Daniel Reimold is a Fulbright research fellow currently in Singapore documenting the history of the Singaporean student press while serving as a visiting scholar within the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information at Nanyang Technological University. He runs College Media Matters (http://www.collegemediamatters.com), a blog on modern student journalism featured within The Poynter Institute’s “Blog Network” and in the “Blog Central” portion of the Web site for College Media Advisers. Refereed research papers he has authored or co-authored have been published in Newspaper Research Journal, Journalism History, and College Media Review and accepted for presentation at numerous conferences, including the International Symposium on Online Journalism and the AEJMC national convention. He earned his doctorate in journalism/mass communication from Ohio University, where he served as a Scripps Howard Teaching Fellow. He is a two-time AEJMC Great Ideas for Teachers (GIFT) Scholar; graduate student winner of the 2007 AEJMC “Promising Professors” honor; and a recent head of the Graduate Education Interest Group (GEIG).

How do you define mass communication?

It is still, as it has always been, a conversation with the world. Yet, the one-to-many model is *so* 1990s. The new models: many-to-many or even one-to-some, with the possibility of many happening across it sometime later. The means for this communication are also changing. The Wikipedia entry for mass communication notes: “It is usually understood to relate to newspaper and magazine publishing, radio, television and film.” Judges’ ruling? Incomplete. Mass comm. can also now occur via a number of new media means, including a Facebook status update, a blog post, a Twitter tweet, a Flickr photo set, a YouTube video, a mass e-mail, and a wiki entry. [Read more...]