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New Course: Environmental Advocacy — Fall 2025

March 18, 2025

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Bill

“In Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as ‘the younger brothers of Creation.’ We say humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn—we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. They’ve been on earth far longer than we have…
New Course: Social Media and Participatory Culture — Spring 2018

October 31, 2017

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Bill

I’m excited to be teaching a new COM Options Course in Spring 2018, “Social Media and Participatory Culture.” It meets T/TH 2:00 – 3:15. In Social Media and Participatory Culture, we will consider how people have used social media to subvert civil and corporate institutions and protest against perceived injustices. We will see how…
A Statement from the Dept of Communication and Digital Media on Recent Post-Election Events

December 2, 2016

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Bill

A week after the 2016 Presidential Election, my department got together in an emergency meeting to discuss a possible response to the events on our campus and across the country. Here is our response. I am so proud to be a member of this department and have such fine colleagues committed to social justice.
Bruce Springsteen and Popular Music to be Published by Routledge

March 20, 2015

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Bill

This post was updated on July 31, 2016. A little over two years ago I released a CFP for Edited Collection on Bruce Springsteen for Routledge Studies in Popular Music Series. I received over 50 chapter proposals from around the world and, with the help of Susette Brooks, I submitted an initial proposal to…

New Course: Environmental Advocacy — Fall 2025

New Course: Social Media and Participatory Culture — Spring 2018

A Statement from the Dept of Communication and Digital Media on Recent Post-Election Events

Bruce Springsteen and Popular Music to be Published by Routledge