CURRICULUM VITAE

Mark A. Poepsel, Ph.D.2122 TramoreTroy, IL 62294MarkPoepsel@gmail.com

Assistant Professor—Tenure TrackSouthern Illinois University Edwardsville

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Poepsel, M.A. (2013). The Scion of Public Journalism: Case Study Evidence of a Link between Public and Social Journalism and the Potential for an Atomized Public Sphere. #ISOJ: The Journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism, 3(2), 160-181.

Hellmueller, L., Vos, T., & Poepsel, M. (2013). Shifting Journalistic Capital? Transparency and Objectivity in the 21st Century. Journalism Studies, 14(3), 287-304.

Ashley, S., Poepsel, M., & Willis, E. (2010). Media Literacy and News Credibility: Does knowledge of media ownership increase skepticism in news consumers? The Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2(1), 37-46.

PENDING PUBLICATION (R & R)

Poepsel, M. (2015). An Attempt at Corralling the Commons: The mutual shaping of a content management system for social journalism at five levels of a news organization. Journal of Media Innovations. Pending further review.

TEXTBOOK

Poepsel, M. (2015) Media, Society, Culture and You. [6th electronic edition]. Retrieved from https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/media-society-culture-and-you/id909821537?mt=11#

RESEARCH AGENDA

My current research agenda focuses on change management theories and how they relate to news organizations. I am most interested in successful management approaches for entrepreneurial activities, and I aim to discern which are most likely to be productive for digital news in a transmedia environment.

My ultimate goal is to goal is to describe and explain how successful institutions are built in the network society and apply that knowledge to pedagogy.

SELECTED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

Poepsel, M. & Painter, C. (2015, August). Radically objective: The role of the alternative media in covering Ferguson, Missouri. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. San Francisco.

Poepsel, M. (2015, August). Crossing the “Interregnum”: Group Cohesion among Adaptive Journalists. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. San Francisco.

Poepsel, M. & Poepsel, G. (2014, April). Phoning Home in the 21st Century: The Latin American Diaspora Online. Presented at an on-campus colloquium for the College of Arts and Sciences.

Britten, B. Poepsel, M. (2013, August). Picturing Collective Memory: What Google's Doodles Want Us to Think About. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Washington, D.C.

Poepsel, M. (2013, June). An Attempt at Corralling the Commons: The mutual shaping of a content management system for social journalism at five levels of a news organization. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association. London.

Poepsel, M. (2012, August). New Institutionalism and a Business Model for “Social Journalism”. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago.

Hellmueller, L., Vos, T., & Poepsel, M. (2012, May). Shifting Journalistic Capital? Transparency and Objectivity in the 21st Century. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Phoenix, AZ.

Poepsel, M., Oh, H., Sobel, A., Cameron, G. (2011, November). Voice Versus Virus: Studying rural media use to best employ health crisis information. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans.

Poepsel, M. (2011, August). Community News as Collective Action. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, St. Louis. (Note: This paper was named the top student paper in the Community Journalism Interest Group.)

ACADEMIC PANEL PRESENTATIONS

Brown-Smith, Carrie; Mayer, Joy; and Mark Poepsel moderated by Mike Jenner (2013, August). Best Practices/Lessons in the teaching of participatory journalism. Panel presented at the meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, D.C.

Metaxis, T., Hill, S., and Balakrishnan, B. (2015, April). New Models, New Tools, New Innovations. Panel presented at the annual Journalism/interactive conference in Columbia, Missouri. Coordinated by Mark Poepsel, this session presented a Twitter tracking tool that attempts to algorithmically determine the veracity of claims on the social media platform. It also included presentations of 3D modeling and virtual reality storytelling.

Poepsel, M. (2015, April). “Augmented Reality vs. Alternate Reality as Teaching Tools.” Teach-A-Thon: Classroom tips on teaching digital journalism. Panel presented at the annual Journalism/interactive conference in Columbia, Missouri. This quick presentation served to differentiate between virtual reality, augmented reality and alternate reality games.

DISSERTATION

My dissertation focused on the development of an innovative content management system in a century-old newspaper organization-turned-multimedia news company. The key theoretical construct applied was that of the mutual shaping of technology. The construct attempts to merge the social shaping of technology approach with the diffusion of innovations paradigm, which allows for the holistic analysis of dynamic processes of iterative development.

In this case, the innovation was relatively minor. It was a proprietary CMS for a news organization in a city of about 90,000 people. I used the hierarchy of influences model (Shoemaker & Reese; Shoemaker & Vos) to organize my discussion, and, based on in-depth interviews and qualitative data analysis, I found that individuals in the news organization were more concerned with reacting to changes in technology than with shaping them.

RECENT ACADEMIC SERVICE

2015

Reviewer for AEJMC-San Francisco, Participatory Journalism Interest Group, Reviewed two papers.

Reviewer for AEJMC-San Francisco, Mass Communication and Society Division, International Communication Division, Reviewed three papers.

Reviewer for ICA-San Juan, Puerto Rico, Journalism Studies Division, Reviewed three papers.

2014

Reviewer for AEJMC-Montréal, Mass Communication and Society Division, Reviewed four papers.

Reviewer for ICA-Seattle, Journalism Studies Division, Reviewed four papers. Served as a discussant for a paper session.

Reviewed one paper for the journal Electronic News.

2013

Reviewer for AEJMC-Washington, D.C., Community Journalism Interest Group, Reviewed three papers.

Reviewer for AEJMC-Washington, D.C., International Communication Division, Reviewed five papers.

Reviewer for AEJMC-Midwinter, International Communication Division, Reviewed four abstracts.

Reviewer for ICA-London, Journalism Studies Division, Reviewed four papers.

Reviewer for ICA-London, Communication and Technology Division, Reviewed three papers.

2012

Organizer pre-conference session on teaching ethics for AEJMC-Chicago, Political Communication Interest Group and Media Ethics Division. Serving as Teaching Chair for the Political Comm. Interest Group, I helped to plan this event along with Dr. Ginny Whitehouse.

Mentor Match participant for AEJMC-Chicago, Political Communication Interest Group.

Discussant for AEJMC-Chicago, Political Communication Interest Group, Poster session.

Reviewer for AEJMC-Chicago, Political Communication Interest Group, Reviewed four papers for the annual conference, served as a discussant for a poster session.

Reviewer for AEJMC-Chicago, Community Journalism Interest Group, Reviewed three papers for the annual conference.

Reviewed one paper each for New Media and Society, the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and Electronic News.

2011

Newsletter editor for AEJMC-St. Louis, International Communication Division, Edited a 16-page newsletter including updates from a dozen members, edits of stories of off-site events occurring during the conference, and reporter and writer of an interview piece on an African Mass Comm. scholar.

Reviewer for AEJMC-St. Louis, Political Communication Interest Group, Reviewed four papers for the annual conference.

Reviewer for AEJMC-St. Louis, International Communication Division, Reviewed five papers for the annual conference, served as a discussant for a paper session.

Reviewer for AEJMC-Midwinter, International Communication Division, Reviewed four abstracts for the midwinter conference.

2010

Reviewer for AEJMC-Denver, International Communication Division, Reviewed four papers for the annual conference.

THESIS CHAIRED

Poch, M. (2015, Spring). The Role of Social Media in Sports when Developing Long-Term Relationships with Fans: The Case of the Saint Louis Rams and the LA Galaxy. Presented to the Faculty of the Department of Mass Communications, College of Arts and Sciences. Mark Poepsel, chair; Suman Mishra & Gary Hicks, committee members.

THESIS COMMITTEE SERVICE

Souers, L. (2014, Fall). Level Up: A Stage-based Mixed Methods Approach to Gamification Adoption in Higher Education Institution Marketing and Recruiting. Presented to the Faculty of the Department of Mass Communications, College of Arts and Sciences. Musonda Kapatamoyo, chair; Mark Poepsel & David Kauzlarich, committee members.

SPECIAL SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL or DEPARTMENT

2015 - Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville

Represented my Department in a weekly book group on “Teaching Underprepared Students.”

Hosted a “Midweek Mentor” session on using social media in the classroom to enhance engagement.

Developed an alternate reality game final exam program with a student team from the Computer Science Department at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville involving real world tasking using the iPad to progress through levels including quizzes, interviewing and editing, product photography and media criticism—to be implemented as Final Exam in December 2015 for Mass Communication and Society Freshman Seminar.

2014 - Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville

Represented my department at a University-wide presentation on using social media, in particular Twitter, to bring scholarship to the general public and to collaborate with other scholars. I mostly spoke about collaborating on manuscripts with fellow colleagues and following and engaging academic discussions online.

Designed a different poster for “Hands-On Day” hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences dealing with wearable technology etiquette.

Hosted a panel discussion for alternative media publications who covered Ferguson, Missouri protests, police action and riots as part of our Mass Communications Week.

Represented my department at weekly “Midweek Mentor” sessions on better teaching. Sessions included writing better quizzes, encouraging student participation, teaching online, improving online discussions.

2013 - Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville

Designed a poster and a social media competition for “Hands-On Day” hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences.

2012 – Loyola University, New Orleans

Created “Pack News” broadcast, a weekly 10-minute, pre-produced, online video news show that aired on the student newspaper website for the Loyola Maroon. It has been produced when school is in session and continues to be produced to this day, although I left LOYNO in 2013.

