The Dissertation Writing Journey

Seminar Call for Participants: The Dissertation Writing Journey The NCA Research Board, together with the Text and Academic Authors Association, will sponsor a one-day seminar in Orlando designed for graduate students beginning or in the middle of their dissertation writing process. The leaders of the seminar will be Dr. Sonja Foss, Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver, and Dr. William Waters, Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston Downtown. They ...
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2013 Western States Communication Association

Language and Social Interaction Interest Group Western States Communication Association (WSCA) 2013 Annual Convention, Reno, NV February 15-19, 2013 The Language and Social Interaction (LSI) interest group of WSCA is focused on research that focuses on language use in discourse, and interaction in a range of settings. The division invites submission of papers, extended abstracts, and program panels for the upcoming 2013 annual conference. As an interest group, LSI invites a broad range of ...
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2012 Dissertation Award Nomination

Deadline: September 14, 2012 The Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association will recognize the outstanding dissertation in the field of language and social interaction. Appropriate topics include situated conversation, language use, and embodied interaction in settings such as: classrooms, doctors’ offices, public meetings, work and home, as well as interactions between and across cultural borderlines. Previous awards have gone to studies of discourse p...
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Cornell University Position

Position: Tenure-eligible Assistant Professor, Communication and Technology Start date: August 2013 The Department of Communication at Cornell University seeks a colleague to conduct research and to teach in one or more of the following areas: 1) Social Media, 2) Human-Computer Interaction, 3) IT in Organizations, 4) Social Psychology of Communication Technology, and 5) Digital Media. We welcome scholars who study communication technology, especially as it relates to the dynamics of indivi...
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