Faculty

Shawn McIntosh

Shawn McIntosh is co-author of Converging Media: Introduction to Mass Communication, a textbook for undergraduate media courses, and has been an editor and freelance writer for 10 years for various newspapers and magazines in the UK, U.S., and Japan. He was co-site manager and senior producer at Fathom, an online educational Web site comprising a consortium of leading academic institutions, museums, and research organizations in the U.S. and England. While at Fathom, McIntosh developed multimedia online courses and produced features in partnership with consortium members. He co-founded Netgraf, which examines issues and trends related to online journalism and journalism education. He was an adjunct faculty member at Iona College, where he taught online journalism, Web site publishing, feature writing, and information visualization, and has taught media ethics at Rutgers University. He is currently a doctoral student in media studies at Rutgers University. His research interests include alternative media; media, power and democracy; and public discourses surrounding changes brought by digital media. He received a B.S. in microbiology from the University of Idaho and an M.S. in journalism, with a concentration in new media, from Columbia University.

McIntosh had a paper entitled "Framing Community Broadband: Will Muni Wi-Fi Be Too Puny to Tackle Telecoms?" accepted in the Public Affairs section at the ICA/ACA Congress of Americas in Lima, Peru, August 3-5, 2007.

Shawn McIntosh teaches Strategic Communications: Analysis, Theory, and Ethics, Communications 3.0: Best Practices in a Networked Society, and Advanced Communications Project.

Shawn McIntosh on the advantages of critical thinking:
"Critical thinking and strong logical reasoning are the foundations of strategic communications. These fundamental--yet undeveloped--skills allow us to properly analyze situations, understand research results, plan communications campaigns, and make informed decisions when faced with ethical quandaries. Critical thinking peels away the layers of our media-saturated society and shows how marketing works to persuade us in all areas of life, ranging from what soap we buy to what politician we vote for."