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  The Audio Prof Has a New Blog Home.
  Follow my brain on media here:
  
  WWW.THEAUDIOPROF.COM/BLOG
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  Posted: March 09, 2009, 7:16am EDT
  

• Revisiting NATPE–Ben Silverman on Change Part 1

  To me, the title of this posting seems almost ironic. Last semester…which really was only about 4 short months ago…we were discussing NBC’s Ben Silverman in my Electronic Media Programming class. But, the discussion at that time focused on the irreverent way he was doing his job as head [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2009, 11:11am EST
  

• Favorite of ALL TIME!?!–not that there’s anything wrong with that

  In my last blog posting I shared some of the results from a questionnaire that I gave approximately 100 students in the two undergraduate courses I’m teaching this semester. I usually like to start off a semester with such a data-collecting tool because every year I get further and further [...]

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  Posted: January 26, 2009, 9:57am EST
  

• What the Kids are Watching

  Every semester one of the ways I begin my undergraduate courses is by giving them a little questionnaire asking a variety of things…why you took the course, what you want to do in five years…in ten.

  And, since I know that the older I get the the less likely I [...]

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  Posted: January 15, 2009, 8:32am EST
  

• Some steps to college success

  I have grumbled lately about how much time Wordpress was taking to learn. That brough out a number of kind souls from my immediate community who offered to help. Special thanks to Mark W. Bell who came to my rescue and gave me some good design help andwas willing [...]
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  Posted: January 13, 2009, 8:31am EST
  

• Ugly? Maybe. Common? Yes. Functional? DEFINITELY!

  A few days ago I blogged about considering switching from Blogger to WordPress to publish my blog. It was prompted by some blog envy of my friend Sam Bradley, author of Communication and Cognition. Sam has really tutored himself on the craft of finding, creating, and keeping an [...]
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  Posted: January 04, 2009, 12:31pm EST
  

• Change makes me antsy

  So, yesterday I called your attention to the Communication & Cognition blog, now in its new form. Sam Bradley, the C&C blog author, and I have been emailing back and forth as I pick his brain about his recent transition to using WordPress to publish his blog rather [...]
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  Posted: December 29, 2008, 8:17pm EST
  

• Congratulations to two IU T'comm Alumni

  Yes, Yes, Yes, it's been more than one month since my last posting.
  I have no real excuse...other than perhaps trying to wrap up a busy semester and get all the loose ends tied up before going away on my first true vacation in almost 15 years.
  [...]
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  Posted: December 28, 2008, 5:30pm EST
  

• Mommy, it's Saturday, can we watch an infomercial

  Those of you who are like me can remember how much you liked Saturdays...what my kids now affectionately refer to as one of the "stay at home days."
  
  One of the great things about Saturdays was flopping down in front of morning cartoons while eating Honey Comb cereal right [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2008, 11:38am EST
  

• Updates to Publication Web Page

  I've been busy as heck lately...working on getting papers assigned to reviewers for the Information Systems division of ICA has been a good portion of the time.
  
  But, I've also had some good news lately.
  
  Two new research publications have come out recently, and another one accepted for [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2008, 8:45pm EST
  

• IU Blogs!

  Although I've known about it for awhile, I haven't posted about it here on the blog.
  
  The College of Arts and Sciences has a page that highlights faculty blogs...and yes, more than half of them are faculty from the Dept. of Telecommunications!
  
  I was reminded of [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2008, 8:33pm EDT
  

• ICR alumni's research garners interest from Newsweek

  Congratulations to James Angelini, a professor at University of Delaware, who was recently interviewed by Newsweek magazine about a recent publication he co-authored in Journal of Advertising.
  
  You can read Angelini's impressions of the whole thing on his Blog: The Comm & Gender Spot.' [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2008, 7:21pm EDT
  

• International Visitors to the ICR

  Another exciting day in the ICR. I'm just back from my favorite conference, SPR. Sorry to not have blogged from there, just so busy seeing extremely interesting research! In fact, I told my colleague, Paul Bolls, that I was leaving with terrific ideas...and 11 articles that I just' [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2008, 5:02pm EDT
  

• Short Film Shows the Power of the Right Words

  Many thanks to former student Jennifer Robinson, now of the Interactive Television Research Institute in her native Australia, for passing on this short film that shows the impact that good marketing can have.
  
  It's less then 6 minutes long...
  
  Give it a look.
  
  The Story' [...]
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  Posted: September 20, 2008, 10:15pm EDT
  

• Visit to Ohio State Successful

  It's been 10 days since I've updated. Sorry. Busy time.
  Today, in fact, I was a part of a terrific panel as our Department's Colloquium Series.
  Maybe more on that later.
  But I wanted to share a little story.
  Ten years ago or so I was an' [...]
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  Posted: September 19, 2008, 9:01pm EDT
  

• Radio continues to try to be...relevant? Helpful?

  And honestly, this may indeed help out.
  
  Here's a story from Radio & Records:
  
  
  -->
  Originally Posted On Sep 8, 2008 5:05 PM ET
  Song Tagging Technology Comes To FM Radio
  
  By Mike Stern
  
  A group of nine broadcast companies have announced their commitment to' [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2008, 3:26pm EDT
  

• Orienting to Volume Changes--More IFS data!!!

  Classes start for the Fall Semester tomorrow...well, today for those on a Tuesday/Thursday teaching schedule. And, I've spent the past few days getting syllabi ready for the coming term. One of the fortunate things is that I'm teaching "This is your Brain on Media,", the class I taught for IFS, [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2008, 6:39am EDT
  

• A look at some IFS data

  I'm sure I have said this at least once over the last three weeks, but IFS is extremely intensive. Not only for the students, but also for the professors. At church this morning I saw two other professors who are in the program, and all three of us are exhausted.' [...]

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  Posted: August 24, 2008, 3:37pm EDT
  

• Quick bit of Audio News

  I'm in the middle of adminstering the second unit exam to the IFS class. I can't believe how hard these guys have been working, and how much ground we've covered in 10 days!
  
  I'll be posting some of the (quite impressive) data that the research groups collected during [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2008, 10:04am EDT
  

• This is your Brain on the Lilly Library

  One of the things that the Intensive Freshmen Seminars are designed to do is introduce the new freshmen to wonderful opportunities and facilities here on the IUB campus. For lack of a better word, we take FIELD TRIPS. Now, sometimes these fit nicely with the content of the course. [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2008, 9:40am EDT
  

• First week of IFS is in the books

  It's been a wonderful week in S105 as me and a group of 18 freshmen have embarked on exploring how the human brain interacts with mediated messages as psychological stimuli rather than just genres of entertainment.
  
  I've been amazed at how far the group has come in a [...]
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  Posted: August 09, 2008, 7:20pm EDT
  

• Meet the Parents

  So, yesterday evening the IFS summer started.
  
  In an introdutory meeting with my 18 students...AND (at least some of) THEIR PARENTS.
  I have to admit what I admitted to them...that this meeting made me somewhat nervous. Likely because I'm not used to having two different ages of "audience."[...]
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  Posted: August 03, 2008, 9:16pm EDT
  

• And then There Was One

  Today, as expected for several days, the final vote was cast by the FCC signing off on the merger between XM and Sirius, the two satellite radio services.
  
  You can read a story about the swing vote here.
  
  Those of you who, like me, are subscribers [...]
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  Posted: July 25, 2008, 9:32am EDT
  

• Whoa! Did you See That?!!!?

  That's what I heard in 2004 during the SuperBowl Halftime show. I was at the home of a colleague, who was (is) a big Philadelphia Eagles fan and therefore hosting at Superbowl party. Not being a fan of Janet Jackson or Justin Timberlake, I was using the halftime as a' [...]
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  Posted: July 22, 2008, 8:53am EDT
  

• This is your brain on media now online

  I have 90% finished the syllabus for S105--The Intensive Freshmen Seminar Version. It's now online.
  
  Took me a while to wrap my head around how to fill 3-hours of class time. There's NO WAY I was going to fill it all with lecture. Students would shoot me! But, [...]
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  Posted: July 18, 2008, 4:55pm EDT
  

• It's Hotter Outside than it is in Radio Sales

  When the economy is bad, people cut back. I know, because at $4.19 a gallon, gas is too expensive for me to use to drive to the local Panerra to have lunch with a friend. I rode my bike. Yup, it's 90 degrees out with 90% humidity. Yup, I was [...]
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  Posted: July 16, 2008, 1:30pm EDT
  

• My Vietnam...Your Iraq

  That's the name of a new documentary produced by IU-Telecomm professor Ron Osgood. Went to a screening last night and found it a very moving piece. It tells the stories of parents who are Vietnam vets and who have children deployed to Iraq. Unbelievable stories. You can find out [...]
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  Posted: July 12, 2008, 8:50am EDT
  

• Here's a way to get the juices flowing...or let your mind glaze over

  Today was not as productive a day as I had hoped...either in the writing realm...or prepping for S105.
  
  Got a slower start to the day due to thunderstorms.
  
  Then, it was meetings! (Isn't this summer).
  
  Still, tonight via Twitter, I was pointed to this site.
  [...]
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  Posted: July 07, 2008, 8:54pm EDT
  

• Time Flies During Washington State Vacation

  Blogging has taken a hiatus while I took 3 weeks off to go to the great state of Washington. It's the state that both my wife and I grew up in, and the place where our parents still reside. And, so, every year we try to go and spend a [...]
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  Posted: July 06, 2008, 1:26pm EDT
  

• FOUR doctors in the house

  Congratulations to Dr. Narine Yegiyan who today successfully defended her dissertation entitled
  Experimental investigation of resource allocation and memory for central and
  peripheral detail as a function of motivational activation
  One of the key tenets of her disseratation was the dual-motivation systems concept which suggests that human beings have [...]
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  Posted: June 06, 2008, 5:39pm EDT
  

• A Storm Like No Other

  I have NEVER experienced a thunderstorm like the one I witnessed this afternoon while in the ICR.
  
  Check out this photo from Bloomington Herald Times Online
  
  [...]
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  Posted: June 04, 2008, 8:24pm EDT
  

• The Congrats Keep Comin'--This time, grad students

  The graduate students have been busy in the Department of Telecommunications over the past semester as well. Let's start with research. Congratuations to Sungkyoung Lee who is the first member of the ICR to collect and present research data using the fMRI. She was able to conduct an experiment [...]
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  Posted: May 30, 2008, 7:21am EDT
  

• Congratulations Part II

  So, I'm sitting in the Ballroom at Le Centre Sheraton in Montreal. It is the International Communication Association conference, and it has, of course, been a blast both socially and intellectually. But! I promised myself that before I could blog about what's been going on here I would need to [...]
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  Posted: May 25, 2008, 10:26am EDT
  

• Playing catch-up--Congratulations Part 1

  I have been so terribly delinquent on blogging. And, honestly, I think that the main culprit has been Twitter. Those quick 140-character updates make it very easy to feel like you are connecting with people.
  
  So, I'm going to be trying to play catch-up for the next few [...]
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  Posted: May 17, 2008, 8:36pm EDT
  

• An ode to the ABD student

  
  No Dissertation from ticoneva on Vimeo. [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2008, 9:06am EDT
  

• For the second time in my life...Earthquake

  About 20 mintues ago, I felt my house shake.
  No lightning...no thunder...
  Weird.
  
  I thought it might be an earthquake...but the dog remained quiet, so I figured it was a strong wind or something.
  
  Then, my colleague Drew Bucksbarg sent out an email confirming it!
  
  Here's [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2008, 6:10am EDT
  

• Good news and a co-active website

  Got word yesterday that an article was accepted for publication!
  
  Potter, R.F, Callison, C., Chambers, T., Edison, A. (in press). Radio’s Clutter Conundrum: Better Memory for Ads, Worse Attitudes Toward Stations. International Journal of Media Management.
  
  That's always a way to make my day, I'm such an [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2008, 6:57am EDT
  

• Two new books

  Just added two GREAT books to my electronic bookshelf.
  You can check it out here. [...]
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  Posted: April 12, 2008, 10:02pm EDT
  

• Bad Guys Music and Good Guys Music

  So, my son is all about computer/video games now. Of course, he's only 5...so I know this is likely to be the beginning of many years to come. With a recent visit from Grandma and Grandpa came a Star Wars game that can plug into our TV set.
  
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  Posted: April 06, 2008, 6:31pm EDT
  

• Emotions Sure Are Peculiar

  Many of you know that I study, among other things, emotions and how people respond emotionally to media. But, even though I study them and make predictions about how certain types of media variables will move people emotionally -- doesn't mean I have a clue about how things move me [...]

