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Instructor Social Presence in eLearning (feat. Dr. Sonny Rosenthal)
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This week, Dr. Robby Ratan speaks with his esteemed guest, Dr. Sonny Rosenthal, about Rosenthal’s research on live composite video lectures, touching on his recent publication on the topic and offering insight into current and planned studies.
About this week’s guest:
Dr. Sonny Rosenthal, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University. He received his BA in Communication and Drama at the University of Washington in 2004. Then in 2006 he earned his MA in Communication at Washington State University, and in 2011 earned a Ph.D. in Advertising at The University of Texas at Austin.
His research focuses on environmental studies and research involving climate change. He has plans to conduct a survey in Singapore looking at how to influence attitudes toward recycling through education. He is also involved with Communication and Media and Quantitative Social Research, including the third-person effect.
Dr. Rosenthal has a YouTube channel named Lecturecise that you can check out here.
About the SPARTIE Lab:
The Social and Psychological Approaches to Research on Technology-Interaction Effects (SPARTIE) Lab performs research on the effects of human-technology interaction, examining how the use of media technologies (e.g., avatars, agents, automobiles) influences meaningful outcomes (e.g., education, health/safety, persuasion).
The SPARTIE Lab is part of the greater academic community at the College of Communication Arts & Sciences at Michigan State University. More information on the lab's research projects, staff, and work can be found at the SPARTIE Lab website.
About the host:
Dr. Rabindra (Robby) Ratan, Ph. D., is an Associate Professor and AT&T Scholar at Michigan State University’s Department of Media and Information, and is the Director of the SPARTIE Lab.
He is also an affiliated faculty member of the MSU Department of Psychology, the MSU College of Education’s program in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology, and the MSU Center for Gender in a Global Context. Ratan received his Ph.D. from USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, his M.A. in Communication from Stanford University, and his B.A. in Science, Technology and Society, also from Stanford University.
Dr. Ratan conducts research on the effects of human-technology interaction, examining how media technologies (e.g., avatars, agents, automobiles) influence meaningful outcomes (e.g., persuasion, education, health/safety). He is particularly interested in the Proteus effect, media-rich transportation contexts, perceptions of media as self-representations and/or social others, avatarification for health and education, and gender stereotypes in gaming contexts.
Dr. Ratan lives near Lansing with his family. More information on his work can be found on his website.
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