DrThompsen.com

DrThompsen.com is a blog maintained by Philip A. Thompsen, Ph.D. I’ve been a college professor and student media advisor since 1984. Before that I worked for 8 years as a professional broadcaster, primarily as a radio announcer. I currently hold the position of Associate Professor of Communication Studies at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. See the list below for a description of some of the many “hats I wear,” as well as a link to my current academic vita.

I have kept many blogs over the years, including this one at blogger, this one at mac.com, a blog on communication technology at communication.wcupa.edu, and a wiki-style blog at comwiki, a wiki I started for scholars of communication studies. Rather than maintain so many different blogs in many different places, I am consolidating many of my previous blog entries on this site.

I’m also a frequent contributor to the English versions of Wikipedia and Wikibooks, where I launched a wikibook on broadcast announcing.  Many of my lectures and conference presentations are available as podcasts.

I wear many hats…

• I’m an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. I regularly teach a large lecture course on Communication Media, as well as other courses in media, broadcasting and communication technology.
• I’m the faculty advisor to The Quad, the student newspaper of West Chester University.
• I’m the webmaster and educational technology coordinator for the Department of Communication Studies at West Chester University.
• I’m a scholar of communication technology, having published numerous articles and book chapters on the subject, and regularly presenting my scholarship on panels at academic conferences and conventions. For more information, feel free to download my current vita.
• I have been an active member of the Broadcast Education Association for over 20 years, and have served as Chair of that organization’s Student Media Adviser Division.
• I have served as a communication technology consultant for a number of businesses and organizations, including Ikea, Genesis Health Care, InterMedia Marketing, as well as a number of radio and television stations around the country.

DrThompsen.com runs on WordPress, one of the best blog servers available, in my humble opinion. My current offline blog editors of choice are MacJournal and ScribeFire.