Adam Brown Social Media Command Center

Hello, everyone! This is Joseph. Tomorrow marks the end of my time working in the Adam Brown Social Media Command Center here at the University of Tennessee’s College of Communication and Information. It has been a fun and intellectually thrilling year (not to mention the odd circumstances that we all currently find ourselves in) but…

What is the earliest time you can recall a woman depicted as either president or vice president of the United States? Perhaps it was in one of the more recent television series such as 24, Scandal, Madam President, or Veep. Maybe it was in 1997 when a female vice president played by Glenn Close descended…

Around Thanksgiving, we performed an analysis of what people were thankful for as the holidays commenced. As we near the end of April, things couldn’t seem less like November. The trees are blooming, not losing their leaves. The temperature is rising, not beginning to descend. But also people are not (for the most part) gathering,…

Well it finally happened. And ahead of schedule. Both major parties have presumptive nominees (i.e. candidates who have obtained or are on track to get the delegates necessary to secure their party’s nomination on the first nominating ballot). The Republicans will renominate President Donald Trump of Florida. Democrats, meanwhile, with the exit of Vermont Senator…

Prepare yourselves… Proms and graduations are canceled, toilet paper is disappearing from the shelves, panic buying is occurring, celebrities are making awkward videos about hand-washing and engaging in tone-deaf group singing, people are fighting over cleaning products, there is an increase of racial discrimination and violence against Asian and Asian Americans, many are being fired…

Like other public serving institutions, libraries are navigating the uncharted COVID-19 waters to see how they can safely and responsibly live up to their mandate to connect the public with information and support. Given that most people are sheltering in place as part of stay-at-home orders, it may be hard to know what your local…

It seems like no matter where we go (well, where we go virtually) people only can or want to talk about one thing: coronavirus. But as the global pandemic continues to unfold, not everyone is forgetting to celebrate the milestone. The phrase “Madam Speaker” has been trending on Twitter because the Speaker of the United…

There aren’t to any facets of the global society that the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t affected. And that extends to sport. While a few sports have trudged on, such as horse racing, 2020 was supposed to beset for one of the biggest spectacles of sport in the world: the Olympic summer games. After holding out hope…

Any student of geography–or binge watcher of Netflix–knows who Carmen Sandiego is. The titular figure  of a broad empire of video games, television shows, board games and more, Sandiego is a fictional villainess known for her red coat, fedora, and matching sports car who alongside her band of V.I.L.E. henchfolk havs been stealing monuments, timelines,…

The coronavirus, or at least a specific strand known as COVID-19, has run amok throughout the world. The result has been university closings, public mandates barring large gatherings, or in the case of Italy, virtually a country-wide lockdown. The sports world has also not been immune to the virus. The effect stateside has been the…