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  Posted: March 28, 2008, 1:42pm EDT
  

• Spring Break Storm Reminds Me of Music's Influence

  As my friend Sam Bradley wrote in a recent blog posting, one of the things you get by living in the midwest is and unpredictable, cold, and snowy winter. Here's how my family and I spent Saturday...the first full day of Spring Break.
  

  

  
  

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  Posted: March 09, 2008, 2:26pm EDT
  

• Sales Professional Talks to Sales Class

  Today in my Electronic Media Sales course, T343, we had a departmental alumn come and speak about his 18 year career as an Account Executive at WGN Radio. I first met Tom Bortz at last year's Multivisions Convention and he was kind enough to agree to come [...]
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  Posted: March 05, 2008, 9:00pm EST
  

• Another great year for IU Telecomm @ ICA

  One of my favorite academic associations is the International Communications Association.
  
  Luckily, I belong to a Department that not only values participation in ICA, but is filled with people who do great work. Check out this press release:
  
  
  March, 2007 - Two Top Paper Awards [...]
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  Posted: March 04, 2008, 2:18pm EST
  

• Great link forwarded by a former student

  Several times a semester I remind my undergrads that, when they are rich and famous and working dutifully in the telecommunications industry, I would certainly appreciate it if they would remember to send me information and articles they come across that I could use in my current classes.
  
  My [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2008, 1:30pm EST
  

• Twitter--Not sure about it, but it pays off with a new website

  After almost a year of planting little bugs in my ear by friends and the occassional student I have spent this weekend exploring and playing around with TWITTER.
  
  This still seems to be like some sort of terrible, addictive drug for someone who tends to obsess [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2008, 1:12pm EST
  

• A Training Session on Media Lab

  The weather was terrible. Ice pellets over about an inch of snow. I've never been a fan of creme brulle, but that's what walking on this stuff reminded me of. Even worse, though, was walking on the shovelled walks and plowed streets.
  
  But, that wasn't enough to keep [...]
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  Posted: February 22, 2008, 9:21pm EST
  

• Scientists like to see EFFECTS--but does that taint our knowledge?

  I'm an experimental scientist. I design experiments where I introduce one variable and see if it causes a change in people's response. For a simple example, I could introduce the variable of music into a group of radio ads and see if ads with background music caused people to say [...]
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  Posted: February 02, 2008, 1:18pm EST
  

• New (Relatively) Homepage

  I know that I've been lax in the blog-writing department lately. Lots of things I want to write about...just not much time.
  
  And I don't have much time now, either. But, it has dawned on me that I never officially 'unveiled' my new home page...something that I designed around [...]
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  Posted: February 01, 2008, 9:53pm EST
  

• Good Advice from Jacobs School of Music Faculty Member

  Check out this bit of good inspiration from the IU News Room.
  It focuses on Jeff Nelsen, a faculty member from the IU Jacobs School of Music who is also a French Horn player and a member of the Canadian Brass. Nelsen, apparently, teaches people how to be [...]
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  Posted: January 22, 2008, 6:56am EST
  

• Change Blindness Video

  As a comment mentioned, I've been quiet lately.
  Lots of stuff going on.
  None of it I really want to blog about.
  
  But, another semester has started, and I'm teaching a course called Cognitive Approaches to Media. In it we try to peel open the "black box" of [...]
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  Posted: January 17, 2008, 12:38pm EST
  

• Think you're hearing voices? It may be a new cable promotion

  I regularly listen to a podcast called The Business which comes out of KCRW in Santa Monica. It talks about goings on in the business of Hollywood. This week the show gave a very brief mention of a promotional campaign going on in the Soho district of NYC.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2007, 7:34pm EST
  

• Brief Smile for a Busy Time

  It's finals week.
  My Teaching Assistant is busy grading.
  I'm busy grading.
  Plus, this is the week when I need to take reveiwed papers and make decisions about which papers to program for the Information Sytems Division of ICA this year. {You can see another blog post about this [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2007, 8:23am EST
  

• I love gadgets...but I also NEED them

  CNN.com has an interesting task for you to waste some time with.
  
  Rating your top 10 electronic gadgets.
  
