New Media (Graduate)
In this course, we begin the semester learning that new media aren’t just digital media… in fact, all media were new once! To that end, we work with new media theory as we consider the newness of “old” communication media (such as the typewriter and telegraph) before venturing forward into topics including the technological sublime, algorithmic culture, big data, and smart technologies. Students leave the course with a broadened definition of new media, a clear understanding of terms such as data, information, knowledge and wisdom, and a seminar paper that draws course material together in exploring a new media technology or topic of their choice. Covers new media from multiple perspectives including communication theory, the history of technology, cultural studies, and software studies. Topics include electronic media, digital media, markets, platforms, and algorithmic culture.
Media Literacy (Graduate)
Taught Spring 2014. Students examine the reciprocal relationship between culture and technology in understanding media. Students examine the socio-cultural, ontological, economic, historical, and philosophical perspectives relevant for understanding media as technologies. Through historical and contemporary examples, students explore media technologies' social significance.
Theories of Visual Communication
This theory course prepares students to expand their way of seeing, thinking, and practicing visual communication and culture. Grounded in Mayer's Theory of Multimedia Learning, students develop an understanding of theory as well as application in constructing multimedia responses. This project-based course concludes with an in-person gallery style presentation of infographics. Students collaborate on Yellowdig to share thinking about visual communication and culture, connect theory to experience, and build community outside of the classroom.
Theories of Organizational Communication
The purpose of this course is to help students better understand the role of communication in organizations so that they can take a strategic approach to thinking about how organizations and their members communicate with internal and external audiences. The course is designed to help organizational members improve individual, group, and organizational effectiveness and to have an understanding of power relations in the organization.
Theories of Mass Communication
Taught at Villanova in Fall 2014. The course is one of several theory courses offered in the communication department, and provides a foundation in mass communication theory.
Graduate Advising in New Media
I've had the opportunity to chair two thesis committees at Villanova. Check out the awesome work done by my students in New Media!
Haeberle-Gosweiler, Nathaniel. Producing Faces and Seeing Machines. M.A. Communication, Villanova University. May 2020.
Farris, Brianne Schurott. Framing the Selfie: How U.S. News Journalists Shaped Perception of the Selfie in Year One. M.A. Communication, Villanova University. May 2015.
Directed Readings in New Media
Stuckey, Eamon. New Media and Surveillance Capitalism. Spring 2020.
Haeberle-Gosweiler, Nathaniel. Visual Communication and Culture. Fall 2019.
Haeberle-Gosweiler, Nathaniel. New Media, Digital Media, and Culture. Summer 2019.
Gainer, John. Maker Culture, Subjects, and Spaces. Summer 2017.
Applied Courses in Communication
These courses represent more professionally oriented courses that I have taught in the Department of Communication at Villanova.
Negotiation and Dialogue
Examination of the practical, theoretical, and critical analysis of a variety of approaches to negotiation and resolving conflicts. Verbal forms of negotiation, mediation, and dialogue are developed as key components in the maintenance of any healthy organization.
Introduction to Public Relations
My approach to introducing students to public relations includes a focus on social media. Students are required to complete a group project as well as a press release assignment and an interview with a PR professional.
Public Relations Writing
This course focuses on competency with core PR elements including the news release, feature stories, and media pitching, culminating in a final portfolio.
Villanova College of Professional Studies
I have taught a number of courses through Villanova's College of Professional Studies. Courses are seven weeks long and take place online.
COM 3352: Media & Technology
Surveys the development of communication technologies from the printing press through the internet and beyond. Technological development will be used as a way to explore critical issues about economic development, the nature of meaning, technological determinism and globalization.
COM 3406: Gender and Communication
Communication of women and men against the backdrop of society and feminism in such communicative contexts as families, schools, friendships and relationships, organizations, media, and technology.
LDR 2080: Leadership Communication
Explore strategies and tactics for engaging and inspiring your team, clients, and partners. Includes topics such as communicating your vision, social media strategy, storytelling, and crisis communication.
COM 3441: Negotiation and Dialogue
Examination of the practical, theoretical, and critical analysis of a variety of approaches to negotiation and resolving conflicts. Verbal forms of negotiation, mediation, and dialogue are developed as key components in the maintenance of any healthy organization.
COM 2440: Theories of Organizational Communication
Exploration of the relationship between organizational and communication theories. Addresses issues of leadership, structure, culture, decision-making, communication channels, conflict, change, motivation, performance, diversity management, and external communication as they relate to organizations.
North Carolina State University
This section contains is a list of course summaries for sections I taught at NCSU as a Graduate Instructor and as Adjunct Faculty.
Critical Analysis of Communication Media
I taught this media criticism course both as a traditional in-person class and also as an asynchronous online course over several years at NCSU. This course is designed as a methods and theory course, and is a core course in the media concentration at NC State. This course covers ethnographic approaches to understanding media as well as race, class, and gender in the media and issues of media ownership and reform. I have taught the course both in the traditional classroom as well as in the form of a summer online course.
Communication Law
Communication Law examines how law shapes and is shaped by specific arrangements of power and media, technology, and society with a focus on the reciprocal relation between communication practice and law, regulation, and policy. Such an approach works toward an understanding communication law in everyday life, with particular attention to new media.
Introduction to Public Relations
I taught this course both as a traditional in-person class and also as an asynchronous online course over several years at NCSU.
Organizational Communication
I taught this course both as a traditional in-person class and also as an asynchronous online course over several years at NCSU.