Communication Studies

Rachel Plotnick

October 12, 2013 by Rachel Plotnick
disciplines: Communication Studies

Research Interests

  • User Interfaces
  • History of Information/Communication/Media Technologies
  • Human-Machine Relationships
  • Science and Technology Studies

Research Projects

Current

Specifically related to digital humanities:

“The Button Archive”
http://www.rachelplotnick.com/button/

My hope is to digitize the materials I have collected related to push buttons and to make an accessible archive. This is a time consuming process, however, and without funds (or much time), I haven’t been able to devote much effort to this project.

Past

Specifically related to digital humanities:

“Dad’s Cancer: A Multimedia Illness Narrative Experiment”
http://gnovisjournal.org/2007/08/19/dads-cancer-a-multimedia-illness-narrative-experiment/
This was a digital chapter of my master’s thesis (the version online is low quality and compressed compared to the original).

Teaching Projects

Current

Past

Jon Crane

October 12, 2013 by Jon Crane
disciplines: Communication Studies

Research Interests

  • Cultural Studies
  • Digital technologies and popular music
  • Film Studies

Research Projects

Current

Along with my colleague Min Jiang, I am researching the impact of search engines on the serial production and dissemination of knowledge.

Past

For the past several years I have been researching the impact of digital technologies on the reception and dissemination of current and dated pop musics

Teaching Projects

Current

I am currently teaching an Honors class on the documentary film. Recent developments in digital technologies are radically reshaping the possiblities for documentary film. Production, dissemination and reception are all in flux thanks to the shift from analog to digital film production.

Past

Min Jiang

October 12, 2013 by Min Jiang
disciplines: Communication Studies

Research Interests

  • Intersections of digital technologies, geopolitics and policy (China focus, Global South linkages)
  • Digital sovereignty in the BRICS countries (national digital policies)
  • Digital political economy (media ownership, media concentration) in China and the Global South
  • US-China power relations
  • Chinese digital technologies (search engine, social media, big data, social credit system)
  • Chinese digital politics (digital authoritarianism, digital activism, online political satire, diplomacy)
  • Chinese digital business (Internet giants, business ethics, media and digital industries)
  • Chinese digital policies (real name registration, privacy, cybersecurity, social credit system)
  • Mixed methods and digital methods (with an interest in big data and algorithms)

For more information, please email me Min.Jiang@uncc.edu and visit my website here

connections: AIalgorithmbig (small) dataBRICSChinacybersecuritydigital sovereigntygeopoliticsGlobal SouthInternetknowledgemediapolicypoliticspowerprivacyTechnology

Shawn Long

October 12, 2013 by Shawn Long
disciplines: Communication Studies

Research Interests

Virtual Work, Organizations and Technology, Electronic Diversity Communication

Research Projects

Current

  • Electronic Diversity Communication in organizations
  • Virtual Work Mentoring
  • Upward Mobility in Virtual Work

Past

  • Two books on virtual work and organizational technology
  • Experiences of virtual workers
  • Diversity communication on Organizational websites

Teaching Projects

Current

Advanced Qualitative Methods

Past

Creating an online database of teaching materials (as part of UNC-Chapel Hill’s teaching program)