  Mine:
  1. High Speed Internet
  2. Laptop
  3. Wireless internet
  4. TIVO
  5. Flash Drive
  6. Cell phone
  7. Ipod
  8. PDA
  9. Satellite Radio
  10. TV
  
  
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2007, 2:03pm EST
  

• Great history piece on Border Radio

  My students will tell you that I claim history isn't something that really interests me.
  I know it's important, but I just rarely find books about history that keep my attention.
  
  Well, maybe what I need to do is investigate more auditory history pieces.
  
  You will certainly enjoy [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2007, 5:07pm EST
  

• Great Alumni bring Knowledge to Current Students

  One of the reasons that I love working at IU is that we have great alumni. In fact, the IU Alumni Association boasts of being the largest in the world?
  
  And, luckily, the alumni from the IU Department of Telecommunications are terrific when it comes to giving [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2007, 10:03am EST
  

• Something I'm Really Looking Forward To

  When I find time to think about it, of course...
  Indiana University is a big place...with lots of students attending it. Like more than 36,000.
  IU also does a very nice job of designing programs to help make this place much smaller.
  
  The Intensive Freshmen Seminar program is [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2007, 1:02pm EST
  

• Not the only procrastinator

  It's good to know that I'm not the only person who works on a "just in time...push it to the deadline" mentality. This is the first of two years I'm in charge of the paper competition for the Information Systems Division of the International Communications Association. The deadline was [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2007, 6:19am EDT
  

• The NSF makes a huge step in radio portability

  Now, this is a radio you can take anywhere!
  
  [www.nsf.gov] [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2007, 6:52am EDT
  

• Research that Compliments Teaching

  Like many departments, the IU Department of Telecommunications publishes an alumni newsletter. Ours is called the Telecomment and I'm happy to say that many of the latest versions are now available online right here.
  
  Maybe it's because I'm an alum of the doctoral program of the department, or [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2007, 9:36am EDT
  

• More Pics from Savannah

  Upon arriving in Savannah for the SPR conference, everyone kept telling me how much they loved the city. However, I wasn't taken with it. It seemed just old...and smelly...kinda like I felt about New Orleans when I visited it pre-Katrina.
  But, it turned out that this impression was only of [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2007, 8:41pm EDT
  

• First pictures from Savannah and SPR

  Last weekend several of us from the ICR Lab went to Savannah GA to attend the Society for Psychophysiological Research conference. As regular readers to TAP-blog know, this is by far my favorite academic conference of the year. I'll have more about the science in days to come, but [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2007, 6:55am EDT
  

• Trying to do better

  I've been trying to be more consistent about writing.
  And, it's been working. More than it has in my recent memory.
  Just finished a book chapter with two colleagues, and a journal submission with two others.
  Now, I'm working on a journal article that has sat in my "to do" [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2007, 1:42pm EDT
  

• It's The Audio Prof...Not the Radio Prof

  I have mentioned earlier that I am in my tenure year...and happy to report that the faculty of my department have voted to send my case up to the next levels of consideration. While that is a cause for momentary celebration, it is only the beginning of a LONG [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2007, 6:02pm EDT
  

• No Happiness in my Ads!

  Okay, okay, almost two weeks since my last posting. Sorry. Busy with writing, teaching, and getting ready to collect more data on several studies. More on this later, I'm sure. For now I'm taking some time relaxing by watching the first season of Eureka , which my wife turned [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2007, 3:31pm EDT
  

• It's a Small World--Eastern Washington State College

  I live in a typical suburban, midwest neighborhood. The houses here are owned, primarily, by either young families or older, empty-nesters. The other day my family and I were out taking a walk and met one of our neighbor couples. After chit-chatting for awhile, it turns out that the woman [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2007, 5:44am EDT
  

• Catch-up Catch-up

  Almost 2 weeks since the last post. Lots has happened. I've finished up my tenure dossier...a little thing that encapsulates the work of the last 10 years. That took a little bit of time, and I keep pretty good records! Now the full faculty of The Department meet to [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2007, 8:09pm EDT
  

• Can't Spot Too Good to Be True? Let the FTC help you.

