Author: Josh Anderson
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Back to School: 2026
Today continued a tradition that I have carried on for approximately 25 years: it was the first day of classes. For the third time in my life, this was as a teacher rather than a student. However, as either a faculty member or a student, I have not missed a back to school day since…
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AEJMC 2026
The AEJMC annual conference holds a special place in my heart. For as long as I have been a communication scholar, it has been my home conference. In fact, my first ever academic conference was AEJMC 2020, which was moved from San Francisco to Zoom during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. There I presented…
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I Have Considered the Lobster – Why I Eat an Essentially Vegetarian Diet
David Foster Wallace is a polarizing figure in the field of American literature. Nigh endless debates have been hashed out to determine if his writing, and in particular Infinite Jest, is actually pretentious or not. While his loss was roundly mourned, some of his legacy and his character, particularly his relationships to women, were questioned…
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Thinking Like a Participant
The actual instruments of your study as a social scientist need to be oriented toward the perspectives of your participants, and from there answer your core research questions.
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