Developing an AI-Themed Communication Course
If your inbox is anything like mine, it is inundated with invitations to workshops, webinars, and resources related to artificial intelligence (AI). Indeed, AI is inescapable, and not just in education. It can augment our work by making tasks simpler and more efficient. At the same time, it can dehumanize…
Will AI Speech Coaches Take Our Jobs?
As the communication- across- the- curriculum director at a liberal arts university, enthusiastic messaging about communication skills forms the heart of my daily work. In addition to student-facing workshops, I guide faculty members across campus on the best practices of integrating speaking assignments into their courses. Several faculty members have…
Exploring How Americans Think about AI: AI Meets Communication Theory
As communication scholars, we love two things: a solid theory and an intriguing research gap. Gaps in knowledge ignite curiosity and invite explorations of what we do not yet understand. Of course, reviewers prefer we frame arguments around what we do know—and they are right! But, both theories and gaps…
Developing an AI-Themed Communication Course
Earlier this year, the Cogitatio publishing company’s open-access, online scholarly journal, Media and Communication, published a nine-article issue, “Reproducibility and Replicability in Communication Research.” That special issue was not unique. Communication Studies, journal of the Central States Communication Association, published a special issue on research replication in 2018, Communication Methods…
NCAi Collaboratory and Generative AI Resources
Welcome to the Collaboratory! This gathering of teachers, scholars, students, administrators, staff and other members of the communication discipline is attempting to gain leverage on the rapidly changing impacts and implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on our lives, our students lives, and on the society that we are preparing them…