CURRICULUM VITAE
Peter Joseph Gloviczki
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Mass Communication. May 2012.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Dissertation Title:
Journalism in the Age of Social Media: The Case of the “In Memorial: Virginia Tech”
Facebook Group. Adviser: Laura J. Gurak; Co-adviser: Shayla Thiel-Stern
3.98 GPA.
M.A., University of Minnesota, Mass Communication, December 2008.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Thesis Title:
Mainstream Media Dominance in the News Blogosphere. Chair: Mark H. Pedelty.
Kappa Tau Alpha Honors. 4.0 GPA.
B.A., St. Olaf College, Political Science & CIS: Journalistic Ethics, May 2006.
Northfield, Minnesota, USA.
Capstone Title:
Balancing Journalism and Ethics: A Handbook for College Journalists and Editors.
Academic Adviser: Sheryl D. Breen. Pi Sigma Alpha Honors and Distinction in CIS
Major. 3.7 GPA. Magna cum laude.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor of Communication, Coker College, Hartsville, South Carolina,
August 2013-Present.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Innovation in a Changing Media Environment
Qualitative Methods
HONORS AND AWARDS
Top Reviewer Award, Cultural and Critical Studies Division, Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, 2013.
RESEARCH
(asterisk indicates refereed work)
Scholarly Book
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, Journalism and Memorialization in the Age of Social Media (New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Journal Articles
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Learning Persistence through Sports: Three Autoethnographic
Sketches” Journal of Loss and Trauma. Taylor & Francis. (in press).
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Leaving London: Three Autoethnographic Sketches” Journal of Loss
and Trauma. Taylor & Francis. (in press).
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Teaching Journalistic Ethics in the Age of Social Media.” Ethical
Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. 9(4). 113-115. (2012).
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Ethics of crisis photography: Learning from Katrina Coverage.”
Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. 3(2/3), 18-20. (2006).
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Ceausescu's Children: The Process of Democratisation and the Plight
of Romania's Orphans.” Critique: A Worldwide Student Journal of Politics (Fall): 117-125.
(2004).
Conference Presentations
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “New Media, New Methods: Innovative Approaches to the Study of
Media and Memory in the Age of Sharing.” Computer Culture Division. Southwest Popular
Culture/American Culture Association. Albuquerque, New Mexico. February 11-14. (2015).
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Teaching Students to Become Mindful Media Consumers: A Proposal
to Examine Students' Recall of Information Presented on the Television Ticker.” Great Ideas for
Teaching Speech (GIFTS) Panel. Carolinas Communication Association Annual Conference.
Greenville, South Carolina. October 2-4. (2014).
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “For Nic, For Katherine: An Autoethnographic Perspective on the
Study of Virtual Memorials.” Computer Culture Division. Southwest Popular Culture and
American Culture Association Annual Meeting. February 19-22. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
(2014).
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Communicating Emotion in the Age of Social Media: Socioemotional
Expression in the “In Memorial: Virginia Tech” Facebook Group.” Carolina Communication
Association. Annual Conference. October 4. Charlotte, North Carolina. (2013).
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Personal History: An Autoethnography of Life and Work.”
Communication History Interest Group. Plenary Poster Session. International Communication
Association Conference. London, England. June 17-21. (2013).
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “An Autoethnography of Play: Games as a Kind of Escapism.” Game
Studies Area. Popular Culture & American Culture Association Conference. Washington D.C.
March 27-30 (could not present, due to family emergency). (2013).
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Researching Online Memorial Groups: The Value of the Case Study
Research Strategy.” Computer Culture Area. Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American
Culture Association. Albuquerque, New Mexico. February 13-16. (2013).
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “An Early History of Social Media: Users self-report searching for
missing persons on Facebook following the 2010 Chile Earthquake.” Workshop on
Innovative Methods in Communication History. International Communication Association.
Phoenix, Arizona. May 26. (2012).
Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Taking Ethics Online: Computer-Mediated Communication
Scholarship in the Journal of Mass Media Ethics.” Poster Presentation. Addressing Global
Challenges through International Research. University of Minnesota. February 17. (2012).
