Expertise

Subject Areas:

  • Media, Production, and Representation
    • Documentary Production
    • Media Literacy
    • Video & Audio Production
  • Contexts of Communication
    • Food Communication
    • Science Communication

His research interests include media literacy, cultural effects of media, and broadcast history. He also has interests in the impact of religious influence on news reporting.

Past Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Media, & Persuasion, College of Arts and Letters, Idaho State University (past)

Communities
Journalism, Mass Communication
Degrees
EdD, Idaho State University , Educational Leadership and Instructional Methods and Design
MEd, Eastern Washington University, Instructional Media and Technology
BA, Brigham Young University, Communications
Keywords
digital humanities film or cinema or video communications broadcast media mass communication mass media electronic media science communication documentary digital media
Languages
English, Tongan
Honors

Videographer Award , Association Marketing and Communication Professionals (www.amcpros.com), 2017

MarCom Award, Association Marketing and Communication Professionals (www.amcpros.com), 2016

Telly Award - Bronze, Telly Awards, 2007

Telly Award - Bronze, Telly Awards, 2006

Gold Winner - The Pipes at All Faiths Chapel, AVA Awards, 2019

First-place paper -, Broadcast Education Association, Interactive Media and Emerging Technologies Division, 2018

First-place paper - All the News That’s Fit to Tweet: College TV Stations’ Uses of Twitter., Broadcast Education Association, Interactive Media and Emerging Technologies Division, 2018

Associations
Broadcast Education Association