Biography

Dr. Tyrone L. Adams
Richard D'Aquin Professor of Journalism and Communications &
Communication Graduate Program Coordinator
The University of Louisiana, Lafayette
(HOME OF THE RAGIN' CAJUNS)
in the Department of Communication.

Formal Education:

Career Highlights:

• Adams is currently working on a book (which is being translated into Spanish) with the University of San Martin de Porres Research Institute titled: COMMUNICATION SHOCK: The Acceleration and Integration of Everything.
  
  
• Final edits have been completed on Electronic Tribes: The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, and Scammers for the University of Texas Press (which will be released in June of 2008).
  
  
• Internet Effectively: A Beginner's Guide to the World Wide Web (2006) by Pearson / Addison-Wesley Computer Publishers, 512 pp.
  
  
• The Internet: Effective Online Communication (2001) by Wadsworth Publishing (now Cengage Learning), 352 pp.

Journal Work:

Adams' journal research has appeared in The Business Research Yearbook, The Southern Communication Journal, The American Communication Journal, Speaker and Gavel, The Forensic of Pi Kappa Delta, The Journal of Communication Studies, and Spectrum. His book chapters have also appeared in Grant and Meadow's Communication Technology Update (2005) and Bosah Ebo's Praeger/Greenwood collection The Cyberspace Ghetto: Race, Class, Gender, and Marginalization in Cyberspace (1998).

A devoted technology material reader, Professor Adams' book reviews have appeared in The Journal of Media Economics, The Journal of Intercultural Communication, The Journal of Family Communication, and Communication Education.

He is the Founding Editor of The American Communication Journal, and has served as an Associate Editor of The Quarterly Journal of Speech, The Atlantic Journal of Communication, and The Louisiana Communication Journal. He has been a guest referee for the The Southern Communication Journal, The Journal of the ACM, and the Western Journal of Communication.

Awards:

Professor Adams won the Southern States Communication Association's Outreach Award (2000), the UL Department of Communication's Louis J. Resweber Award for Excellence in Communication Scholarship (1999), and the American Communication Association's Outstanding Contributions to New Communication Technologies Award (1998). He has appeared in Who's Who among America's Best Teachers and Who's Who among U.S. Media and Communications Professionals numerous times.

In May of 1990, as an undergraduate, Dr. Adams won the University of Florida, Marshall M. Criser Presidential Award for Outstanding Contributions (in competitive speech and debate) to The University of Florida.