Faculty & Staff
Ashleigh Shelton, MA (Mass Communication), 2009, University of Minnesota
- Lecturer of Communication, College of Liberal Arts
- Telephone: 617-287-3900
- Email: Ashleigh.Shelton@umb.edu
Areas of Expertise
Digital Media Entertainment, Video Games, Presence, New Media Advertising
Degrees
PhD (Mass Communication), expected 2012, University of Minnesota
MA (Mass Communication), 2009, University of Minnesota
BA (Communication), 2007, University of Minnesota - Duluth
Additional Information
Ashleigh K. Shelton (MA), a PhD student at the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, joined the University of Massachusetts Boston faculty as a lecturer in the spring of 2011. Her research focuses on the social and psychological dimensions of digital media technologies and, in particular, the entertainment value and effects of video games. Recent projects have included book chapters and articles examining the impact of naturally mapped controllers on presence, the linkage points between advergames, tourism and major mass communication theories, the relationship between virtual identities, virtual consumption and real world consumption, and the potential for presence to positively and negatively affect outcomes of media exposure. She also teaches courses on popular culture, visual communication, and media effects and consumption at both Umass Boston and the University of Minnesota.
