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Teaching
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303-492-8139 (COMM) or
303-735-2906 (ASSETT)
COMM office: Hellems 82
About Me
I bring a focus on the dynamics of human
communication to the study and
the design of communication and information
technologies. I specialize in group communication
in engineering and computer science, and in integrating new
technologies into learni
ng
contexts.
I joined the faculty of the University of Colorado in 1998, with an appointment in the Department of Communication and in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program and moved wholly to the Department of Communication in 2001. I continue to work across disciplines, notably with collaborations in Computer Science and Engineering, Information Science, and STEM Education. While serving as Communication Department Chair from 2005-2009, I helped found ASSETT, a College-wide program to support the use of technology for teaching and learning in the College of Arts & Sciences. I currently serve as ASSETT Director.
My main area of research is social, organizational, and theoretical issues surrounding communication technology. I'm particularly interested in new communication forms and processes occasioned by technologies, though I have long ago come to terms with the fact that digital communication technologies tend to not stick around for very long in any one form, even when they seemed like good ideas at the time.
Several questions occupy my thoughts (1) design of applications to motivate collaboration, (2) interrogating the social function of determinism in organizations and groups, (3) theorizing how communication creates stability in an intrinsically indeterminate and changing world.
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News
1/10/2010 Semester starts this week! The reviewing essay is posted, as is material I prepared for a LEAP Chairs' Lunch, called On Your Way Out: Suggestions for Succession Planning
1/1/2010 Happy New Year! Working this week on a new Professional Development Essay - Reviewing, from the Reviewer's Perspective. Hope to post by the start of Spring Term.
12/25 Vacation! Snowstorm just in time for the holidays. Posted website for course I'm teaching in spring: comm5420, Readings in Group Interaction. URL requires a login; however I'll post here syllabus and schedule readings when they are finalized.
12/19 Site launched! The fall semester ended. In ASSETT, we completed a first round of interviews for our next DATC hire. COMM celebrated Fall graduation. My student Nate Savery and I submitted a final version of our poster abstract to CSCW, "A Communicative Framework for a Transformational Interaction Space."