By Courtney Plunk April 3, 1973, was a date that would change the world, although few knew it at the time. On this fateful day, an engineer made the first-ever mobile phone call. Four years later, the first home computer hit the stores, and ten years later, Motorola released the first commercial mobile phone. Shelley Barba, Texas […]
Ghosting, The Ultimate Silent Treatment
March 18, 2016 by
By Nicole Casperson Leilani Tran, 25, a business owner from Dallas, Texas, was dating an older man. And then, he disappeared, and she never heard from him again. “It was disappointing and annoying more than anything,” Tran said. What happened to her is called ghosting. It refers to ending a romantic relationship by cutting off […]
COMC Launches ‘CCR Colloquium’ with Mobile Communication Lecture
March 2, 2015 by
The Texas Tech University College of Media & Communication was unusually quiet for a Friday. A campus snow day ceased the usual bustle of the building, with classrooms void of students and hallways unlit. At noon, stirring the silence, the door to Room 056 was propped open, and a scattering of professors made their way into the room. They […]