  Day after day desperate consumers buy products that claim to be effective in curing such maladies as baldness, impotence, obesity, and diabetes. The government has agencies that hold news conferences, print brochures and produce public service announcements trying to warn us that if something is too good to be true, [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2007, 1:28pm EDT
  

• Can you tell summer's almost over? FINALLY Last Busan Update

  Now that I'm back in Bloomington...and over jet lag...and as the end of the summer creeps closer...I have been focused on getting a little bit of work done. But, now other things I want to blog about are cropping up so I want to wrap up the thoughts and pics [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2007, 8:52pm EDT
  

• Busan Korea Catch-Up Part 2

  Well, I'm now almost completely back on EDT. Now just gave to get completely back in the swing of things in the office...the final push of writing and research before the summer is over.
  
  BUT FIRST, another look bak at my fantastic trip to South Korea.
  We're up to [...]
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  Posted: August 04, 2007, 6:28am EDT
  

• South Korea Catch Up--Part 1

  I am now back in the States, safely home in Bloomington Indiana. In fact, I am sitting at a table in the Starbucks loated in the basement of the IU building that houses the ICR. I'm NOT drinking any coffee, though, because my hope is to be able to go [...]
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  Posted: August 02, 2007, 12:34pm EDT
  

• Another Busan Entry---now 24 hours behind!

  I am now slightly more than 24 hours behind on chronicling my trip. The two related reasons for this is that my hosts have done such a good job keeping my schedule full with visiting the marvelous historical sights that any spare time I have left is devoted to, well, [...]
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  Posted: July 28, 2007, 4:07pm EDT
  

• Traveling is not vacation

  It's my first full day in Busan. And when I say full I mean it.
  
  I was able to get some exercise on Gwangalli beach, as I blogged to you just afterwards. Then, after a nice breakfast at the hotel I was picked up by Dean Mahn-woo Kwon [...]
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  Posted: July 26, 2007, 5:57pm EDT
  

• Busan morning on the beach

  Annyeong haseo.
  Had a good night last night, which for me, in a strange place, is rather unusual. I woke up once at about 3am local time but was able to read until relaxing enough to go back to sleep.
  Woke up for good at 6am...the room was too light [...]
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  Posted: July 25, 2007, 7:28pm EDT
  

• Enroute to Busan

  Hello from slightly less than 34,000 feet. I’m on the Northwest flight from Detroit to Tokyo…with about 9.5 hours remaining. It is currently 6:14 pm EST. I don’t know what time zone I am currently in…although the video screen about 15 yards in front of me shows a little stick-figure [...]
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  Posted: July 25, 2007, 8:49am EDT
  

• Korean Adventure--Day 1

  Well I'm only a handful of hours before I depart from Indianapolis to begin my trip to Kyungsung University in Busan. I'm pretty excited about the adventure and will try to keep you all up to date here via TAPblog.
  
  One thing that makes me sad, though, is [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2007, 8:35am EDT
  

• Korea Bound

  I have not blogged about this yet because it hasn't been finalized. But, now it is...I just got the e-ticket mailed to me and so next Tuesday I'm off to Busan Korea! I've been invited to speak at the School of Digital Content at Kyungsung University. They have an [...]
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  Posted: July 20, 2007, 7:51am EDT
  

• A peak behind the curtain--audio editing makes us sound better

  Okay, first of all, there is nothing worse than being sick in the summer time.
  I have strep throat!!
  
  I'm really bugged about it...because not only can't I swallow or eat...but it's gorgeous outside and I'd much rather be doing things with my family than stuck inside wondering [...]
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  Posted: July 16, 2007, 7:43am EDT
  

• ICR student gets published

  In the IU Dept. of Telecommunications there is a graduate course called T540. It is an "independent study" course designed to allow students to get course credit for either doing in-depth literature review in an area of personal interest or to perhaps conduct original research. In order to sign up [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2007, 9:05am EDT
  

• Life Changes on 4th of July

  So, in all honesty I saw it coming.
  My wife, kids, and I took a drive on the 4th of July.
  We were just going to drive down through the city of Frenck Lick .
  You know, just get out and have a nice drive...
  Oh, and my wife [...]
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  Posted: July 05, 2007, 9:15pm EDT
  

• Check out Game Zombie TV

  I promised to write this blog MONTHS ago. Over 3 months ago, to be exact. That's when a group of entrepreneurial students from the MIME program at IU-Telecomm returned from the Game Developers Conference with a dream of developing a computer/MU/video game review website. Actually, I suppose [...]
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  Posted: June 26, 2007, 10:12am EDT
  

• Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh

  Today is the Internet Radio Day of Silence.
  It's to protest huge increases in the amount of royalties that these audio outlets would have to pay, retroactively, on July 15.
  
  Read more here, on the Radio and Internet Newsletter Site. [...]
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  Posted: June 26, 2007, 10:01am EDT
  

• No Radio for the Audio Prof

  I've just spent a week on vacation with the family. It's good to get away...and more than I have in years I truly tried to leave work behind. In the past we have spent up to 6 weeks on the road in our home state of Washington. When on the [...]
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  Posted: June 23, 2007, 9:29am EDT
  

• Backward Glance on Summer School

  I'm heading into the final week of my T340 summer school class. I love teaching the fundamentals of advertising course for lots of reasons. First of all, advertising is pretty much ubiquitous and there are always current examples for students to be able to relate to. telecommunications industry [...]
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  Posted: June 09, 2007, 6:51pm EDT
  

• Great Day in San Jose

  So, yesterday I lamented about not enjoying San Francisco during a recent trip there for the Interanational Communication Association conference. I've heard feedback from several of you who really like SF...and can't quite believe that I don't. Oh well, to each his own. For me, though, it's hard to [...]
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  Posted: June 02, 2007, 11:25am EDT
  

• ICA=Hooray, San Fran=Yuck

  Over the Memorial Day Weekend I hit the road...traveling to San Francisco for the annual conference of the International Communication Association. ICA is, by far, my favorite communication-related academic conference. The research being done is of high quality and that stimulates me to go back to my lab and continue [...]
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  Posted: June 01, 2007, 8:55am EDT
  

• Creating Buzz can certainly backfire...or can it?

  Two stories have captured my attention recently.
  
  
  Summertime is a big season for radio.
  
  
  People are out doing fun stuff outside...and in order to stay in front of listeners, many stations run billboard campaigns figuring people will be outside driving to the beach (or whatever), [...]
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  Posted: May 08, 2007, 12:27pm EDT
  

• Another semester "in the books"

  Man, one of the worst parts of my job has to be grading!
  Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those who thinks that it's wrong to assign value to work or that judging the products my students turn in somehow inhibits their growth. Honest, constructive evaluation and criticism [...]
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  Posted: May 06, 2007, 7:13pm EDT
  

• Time to break the logjam

  This has been the longest draught in my blogging history.
  It's not that things haven't been going on...most of the content of this blog is a positive commentary on the great work done in my field of mass communication research and by my colleagues at Indiana University's Dept. of [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2007, 10:24am EDT
  

• Department/ICR Open House

  Last Friday the Dept. of Telecommunications invited potential graduate students to Bloomington to show them what we have to offer. Bloomington is...well...in the middle of the country. There isn't a beach around for HUNDREDS of miles. And there isn't a big city nearby. And so, it is sometimes a [...]
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  Posted: March 27, 2007, 7:50pm EDT
  

• Fun times at the Zoo

  
  We're on the last day of Spring Break (not including the weekend), and now I'm playing catchup on all the work I wanted to get done. Luckily, the weather has turned cloudy, wet, and cold now...so I don't feel so bad sitting in my chair [...]
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  Posted: March 16, 2007, 7:57am EDT
  

• Spring Break--Truly needed

  It's spring break here in Bloomington.
  I needed one for sure.
  The grant submission is turned in...truly a colaboarative effort, with 6 of us across two Big Ten campuses. Now, we wait for the scientific peer review...which takes months.
  
  One of the the main professional reasons why I chose [...]
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  Posted: March 12, 2007, 3:56pm EDT
  

• Long time comin'

  I've been quiet for awhile. A couple of reasons. The first is because I've been working on revising a paper that I've been writing with Francesca Dillmann-Carpentier for a long time. And I mean a LONG TIME.
  
  It's a paper about the impact of tempo and genre [...]
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  Posted: February 28, 2007, 8:05pm EST
  

• Grammy Red Carpet Humor

  One of the best things about being a professor is when favorite students keep in touch after they graduate.
  
  When I was on the faculty at the Telecommunications and Film Dept. at the University of Alabama, I was also the faculty advisor for the student radio station, WVUA-FM.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: February 19, 2007, 1:55pm EST