A Social Media Education Blog by Matthew J. Kushin, Ph.D.
Recently, I had the tremendous honor of being invited to serve as the keynote speaker for the Internet Day 2018 celebration put on by the DigiMedia lab and the Department of Communication and Art at the University Aveiro in Portugal. My keynote, titled “The Cost of Clicks and Shares: Questions on the Civic and Political […]
Continue reading Watch my Internet Day 2018 keynote at the University of Aveiro PortugalThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. The spring semester has come to a close! I have recently returned to Shepherdstown from a 1.5 week trip to Sydney Australia. There, I had the amazing opportunity to execute the ICBO One app event experience for attendees to the International Congress of […]
Continue reading From Sydney Australia: Reflections on ICBO 2018 and my event app planning experienceThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Last Friday, April 13, I had a wonderful opportunity to participate with Kathleen Stansberry on a webinar about social network analysis basics. The focus of the call was to introduce strategic communication and social media professors to social network analysis.
Continue reading Missed the Social Network Analysis Basics Webinar? Here’s How You Can Watch ItOver spring break, I had an amazing opportunity to travel with 2 outstanding Shepherd University strategic communication students, Ellen Buchanan and Sarah Burke, to Philadelphia and Washington DC. We participated in the National Millennial Community (NMC) trip, and met with executives from major brands such as Comcast NBCUniversal, Lockheed Martin, Nestlé, and WeWork, top agencies […]
Continue reading Reflection on my first National Millennial Community TripWhy Teach Students About Social Media Influencers Last year I got the opportunity to present at the Accepted Student Day event at Shepherd University. This event offers students who have been accepted to the university an opportunity to visit our campus and get to know us better. As part of that, faculty give presentations on […]
Continue reading Fun and Interactive Social Media Influencers Class ActivityThis year, the social media committee of the Public Relations Division of AEJMC wanted to make some changes in how we conduct our interviews with senior faculty and practitioners. For several years, interviews have been published on the PRD blog in written format. We thought it would be fun to put a fresh spin on […]
Continue reading What I learned from hosting a Facebook live interviewThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I had a great time this past weekend presenting at the PRSA Educator’s Academy Super Saturday with Ai Zhang, Karen Freberg and moderator Kirk Hazlett. If you missed our presentation, we covered how social media tools can be used to break down the […]
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