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PALFREY PRESENTED 2011 STEVE
JONES INTERNET RESEARCH LECTURE
John Palfrey is the Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law, vice dean for library and information resources, as well as a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He is the co-author of “Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives” (Basic Books, 2008) and “Access Denied: The Practice and Politics of Internet Filtering” (MIT Press, 2008).
Palfrey spoke in the Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series during the 2011 annual convention of the International Communication Association (ICA), on Sunday, May 29, 2011, 4:30 – 5:45 pm, in Westin Waterfront Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts.
Palfrey’s lecture was entitled, “Internet Research and a Future for Libraries.” Palfrey addressed the striking fear of many academics about the future for libraries. In an era of Google and Amazon, Palfrey made the case for a bright future for libraries and for research in an Internet age.
Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture Series is sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (http://www.cccsir.com) and supported by the International Communication Association (ICA, http://www.icahdq.org). The lecture series is designed to bring leading Internet thinkers to the ICA Convention to promote Internet research to foster collaborations with communication researchers.
For questions and comments about this event, please contact Shing-Ling Sarina Chen at sarina.chen@uni.edu.
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CYPHERT LECTURED IN
G. JON HALL ONLINE G.I.F.T. FORUM
Dale Cyphert (University of Northern Iowa) presented the 2011 lecture for the G. Jon Hall Online GIFT (Great Ideas In Teaching) Forum, presented in the 2011 annual conference of the Iowa Communication Association (ICA) on Friday, September 23, 2011, in DMACC, Ankeny, Iowa.
Cyphert examined teaching organizational communication… with, …as, …for and even …about Second LifeTM. Cyphert argued that as business organizations grow increasingly virtual—distributed networks of loosely-coupled partners across a multinational supply chain— traditional principles of organizational communication require examination and modification.
The University of Northern Iowa’s vIowa project offers opportunities to Iowa educators who are looking for ways to examine, modify, and teach principles of organizational communication for a networked work world.
Carl Couch Center established the G. Jon Hall Online GIFT Forum for presentation in the annual conference of the Iowa Communication Association in 2004 to promote the use and research of online technologies in teaching.
For questions and comments about this event, please contact Shing-Ling Sarina Chen at sarina.chen@uni.edu.
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FAIRCLOTH PRESENTED 2011
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD LECTURE
Christopher A. Faircloth (Xavier University of Louisiana) presented the 2011 George Herbert Mead Lecture Series: Symbolic Interactionism and Communication, in the annual convention of the National Communication Association (NCA) in New Orleans, November 17-20, 2011.
In his lecture, “The Future of Narrative(s) in the Study of Health and Illness,” Faircloth argued that narrative has proven to be an especially useful tool for researchers of various disciplines in studying the experience of illness from both a phenomenological and symbolic interactionist perspective. However, Faircloth questioned if narrative itself lost it’s meaning as a viable research tool, and if we have explored all we can with narrative in this valued research arena. And if not, Faircloth questioned, where we are heading, or perhaps where we can look to head in the future in an ever changing world of definitions of health and illness.
This lecture is organized by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI)-NCA Branch.
For more information about this lecture series, please contact Shing-Ling Sarina Chen (University of Northern Iowa) at sarina.chen@uni.edu.
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AYERS PRESENTED THE INAUGURAL LECTURE FOR BILL AYERS LECTURE SERIES
Bill Ayers, Professor Emeritus of University of Illinois, Chicago, presented the 2011Bill Ayters Lecture Series: Communicating for Social Justice, in the annual convention of the National Communication Association (NCA) in New Orleans, November 17-20, 2011. Ayers’ lecture was introduced by Barbie Zelizer (University of Pennsylvania), and responded to by Art Bochner (University of South Florida).
In his lecture, “Living Memory and Oral History,” Ayers argued that silences, inconsistencies, shadows, and inventions—all of this can be seen as forms of culture, and expressions of cultural/meaning shifts over time. All of it is fair game and raw material for the oral historian. Ayers explained that memory itself, always dynamic, shifting, unsettled, and contested, has become a worthwhile subject for attention and study.
Ayers indicated that and so while oral history standing alone is surely inadequate, often distorted, and always incomplete, any attempt to write history that ignores or displaces the voices of participants, first-person accounts and oral sources is wrong by definition—wrong in the sense of inaccurate, but also wrong in the sense of immoral.
This lecture is organized by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI)-NCA Branch.
For more information about this lecture series, please contact Shing-Ling Sarina Chen (University of Northern Iowa) at sarina.chen@uni.edu.
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