Kathleen M. Kuehn

There’s Got to Be a Review Democracy…

kathrodeo — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:25:24 +0000

After years of research, the first of (hopefully) many forthcoming articles on the consumer evaluation website Yelp.com has been published by the International Journal of Communication. You can access the full-length version for free here:

Kuehn, K. M. (2013). There’s got to be a review democracy: Communicative capitalism, neoliberal citizenship and the politics of participation on the consumer evaluation website, Yelp.com. International Journal of Communication, 7, 607-625.

kathrodeo — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:07:01 +0000

Favorite conference, favorite people #udc2012

So much media, so little time. . .

kathrodeo — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:49:47 +0000

I’m having a hard time committing to blogging here, so this WordPress has unfortunately turned into less of a blog and more of an interactive CV of sorts. But I’m OK with that, as long-form blogging seems to be an increasingly antiquated form of communication (yikes!). Truthfully, I’ve got so many other classroom-related social media projects that I’ve given up trying to maintain a regular blogspace just for me. Perhaps I’ll return to that prospect in the future, but for now I’m really enjoying co-creating content with my students in other spaces.

For example, this semester a lot of in-class critique has taken place over Twitter and/or in Live Blogging formats. For my course “Critical Theory & the Study of Popular Culture,” my students regularly make insightful commentary on “pop culture moments” – including the Superbowl, Grammys, Oscars – through our course blogspace and on Twitter (#criticalpop).

My Social Media students have also been producing some great content, as well, especially in the Twittersphere (#cnusm). However, perhaps my favorite thing they’ve produced thus far are the short videos (created on xtranormal and GoAnimate) that illustrate key course concepts relating to social media (you can view them all on our course YouTube page)! Below, for example, students created a video that illustrates the concept of “prosumption” as defined by Toffler (1980) and updated by Ritzer & Jurgensen (2010):

My work according to the word cloud…

kathrodeo — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:06:58 +0000

Preparing for the job search requires a lot of self-reflection; it especially requires asking yourself whether or not what you think you do as a researcher is actually what, in fact, you do.

So while thinking about these things I headed over to Wordle where I uploaded all of the work I have published and/or presented at conferences as a graduate student. You can imagine my excitement (and relief) when my word cloud appeared exactly as I had hoped and expected:

And my proposed dissertation, in a word cloud:
http://www.tagxedo.com/art/2b5ba39e30134947

Introduction

kathrodeo — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:01:06 +0000

I made this short video back in 2010 as personal introduction for my students in an online version of Political Economy of Communication I was teaching for Penn State’s College of Communications & World Campus…but I think it still applies: