Rate My Professor James Melton

His research explores social media behaviors among students, policy crowdsourcing, and intercultural communication in business contexts. Notable publications include 'The Fundamentals of Policy Crowdsourcing' (Prpić, Taeihagh, & Melton, 2015, Policy & Internet), cited 239 times; 'College Students and Risk-Taking Behaviour on Twitter versus Facebook' (Miller & Melton, 2015, Behaviour & Information Technology); 'Integrating Social and Traditional Media in the Client Project' (Melton & Hicks, 2011, Business Communication Quarterly); 'MOOCs and Crowdsourcing: Massive Courses and Massive Resources' (Prpić, Melton, Taeihagh, & Anderson, 2015, First Monday); and 'Lost in Translation: Professional Communication Competencies in Global Training Contexts' (Melton, 2008, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication). He received the Hazleton Graduate Excellence Award in 2018 for outstanding contributions to graduate education. Melton has engaged in international teaching collaborations, such as a hybrid graduate course on intercultural business communication with Hochschule Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences in Germany, incorporating Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) methodologies. His work addresses cybervetting, online social networks, and problem-based learning in writing.