Facebook can be more than a way to connect with friends — it also can be a valuable research and learning tool, according to one Kansas State University professor. Mick Charney, associate professor of architecture, has been advocating Facebook as a way to collaborate in the classroom. As the recently appointed coordinator of K-State’s Faculty [...]
Michael Wesch has earned many accolades for his expertise and creativity in the use of digital technology to enhance student learning. He’s received national professor of the year honors, been named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic, and has been dubbed “the explainer” by Wired magazine. Now the associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas [...]
If a picture is really worth a thousand words, what do pictures say about us, and more important, what can we make them say about us? Those are the questions one Kansas State University graduate student explored when it came to students and their pictures on Facebook, the social networking site. For her latest study, [...]
Kansas State University’s Center for Information and Systems Assurance has been named a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research. The designation is made by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and National Security Agency and is effective through 2015. “This designation speaks volumes about the cybersecurity and high-assurance software research taking place [...]
As new technologies emerge that could change the future of shopping, researchers at Kansas State University are determining if consumers like and would use such tools for purchases. Esther Swilley, K-State assistant professor of marketing, and Blake Franklin, freshman in business administration and fine arts, Kansas City, Kan., are studying consumer acceptance of shopping on 3-D [...]
It seems like life couldn’t get much sweeter for former Kansas State University football player Nick Leckey. He recently wrapped up his sixth year as an offensive lineman in the NFL. He’s playing in New Orleans, La., a city he and his wife, Erin, have come to love. And, if that weren’t enough, he just [...]
News is changing in several ways and innovation is taking place at record-breaking speed, according to Angela Powers, director of the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Powers researches influences on news content, media leadership and ethics, and media convergence. “Some newspapers in the U.S. are laying off people, closing their doors,” she [...]
Many researchers at Kansas State University do such sizeable projects — like identifying genetic markers that correlate to drought resistance in plants — that they rely on computational support from the largest supercomputer in the state. K-State’s Beocat is a cluster of servers that allows for larger research projects to run simulations on a machine [...]
A study by three Kansas State University graduate students finds that the 18- to 24-year-old demographic became more politically active during the 2008 U.S. election season through the use of new media, but that the young adults were not necessarily more knowledgeable about politics. The K-State study examined young adults’ media consumption and the effects [...]
The ways we deal with death are finding a new life online, according to research being published by a K-State journalism professor and her colleague. “You’re accustomed to clipping an obituary from the newspaper and putting it in the family Bible, but with online obituary services you can e-mail them to anyone you know,” said [...]