Archive for November, 2010

Call for Papers: JCB Special Issue on Social Media

November 26th, 2010

Are you doing research on consumers and social media? Well, we are interested in reviewing your work! Professor Leyland Pitt (Simon Fraser University) and myself (Cardiff University) have teamed up with the Journal of Consumer Behaviour editor Peter Nuttall (Bath University) to edit a Special Issue on Social Media.

The special issue is entitled: “Consumer-generated, Co-created & Shared Content Through Social Media: Challenges for Consumer Researchers.”

This issue will explore a wide range of topics related to consumer behaviour through a social media enabled environment. Papers examining consumer participation and engagement in social media, consumer action and interaction through social media, and consumer creation and co-creation of content will be particularly appropriate. » Read more: Call for Papers: JCB Special Issue on Social Media

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Marleen Relling Wins Best Thesis Award 2010

November 24th, 2010

It is days like today that remind me why I love being an academic. It is with great pleasure and pride that I write this blog post. Very early this morning while I was packing my luggage to depart New York City for Vancouver, I received a Skype message from one of my students, Marleen Relling.

Marleen has just completed her MSc in Strategic Marketing at Cranfield School of Management in the UK and as a Visiting Research Scholar in Digital Media Marketing at Cranfield this year, I had the pleasure of supervising Marleen’s masters thesis. Her skype message read ‘I have good news!’ Well I’d regard her message as great news! » Read more: Marleen Relling Wins Best Thesis Award 2010

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SLJ2010: Northwestern Research Insight

November 21st, 2010

Today ends a wonderful 4 and a half weeks visiting the Web Use Project, in the Department of Communication Studies, School of Communication at Northwestern University. This was possible due to funding from an ICA from my home institution, Cardiff University and the support and hospitality of the Web Use Projects founder Prof. Eszter Hargittai.

Over the course of the last few weeks I have met, listened to and discussed differing and also related ideas and approaches to digital media research with » Read more: SLJ2010: Northwestern Research Insight

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Growing Your Digital Footprint in Graduate School: To Blog or Not to Blog?

November 12th, 2010

Today, I spoke with a group of 15 doctoral candidates from the Media Technology and Society (MTS) program, here at Northwestern School of Communications about building your digital identity as a digital doctoral candidate (i.e., To Blog or Not to Blog!). My advice: listen and converse, but be strategic – about what, with whom, where and in what way, you grow your social capital through the social web.

As a doctoral student you often have many questions that arise throughout your research studies. These include » Read more: Growing Your Digital Footprint in Graduate School: To Blog or Not to Blog?

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The Professional Socialisation of Digital Knowledge & Learning

November 5th, 2010

This week I gave a talk at Northwestern in the School of Communication. Part of my talk was inspired by some of my past work and my evolution in how I consider and see Digital Knowledge and Learning. In this blog post I touch on an element of this story, the professional socialisation of digital knowledge and learning and why ‘social context’ of ‘learning about’ and ‘using’ digital technology, is important in life and therefore in technology research. » Read more: The Professional Socialisation of Digital Knowledge & Learning

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