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Keri K. Stephens at the U of Texas at Austin has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. She is in the Department of Communication Studies where she researches organizational communication and technology.
The Science of Science Communication II
23-25 September 2013 at the National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC
Climate change…evolution…the obesity crisis…nanotechnology: Discourse surrounding these and other science-based issues is often overwhelmed by controversy and conflicting perceptions, hampering understanding and action.
The challenges facing scientists, professional communicators, and the interested public has resulted in a growing area of research—the science of science communication. The National Academy of Sciences is hosting its second Sackler colloquium on this topic to advance a national dialogue. Highlights of the three-day program include presentations by leading scientists, a keynote address by ICA Member, Kathleen Hall Jamieson (U of Pennslyvania), and workshops focused on some of the biggest science communication challenges facing professionals and the public today.
View the full agenda and register here.
Space is limited—seats for Days 1 and 2 are still available!
Registration is $100 per day, which includes lunch and the reception on Day 2. Daily registration is permitted.
Contact: Susan Marty (smarty@nas.edu)
Richard Butsch and Sonia Livingstone eds Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses Routledge Aug 2013
In today's thoroughly mediated societies people spend many hours in the role of audiences, while powerful organizations, including governments, corporations and schools, reach people via the media. Consequently, how people think about, and organizations treat, audiences has considerable significance.
This ground-breaking collection offers original, empirical studies of discourses about audiences by bringing together a genuinely international range of work. With essays on audiences in ancient Greece, early modern Germany, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, Zimbabwe, contemporary Egypt, Bengali India, China, Taiwan, and immigrant diaspora in Belgium, each chapter examines the ways in which audiences are embedded in discourses of power, representation, and regulation in different yet overlapping ways according to specific socio-historical contexts.
Suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, this book is a valuable and original contribution to media and communication studies. It will be particularly useful to those studying audiences and international media.
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415837309/
ERIC Vice-chair Federico Subervi is now a professor at Kent State U. At Kent State, Subervi will be helping enhance and take leadership in the diversity courses and research at the School of Journalism & Mass Communication, and particularly with the graduate program of the College of Communication and Information.
