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Professional Activities
Lisa Waite, School of Communication Studies, presented "On Your Mark, Get Set, Serve: The Critical ’How To's’ of Service Learning/Experiential Learning" at the National Communication Association's (NCA) 98th Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida, Nov. 15-18, 2012.
Karl Fast, School of Library and Information Science, presented "Deep Interaction" at the UX Brighton in Brighton, U.K., on Nov. 2, 2012.
- Summary: How interacting with information is part of how people think, and what this means for designing interactive products and services.
- Web link: http://2012.uxbrighton.org.uk/
Yin Zhang, School of Library and Information Science, Sonali Kudva, School of Library and Information Science, presented "An Ecological Approach to Examining Information Needs and Seeking Among U.S. Adults in the Internet Age" at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2012 Annual Conference in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 26-30, 2012.
Summary: This research sheds light on what factors contribute to different information needs and the various ways people seek information to meet their information needs.
Additional Comments: In addition, the study identified most significant variables for variances in information needs and for choices of information sources. The results of this research will help design and provide information services to individuals from diverse backgrounds.
Denise Bedford, School of Library and Information Science, presented "Knowledge Audits From A to Z" at the 2012 American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2012 Annual Conference in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 26-30, 2012.
Summary: The workshop focused on helping participants conduct a knowledge audit, develop knowledge maps and use other knowledge management (KM) diagnostics to identify opportunities for KM interventions that support the operational work of an organization.
Marcia Zeng, School of Library and Information Science, presented "The State of KOS in the Linked Data Movement – the Publishing, Management and Interoperating of KOS for the Semantic Web" at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2012 Annual Conference in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 26-30, 2012.
Publications
Jeffrey Child, School of Communication Studies, and David Westermann, ’11, authored a journal article, “Let's Be Facebook Friends: Exploring Parental Facebook Friend Requests From a Communication Privacy Management (CPM) Perspective,” Journal of Family Communication, Vol. 13, Issue 1, (2013): 46-59.
Bradley Keefer, Department of History, Kent State University at Ashtabula, authored Conflicting Memories on the River of Death: the Chickamauga Battlefield and the Spanish-American War, 1863-1933, 1st Ed., Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2013.
Rekha Sharma, School of Communication Studies, authored an online journal article "News on the rocks: Exploring the agenda-setting effects of Blood Diamond in print and broadcast news," Media, War & Conflict, Vol. 5, Issue 3, (2012): 239-253.