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  The Recreation/Challenge Model of Media Entertainment: Evidence From the Field; Tilo Hartmann; Allison Eden The Role of Plausibility in the Experience of Spatial Presence in Virtual Environments; Matthias Hofer; Tilo Hartmann; Rabindra (Robby) Ratan; Lindsay Hahn; Allison Eden Touching the Virtual: Investigating Spatiotemporal Approach and Avoidance Behaviors in VR; Joomi Lee; Allison Eden; Taiwoo Park; David Ewoldsen;Continue reading “See you at ICA!”

I was awarded the Faculty Impact Award for 2018 from the Alumni Board of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at MSU. This is such an incredible honor. Teaching students has been and continues to be one of the core strengths of our department and I am so thrilled to be recognized for myContinue reading “Faculty Impact Award, MSU CAS 2018”

Come join if you are in the area! 2pm, Park Hall 280. See attached for details.

This weekend MSU ComArts will host the 2nd annual workshop on morality and media. This year we are focusing on “Problems and Possibilities.” Agenda and talk abstracts below. If you are interested in joining, please RSVP to edenalli@msu(dot)edu before September 15, 2017. Date: September 16, 2017 Location: CAS 182 Time Title of Session Speaker 10:00Continue reading “Morality and Media @ MSU Sept 15-16”

Wrapping up my first full semester as faculty here in Communication at MSU, I can finally reflect on the semester and what’s been happening. Media and Morality I was involved in two media and morality  workshops, one at MSU and one at Radboud University in Nijmegen, as well as a media and morality discussion panel atContinue reading “Fall 2016”

Information pulled from http://www.ru.nl/bsi/news-events/events/symposium-media-morality/ Description The role of morality in understanding audiences’ uses of and responses to media has always been a central subject for media scholars. The earliest theories of entertainment (cf. disposition theory: Zillmann & Cantor, 1976) were quick to establish the role of morality related to the appeal of characters and narratives.Continue reading “Morality and media symposium Nijmegen”

Nice blog post (in Dutch) about our work on how consumers select apps from the app store from my colleague Christian Burgers at the Vrije Universiteit. He touches on two recent articles looking at 1) the use of heuristics and 2) visual metaphor in app download decisions. We have a new paper underway that furtherContinue reading “How consumers select apps (Dutch)”

Today we are hosting the first workshop on Media and Morality @MSU. Gathering together researchers from both in and outside of Michigan State University, we focus on networking, proposal development, measurement issues, and the “big questions” of media and morality over the course of a beautiful fall weekend here at MSU. Interested in joining us? Contact meContinue reading “#MMMSU Media and Morality @MSU”

I will be moving back to Michigan this summer to take a position as an assistant professor at the Department of Communication and Michigan State University. Very excited! The department is full of excellent colleagues and the support of the university is outstanding. Communication at Michigan State has always been at the forefront of theContinue reading “Goodbye, Netherlands!”

Nice summary of our research on avatar-based feedback in a mobility app from NWO (text below): http://www.nwo.nl/onderzoek-en-resultaten/onderzoeksprojecten/74/2300186874.html Transportation figures from December 2013 on traffic jams (‘filedruk’) showed that the number and intensity of traffic jams in the Netherlands has increased (http://nos.nl/artikel/581315-filedruk-neemt-weer-toe.html). To stimulate pro-social transportation behavior and to reduce traffic jams, transportation specialists turn towardsContinue reading “NWO coverage of our KIEM grant”