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Nikki Giovanni's Convocation Speech Following the 2007 Virginia
Tech School Shootings.” Video Presentation to Poetry and Poetics Conference. University of
South Australia. Megill, South Australia, Australia. November 25-26. (2011).
Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “How Can Journalists Use the Facebook Social Network.” Social
Networking and Community, University of Minnesota, Series Organized by Professor John
Logie, Writing Studies. (2009).
*Kevin Wang and Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Sense of Community in the Virtual World: A Virtual
Ethnographic Exploration of Online Memorial Groups.” National Meeting of the National
Communication Association, San Francisco, Calif. (2008). (Kevin Wang Presented).
Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Grief 2.0: Mourning after National Crises, September 11, 2001 and the
2007 Virginia Tech Shootings.” Meeting Organized by the Institute of New Media Studies (Nora
Paul, Director), University of Minnesota. (2008).
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Blogging and Ethics Codes.” Southeast Colloquium of the Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Auburn, Alabama. (2008).
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Coverage of Student Deaths: Kantian Ethics in the Classroom.”
Midwinter Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (2008).
*Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “The Recent Portrayal of Journalists in the Media.” Hawaii
International Conference on the Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, Hawaii. (2006).
TEACHING
Coker College
Courses Designed and Taught
1. Introduction to Mass Communication (Each Semester)
2. Communication Senior Seminar (Spring Semesters and Summer 2014)
3. Communication Theory (Fall 2013)
4. Freshman Seminar (with Jennifer Heusel, Spring 2015)
5. Honors Seminar (Summer 2014)
6. Mass Media and Social Change (Spring Semesters)
7. Media and Memory (Fall Semesters)
8. Media and Politics (Spring 2014)
9. Media History (Spring 2015)
10. Scope and Methods (Summer 2014 and Fall 2014)
11. Studies in New Media (Fall Semesters)
12. Internship (Spring 2015)
Honors Sections of Courses Designed and Taught
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Media and Memory (Fall 2014)
Studies in New Media (Fall 2014)
Introduction to Mass Communication (Spring 2015)
Media History (Spring 2015)
Mass Media and Social Change (Spring 2015)
Advising
I am pleased to currently be advising 22 Coker College communication students.
University of Minnesota
Instructor, University of Minnesota, School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Journalism 3004: Information for Mass Communication (via Moodle, Taught Entirely
Online) (Fall 2011; Fall 2010; Fall 2008)
Journalism 3004: Information for Mass Communication (66 Students in
In-Person Classroom Lecture Course) (Fall 2009).
Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota, School of Journalism & Mass Communication
(between 2007 and 2011, I assisted in undergraduate courses):
Journalism 1001: Introduction to Mass Communication; Journalism 3004: Information
for Mass Communication; Journalism 3004V: Information for Mass Communication
Honors; Journalism 3614: History of Mass Communication; Journalism 3776: Mass
Media Law; Journalism 5606: Literary Journalism
SERVICE
To the Discipline of Communication
Editorial Board Member, Newspaper Research Journal (Sage Publications). January 2014Present.
Member, Curriculum Committee, American Journalism Historians Association, 2013-Present.
Regular reviewer for journals and academic conferences in the field.
Chairing Panels at Academic Conferences
Great Ideas for Teaching Speech Panel, Carolinas Communication Association Annual
Conference, Greenville, South Carolina. October 2014.
Cultural and Critical Studies Panel, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 2014.
To Coker College
Member, Committee for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. 2014-Present.
Member, Celebration of Academics Committee. 2014-Present.
To Coker College Students
Faculty Adviser for Lambda Pi Eta, the Communication Honors Society. Fall 2013-Present
Interim Faculty Adviser, Coker College Culture Club. Spring 2014.
To the Department
Updated and Revised Communication Curriculum with Richard A. Puffer, Fall 2013.
Received CETL Minigrant for Purchase of Adobe Creative Cloud with Richard A. Puffer, Fall
2013.
