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Tweeting While Watching TV Diminishes Enjoyment

UConn Today - July 2, 2019

Toggling between viewing entertainment and social media lessens a person’s ability to escape reality and enjoy a show, according to a new University of Connecticut study. Researchers studied an experience that has become increasingly common: More than half of television viewers aged 18 to 24 use a second screen web-connected device for engaging on social media to discuss what they are watching, according to previous research. The new study, conducted by a team in the Department of Communication and published in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, found the most significant impact of two-screen experience was on viewers’ ability to “transport” into the narrative and become immersed in the televised story.

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Jul 25 Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Kimberly Embacher Martin9:00am

Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Kimberly Embacher Martin

Thursday, July 25th, 2019

09:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Storrs Campus
225 Arjona Building

My Mind on My Body and My Body on My Mind: Examining the Effect of Self-Objectification on Exercise Flow and Enjoyment for Young Women

Communication

Contact Information: Rory McGloin, rory.mcgloin@uconn.edu
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Aug 22 W Teaching Orientation9:00am

W Teaching Orientation

Thursday, August 22nd, 2019

09:00 AM - 02:30 PM

Storrs Campus
tba

This orientation outlines best practices for teaching writing in the disciplines. It features interactive workshops on building robust revision processes into W courses, designing effective assignments, responding to student writing, and handling the paper load. Our aim is not only to enhance the quality of student learning in W courses but also to explore strategies that can make each instructor’s writing-intensive teaching more effective and rewarding. This orientation is required of all graduate assistants assigned to assist in a 2000+level or to instruct a 1000-level W course.
Go to: http://writingcenter.uconn.edu/w-teaching-orientation/
for agenda and registration information

Contact Information: Margie Ouimette
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Sep 18 The Myles Martel Lecture in Leadership and Public Opinion4:00pm

The Myles Martel Lecture in Leadership and Public Opinion

Wednesday, September 18th, 2019

04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

But Who Will Lead? Redefining Leadership in Eras of Social and Political Upheaval, featuring Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Associate Professor of History, The New School. Dr. Mehlman Petrzela is a historian of contemporary American politics and culture and is currently writing a book on American fitness culture, FIT NATION: How America Embraced Exercise As The Government Abandoned It. She is also the author of Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture, co-host of Past Present Podcast, the creator and host of a History Channel web series, a frequent media guest expert, speaker at universities and conferences, and contributor to national and local news outlets.

Contact Information: University Events and Conference Services, 860.486.1038
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