{"id":634,"date":"2014-06-09T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/?p=634"},"modified":"2021-06-23T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T21:32:08","slug":"communication-professor-shares-research-about-dreams-and-communication-and-strategies-for-overcoming-public-speaking-anxiety-this-week-on-kruas-informania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/2014\/06\/09\/communication-professor-shares-research-about-dreams-and-communication-and-strategies-for-overcoming-public-speaking-anxiety-this-week-on-kruas-informania\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication professor shares research about dreams and communication; and strategies for overcoming public speaking anxiety this week on KRUA&#8217;s Informania."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The week of June 9, Informania host Deb the Librarian interviews Michelle Scaman, a professor of Communication\u00a0at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA).\u00a0\u00a0Informania\u00a0airs on Monday at 9am and is replayed\u00a0on Thursday at 5pm on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kruaradio.org\">www.kruaradio.org<\/a>\u00a0\/ 88.1FM in Anchorage, Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Scaman currently teaches the UAA courses,\u00a0Fundamentals of Oral Communication (COMM A111), and Public Speaking (COMM A241).\u00a0 Her expertise in communication stems from years of research experience both in her undergraduate and graduate studies.\u00a0 As an undergraduate\u00a0\u00a0at Seattle University, she\u00a0assisted a professor conducting research on the topic of\u00a0online dating and communication.\u00a0 As a graduate student at UAF, she conducted her research on dreams and the social constructivism of reality, in other words she researched the sharing of dreams as the starting point for discussing topics of importance between partners.\u00a0 She\u00a0discusses her research processes and findings during this week&#8217;s Informania interview.<\/p>\n<p>As a Public Speaking professor,\u00a0Professor Scaman\u00a0also shares strategies she uses in class to help students overcome the anxiety of public speaking.\u00a0\u00a0Professor Scaman\u00a0acknowledges during this program that each individual has their own reason for anxiety, and it is helpful to reflect on the cause of that anxiety in order to overcome it.<\/p>\n<p>Listen, and learn!<\/p>\n<p>Song played:\u00a0 Information, by Dredg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week of June 9, Informania host Deb the Librarian interviews Michelle Scaman, a professor of Communication\u00a0at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA).\u00a0\u00a0Informania\u00a0airs on Monday at 9am and is replayed\u00a0on Thursday at 5pm on\u00a0www.kruaradio.org\u00a0\/ 88.1FM in Anchorage, Alaska. Professor Scaman currently teaches the UAA courses,\u00a0Fundamentals of Oral Communication (COMM A111), and Public Speaking (COMM A241).\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/2014\/06\/09\/communication-professor-shares-research-about-dreams-and-communication-and-strategies-for-overcoming-public-speaking-anxiety-this-week-on-kruas-informania\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Communication professor shares research about dreams and communication; and strategies for overcoming public speaking anxiety this week on KRUA&#8217;s Informania.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informania-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/dmole\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}