Browsing by Author "Morgan, Zachary"

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    Application of Social Media Platforms for the Development of College Basketball Attendance
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2016-04-08) Fulton, Nathaniel; Devenney, Parker; Morgan, Zachary
    The purpose of the current study was to examine why college students do not attend college basketball games. After surveying 116 college students at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), one of the biggest reasons for poor basketball game attendance was due to an overall lack of awareness of the game information. Students did not realize that basketball games were taking place throughout the week. Current studies showed that a college’s athletic website and social media platforms were the first places students looked at in order to find out game information. The survey found that a majority of students used three of the four major social media platforms, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, on a daily basis. With the shortened attention span of Generation Y and Z, social media platforms are the most effective way to capture the attention of those with short attention spans (Gausby, 2015). Comparisons of similar Division I-AAA universities and their athletic websites were used to find what makes a strong athletic website, as spectators visit a universities’ athletic website first for information on upcoming games and events. In addition, the results of the study indicates that winning alone does not necessarily provide a lasting positive impact on attendance. Full utilization of social media with a mix of a strong official athletics website best captures the attention of Generation Y and Z students. Having a strong online presence keeps the awareness of basketball games throughout the season at the forefront of student’s minds. A core of Generation Y and Z fans can be built through a strong online presence, as this is what they use for identification purposes. With this utilization, college basketball games can see an increase in attendance as fan loyalty is built with technology-driven students.
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    Mapping the Contours of the Research on Learning to Teach with Technology: Clusters, Categories, and Missing Trajectories
    (2023) Price, Jeremy F.; Manlove, Joshua; Morgan, Zachary; Arora, Akaash; Hall, Ted
    This review of the literature examines research reports on learning to teach with technology between 2013 and 2019 to illuminate the characteristics of the field at multiple levels of granularity and to call attention to what is missing. We ask the question: What does the overarching paradigm of the field of research on learning to teach with technology look like? Using a mixed paradigmatic and data science-based analysis that involved qualitatively coding the methodologies, purposes, and approaches in the manuscripts and applying a hierarchical clustering of principal components algorithm, five clusters emerged on a two-dimensional axis that centered on exploring the teacher pipeline versus social and individual experiences on one axis and behaviors and practices versus attitudes and beliefs on the other. The field was found to be tightly centralized, and clusters overlapped and intersected with methods and outcomes bundled together in a milieu buffeted by neoliberal logics and a sense of techno-utopianism to largely support default theories around technology as a “fix” and as an end in itself to build the teacher workforce. This review finds several critical areas underrepresented, such as time- and context-bound ethnographic studies, approaches that center on anti-oppressive critical media literacy, understanding the ways technology can bridge the classroom with families and communities, and learning to teach with technology for equity and inclusion to support the sustainability and development of identities, communities, and a more democratic society.
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    Obtaining History with a Language Barrier in the Emergency Department: Perhaps not a Barrier After All
    (eScholarship Publishing, 2018-11) Litzau, Megan; Turner, Joseph; Pettit, Katie; Morgan, Zachary; Cooper, Dylan; Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine