News about Communication faculty, graduate and undergrad students and staff doings.
Harry Archer, PhD student published with M.听Bradney an article titled 鈥淎 pilgrim's view of communication: Pathways to a meaningful politics鈥� that will appear in the听Journal of Communication and Religion,听40(1), 2017.
Karen Ashcraft, Professor, published a paper based on the colloquium she gave at a past spring鈥檚 graduate recruiting weekend. Her talk, 鈥溾�楽ubmission鈥� to the rule of excellence: Ordinary affect and precarious resistance in the labor of organization and management studies,鈥� appeared in inOrganization, 2017, 24(1), 36-58.
Laurie Gries, Assistant Professor, gave an invited lecture "Doing Digital Visual Studies" at UT Austin on February 24th as part of the Digital Writing and Research Lab's Speaker Series. Also, upon an invitation from UC Irvine's听Student Chapter of the Rhetoric Society of America, she gave a lecture听"Doing Transnational Circulation Studies" at UC Irvine on February 27th.听
Blake Hallinan, PhD student, was accepted for the communication history pre-conference at ICA in San Diego.
Danna Harrington, PhD student, is presenting a paper, 鈥溾�橳his is the Fair! Fun is mandatory鈥�: How tensions in organizing show organizational change over time鈥� at the International Communication Association in San Diego.
Tim Kuhn, Professor, published 鈥淒eveloping a communicative imagination under contemporary capitalism: Organizational communication as a mode of explanation鈥� inManagement Communication Quarterly,听31, 116-122, 2017.
Adam Lauver, PhD student, was featured in听CU 葫芦娃视频 Today, the university newsletter, for his work in CU Dialogues,听facilitating conversations among students on campus that are structured to explore topics of social group identity, conflict, community and social justice.
Leah Sprain, Assistant Professor,听published with several coauthors a chapter, 鈥淧raxis-based environmental communication training: Innovative activities for problem solving鈥� in T. Milstein, M. Pileggi, and E. Morgan (Eds.),Environmental Communication Pedagogy & Practice,听pp. 229-238, 2017,听Rutledge.听 She also received Honorable Mention, which is given to the top 5% of papers at the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, for a paper with several coauthors. The paper is titled听鈥淭hin grey lines: Designing confrontations with flood risk鈥� and it will be presented at the听 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, CO in May. Leah is also senior personnel on a National Science Foundation grant ($25,390) with Danielle Endres (PI), Tarla Rai Peterson, and Andrea Feldpausch-Parker to support a summer workshop on energy democracy bringing together communication and science and technology studies scholars.
Bryan C.听Taylor, Professor, recently published 3 entries in the听International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy: on Experience (with Ricardo Munoz),听Expression (with Peter Simonson), and Meaning (with Ricardo Munoz). He is also the author of听"Imitation听(In)Security: Cultivating Mimetic Theory to Critique the Media/Security Nexus," in听Communication Theory听(2017), 27:1, pp. 48-69.
Bingjuan Xiong, PhD student, has had two papers accepted for conference presentation: (1) "I am a shitizen so I watch": Emergent identities and political actions in Chinese cyberspace,鈥� for the 67th International Communication Association Annual Conference,听May 25-29, 2017, San Diego, USA and (2)听听'Rational Thinkers' or 'Internet Mobs'? Categorizing "Netizens" in Chinese Online Discourse,听for the 15th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), to be held in听July 16-21, 2017, Belfast, UK.
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