Kara Alaimo
Fairleigh Dickinson University, United States
Kara Alaimo, PhD is a communication professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she created the university’s academic programs in social media. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls – And How We Can Take It Back,” which explains how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls and what we can do about it, was published in March 2024. She has been writing opinion and analysis pieces for CNN about how social media is affecting us all since 2016. She is a former spokesperson in the Obama administration and communicator at the United Nations and speaks frequently to educators, students and parents in schools about how to handle kids’ social media use. For more information, visit www.karaalaimo.com and follow her on Instagram, Facebook and Bluesky.
“Students consistently tell me that the COIL collaboration is one of the highlights of my international communication course because they develop relationships with counterparts abroad and receive valuable lessons and feedback from a professor and students in another country on the communication campaigns they develop.“
Project Information
Partner Institution: İzmir University of Economics (Türkiye)
Length of Collaboration: 1 year (ongoing)
Project Summary: Each semester, the students in Türkiye deliver a presentation to us on best communication practices in Türkiye. My Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) students subsequently develop a campaign to promote a company in Türkiye and present it to the students in Türkiye and their professor for feedback on whether it is well adapted to the market. Similarly, FDU students deliver a presentation on best communication practices in the US to the students in Türkiye. The students in Türkiye subsequently develop a campaign to promote a product in the US and present it to us so we can provide feedback on whether it is well adapted for our market.