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To those of you who don't know, my name is Samuel Germaine Powell. Welcome to Germaine Theory.

In this blog we will deep dive into Strategic Communication and Emerging Media. We will discuss new and exciting methods of news delivery as well as some of the tenets of the older forms of media delivery. We will look at which forms of media are more effective and explore things that can be done to rejuvenate the current methods of news and media distribution.

This blog will be published weekly by no later than Sunday, 11:59pm for the next 8 weeks.

The blog can be found at the following address: https://germainetheory.blogspot.com/

I created this blog to discuss Emerging Media Methods. These will be contrasted and compared to the older, tried and true methods of communication. We will look at the effects of new media on its predecessors and see if anything can be done to transform these methods to make them more effective, efficient and desirable to the current news reader. As a graduate student with a concentration in Strategic Communication at Troy University, I find myself in situations where my research takes me down a rabbit hole of sorts. I am all over the place in search of sources and new and insightful forms of information and unsurprisingly most of the information is found on the internet via my tablet. However, this does not account for all my research…print is very much my old reliable friend. Let’s take a look at what is and what can be in the new and ever-changing world of media.

Germaine Powell

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