Todd L Wold

Todd L Wold
Asbury University · Communication

Master of Arts

About

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Citations since 2017
2 Research Items
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Introduction
Research interests include the political economy of social media and crowd patronage platforms, the digital disintermediation of faith practices in church communities, and transcendence in filmmaking.
Education
January 2018 - May 2023
Regent University
Field of study
  • Communication
January 2006 - September 2009
Bethel University (Minnesota)
Field of study
  • Communication
August 1991 - May 1993
University of Northwestern – St. Paul
Field of study
  • Communication - Journalism

Publications

Publications (3)
Article
Churches in the United States closed their doors to in-person gatherings during the covid-19 lockdown in March of 2020. As conditions improved, churches began re-opening to indoor worship services, instituting safety measures to comply with cdc guidelines. Churches used social media to promote their re-opening to their congregations. With the goal...
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This article explores Zuckerberg’s public statements, artifacts, and documents for the first indications of Facebook’s embrace of a commercial model—specifically, the earliest indications that Zuckerberg believed the value of Facebook was rooted in an advertising model, as well as any evidence that he considered other fee-based or non-profit models...
Thesis
Considering the increasing level of commercial media saturation in today’s culture and competitive state of the entertainment media industries, the objective of this project is to elucidate political-economic and semiotic-symbolic perspectives as modes of analysis that should be applied to the emerging advertising methods and tactics Hollywood movi...