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The Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism helps undergraduate and graduate students turn their passion for storytelling into careers in news, broadcasting and documentary, public relations and advertising, Spanish-language media, media studies and visual communication. The school balances enduring values of fair and ethical communication with emerging practices across multiple platforms and mobile media.
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Big data visualization: promises & pitfalls
(2016)A few weeks ago, I was having dinner with a friend when a controversial subject came up. My friend had an extremely strong opinion about the harm caused by vaccination, and his argument went something like this: "I've seen ... -
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Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research
(2012)Psychology is without doubt a broad, deep and well-established research field. Its status as a field that is part-health care, part-science and part-humanities gives psychological research broad terrain to explore, and ... -
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CCID: Articulating a Design-Thinking Center for Multimodal Communication
(2016)In higher education institutions, writing in the disciplines (WID) and writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs are commonly received reluctantly by other disciplines and programs (Perelman). The context for these ... -
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A Brand New Approach
(2008)These days, there isn’t much that can’t be branded. Our country is a brand (imaginatively named Brand Australia); government legislation is judged in terms of brand value (the recent renaming of the Work Choices legislation ... -
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Developing an Interdisciplinary, Discursive Methodology to ‘See’ Government Emblems
(2009)Design historians frequently struggle to place design artefacts that are ‘outside of the realm of consumption’ and do not readily fit into the accepted historical design canon. This is in part due to the limitations of ... -
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Teaching User Centered Design and Content Through Image Tweets: A Social Constructivist Approach
(2017)By designing image based social media, students can gain rapid, hands-on understanding of user experience design and content principles. This paper provides an overview of a pedagogical research project on using image ... -
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History, power and visual communication artefacts
(2016)The role visual communication plays in disciplining and governing our thoughts, identities and behaviours has seldom been given the attention it deserves in historical investigation. This article argues that visual ... -
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Governmentality, Technologies, & Truth Effects in Communication Design
(2018)This chapter argues that communication design knowledge and artifacts are inherently governmental. As a means of communication that combines aesthetics and function, communication design knowledge is a product and producer ... -
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Journalism Professors’ Information-Seeking Behaviors: Finding Online Tools for Teaching
(2018)As the journalism profession continues to reinvent itself, journalism professors struggle to keep up with technological advancements that provide their students with industry-relevant skills. This study seeks to understand ... -
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Racism in the Machine: Visualization Ethics in Digital Humanities Projects.
(2018)Data visualizations are inherently rhetorical, and therefore bias-laden visual artifacts that contain both explicit and implicit arguments. The implicit arguments depicted in data visualizations are the net result of many ... -
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Improving Science Students’ Data Visualizations: A STEAM-Based Approach
(2018)A course at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) teaches science students an interdisciplinary approach for designing data visualizations, in combination with big data computation and statistical analysis. This 15-week, ... -
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Government Emblems, Embodied Discourse and Ideology: An Artefact-led History of Governance in Victoria, Australia
(2012)Government emblems are a rich source of historical information. This thesis examines the evidence of past governance discourses embodied in government emblems. Embodied discourses are found within an archive of 282 emblems ... -
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A Panopticon on My Wrist: The Biopower of Big Data Visualization for Wearables
(2019)Big data visualization – the visual-spatial display of quantitative information culled from huge data sets – is now firmly embedded within the everyday experiences of people across the globe, yet scholarship on it remains ... -
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Governing Identities: Neoliberalism and Communication Design in 1990s Victoria, Australia
(2017)In 1990s Victoria, Australia, communication design played a complex role in neoliberal government policy and local identity. In keeping with neoliberal principles, the purpose of local government in Victoria was radically ... -
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Embedding online, design-focused data visualization instruction in an upper-division undergraduate atmospheric science course
(2019)An interdisciplinary undergraduate atmospheric science modeling course was cotaught at a midsize public university by three professors from atmospheric science, statistics, and design using a blended learning approach. The ... -
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The President Is in: Public Opinion and the Presidential Use of Twitter
(Social Media and Society, 2019)Analyzing President Trump's Tweets (N = 30,386) with the first tweet starting from 4 May 2009, this article looks at the nature of his conversations with the public and the building of public support for his candidacy, ... -
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Commons Praxis: Towards a Critical Political Economy of the Digital Commons
(tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, 2018)The concept of the commons has provided a useful framework for understanding a wide range of resources and cultural activities associated with the creation of value outside of the traditional market mechanisms under ...
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