Served on Communication Faculty Search Committee to Hire Jennifer Heusel in Communication
Fall, 2013.
To the Campus Community
Served on Sonoco Management Trainee Interview Panel, with Karen Hamilton, Jeremy Nere and
Tracy Parkinson, Fall 2014.
Submitted Information Literacy QEP with Alexa Bartel and Todd Rix, which advanced to the
final round of selections, Fall 2013.
Past Service Experiences (at the University of Minnesota).
Departmental Mentor for Sada Reed, M.A. (2009-2011). Reed is pursuing her PhD in the School
of Journalism at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Vice President for Communications, Council of Graduate Students (University-wide),
University of Minnesota. May 2008-May 2009.
Departmental Representative, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Council of
Graduate Students, University of Minnesota. September 2007-May 2008.
MEDIA COMMENTARY
Authored “Keeping a New Year's resolution one tweet at a time: workouts as a social-media
endeavor.” MinnPost. (Community Voices section). January 5, 2015. Available online:
http://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2015/01/keeping-new-years-resolution-one-tweettime-workouts-social-media-endeavor
Authored “Call me: The enduring presence of the mobile phone in everyday life.” The State
(Columbia, South Carolina) Letters to the editor. September 24, 2014. Available online:
http://www.thestate.com/2014/09/24/3700331/gloviczki-call-me-the-enduring.html
Authored “New tech, new habits make for a more personalized World Cup experience.”
MinnPost (Community Voices section). July 9, 2014. Available online:
http://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2014/07/new-tech-new-habits-make-morepersonalized-world-cup-experience
Authored “The challenge of taking a break from media” MinnPost (Community Voices section).
December 19, 2013. Available online: http://www.minnpost.com/communityvoices/2013/12/challenge-taking-break-media
Authored “Social media's uses expanding, as seen after Oklahoma tornado” MinnPost
(Community Voices section). May 29, 2013. Available online:
http://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2013/05/social-medias-uses-expanding-seen-afteroklahoma-tornado
Authored “In age of social media sharing, civil discourse is needed after tragedies” MinnPost
(Community Voices section). January 11, 2013. Available online:
http://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2013/01/age-social-media-sharing-civil-discourseneeded-after-tragedies
Interviewed as expert source for “In wake of national tragedy, experts warn people to monitor
media consumption” KARE-11 TV (Minneapolis/St. Paul, NBC Affiliate). December 18, 2012.
Available online: http://archive.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=1002667
COMMENTARY IN NON-REFEREED JOURNALS AND/OR MAGAZINES
Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “A Quick Look at Recent Practices and Ethics of Blog Aggregation.
Media Ethics Magazine. 24(1).” Available Online:
<http://mediaethicsmagazine.com/index.php/browse-back-issues/144-fall-2012/3998651case-a-quick-look-at-recent-practices-and-ethics-of-blog-aggregators>. (2012).
Peter Joseph Gloviczki, “Scholarship on Computer-Mediated Communication Topics in the
Journal of Mass Media Ethics.” Media Ethics Magazine. 23(2). Available Online:
<http://www.mediaethicsmagazine.com/index.php/browse-back-issues/143-spring2012/3998425-scholarship-on-computer-mediated-communication-topics-in-the-journal-ofmass-media-ethics>. (2012).
ORGANIZATIONS
American Journalism Historians Association
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Association of Internet Researchers
Carolinas Communication Association
International Communication Association
CREATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Full Length Collections of Poetry
Peter Joseph Gloviczki, American Paprika: Prose Poems. Co. Clare, Ireland: Salmon Poetry.
(2016).
Peter Joseph Gloviczki, Kicking Gravity: Poems. Co. Clare, Ireland: Salmon Poetry. (2013).
Accolades
Top-8 Finalist at Carnegie Mellon University Press for American Paprika: Prose Poems.
Top-8 Finalist at Carnegie Mellon University Press for Kicking Gravity: Poems.
Pushcart Prize Nominee for “For My Cerebral Palsy at the London School of Economics,” which
first appeared in Barn Owl Review.
LANGUAGES
English and Hungarian