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Brian Carroll, Ph.D.
100 Laughlin Hall
Berry College
Mount Berry, GA  30149

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phone: 706.368.6944
fax: 706.802.6738
email: bc at berry.edu

on the world wide web:
www.cubanxgiants.com


Welcome!
Greetings from Mount Berry, Georgia. I'm director of the Honors Program and an associate professor in the Communication Department at Berry College, with research interests in digital media, communication law, and the black press. Among the courses I teach are media law, writing for digital media, digital storytelling, the first amendment, editing and visual rhetoric.
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I am also an adjunct professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, teaching the online Master's in Technology & Communication course, Writing for Digital Media.

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Last summer, Dr. Carroll was a fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia. He also checked out the European Council study abroad program in Paris as a fellow of USG. Capping off a busy summer, he presented a semiotic analysis of Shakespeare's Richard III at the Wooden O Symposium as part of the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and a paper on anonymous defamation online at AEJMC in St. Louis.

Dr. Carroll's textbook, Writing for Digital Media, is from from Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis.

Check out the mulltimedia site Dr. Carroll's Multimedia Production students developed for Rome's Three Circles Foundation, a non-profit offering day camps to fostered and at-risk youth.

>> headphones Listen to Dr. C's interview about his book, When to Stop the Cheering? (Routledge), on Georgia Public Broadcasting.

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credentials academic c.v. (.pdf download) some (early) research
  professional resume teaching philosophy
 
teaching writing for digital media (jomc 711) for UNC Chapel Hill
  digital media & distributed society (com 429 seminar)
  media law (com 416)
  digital storytelling (com 329)
  multimedia production (com 305)
  editing across platforms (com 303)
  writing & reporting (com 301) (inactive)
  visual rhetoric (com 300)
  mass communication & society (com 201) (inactive)
  nationalism & imagined communities (eng 436/com 429)
  perennial questions series: the pursuit of the good life (hon 250)
  perennial questions series: law, justice, mercy and grace (hon 250)
  oxbridge lecture series: the first amendment (hon 251)
  freedom of expression® (com 429 seminar)
  international multimedia reporting practicum (com 428/429)
  oxbridge lecture series: what should law do? (hon 251) (in development)
  electronic information sources (jomc 50) for UNC Chapel Hill (inactive)
 
bc's blogs Wandering Rocks on journalism, digital media and visual rhetoric
  BerryLaw for media law course
  BerryOnline for news writing & editing courses
  BerryNews for journalism students
 
lecture notes introduction to graphic design
  black press and baseball
  online communities
  online source credibility
  privacy in an Internet age
  writing/editing for digital media
 
podcasts interview with georgia public broadcast about black press book
  media law lecture on U.S. legal system and types of law
  media law lecture on FOIA
  media law lecture on commercial speech
  media law lecture on libel laws
  media law lecture on commercial speech (part 2)
  john witte on church, state and the first amendment: a history
  professor bill schabas on the future of northern ireland
  professor stephen ryan on the residues of conflict
  ms. clionagh boyle on the children of northern ireland
 
web development

american journalism historians association

  three circles foundation for fostered youth (produced by COM 305 students)
  aids resource council of rome & floyd county (produced by COM 329 students)
  florenceNow.net multimedia project (international reporting program)
 

habitat for humanity of rome & floyd county (produced by COM 305 students)

  camerano italy multimedia project (international reporting program)
 
photo albums rickwood baseball classic (2009) family (2003)
  all over italy (2008) and another caesaria, israel (2006)
  england & ireland (2007) family pix (summer 2006)
  camerano, italy (2006) west bank (2006)
  jerusalem (2006) japan (2004)
  ireland (2005) montana (2004)
  mini tour of berry (2006) carolina (2003)
  copenhagen (2003) colorado springs (2004)
  turner field (2004)  
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Who were the Cuban X Giants? They were one of the very first professional black baseball teams, playing in New York City around the turn of the 19th century and made up of -- you guessed it -- mostly former Cuban Giants. They were good, winning the 1903 Colored World Championships behind the pitching of the legendary Andrew "Rube" Foster, who won four of the five games.