The challenges and risks in academia: Academic gatekeepers, peer review bias, questionnable reviewers, and the monopoly on publishing sutdies in journal publications

One of the things that I was told when I first walked through the doors in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee as a first year doctoral student was the following:  1) Make sure to take every assignment in your class and either integrate it Read more…

One tweet, update, post, and check-in at a time: How social media is transforming Public Relations both in academia and practice

Social media has not only evolutionized how public relations is being practiced and researched – it has caused a complete and total revolution in both the academic and professional community.  Public relations professionals are looking at social media and seeing how it is really changing how we communicate, share, connect, Read more…