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Sep
28
2020

Communication Studies Speaker Series

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When: Monday, September 28, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Where: Online

Contact: Madeleine Agaton   (847) 467-3551

Group: SOC - Department of Communication Studies

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Let’s lunch! Our theme for this Monday’s lunch‘n’learn is Lunch Club. Though we can’t meet up at a restaurant or in the atrium, let’s mark the start of the year together (in Zoom) with food and libations and stories of our pandemic lives. This will be our most casual, relaxed Monday lunch yet. No real agenda other than to support and be supported by our Communication Studies community. Graduate students, faculty, and staff are all welcome! (Your children, parents, significant others, pets, and whomever else may happen to walk by, also very welcome).

Oct
5
2020

Communication Studies Speaker Series

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When: Monday, October 5, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Where: Online

Contact: Madeleine Agaton   (847) 467-3551

Group: SOC - Department of Communication Studies

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

What does it mean for Communication Studies to embrace equity and inclusion? Come join the conversation! This Monday the Department of Communication Studies will be hosting a conversation on the state of inclusion and diversity in the department. We will briefly present findings from our summer research and then we want to hear from you. What should we learn more about? What ideas do you have to improve inclusion and equity? In this highly interactive session, we'll reflect on where we are and where we go from here.

Oct
12
2020

Communication Studies Speaker Series

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When: Monday, October 12, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Where: Online

Contact: Madeleine Agaton   (847) 467-3551

Group: SOC - Department of Communication Studies

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

In anticipation of the 2020 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), this Monday we will welcome TSB students Hanlin Li, Ryan Louie, and Gustavo Umbelino to share their work with the Communication Studies community ahead of their conference presentations. Each student will briefly present their papers, after which we will have a Q&A session.

Oct
19
2020

Communication Studies Speaker Series

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When: Monday, October 19, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Where: Online

Contact: Madeleine Agaton   (847) 467-3551

Group: SOC - Department of Communication Studies

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Title: Centering the Margins: An Inquiry into Equity, Justice, and Society

Angela D. R. Smith is a doctoral candidate in the Technology & Social Behavior program at Northwestern University, a joint degree in Communication and Computer Science. She is a designer and qualitative researcher who focuses on understanding and conceptualizing technology experiences that meet the information needs and practices of homeless emerging adults. Broadly, Angela's research leverages equitable design practices to give voice to vulnerable and marginalized populations. Her specific interests are finding ways to employ design as a catalyst to combat information poverty and provide socially responsible technology experiences. In her dissertation research, Angela conducts qualitative and exploratory design inquiries by leveraging co-creation and community-based participatory research methods to understand the technology needs and experiences of marginalized individuals. Angela believes that constructs of identity and social positioning impact our interactions with technology, including individual access to online information, the relevance of certain systems in our everyday lives, and the ways we accept certain interventions. 

Oct
26
2020

Communication Studies Speaker Series presents Deen Freelon

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When: Monday, October 26, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Where: Online

Contact: Madeleine Agaton   (847) 467-3551

Group: SOC - Department of Communication Studies

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

HASHTAG HEROES VS. DISINFO DYSTOPIA: THE LEFT, THE RIGHT, AND THE TRUTH ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVISM

DEEN FREELON is an associate professor in the School of Media and Journalism
at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His research covers two major areas
of scholarship: 1) political expression through digital media and 2) data science
and computational methods for analyzing large digital datasets. He has authored
or co-authored more than 30 journal articles, book chapters and public reports, in
addition to co-editing one scholarly book. He has served as principal investigator on
grants from the Knight Foundation, the Spencer Foundation and the U.S. Institute
of Peace. He has written research-grade software to calculate intercoder reliability
for content analysis (ReCal), analyze large-scale network data from social media
(TSM), and collect data from Facebook (fb_scrape_public). He formerly taught at
American University in Washington, D.C.