2011 – Loyola University, New Orleans

Helped draft and introduce a curriculum overhaul as Journalism Studies Head. This included developing new courses, re-drafting course requirement paperwork and following ACEJMC guidelines for curriculum change, with attention to our nature as a liberal arts University.

ONGOING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

For three semesters, I have won an undergraduate research grant award. This is a small stipend I can use to hire an undergraduate research assistant to help research the effects of conducting interviews using Google Glass in a journalistic context. I have also begun research looking into the feasibility of using Google Glass as a second camera used in the first person perspective in video news packages.

EDUCATION

Summer 2011 -- University of Missouri-ColumbiaMissouri School of JournalismPh.D. – JournalismDissertation: “The Mutual Shaping of Technology in a News Establishment: Social journalism and organizational change”

Harry S Truman School of Public AffairsGraduate Certificate in Grantsmanship

Spring 2007 -- University of ArizonaMaster of Arts, Latin American StudiesThesis: “Public Discourse Concerning Mexican Sovereignty in Media Coverage of the 2006 Presidential Election”

Spring 2002 -- University of Missouri–ColumbiaBachelor of Journalism, Broadcast focusBachelor of Arts, English; Spanish minorEnglish senior paper: “Beauty and the Sublime in Wordsworth’s The Prelude”

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

August 2013 – Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communications, SIUE

August 2011 – May 2013Assistant Professor, Journalism Sequence Head, School of Mass Communication, Loyola University-New Orleans

June 2010 Adjunct Instructor, Missouri School of Journalism (J2100)

August 2007 – May 2008Adjunct Instructor, Journalism Department (now a School of Journalism), University of Arizona

JOURNALISM EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

February 2004 – January 2006General Assignment Reporter, KOLD- News 13 (Tucson, AZ)

August 2002 – February 2004General Assignment Reporter, KWQC-TV 6 News (Quad Cities IA/IL)

HONORARY SOCIETY AFFILIATIONS

Phi Beta Kappa – University of Missouri, 2002Kappa Tau Alpha – University of Missouri, 2002Omicron Delta Kappa – University of Missouri, 2001Gold Key National Honor Society – University of Missouri, 2001

GRANTWRITING

I completed a certificate in Grantsmanship at Missouri in 2011. This required 12 credit hours and the completion of a major federal-level grant application with a team that I led.

As part of the program, I wrote a proposal for a Knight Foundation “New Voices” grant as well as a proposal for a USDA grant related to urban farming. Neither one was successful, but both were educational in terms of understanding the grant management cycle.

GRANT APPLICATIONS

FY2016 – “Journalism-As-Service: A participant-observation analysis of concept and praxis.” Submitted to Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville for the Seed Grants for Transitional and Exploratory Projects program. Unfunded.

For this internal grant proposal, I submitted a research narrative, budget justification, previous funding form, CV and I sought and received Human Subjects approval.

The proposal sought funding for a research trip to Seattle to see how the fiscal functioning of the West Seattle Blog complements the routine journalistic work.

FY2015 – “Managing Media Innovations.” Submitted to Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville for the Seed Grants for Transitional and Exploratory Projects program. Unfunded.

For this internal grant proposal, I submitted a research narrative, budget justification, previous funding form, and CV.

The proposal sought to create relationships with tech companies in the St. Louis area to see what aspects of strategic management they were successful with and what might translate to media projects and startups.

COURSE PREPARATIONS AS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

2015 – Summer Session (Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville): Revamped Mass Media & Society Textbook and course to fit the Summer Session.

2015 – Spring Semester (Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville): Revamped Media Management to include more media enterprise elements; Rewrote Mass Media & Society e-textbook.

2014 – Fall Semester (Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville): Media Management, Evolution of Entertainment Television, Graduate Research Methods, Mass Media & Society, for which I wrote an e-textbook and introduced iPads to the course as part of a Freshman Seminar.

2014 – Summer Session (Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville): Revamped Design and Writing for the Worldwide Web and Writing for the Media as a summer courses.

2014 – Spring Semester (Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville): Revamped Design and Writing for the Worldwide Web.

2013 – Fall Semester (Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville): Design and Writing for the Worldwide Web, Feature Writing, Writing for the Media; with a half-semester fill-in for Digital Publication Design

2013 – Spring Semester (Loyola University, New Orleans): Journalism, Advanced Journalism, re-tooled again after curriculum overhaul

2012 – Fall Semester (Loyola University, New Orleans): Revamped Videography and Beginning Reporting

2012 – Spring Semester (Loyola University, New Orleans): Videography, Advanced Reporting

2011 - Fall Semester (Loyola University, New Orleans): Theory and Research, Beginning Reporting