The Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University is hosting an international speaker series titled Future Directions of Applied Communication Research Lecture Series.
As a precursor to the launch of the specialisation in Applied Communication under the Bachelor of Communication (BC), the lecture series will bring together leading academics from across the globe to discuss the role of applied communication research in addressing complex global challenges.
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The second lecture: Leveraging Network Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges
Lecture 2 | Future Directions of Applied Communication Research Lecture Series
Leveraging Network Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges
CARE is excited to bring to you the second lecture in its Future Directions of Applied Communication Lecture Series delivered by Professor Noshir Contractor, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioural Sciences at Northwestern University.
The lecture is scheduled to take place LIVE on Wednesday, 11th September, 2024 @ 10 AM NZST on Facebook and YouTube
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The lecture explores contemporary and future directions in network science and how it can support applied communication scholarship.
Noted Professor Mohan Dutta, Director of CARE, “Network science offers great possibilities for how we conceptualize the transformative capacity of Communication addressing global grand challenges. As one of world’s leading experts in Social Science Computing, Professor Contractor offers powerful insights into the interplays of technologies, networks and communication in bringing together teams, harnessing creativity, and nurturing communication toward collaborative problem solving. Network science is a critical frontier of applied communication theory, methodology and practice.”
Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering, the School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He investigates how social and knowledge networks form and perform. He is the former President of the International Communication Association, a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association and a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Network Science Society, and the International Communication Association.
Additionally, he is the host of a podcast series titled “Untangling the Web,” where he engages in conversations with thought leaders to explore how the Web is shaping society, and how society in turns is shaping the Web. Professor Contractor has been at the forefront of three emerging interdisciplines: network science, computational social science and web science. He is investigating how social and knowledge networks form – and perform – in contexts including business, scientific communities, healthcare and space travel.
His research has been funded continuously for 25 years by the U.S. National Science Foundation with additional funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, NASA, DARPA, Army Research Laboratory and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
His book Theories of Communication Networks (co-authored with Peter Monge) received the 2003 Book of the Year award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association and the 2021 Fellows Book Award from the International Communication Association (ICA).
He received the Lifetime Service Award from the Communication, Digital Technology, & Organization Division of the Academy of Management. Additionally, he received the Simmel Award from the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. He has a Ph.D. from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California.
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The First Lecture: Strategies for conducting Applied Communication Research that can make a difference
The first lecture in the series, titled Strategies for conducting Applied Communication Research that can make a difference was delivered by Distinguished Professor Gary Kreps from George Mason University.
Professor Kreps teaches courses concerning communication research, health communication, risk communication, interpersonal communication, organisational communication, consumer-provider health communication, health communication campaigns and digital communication.
Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason University, he served as the founding chief of the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NIH) in the United States. Here, he planned, developed and coordinated major new national research and outreach initiatives concerning risk communication, health promotion, behavior change, technology development and information dissemination to promote effective cancer prevention, screening, control, care and survivorship.
Professor Kreps also served as the founding dean of the School of Communication at Hofstra University, Executive Director of the Greenspun School of Communication at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and in faculty and administrative roles at Northern Illinois, Rutgers, Indiana and Purdue Universities.
The lecture series is scheduled to be held throughout the months of September through December 2024, leading to the launch of the specialisation in 2025.
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The Future Directions of Applied Communication Research Lecture Series:
The first lecture of an international speaker series titled ‘Future Directions of Applied Communication Research’.
Director of CARE and former editor of the Journal of Applied Communication Research (JACR), Professor Mohan Dutta says, “The challenges we face as humanity today are fundamentally rooted in communication. I believe communication offers a powerful resource in bringing communities together and empowering them in leading transformational social change. You see this in the high demand for communication jobs across various sustainability spaces.”
“Applied communication showcases the best of communication theory and research and engages with communities and communication practitioners in co-creating solutions that address the complex challenges presented under the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. I am looking forward to engaging some of the key thinkers in this area as we grapple with the question ‘What are the best practices of Applied Communication that can respond to contemporary global challenges such as climate change, hunger, poverty, good health and wellbeing, gender equality, reduced inequalities, sustainable cities and communities and peace, justice and strong institutions.”
Professor Dutta’s introduction to the series can be found here: