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Students As Neighbors: Utilizing Dialogue And Deliberation To Manage Town-Gown Tensions, Courtney C. Herb, Lauren A. Holder, Alison L. Steed
Students As Neighbors: Utilizing Dialogue And Deliberation To Manage Town-Gown Tensions, Courtney C. Herb, Lauren A. Holder, Alison L. Steed
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
The integration of the university and its students into the broader Harrisonburg community has promoted increased interaction amongst JMU students, JMU faculty and staff, and community members. Navigating this complex relationship can be challenging and, in recent years, this relationship has become increasingly strained. The following research seeks to cultivate processes that aid in its improvement. The research finds that utilizing dialogue and deliberation as an approach to designing public process is a promising approach to mending and maintaining the relationship between JMU students and the broader Harrisonburg community, as well as to addressing town-gown tension at large. The research …
Google Glass And Public Relations: The Use Of Optical Head-Mounted Displays In Building Dialogue, Daniel W. Vieth
Google Glass And Public Relations: The Use Of Optical Head-Mounted Displays In Building Dialogue, Daniel W. Vieth
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
The field of public relations is almost always on the forefront of new communication technologies, such as Web 2.0, social networking, and now “wearables.” One prominent example of an emerging wearable technology is Google Glass, an optical head-mounted display (OHMD) that was released in a large-scale beta version by Google Inc. from April of 2012 until January of 2015, with a future commercial version on the way. Using a qualitative content analysis to explore how the current and potential use of Google Glass complies with the tenets of the dialogic theory, this study found that OHMDs have the potential to …