School of Communications

Research by Frances Ward-Johnson and John Guiniven about the ethics of the social media release appeared in the June 20-26 edition of the Triad Business Journal in an article headlined “Elon professors research ethics of social media use.”

Some days she’ll go hours without speaking English. If she’s taking the subway, she’s most likely speaking Spanish. When she gets to work, she’s definitely speaking Spanish.

Connie Book, associate dean of the School of Communications, spoke with News 14 Carolina on June 26 about public records in North Carolina and how citizens' rights to information kept by government agencies is a key ingredient in healthy democracies.

Paul Parsons, dean of the School of Communications, was interviewed June 16 by statewide cable news channel News 14 Carolina about layoffs announced the same day at the News & Observer in Raleigh and the Charlotte Observer in Charlotte, N.C.

Paul Parsons, dean of the School of Communications, attended the 2008 New Media Academic Summit in Chicago focusing on blogs, twitters, wikis and other social media being used in business, journalism and politics.

Associate professor Jessica Gisclair will be taking her teaching overseas for two weeks this month.

Associate professor Jessica Gisclair was appointed to a two-year term as Vice President of Ethics for the Public Relations Society of America Tar Heel chapter in Greensboro, N.C.