James C. Morrison, Jr., M.A. (Columbia), M.P.A. (Harvard)
Visiting Assistant
Professor
Department
of Communication
Western Connecticut State University
181 White Street
Danbury, CT 06810
MorrisonJ at wcsu.edu
I am currently Visting Assistant Professor at Western Connecticut State University and recently taught an online course in graduate research methods and strategies for Marist College. Previously, I was Scholar-in-Residence and Graduate Program Director in Organizational and Corporate Communication at Emerson College, Before that I was Lecturer in Communication in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, where I also taught management communication in the Sloan School of Management. I designed Survey of Publishing: From Text to Hypertext, a core course in the Certificate Program in Publishing and Communications at Harvard Extension School, which I taught for ten years. I have also taught CREA E-132 Writing for the Internet. In fall semester of 2001 I was Visiting Lecturer in the Experimental College at Tufts University, where I taught Culture and Communication: Introduction to Media Theory. Previously, I taught science and engineering writing in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT, and was a Preceptor in Communication at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Lecturer in Communication at Harvard Business School. I have also taught comparative literature at Princeton University and English at the University of Hawaii.
Western Connecticut State University
Master of Arts Degree in Communication - Organizational Communication & Leadership
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Sloan School of Management
Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
HUMA E-105/W Survey of Publishing: From Text to Hypertext
CREA E-132 Writing for the Internet
Tufts University Experimental College John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard Business School Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University Department of English, University of Hawaii
I have recently served as a writing consultant in the M.B.A. program at Babson College and have taught communication in the Heller Graduate School at Brandeis University. I have also conducted writing workshops for Logistics Management Institute, a federally funded research and development center; Brown University's Writing Center; Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc., consulting engineers; and CuraGen Corporation. I have also worked as a developmental editor for innovations proposals entered in the Better Government Competition of the Pioneer Institute in Boston.
I was a Sponsoring Editor in the College Division of Houghton Mifflin Company for developmental English, business and technical writing, and speech/communications, as well as a college sales representative and Acquisitions Editor in computer programming and information systems for PWS Publishers, a former division of Wadsworth Publishing Company.
- Historian
and Web Editor, Media Ecology
Association
- Editorial
Board, Counterblast:
The e-journal of Culture & Communication (New York University)
- Membership
Chair, Communication Association of Massachusetts
- Member
of the Eastern Communication Association and the New York State Communication
Association
- "Cities Without Lines: Demassification in the Age of Ubiquity." In The Urban Communication Reader, Ed. Gene Burd, Gary Gumpert, and Susan J. Drucker. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press (in press).
- “Media Ecology
of Cable Television.” Explorations in Media Ecology {EME} 4(2).
- “Marshall
McLuhan: The Modern Janus.” Chapter in Perspectives on Culture,
Technology and Communication: The Media Ecology Tradition. Ed. Casey
M. K. Lum. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2006.
- review of Megan
Mullen, The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States: Revolution
or Evolution? (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003). Technology
and Culture 46 (2) April 2005: 432–434. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v046/46.2morrison.html
- review of Donald Theall, The Virtual Marshall McLuhan (Montreal, PQ, and Kingston, ON: McGill–Queen's University Press, 2001). Explorations in Media Ecology {EME} 2 (1) 2003: 75–79.
- participant in
roundtable discussion, "Buzz Cuts: The hyping, spinning, buzzing,
pumping, and jazzing of architecture," ArchitectureBoston 5
(4), November/December 2002: 8–18.
- “The
Author is Dead—Long Live the Author!” Paper presented at Media
in Transition 2: Globalization and Convergence, May 10–12, 2002,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. http://cms.mit.edu/conf/mit2/Abstracts/MorrisonJ.pdf
- “Hypermedia
and Synesthesia.” Proceedings of the Media Ecology Association,
Inaugural Convention, Fordham University, New York, NY, June 16–17,
2000. http://www.media-ecology.org/publications/proceedings/v1/hypermedia_and_synesthesia.html
- “The
Place of Marshall McLuhan in the Learning of His Time.” Counterblast:
The e-journal of Culture & Communication 1 (1). http://www.nyu.edu/pubs/counterblast/issue1_nov01/articles/morrison.html
- review
of John Ellis, Seeing Things: Television in the Age of Uncertainty
(London: I. B. Tauris, 2000) and David Gauntlett and Annette Hill, TV
Living: Television, Culture, and Everyday Life (London: Routledge,
1999). Technology and Culture 42 (1): 176–178. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v042/42.1morrison.html
- “Marshall McLuhan:
No Prophet Without Honor,” New Dimensions in Communication,
vol. XIII; Proceedings of the 57th Annual Conference of the New
York State Communication Association, Monticello, New York, October
8–10, 1999. New York: Brooklyn College of CUNY, 2000, 1–28.
- The Policy Analysis
Exercise: A Guide for Students,
manual edited and co-authored with Communications Program colleagues
for the Office of Teaching Programs, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Cambridge, Mass.: John F. Kennedy School of Government, 1993, 1994.
- “A Short Guide to Successful
Writing in Management Communication,” HBS Case Services No. 9-387-037,
Rev. 9/87.
- prepared comments as panel member of workshop led by Margaret Solomon, University of Hawaii, titled “Joyce’s Corpus as Word Machine,” in J. Aubert and M. Jolas, eds. Joyce & Paris 1902...1920–1940...1975; Papers from the Fifth International James Joyce Symposium. Paris 16–20 June 1975. Paris: Publications de l’Université de Lille 3/ Éditions du C.N.R.S., 1979.
I have also authored and edited writing guides and technical notes in preparing documents and conducting research for MIT, the Kennedy School, and Harvard Business School.
- “A Stronger Foundation
for Presidential Debates,” Policy Analysis Exercise prepared for
the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public
Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, in
supplement to course requirements for the Master in Public Administration
degree. Client and faculty advisor: Marvin Kalb, Director
- “Technological Challenges
and Opportunities for Newspapers,” term project for PPP-219 The
Changing Press, taught by visiting Lombard Chair Scholar Warren Phillips,
Director and former CEO, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
- “Networking at the John
F. Kennedy School of Government: Local, Regional, and Global Resources,”
report prepared for the Research Network Consortium at the Kennedy School
- “Some Recommendations for
Planning the Development of Information Technology at the John F. Kennedy
School of Government,” term project for M-678 Managing with Information
Technology: Organizational, Professional, and Policy Choices, taught
by Dr. Jerry Mechling
- “Communication Policies and Practices at Hewlett-Packard,” on-site research report submitted to the Management Communication Program, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University
My research interests include societal impacts of new communications media, development of hypertext and hypermedia systems in higher education and research, information management in high-tech environments, and national media policy.