#AEJMC14 Highlights: What are the Ethics of Content Marketing?

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. After two weeks of traveling to New England for a vacation and to Montreal for the AEJMC, it is good to be home! AEJMC flew by! I’d like to look at one of my favorite panels from the conference: the Ethics and Brand […]

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Sentiment Analysis using Content Analysis Software: Project Assignment

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. In the last two posts, I’ve been discussing the Yoshikoder sentiment analysis project in my Communication Research class here at Shepherd University. My first post looked at the project in general. And the second, most recent post, looked at how to teach computer-assisted […]

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Teaching Computer-Assisted Content Analysis with Yoshikoder

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Last blog post I discussed the second project in my applied research class, a sentiment analysis of Tweets using Yoshikoder – a free computer-assisted content analysis program from Harvard. As promised, I want to share my assignment, and my handout for students that […]

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Applied Research Class: Sentiment Analysis Project Reflection

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I began this semester with the intention of blogging a bit about my applied research class. I provided an overview of it and a copy of the syllabus on an earlier post. But since writing that post, I’ve yet to do a follow […]

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#TryThis! A Technique For Enhancing Teamwork, Discussion In Class

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. This is the 3rd and final #TryThis! post I had planned from several months ago. I never got a chance to post it… until now!   Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to get students thinking about topics, discussing them, […]

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Here Are My Spring 2014 Syllabi: Writing and Research

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. The snow is coming down here in West Virginia! Classes are canceled today so I will be catching up on research and some other things. But let’s talk classes and syllabi! In addition to the applied Communication Research class I am teaching this […]

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Teaching The Applied Communication Research Class

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Metrics, Metrics, Metrics! I hear it everywhere I turn. :) More than ever, we need to be teaching our students research skills. This Spring 2014 semester I am really excited to be teaching an applied Communication Research class! For two years at Utah […]

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