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  • Communication Colloquium
    2009-10-26 07:00:00
    Mike McDevitt

    School of Journalism & Mass Communication

    University of Colorado at Boulder

    Friday, October 30th

    Hellems 199

    3:00 - 4:30 P.M.

     

    Social Drama as Social Control in the Academic-Media Nexus: The Case of Ward Churchill.

    Critical perspectives typically cast media in subservient or functionary roles vis-à-vis hegemonic forces, in metaphors such as lapdogs for the former orientation, or guard dogs for the latter.  In the case of Ward Churchill, however, the performance of mediatized ritual is more aptly described as opportunistic, suggesting the culling of the university field for selective slaughter.  This project deploys social drama—adapted from the anthropology of Victor Turner—to portray how journalism operates in the academic-media nexus, where intellectuals possess the capacity to challenge absolutist beliefs.  The Churchill case reveals how the classic conception of newsmaking as defensive ritual” requires a reformulation to convey how journalism interacts with the academy when intellectuals threaten core beliefs.

  • Culture, Language and Social Practice (CLASP) Conference
    2009-09-16 07:00:00

    The CLASP Program at the University of Colorado is an interdisciplinary forum for scholars with interrelated research interests in the sociocultural and sociopolitical analysis of language. The CLASP Conference, now in its second year, is organized at all levels by graduate students in the program.
    The program features individual paper presentations by scholars from a range of disciplines, as well as workshops and plenary talks by Drs. Bob Craig, Kira Hall, Makoto Hiyashi and Christine Mallinson. The current conference schedule can be found online at http://www.colorado.edu/clasp/conf/schedule.html
    Registration information is available at http://www.colorado.edu/clasp/conf/registration.html

  • Communication Colloquium
    2009-09-17 07:00:00

    Dead Reckoning: Place, Technology, Culture and Ethnocognition in Air Traffic Control

     

    Diane Vaughan

    Professor of Sociology and International Public Affairs

    Columbia University

    Friday, October 2nd

    Hellems 199

    3:00 - 4:30

     

    Ethnography and interviews in four air traffic control facilities in the New England Region shows how air traffic controllers are trained to work in a standardized system that is, in fact, rife with diversity and difference between facilities.  Although the push in air traffic control is to introduce more and more technology to enable the ATC system to handle increasing numbers of flights with fewer controllers, the study shows the interface of technology and human cognition and what controllers can do that technology can't replace. It shows how controllers bridge the boundaries in the FAA system, how their skills at signals and interpretive work allow them to correct errors so that small errors do not turn into catastrophes, and the impact on them of doing this work.

  • Upcoming Colloquium
    2009-09-02 07:00:00

    Presented by Distinguished Professor, Dr. Jerry Hauser

    Parrhesia at the University of Resistance: Reforming Robben Island from the Inside

    Friday, September 11, 2009

    3:00-4:30 PM

    Hellems 199

  • Comm Applications Now Being Accepted
    2009-08-28 07:00:00
    Applications to the Comm Major are now being accepted. Please follow go to http://comm.colorado.edu/prcmapp to apply.
  • 2009 Graduation Photos Online
    2009-07-16 07:00:00
    Photos from our May 8 convocation ceremony are now online!