Iron Ridge Creative is a video production studio focused on performance recordings and aerial visuals. Blending craftsmanship and storytelling, it creates cinematic, meaningful content — one frame at a time…
Hello, smartphone, my old friend. I’ve come to scroll with you again. Because a message softly warning, left a sound while I was scorning. The division of attention in my brain still remains within the sound of silence…
Work’s Intimacy, by Melissa Gregg. Cambridge: Polity, 2011. Amazon Kindle Edition, 4474 locations. Reviewed by Ross Weathersbee…
Originally written for COM 638 – Strategic Communication for Global Audience at Queens University of Charlotte Introduction As with many political issues in the United States of America, there is always a debate. In the past, we consistently took to…
Organizations battle for your identity every day. What’s stopping them from coming after your morality too? In this podcast, I speak with three employees—each from a different organization—to discover what employee branding practices they have…
You experience organizational identities and brands every day. By bringing your favorite Yeti cup to work, you may identify with a corresponding group of Yeti supporters. Those who listen to Bruce Springsteen may subscribe to his brand of American…
This week in COM 613 — Constructing Messages and Audiences, we were tasked with finding another “uh-oh” moment in strategic communication and suggesting some action items for an organization post-crisis. I chose to examine Pepsi’s “Live for Now”…
This week in COM 613, we were tasked with examining an “uh-oh” moment in strategic communication. I chose the United Airlines 3411 incident, in which a passenger was forcibly removed from the flight prior to departure…
For my book review, I chose to listen to “Tribes” by Seth Godin. Published in 2008, this book uncovers the idea of tribes—a group of people brought together by a leader and an idea…
Imagine yourself scrolling through social media during some free time. A video pops up in your feed. Intrigued, you start watching. 10 seconds pass and the video has yet to pull you in. Your level of intrigue drops significantly. Before you even know…
What does it mean for an organization to be truly innovative? How can we foster a sense of creativity in an organization’s workforce? Why are innovation and creativity so sought after in organizations today? The answers to these questions are rarely…
In today’s organizational landscape, classic management is king. Is this classic management style still viable today? I would argue that, under certain conditions, a bureaucratic management style is an effective way to run an organization. This begs…
My decision to go back to school was initially motivated by professional necessity—my bachelor’s degree was getting me nowhere. Thankfully, it has since evolved into a motivation to better understand the art of communication, an aspect of humanity…
Every organization has a purpose. Sometimes, it’s as simple as making money. Other times, it involves complex philanthropic goals or a “we want to be the best” mindset. Similarly, a “community of memory” is an “organizational conscience, retaining…
For our assignment this week, we were asked to choose a national or international news article and review the reader comments that appear as responses. Right away, I feel like I knew what I was getting into. “Prepare for insanity,” I told myself…
This week, I was tasked with creating a presentation about the differentiation of public and private space, which is covered in Chapter 6 of Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference. I was particularly fascinated by this section of our…
A narrative is a story agreed upon by a group of people. So which narratives guide my life and my actions?…
What are the “goods” in my life? I certainly know what I like and don’t like about my life right now, but these goods are a lot harder to consider. What things do I do to promote my deepest wants and desires? I decided to think of some values that I…
The past eight weeks have really flown by! Communication Fluency (COM 601) did a great job of introducing the study of communication and the guidelines of APA style…
Kenneth Burke (1967) theorized that literature—and film according to Young (2000)—is “equipment for living” and more than capable of influencing its audience (p. 447–8). As such, Call Me By Your Name supplies equipment for living to homosexual males…
As a filmmaker, I feel that my work relates closely to the semiotic, phenomenological, and rhetorical traditions of communication theory…