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I’m at the annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) convention in San Francisco. I have been marking the academic panels I plan to attend; lots of stuff on blogging and citizen journalism.

I am on a panel at 3:45 p.m. on Friday entitled : Will Civic Journalism Become a Subset of the Citizen Journalism Movement? Others on the panel include Cole Campbell, dean of the Reynolds School of Journalism at U of Nevada, Reno; Jan Schaffer, executive director of the J-Lab at the U of Maryland, and Cheryl Gibbs, professor at Miami University in Ohio.

I am also recruiting to fill a mass communication professorship in our Communication Department at Kennesaw State University. Here is a brief job description:

NEW MEDIA/MASS MEDIA:Responsibilities include teaching required undergraduate mass communication courses, managing a new Digital Media Lab, and helping develop a curriculum for a department aspiring to be at the vanguard of the citizen media movement, especially in connection with journalism and public relations. Experience and/or a record of scholarly achievement expected in digital media theory and practice. Familiarity with new and emerging digital tools, such as weblogs, vlogs, podcasts, is required. Search Committee Chair: Prof. Leonard Witt.

A more detailed description is here.

Between job recruiting and what the wireless situation is like I might or might not be doing much blogging.

Oh, a citizen journalism moment:

I dropped into the Original Palace Barber Shop on Mission Street. A throw back to the old times. A real honest-to-god, all-male barbershop. No nonsense. So any how, a rather young cop comes in. Obviously a friend of the barbers. One the barbers looks at his head and says, “That’s a terrible haircut. Where did you get it?”

A few minutes later after talking about a recent chase, the cop in full uniform, tells this story. When he was a kid his aunt always cut his hair for free. Now when he visits, she wants to cut his hair. When he says he would rather get it done at the barber shop, she gets all sad. So to fix the situation he lets her cut his hair and then after wards comes to the barbershop where they fix the damage.

The cop, the all male barbershop and a very soft little moment.

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