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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 an associate professor of journalism 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, teaching the graduate-level distance education course,
Writing for Digital Media.

NEWS

Due out in March is Dr. Carroll's new textbook for Writing for Digital Media, from Routledge, a project six years in the making.

Last Spring, Digital Storytelling students developed a mulltimedia site for the Rome's Aids Resource Council, a non-profit reaching out to those infected and affected by AIDs.

Check out Dr. Carroll's book on the black press and baseball, When to Stop the Cheering?, which went paperback last year. It's carried by amazon.com, among others.

>> headphones Listen to his interview about When to Stop the Cheering? on Georgia Public Broadcasting.

book covers

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)
  intro to digital communication (com 329)
  media design (com 305)
  editing (com 303)
  writing & reporting (com 301)
  visual rhetoric (com 300)
  mass communication & society (com 201)
  nationalism & imagined communities (eng 436/com 429)
  oxbridge lecture series (hon 251)
  freedom of expression® (com 429 seminar)
  international multimedia reporting practicum (com 428/429)
  electronic information sources (jomc 50) for UNC Chapel Hill (inactive)
 
bc's blogs Wandering Rocks on journalism, new media and emergence
  BerryLaw for media law course
  BerryOnline for news writing & editing courses
  BerryNews for journalism students
 
lecture notes web blogs, journalism & the law
  participatory journalism & new media ecosystem
  "we" media and the boom in blogs
  introduction to graphic design
  black press and baseball
  online communities I
  online communities II
  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

  aids resource council of rome & floyd county (produced by COM 329 students)
  florenceNow.net multimedia project (2008 international reporting program)
 

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

  camerano italy multimedia project (2006 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.