful tools used to develop mutually rewarding connections with the community. This article argues that libraries can harness the power of brand advocacy to transform their patrons into the most enthusiastic sharers of information, or informal brand advocates. Moreover, it emphasizes how libraries can carefully build and maintain mutually rewarding community connections through effective brand advocacy by utilizing the STEPPS framework – Social Currency, Triggers, Emotion, Public, Practical Value, Stories. Each principle in this framework can help an organization to effectively spread important brand messages. While the social currency principle encourages people to talk about topics that make them appear more favorable to others, triggers provide everyday cues that remind people of the library brand. Emotion focuses on appealing to feelings and the public principle calls for initiatives that advertise the brand. Finally, practical value motivates people to spread useful information and the stories principle explains that people share their experiences through memorable narratives. The article calls for adopting a holistic approach toward brand advocacy in applying the STEPPS framework in libraries.     

Flipping the classroom to teach systematic reviews: the development of a continuing education course for librarians

Objective:The researchers used the flipped classroom model to develop and conduct a systematic review course for librarians.Setting:The research took place at an academic health sciences library.Method:A team of informationists developed and conducted a pilot course. Assessment informed changes to both course components; a second course addressed gaps in the pilot.Conclusion:The flipped classroom model can be successful in developing and implementing a course that is well rated by students.     

Space Communications: Two Sources of Data

Richard G. Lawson, Teleconferencing in Wisconsin (October 1971)

Delbert D. Smith, Legal Aspects of Teleconferencing (October 1971)

Katherine Shervis, Legal and Political Aspects of Satellite Telecommunication: An Annotated Bibliography (June 1971)

Multidisciplinary Studies of the Social, Economic and Political Impact Resulting From Recent Advances in Satellite Meteorology: Interim Report (two volumes, June 1971)

COMSAT Technical Review is a new journal to be published twice a year (the first issue was dated Fall 1971)

Report to the President and Congress is issued annually in the late Spring or early Summer. The past six reports (1965-70)

Annual Report is the financial report to Comsat stockholders, and copies for 1967-71 are now available

Pocket Guide to the Global Satellite System (January 1972)

Glossary of Terms and Definitions for International Satellite Television Services (September 1971)

U.S. Domestic Satellite Communications: A Summary of Comsat's Proposals (March 1971)

Intelsat Research and Development Program (March 1972)     

Electronic Portfolios: A Demonstration of Multi-level Communication Skills and Professional Accomplishments

Courses: Business and Professional Communication; Organizational Communication; any capstone or service-learning course

Objectives: Students will demonstrate their communication abilities and skills to future employers and to graduate school programs by creating an electronic portfolio and will learn how to present their work to an audience while reflecting on course concepts     

Hollywood: Films in General

Basil Wright's The Long View (New York: Knopf, 1974—$15.00)

Paul Sylbert's Final Cut: The Making and Breaking of Film (New York: Seabury Press, 1974—$7.95)

Gerson Kanin's Hollywood: Stars and Starlets, Tycoons and Flesh-Peddlers, Moviemakers and Moneymakers, Frauds and Geniuses, Hopefuls and Has-Beens, Great Lovers and Sex Symbols (New York: Viking Press, 1974—$8.95)

John Milton Hagen's Holly-Would! (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1974—$7.95)

David Madden's Remembering James Agee (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974—$8.95)

Richard Lawton's A world of Movies: 70 Years of Film Art (New York: Delacorte Press, 1974—$19.95)

Bob Willoughby and Richard Schickel's The Platinum Years (New York: Random House, 1974—$25.00)

Stephen H. Scheuer's The Movie Book (New York: Playboy Press with distribution by Simon and Schuster, 1974— $17.95)

Cecil Munsey's Disneyana: Walt Disney Collectibles (New York: Hawthorne, 1974—$19.95)

George Barris and Jack Scagnetti's Cars of the Stars (Jonathan David, Publisher, Middle Village, N.Y. 11379, 1974—$16.95)     

Legislative Branch: House

Stephen Heath, QUESTIONS OF CINEMA (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981—$22.50/$9.95)

Rick Altman, ed., GENRE: THE MUSICAL (London: Routledge and Regan Paul, 1981—$19.95)

A.J. Prats, THE ALTIONOMOUS IMAGE: CINEMATIC NARRATION AND HUMANISM (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1981—$14.50)

Thomas Allen Nelson, KUBRICK: INSIDE A FILM ARTIST'S MAZE (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982—$37.50/$9.95)

Ingmar Bergman can be found in Paisley Livingston, INGMAR BERGMAN AND THE RITUALS OF ART (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982—$19.95)

Annette Kuhn, WOMEN'S PICTURES: FEMINISM AND CINEMA (London: Routledge Et Kegan Paul, 1982—$9.95 paper)

Herbert Eagle ( ed . ) , RUSSIAN FORMALIST FILM THEORY (Av ailable from Michigan Slavic Publications, 3040 MLB, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor'48109 —no price given)

Robert Edmonds, THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF CINEMA AND TELEVISION: HOW THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE INFLUENCES OUR FEELINGS (New York: Teachers College Press, 1982—no price given)

Gerald Mast, HOWARD HAWKS, STORYTELLER (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982—$29 95)

John R. May and Michael Bird (ed.), RELIGION IN FILM (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982—$16.50/$7.95)     

Random Assignment to Illness: Teaching Illness and Disease in the Introductory Health Communication Course

Objective: This assignment illustrates the concept of illness versus disease, and exposes students to information on various conditions.

Courses: The assignment is appropriate for an undergraduate course in health communication or other health-related courses.     

1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Reality Television: Scholarly Treatments Since 2000

Edwin Emery, Phillip Ault and Warren Agoe's Introduction to Mass Communications (Dodd, Moad, $7.95)

Denis McQuail, Towards a Sociology of Mass Communications (Macmillan, paperback at ca.$2.50)

Marshall McLuhan, Culture is Our Business (McGraw-Hill, $10.00)

David Manning White, Pop Culture in America (Quadganglo paperbacks, $2.45)

Mass Culture (Free Press, $2.95)

Theodore Peterson, Jay Jensen and William L. River's The Mass Media and Modern Society (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, now edition to cost $8.95)     

The Politics of Memory in Thailand and Australia: National identity,the media and the military

History and Annotated Bibliography of American Religious Periodicals and Newspapers Established from 1730 through 1830 Gaylord P. Albaugh, 1994 Worcester, American Antiquarian Society pp. lxxxix, 1456; 2 vols

The End of News Roger Bird, 1997 Concord, Ontario, Irwin Publishing pp. 167

Commercium litterarium, 1600–1750. La communication dans la République des Lettres [Forms of communication in the Republic of Letters] Studies of the Pierre Bayle Institute, Nijmegan 25 Hans Bots &; Françcoise Waquet, eds, 1994 Maarssen, Academic Publishers Associated pp. xii, 333

Press Censorship in Elizabethan England Cyndia Susan Clegg, 1997 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press pp. xv, 296

Benjamin Collins and the Provincial Newspaper Trade in the Eighteenth Century C.Y. Ferdinand, 1997 Oxford, Clarendon Press pp. xiv, 258

Women Editing Modernism. ‘Little’ Magazines and Literary History Jayne E. Marek, 1995 Lexington, University Press of Kentucky pp. xii, 252

The Popular Magazine in Britain and the United States 1880–1960 David Reed, 1997 London, British Library pp. 287

The Bloody Circus: the ‘Daily Herald’ and the left Huw Richards, 1997 London, Pluto Press pp. x, 256

The Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens’ Journalism Vol. 2. ‘The Amusements of the People’ and Other Papers: reports, essays and reviews 1834–51 Michael Slater, ed., 1996 London, Dent pp. xxxviii, 438

Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire: an exploration J. Don Vann &; Rosemary T. Vanarsdel, eds, 1996 Toronto, University of Toronto Press pp. 371     

Bridging the Gap: Integrating Information Literacy into Communication Courses

Courses: Introductory Public Speaking, Introductory Small Group Communication

Objectives: Students will locate, analyze, evaluate, and utilize secondary sources through an in-depth research process. They will complete a comprehensive research portfolio. Students will practice effective group dynamics skills. They will demonstrate effective oral presentation skills in a panel presentation.     

Staging scenes of co-cultural communication: Acting out aspects of marginalized and dominant identities

ABSTRACT

Courses: Intercultural Communication, Interracial Communication, or an Interpersonal Communication class that covers co-cultural theory.

Objectives: Students will be able to demonstrate a practical application of co-cultural theory by creating scenes that illustrate different communicative approaches and desired outcomes based on communication between marginalized and dominant group identities. In this experience, students will reflect on their own marginalized and dominant identities and consider ways in which they experience privilege and disadvantage based on these identities.     

The Interpersonal Competence Development Project: The Intersection of Theory and Practice

Objective: The goal for this project is for students to develop their interpersonal communication competence. Students identify an interpersonal competency (skill) that they wish to develop (or eliminate) to become a more effective communicator.

Courses: This assignment is designed for use in a skills-focused undergraduate interpersonal communication course.     

Films and Film-Makings: The Current Scene

I.C. Jarie's Movies and Society (Basic Books, $10.00)

Gone Youngblood's Expanded Cinema (Dutton, $9.95)

Robert Gessner's The Moving Image (Dutton $8.95)

Robert Richardson's Literature and Film (University of Indiana Press, $4.95)

Wolf Rilla's A-Z of Movie-Making (Viking/Studio Press Book, $6.95)     

Separating real from fake: Building news literacy with the Frayer Model

News literacy is an important part of journalism and liberal arts education. Adapting a tool called the Frayer Model, the activity guides students in developing a conceptual understanding of news by creating a definition, listing essential characteristics, and coming up with examples and non-examples. This activity is intended to set the stage for an introductory newswriting course, as students learn to connect journalism's purpose with its format.

Courses: Newswriting, reporting

Objectives: Facilitating news literacy and understanding of how the civic function of journalism is related to content creation.     

Sharing of retracted COVID-19 articles: an altmetric study

Objective:This study examines the extent to which retracted articles pertaining to COVID-19 have been shared via social and mass media based on altmetric scores.Methods:Seventy-one retracted articles related to COVID-19 were identified from relevant databases, of which thirty-nine had an Altmetric Attention Score obtained using the Altmetrics Bookmarklet. Data extracted from the articles include overall attention score and demographics of sharers (e.g., geographic location, professional affiliation).Results:Retracted articles related to COVID-19 were shared tens of thousands of times to an audience of potentially hundreds of millions of readers and followers. Twitter was the largest medium for sharing these articles, and the United States was the country with the most sharers. While general members of the public were the largest proportion of sharers, researchers and professionals were not immune to sharing these articles on social media and on websites, blogs, or news media.Conclusions:These findings have potential implications for better understanding the spread of misleading or false information perpetuated in retracted scholarly publications. They emphasize the importance of quality peer review and research ethics among journals and responsibility among individuals who wish to share research findings.