Sally J. McMillan

Sally J. McMillan , author of Digital Immigrants and Media Integration: The Smartphone is the Synthesizer, is a writer, academician, and organizational leader. In addition to making the journey from pencils, pens, and typewriters to main frames, personal computers, and smartphones, she also navigated eight careers: high school teacher, book editor, non-profit leader, journalist, technology executive, university professor, academic administrator, and higher education consultant. She is professor emerita at the University of Tennessee where she was a communication professor, department head, associate dean, and vice provost. She now lives in Seattle, WA with her husband, James E. Fields, and cat Misty.

Publications

Articulations of Care
Articulations of Care
Colleen R. Greer, Sally J. McMillan. © 2024. 32 pages.
This chapter explores cultural interpretations of care by examining five years (2018-2022) of content published in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Over the last...
A Four-Generation Autoethnography of Caregiving for Older Family Members
A Four-Generation Autoethnography of Caregiving for Older Family Members
Sally J. McMillan. © 2024. 29 pages.
The goal of this chapter is to document the role of caregiving for older family members over the past 130+ years, to explore how changes in communication technologies have...
Persistence Profiles and Institutional Initiatives: Helping Students Become Ready for the World
Persistence Profiles and Institutional Initiatives: Helping Students Become Ready for the World
Sally J. McMillan, Cora D. Ripley. © 2017. 16 pages.
This chapter presents multiple ways of understanding who does and does not study abroad. The authors introduce the concept of persistence profiles as a way of understanding which...
How Consumers Think About 'Interactive' Aspects of Web Advertising
How Consumers Think About 'Interactive' Aspects of Web Advertising
Jang-Sun Hwang, Sally J. McMillan. © 2005. 21 pages.
Interactivity is a key feature of Web advertising that makes this new format of advertising attractive. In spite of increasing research work dealing with this topic, the body of...