New Grad Course Offered for Fall 2009!

Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods in Communication
COM 597-01 MW 4:30-5:45
Fall 2009 CRN 14531 
Instructor: Wei “Kitty” Luo

This course is to help both graduate and undergraduate students of communication gain a comprehensive
understanding of qualitative inquiry within communication contexts and embark on an exploration of the field’s theories, methods as well as the students’ research interests. Based on this goal, this course entails the following specific objectives: (1) to examine the philosophical assumptions, theoretical traditions and epistemology of qualitative methods in the field of communication; (2) to understand various approaches–particularly ethnographic approach, participant observation, qualitative interviewing and social text analysis—to qualitative research; (3) to critique written qualitative research articles and identify ways to improve them; (4) to develop skills and techniques to design qualitative research projects.

Canterbury: Assistant Speech Coach (Paid Position)

I coach the speech and debate team here at Canterbury HS and I need to hire an assistant speech coach for next year.  If you have a student that might fit the criteria below, I would like to contact him/her.  We usually have college students for this position because it fits their schedule and there is not a teaching position attached to it, consequently, we have to replace them all the time!  It doesn’t pay well, but looks good on a resume and is fun for those that have been involved in forensics before.  If you can’t think of anyone, please let me know if there is anyone on staff who might so that I might contact them.

*Someone who is minoring in speech and/or theater or has had experience in high school speech or debate

*Someone who can coach students during lunch periods at least once a week from September to March (10:50-1:00)

*Someone who can attend at least 10 Saturday speech meets from November to March

Thank you for your time!

Linda lialt@canterburyschool.org

Backdoor Broadcasting Company Academic Service

http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/category/academic-service/

The Backdoor Broadcasting Company’s Academic Service specializes in web-casting academic conferences, symposia, public lectures, workshops and seminars in order to further the dissemination of academic research.  more…

FlowTV Special Issue CFP: Social Media (05/18/09)

Social media have created new ways for individuals to communicate and share information. Technologies such as blogs, Twitter, social networking sites (e.g. Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut, etc.), wikis, Second Life, digg, Last.fm, FlickR, etc. have become increasingly pervasive. Social media are being used by celebrities, athletes, journalists, politicians, TV personalities, musicians, scholars, news organizations, businesses, marketers, and more. How does the use of social media change the ways we think about  identity, community, and interpersonal communication? In what ways are social media being used for political purposes, for collective action, and news aggregates? How does receiving a Twitter message on your cell phone from Shaquille O’Neal or NPR’s Scott Simon erode boundaries between public and private or change conceptualizations of intimacy? Are blogs and other social media challenging journalism’s traditional gatekeeping and agenda-setting functions? Should we be concerned about issues of privacy and free speech? How are certain social media technologies being gendered, classed, racialized, and policed? And as is the case with all forms of media, we must be careful to ask who is denied access and to what effect?

We are interested to hear what the Flow community thinks about social media technologies: uses and users, popular discourses and rhetoric, and the ways in which social media challenge concepts of identity, community, friendship, public/private, creativity, surveillance, and more.

Please send submissions of between 1000-1500 words to Jacqueline Vickery (jvickery183@gmail.com) and Anne Petersen (annehelenpetersen@gmail.com) no later than May 18th, 2009.  Flow has a longstanding policy of encouraging non-jargony, highly readable pieces and ample incorporation of images and video.  For examples, please visit FlowTV.org.
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