Megan Mullen

Professor of CommunicationUniversity of Wisconsin-Parkside

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“They’re Coming…” Innovation and the Diffusion of iPads in Higher Education

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Megan Mullen University of Wisconsin-Parkside

May 23, 2012
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“They’re Coming…” Innovation and the Diffusion of iPads in Higher Education tablet computers, Rogers, Everett, Marshall iPad innovation Apple Curator's Note I’m part of a campus iPad pilot. Proposing a good pedagogical use for the technology wasn’t d ...
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So long, Kate Gosselin... and cable programming, too?

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Megan Mullen University of Wisconsin-Parkside

September 21, 2011
So long, Kate Gosselin... and cable programming, too? reality TV Gosselin cable television Blue Sky Curator's Note Cable might not be the one anymore. It's provided rescheduled and reconfigured versions of what people already like. It has even, ...

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Re: Romancing the Connection: The Allure of Democracy Through Social Media

The elephant in the room

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Megan Mullen University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 — 2:50 pm
I think this "brotherhood" notion also trivializes the commercial imperative of most social media. With broadcast and print models of advertising not working for Facebook (as my students constantly remind me), and Twitter not really even pursuin ...
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Re: NBC Comedy, 2011 Style

Qualified optimism

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Megan Mullen University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Sunday, September 25, 2011 — 5:30 pm
Reading your post on the weekend when I'm also watching all the pilots and first episodes of the past week, I'm feeling cautious optimism about the possible return of the sitcom. Not that it's been completely absent in recent decades--thoug ...