Published: Oct. 3, 2016

News about Communication faculty, student and staff doings

John Ackerman, Associate Professor, Leah Sprain, Assistant Professor, and two additional coauthors, published 鈥淭he skunkwork of ecological engagement鈥 in Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning, 16.1, 75-95. This article is part of a special issue on Sustainable Communities and Environmental Communication, that is currently featured on the journal

Joanne Esch, PhD student, presented her M.A. thesis research to the in a series of two invited workshops titled "Understanding Organizational Culture" and "Communication Matters: Connecting Organizational Culture and Implementation Science." She also 听presented a paper titled 鈥淥n Being Together Without Truth or Justice: An Autoethnography of Victim-Offender Dialogue 鈥渁t the 5th Annual Doing Autoethnography Conference in San Angelo, Texas and, with two coauthors, a case study titled 鈥淢oving restorative justice from margin to center: Exploring post-plea, pre-sentence conferencing鈥 at the Howard Zehr Restorative Justice in Motion Conference in Charlotte, VA in June. 听Finally, with colleagues in the 麻豆影院 County District Attorney's office and probation department, she co-facilitated a high risk听victim鈥搊ffender dialogue for a felony case involving bias-motivated assault.

Danielle Hodge, PhD student, reviewed the book, Home with hip hop feminism: Performances in communication and culture by Alisha S. Durham. Southern Communication Journal, 81,350鈥353. doi:10.1080/1041794X.2016.1209238.

Rebecca Rice, PhD student, had her essay, "Beyond Interactivity: Critical/Cultural Surveillance Scholarship, Ten Years after Andrejevic" accepted for publication in the 听January 2017 issue of Review of Communication.

Andi Savage, MA student, wrote a review of the book听Democracy, deliberation, and education by Robert Asen. This review appeared in Southern Communication Journal, 81,347鈥350. doi:10.1080/1041794X.2016.1167237.

Leah Sprain, Assistant Professor, gave an invited talk "Democratic dilemmas of energy system transformation" in September as part of the Global Change and Sustainability Center Series at the University of Utah.

Amanda, Szabo, PhD Student, spoke at TEDx麻豆影院 in September. She boiled down 6 years of her research about how relationships and communication create economic groups. The talk focused on a community experiencing homelessness in North Carolina who, without money, leveraged relationships as a currency. Amanda was selected to give this talk from among 600 applicants.

Karen Tracy, Professor, published an article, 鈥淒iscourse Analysis: Bridging Frameworks or Cultivating Practices鈥 in The Journal of Multicultural Discourse, 听in Online First, doi: 10.1080/17447143.2016.1226317.