Member News & Updates
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Dana Mastro was appointed Professor in the Department of Communication at U of California, Santa Barbara.
Miriam Metzger was promoted to Professor in the Department of Communication at U of California, Santa Barbara.
Two scholars in the Department of Communication at U of California, Santa Barbara were recognized as among the most prolific scholars in the field. Robin Nabi ranked in the top 1% of scholars who published articles in communication journals from 2007-2011 and David Seibold was recognized as one of the most prolific active scholars in publishing in communication journals during his career. The study is reported in the article, “Prolific Scholarship in Communication Studies: Five Years in Review,” in Communication Education, 2012, 61(4), 380-394.
Blogging in the Global Society: Cultural, Political and Geographical Aspects
Edited by Tatyana Dumova and Richard Fiordo (Information Science Reference, 2012)
ISBN10: 1609607449 ISBN13: 9781609607449
285 pages
The book presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of the diverse factors affecting blogging practices, traces the diffusion of blogging as a global communication innovation, uncovers particularities and patterns of blog adoption in different cultures and geographical regions, and sheds light on the current trends in the global blogosphere.
At the time when blogging as a medium is going through a transition, Blogging in the Global Society provides a forum for sharing ideas and exchanging views among scholars and professionals. The chapters featured in this collection concentrate on a subject of keen interest to academics, industry practitioners, and citizen bloggers alike. The authors address a pressing demand for knowledge by offering their international expertise and specialization in areas ranging from communication and computer science to law and religion while applying a cornucopia of research methods. By bringing together contributors from academic and professional fields, this volume advances the fast-growing area of knowledge dealing with the theory and practice of blogging across continents.
Chapter authors include Barbara K. Kaye (U of Tennessee Knoxville), Thomas J. Johnson (U of Texas Austin), Peter Muhlberger (Texas Tech U), Melissa Wall (California State U– Northridge), Treepon Kirdnark (Bangkok U), Zixue Tai (Uof Kentucky), Marie Hardin (Pennsylvania State U), Bu Zhong (Pennsylvania State U), Thomas F. Corrigan (Pennsylvania State U), Gwen L. Shaffer (U of California Irvine), Anastacia Kurylo (Marymount Manhattan College), Michael Kurylo (KnickerBlogger.Net), Naomi Gold (Samford U), Lori F. Brost (Central Michigan U), Carol McGinnis (Central Michigan U), Justin D. Martin (U of Maine), Sherine El-Toukhy (U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Jocelyn M. DeGroot (Southern Illinois U Edwardsville), Heather J. Carmack (Missouri State U), Lynne M. Webb (U of Arkansas), Tiffany E. Fields (U of Arkansas), Sitthivorada Boupha (U of Arkansas), Matthew N. Stell (U of Arkansas), Jenny Bronstein (Bar-Ilan U), Joshua Azriel (Kennesaw State U), Richard Fiordo (U of North Dakota), and Tatyana Dumova (Point Park U).
Tatyana Dumova, Editor is an Associate Professor of Multimedia in the School of Communication at Point Park University, Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on the social implications of information and communication technologies and the role of technology in teaching and learning. Dumova is editor of is the editor of an interdisciplinary scholarly journal, the International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies.
Richard Fiordo, Editor (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is a professor of Communication at the Communication Program at the University of North Dakota. His recent research interests include instructional technologies and information literacy. Fiordo has worked in higher education in Canada and the United States.
For more information about the book, please see: http://www.irma-international.org/book/blogging-global-society/49568/
The Handbook of Intergroup Communication
Edited by Howard Giles, Routledge/Taylor Frances. (ISBN #978-0-415-88965-0). 2012.
Howie Giles, Sharde Davis, Jessica Gasiorek, and Jane Giles, Successful Aging: A Communication Guide to Empowerment, Publidisa, Spain, (ISBN #: 978-8-4939-5976-0). 2012.
Howard Giles and B. M. Watson, The Social Meanings of Languages, Dialectics and Accents: An International Perspective on Speech Styles, Peter Lang (ISBN#: 978-1-4331-1868-5). 2012.
Rene Weber, Ryan Fuller, Statistical Methods for Communicator Researchers and Professionals. (ISBN: 978-1-4652-1223-8). 2012/13
Eric Easton’s New Book
Mobilizing the Press: Defending First Amendment Rights in the Supreme Court at http://vandeplaspublishing.com/store/product.php?productid=150.
You can also access more of Eric's work on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=623286.