Vice President

Adam Earnheardt, Vice President

Dr. Adam Earnheardt is professor and chair of the Department of Communication at Youngstown State University. As a communication and sports expert, Dr. Earnheardt has published two textbooks on communication and media (The Modern Communicator and Public Speaking in the Age of Technology; Great River Learning) that are widely relied upon in the university community, as well as co-edited four collections on sports, media and fans (ESPN and the Changing Sports Media Landscape [coming late 2019], The ESPN Effect, Sports Fans, Identity and Socialization, and Sports Mania). He writes a weekly column for The Vindicator newspaper. The column, entitled Connected, examines the effects of social media on society, often with an emphasis on strategies for parenting children who are impacted both positively and negatively by their social media use. He has been identified as an expert source on communication, sports and social media for stories appearing in Men’s Health, Parade, Playboy, Psychology Today, Vancouver Magazine, CNET.com, newspapers including the Baltimore Sun, L.A. Times and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and on several radio and TV news programs. He currently serves as the communication and social media expert for WFMJ-TV (NBC). He delivered a TEDx Talk at the first-ever TEDxYoungstown on the use of social media and sports fandom to better society (see links to talks in Marketing section).

Dr. Earnheardt previously served as the executive director of the Ohio Communication Association and chair of the National Communication Association’s Mass Communication Division. He is a founding member of the International Association for Communication and Sport, serving as that group’s treasurer for several years. In 2009, he was recognized as one of the top 40 professionals under the age of 40 by the MVP 20/30 Club in northeast Ohio, and selected a top 5 “MVP.” He received YSU’s Watson Distinguished Chair award in 2016, the Smith-Murphy Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2012. He was named a Distinguished Professor in 2010.

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