Derek Lackaff
Associate Professor of Communication Design
Department: Communication Design
Email: dlackaff@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 278-6492
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Education
State University of New York at Buffalo, College of Arts and Sciences, Buffalo, New York, USA
Doctor of Philosophy; Communication
La Trobe University, School of Communication, Arts, and Critical Enquiry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Master of Arts; Media Studies
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Arts and Sciences, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Bachelor of Arts; Political Science, International Studies, German
Employment History
Elon University, School of Communications, Elon, North Carolina, USA
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Design, 2019-present
Associate Professor, Department of Communications, 2016-2019
Assistant Professor, Department of Communications, 2010-2016
University of Bergen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bergen, Norway
Fulbright Professor, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, 2018-2019
Danish Institute for Study Abroad (now DIS Copenhagen), Copenhagen, Denmark
Visiting Faculty, Communication Program, Spring 2015
Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore
Visiting Lecturer, UB-SIM Communication Program, Summer 2012
University of Texas at Austin, College of Communication, Austin, Texas, USA
Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Austin | Portugal Program in Advanced Digital Media, 2009-2010
Lecturer, Department of Radio-Television-Film, 2009-2010
Courses Taught
IME6300 Theory and Audience Analysis in an Interactive Age (graduate level)
COM6700 Interactive Project for the Public Good (graduate level)
- Afûk (Leeuwarden, Netherlands) (2018) (advisor)
- Frumbjörg (Reykjavik, Iceland) (2017)
- Coláiste Lurgan (Indreabhán, Ireland) (2016)
- Escuela Nuevos Horizontes del Sur (Quito, Ecuador) (2014)
- Surfrider Foundation (Ericeira, Portugal) (2013)
- Citizens Foundation (Reykjavik, Iceland) (2012)
HNR2740 Building Better Communities with Civic Technology (honors seminar)
Leadership Positions
Elon University, School of Communications, Elon, North Carolina, USA
Director, Master of Arts in Interactive Media Program, 2020-2024
Elon University, Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, Elon, North Carolina, USA
Associate Director, 2017-2020
Publications
Motley, P. & Lackaff, D. (2021). Digital literacy in design, media, and communications disciplines: Fluency is the new literacy. In L. Hays & J. Kammer (Eds.) Teaching Digital Literacy: A Faculty Guide to Integrating Digital Skills with Disciplinary Content. Stylus Publishing.
Windham, S., Sinn, A. A., Lange, K., Lackaff, D., Hatcher, A., Gatti, E. A., & Papay Decato, J. (2020). Educating for global civic participation and a career: German Studies in the 21st Century at Elon University. In W. Moner, P. Motley, & R. Pope-Ruark (Eds.). Redesigning Liberal Education: Innovative Design for a Twenty-First-Century Undergraduate Education. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Lackaff, D. (2016). Better Reykjavik: Open municipal policymaking. In E. Gordon & P. Mahailidis, (Eds.). Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice (pp. 229-234). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Also available at http://civicmediaproject.org/works/civic-media-project/better-reykjavik
Lackaff, D. & Moner, W. J. (2016). Local languages, global networks: Mobile design for minority language users. Proceedings of the 34th Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC ’16). doi: 10.1145/2987592.2987612
Lackaff, D. (2015). Escaping the Middleman Paradox: Better Reykjavik and open policy innovation. Journal of eDemocracy & Open Government, 7(2), 137-161.
Chung, C. J., Barnett, G. A., Kim, K. & Lackaff, D. (2013). An analysis of communication theory and discipline. Scientometrics, 95, 985-1002. doi: 10.1007/s11192-012-0869-4
Lackaff, D. (2013). Dark Horse Comics. In Duncan, R. & Smith, M. J., (Eds.), Icons of the American Comic Book: From Captain America to Wonder Woman (pp. 169-177). Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood. (peer-reviewed encyclopedia article)
Lackaff, D. & Sales, M. (2013). Black comics and social media economics: New media, new production models. In S. Howard & R. Jackson (Eds.). Black comics: Politics of race and representation. New York: Continuum.
Lackaff, D. (2012). New opportunities in personal network data collection. In M. Zacarias & J. de Oliviera (Eds.) Human-computer interaction: The agency perspective. Frankfurt, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-25691-2_17
Stefanone, M. A., Kwon, K. H. & Lackaff, D. (2012). The relationship between perceptions of social capital and enacted support online. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 17, 451-466. doi: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2012.01585.x
Kwon, K. H., Nam, Y. & Lackaff, D. (2011). Wireless protesters move around: Informational and coordinative use of information and communication technologies for protest politics. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 8, 383-398. doi: 10.1080/19331681.2011.559743
Stefanone, M. A., Kwon, K. H. & Lackaff, D. (2011). The value of online friends: Networked resources via social network sites. First Monday, 16(2).
Stefanone, M. A., Lackaff, D., & Rosen, D. (2011). Contingencies of self-worth and social networking site behavior. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 14, 41-49. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2010.0049
Stefanone, M. A., Huang, Y. C. & Lackaff, D. (2011). Negotiating social belonging: Online, offline, and in between. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS ‘11), 44. (nominated for best paper in division). doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.314