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Wynde

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About Me


This profile exists purely for the purposes of:

(a) recruiting participants for my mediated communication research and the research of my students in SP399 Cell Phones and Society.

(b) promoting the live music and art my friends create.

(c) keeping a visual digital Rolodex of those people who are not already catalogued in my [email protected] contacts list.

Though this profile will stay here for posterity, my practice of regularly checking MySpace messages and bulletins discontinued in August 2007.

If you would like to contact me, please do so through other means.

My Interests

Corpus linguistics, mixed methods social science research, mediated/instructional/interpersonal communication, new media scholarship, social constructionism, symbolic interactionism, teaching, learning, yearning, and Bauer pottery. Amongst other things.

I'd like to meet:


Good friends and students who will email me at [email protected].

Music:

Little Wings. Privacy. Dash.

Movies:

Borat in Hungarian.

Television:

Prime time crime.

Books:

Taking Care. Tumble Home.

Heroes:

We don't need another.

My Blog

Student Success Symposium

Hi All,You are cordially invited to attend the "Student Success Symposium" my SP220 Public Speaking students are hosting next week. If you're a PSU student, or even if you're not, we'd really appreci...
Posted by Wynde on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:46:00 PST

I need your HELP in a bad bad way

Hello all,Phew, it's been a long term!Anyway, I know how much you like surveys, so how about this: Instead of filling out those surveys about what your name means or how much money you're worth for th...
Posted by Wynde on Tue, 22 May 2007 01:08:00 PST

King City through Preist Valley

He taught me to drive stick on canal banks where lost children lie dead in shower curtain graves. Changing gears was never the problem. It was the stop and go. Out here you don't realize you can't bre...
Posted by Wynde on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:38:00 PST

Best Day Ever

Grad school isn't always a lot of fun. This day was. Imagine Dr. Morgan, the king of focus groups, dedicating a day of lecture to the subtle nuances of Post-it notes for use in hand coding qualitative...
Posted by Wynde on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:01:00 PST

Just like Cher

What? I don't even get a last name? And how dare they call me easy! Hilarious, heartwarming and self-congratulatory:http://www.ratepsu.com/index.php?action= profDetail&id=1504
Posted by Wynde on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:55:00 PST

Sundays at Sunnyside

Just before dawn we'd stop at the end of Easy Street around the curve of McClelland for 2-percent milk, bear claws and apple fritters. At Donut Country I always liked the jelly-filled and plain glazed...
Posted by Wynde on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:48:00 PST

Talking Monkey Right

"No - it's not time to cry yet," she told the boy.We were at the zoo. That advice about going only at dawn or dusk? We didn't take it. If you want to see the animals and not people, don't go midday. D...
Posted by Wynde on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:21:00 PST

Defining a Social Movement: The Mental Health Consumer Movement as a Case Study on the Inadequa

Defining a Social Movement: The Mental Health Consumer Movement as a Case Study on the Inadequacies of the Current Literature By: Wynde Dyer Introduction In the essay Improper Behavior: Impe...
Posted by Wynde on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Linguistic Oppression of Chinese Women: A theoretical examination of naming practices and language

Just as we dont get to choose our sex at birth, nor do we have the luxury of choosing our given names or native language. This paper will examine the oppression of Chinese women through traditional n...
Posted by Wynde on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Portland as a Wireless Utopia: The impact of free wireless access on the digital divide and big business

Introduction Most people agree, the Internet has transformed the way Americans work, play and shop (Prieger, 2003, p. 346). Now that wireless access technologies are on the verge of delivering f...
Posted by Wynde on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST