Communication Professor Presents First Place Paper

In April, communication professor Clark Greer, Ph.D., presented the paper “Following Local Television News Personalities on Twitter: A Uses and Gratifications Approach to Social Networking” at the annual convention of the Broadcast Education Association in Las Vegas. The paper, co-authored with Douglas Ferguson, a professor at the College of Charleston, was awarded first place in the open category of the News Division. The paper reports the results of a study that surveyed people who follow the Twitter sites of local television news personalities in the U.S.