Dr. Donald I Snyder
Teaching Professor · Non-Tenure Track
Department of Media & Communication Studies Language, Literacy and Culture
About
Donald Snyder is a Teaching Professor who teaches courses on media history, theory, and practice. His research focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning, beta testing, discourses of production and consumption in computer mediated environments, educational technology, science fiction fanzines, and amateur digital archivists.
Research interests
Internet Studies, Social Media, Digital Archiving, New Media Technologies, Pedagogy, Fanzines.
Teaching interests
Media and Communication History, Social Media, Media Literacy, Professional Development, Internet Studies, Fandom.
Education
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Ph D, American Studies
— University of Maryland College Park (2009) Building the Virtual World: Software, Beta Testing, and the Birth and Death of The Sims Online,
Presentations
- Utilizing Contract Grading to Improve Student Writing 2018
- Using Social Media in the Classroom 2017
- Meta-Cognitive Disconnection: Millennial Reflections on Reading and Writing Without the Internet 2016
- Facebook Without Friends: Reflections of the use of Social Media in the Classroom 2015
- I, OS: Examining Out Relationships with Spike Jonze's Her, Apple's Siri, and Turing's Eugene Gootsman 2014
Grants and Contracts
- Entrepreneurship Curriculum Development Grant 2014
Courses Taught
- Social Media: Networking
- Media & Comm. Studies
- Media & Comm. Studies
- Media Literacy
- Internship
- Social Media: Networking
- Media Literacy