Derek Lackaff
Associate Professor of Communication Design
Department: Communication Design
Email: dlackaff@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 278-6492
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Education
State University of New York at Buffalo, College of Arts and Sciences, Buffalo, New York, USA
Doctor of Philosophy; Communication
La Trobe University, School of Communication, Arts, and Critical Enquiry, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Master of Arts; Media Studies
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Arts and Sciences, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Bachelor of Arts; Political Science, International Studies, German
Employment History
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, School of Communications, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, North Carolina, USA
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Design, 2019-present
Associate Professor, Department of Communications, 2016-2019
Assistant Professor, Department of Communications, 2010-2016
University of Bergen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bergen, Norway
Fulbright Professor, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, 2018-2019
Danish Institute for Study Abroad (now DIS Copenhagen), Copenhagen, Denmark
Visiting Faculty, Communication Program, Spring 2015
Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore
Visiting Lecturer, UB-SIM Communication Program, Summer 2012
University of Texas at Austin, College of Communication, Austin, Texas, USA
Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Austin | Portugal Program in Advanced Digital Media, 2009-2010
Lecturer, Department of Radio-Television-Film, 2009-2010
Courses Taught
IME6300 Theory and Audience Analysis in an Interactive Age (graduate level)
COM6700 Interactive Project for the Public Good (graduate level)
- Afûk (Leeuwarden, Netherlands) (2018) (advisor)
- Frumbjörg (Reykjavik, Iceland) (2017)
- Coláiste Lurgan (Indreabhán, Ireland) (2016)
- Escuela Nuevos Horizontes del Sur (Quito, Ecuador) (2014)
- Surfrider Foundation (Ericeira, Portugal) (2013)
- Citizens Foundation (Reykjavik, Iceland) (2012)
HNR2740 Building Better Communities with Civic Technology (honors seminar)
Leadership Positions
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, School of Communications, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, North Carolina, USA
Director, Master of Arts in Interactive Media Program, 2020-2024
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ, North Carolina, USA
Associate Director, 2017-2020
Publications
Motley, P. & Lackaff, D. (2021). Digital literacy in design, media, and communications disciplines: Fluency is the new literacy. In L. Hays & J. Kammer (Eds.) Teaching Digital Literacy: A Faculty Guide to Integrating Digital Skills with Disciplinary Content. Stylus Publishing.
Windham, S., Sinn, A. A., Lange, K., Lackaff, D., Hatcher, A., Gatti, E. A., & Papay Decato, J. (2020). Educating for global civic participation and a career: German Studies in the 21st Century at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ. In W. Moner, P. Motley, & R. Pope-Ruark (Eds.). Redesigning Liberal Education: Innovative Design for a Twenty-First-Century Undergraduate Education. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Lackaff, D. (2016). Better Reykjavik: Open municipal policymaking. In E. Gordon & P. Mahailidis, (Eds.). Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice (pp. 229-234). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Also available at
Lackaff, D. & Moner, W. J. (2016). Local languages, global networks: Mobile design for minority language users. Proceedings of the 34th Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC ’16). doi: 10.1145/2987592.2987612
Lackaff, D. (2015). Escaping the Middleman Paradox: Better Reykjavik and open policy innovation. Journal of eDemocracy & Open Government, 7(2), 137-161.
Chung, C. J., Barnett, G. A., Kim, K. & Lackaff, D. (2013). An analysis of communication theory and discipline. Scientometrics, 95, 985-1002. doi: 10.1007/s11192-012-0869-4
Lackaff, D. (2013). Dark Horse Comics. In Duncan, R. & Smith, M. J., (Eds.), Icons of the American Comic Book: From Captain America to Wonder Woman (pp. 169-177). Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood. (peer-reviewed encyclopedia article)
Lackaff, D. & Sales, M. (2013). Black comics and social media economics: New media, new production models. In S. Howard & R. Jackson (Eds.). Black comics: Politics of race and representation. New York: Continuum.
Lackaff, D. (2012). New opportunities in personal network data collection. In M. Zacarias & J. de Oliviera (Eds.) Human-computer interaction: The agency perspective. Frankfurt, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-25691-2_17
Stefanone, M. A., Kwon, K. H. & Lackaff, D. (2012). The relationship between perceptions of social capital and enacted support online. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 17, 451-466. doi: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2012.01585.x
Kwon, K. H., Nam, Y. & Lackaff, D. (2011). Wireless protesters move around: Informational and coordinative use of information and communication technologies for protest politics. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 8, 383-398. doi: 10.1080/19331681.2011.559743
Stefanone, M. A., Kwon, K. H. & Lackaff, D. (2011). The value of online friends: Networked resources via social network sites. First Monday, 16(2).
Stefanone, M. A., Lackaff, D., & Rosen, D. (2011). Contingencies of self-worth and social networking site behavior. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 14, 41-49. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2010.0049
Stefanone, M. A., Huang, Y. C. & Lackaff, D. (2011). Negotiating social belonging: Online, offline, and in between. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS ‘11), 44. (nominated for best paper in division). doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.314