School of Communications

It’s not that she isn’t used to navigating big cities. She grew up in South Barrington, Ill., a suburb of busy Chicago. It’s not that she can’t be away from home. She and her parents are separated by almost 850 miles when she’s taking classes at Elon.

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.