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 Fifth Lecture: On The Future of Applied Communication Research: Theory/Practice and Pragmatic Utopianism in a Time of Crises
Lecture 5 | On The Future of Applied Communication Research: Theory/Practice and Pragmatic Utopianism in a Time of Crises
We are pleased to announce the Fifth Lecture in the Future Directions Of Applied Communication Research Lecture Series, by Professor Heather Zoller, University of Cincinnati on “The Future of Applied Communication Research: Theory/Practice and Pragmatic Utopianism in a Time of Crises.”
Event Details:
Date: October 22, 2024
Time: 10 am NZST
Watch Live on Facebook & YouTube via Zoom
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YouTube LIVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsGu8shkcyE
About the Lecturer:
Professor. Heather Zoller, discusses continued challenges in conceptualizing applied communication research from her vantage point as Editor of the Journal of Applied Communication Research and a critical health and organizational communication scholar. She outlines an agenda for developing communication theories and practices that meet the major sociopolitical and economic crises of our time. She then describes critical pragmatism as one avenue for developing applied research, and discusses “pragmatic utopianism” as an exemplar of applying communication insights to challenge the status quo and foster equitable and democratic social change.
Bio:
Heather M. Zoller is a Professor of Communication at the University of Cincinnati where she directs the Communicating Health, Science, Environment, and Risk Certificate. She is the Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Applied Communication Research and former Senior Editor at Health Communication and Management Communication Research. Her research investigating organizing for healthy work in sustainable and equitable economic systems is published in outlets such as Communication Monographs, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Human Relations, and the Handbook of Organizational Communication Theory and Research. She co-edited the volume “Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication” with Mohan Dutta. She is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine NIOSH committee on PPE, and served as Board President for Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund. (See https://www.heatherzoller.com/.)
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The Fourth Lecture: Beyond Binary Thinking in Applied Communication Research
Lecture 4 | Beyond Binary Thinking in Applied Communication Research
Date: Thursday, October 10, 2024
Time: 10 AM NZDT
Location: LIVE ON Facebook & YouTube via Zoom
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/jJYA9Ap3amY
About the Lecturer:
Debbie S. Dougherty (Ph.D. University of Nebraska, 2000) is Professor of Communication at University of Missouri. Her research focuses on power and organizing, particularly as it relates to sexual harassment, social class, and emotions. with publications in places such as Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, Communication Monographs, Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Sex Roles. She has also provided organizational communication training and development in a number of organizations and has been extensively utilized as a resource for news sources such as the New York Times, Newsweek, Forbes, and the Oprah Magazine.
Prof. Dougherty has received a number of awards, including the Organizational Communication Book of the Year and Textbook of the Year, NCA Applied Communication Scholar Award, The Jack Kay Award for Engaged Research, the Management Communication Quarterly Article of the Year Award, the Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award, the Excellence in Education Award, and the Gold Chalk Award for graduate student mentoring.
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The Third Lecture: Before Crisis: The Ongoing Process of Instructing and Engaging Publics
Lecture 3 | Before Crisis: The Ongoing Process of Instructing and Engaging Publics
Before Crisis: The Ongoing Process of Instructing and Engaging Publics with Prof. Deanna Sellnow & Prof. Timothy Sellnow | Clemson University
Date: Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
Time: 10 AM NZDT
Location: LIVE ON Facebook & YouTube via Zoom
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/891598706215859
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO1M61EPgY8
Brief description of the lecture:
We argue that engaging diverse publics in ongoing instructional communication is critical to effectively managing risks, mitigating harms, and responding to crises in a complex global risk society. Communication theory becomes meaningful for achieving these goals only when it is applied directly to and with the risk-bearers it is intended to serve. Moreover, engaging stakeholders in the co-construction of meaning and decision-making inherent in effective instructional communication must be ongoing. In this presentation, we explore strategies for doing so effectively using the IDEA model for effective instructional risk and crisis communication as a framework.
About the Speakers:
Prof. Deanna D. Sellnow, Ph.D., Clemson University
Deanna D. Sellnow (Ph.D.) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Clemson University. Dr. Sellnow’s research focuses on strategic instructional communication in the contexts of health, risk, safety, and crisis communication (e.g., natural disasters, health, food safety, pandemics, biosecurity, terrorism, biotechnology). She has conducted funded research for the United States Geological Survey (USGS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States Department of Education (DOE), United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), and the German Research Foundation (DFG). She is former President of the Central States Communication Association where she was inducted into the Fall of Fame in 2018. She currently serves as the founding Executive Director of the International Crisis and Risk Communication Association (ICRCA) and has been co-host of the International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference (ICRCC) since 2016. She is also past editor of the Journal of Communication Pedagogy, Communication Teacher, and the Basic Communication Course Annual. She has authored or co-authored numerous books, book chapters, and refereed national and international journal articles. She has conducted and/or presented research in a variety of countries around the world. Her most recent book, co-authored with Dr. Timothy Sellnow, is Before Crisis: The Practice of Effective Risk Communication.
Prof. Timothy L. Sellnow, Ph.D., Clemson University
Timothy L. Sellnow is a professor of communication at Clemson University. His research focuses on risk and crisis communication. He has conducted funded research for the Department of Homeland Security, the United States Department of Agriculture, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Geological Survey, and the World Health Organization. He has also served in an advisory role for the National Academy of Sciences, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the International Food and Information Council, and the Food and Drug Administration. He is past winner of the National Communication Association’s Gerald Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship and past editor or Journal of Applied Communication Research. He has co-authored seven books on risk and crisis communication and has published many refereed journal articles. His most recent book, co-authored with Dr. Deanna Sellnow, is Before Crisis: Strategies for Effective Risk Communication.
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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: