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Contents: FALL 2015 03 THE DEAN A message from Dean Jonathan Potter 4 11 SC&I STUDENTS Current students and their achievements 4&5 NEW FACULTY A welcome to new faculty members 6&7 FACULTY SPOTLIGHT Putting the spotlight on faculty research 8&9 SC&I NARRATIVE News & happenings 10 SC&I ACCOLADES Faculty making a name for themselves and their departments 6 14 11 12 SC&I ALUMNI Where are they now and what are they doing? 13 SC&I EVENTS Panels, presentations and special events 14 SC&I NEWS News from inside SC&I 15 SC&I DONORS Giving back to SC&I Photographers: Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania (for photo of Khadijah White), Ben Bakelaar, Nat Clymer, Scott Glozzy, Carol Peters, Frank Wojciechowski (including cover shot). Photos Courtesy of: Lindsay Hanlon-Back, Terrell Blount, Nicole Cooke, Kaitlin Costello, Julia Cuddahy, Mary D’Ambrosio, Christopher Etienne, David Greenberg, Alexa Hepburn, Hank Kalet, S. Mitra Kalita, Vikki Katz, Nancy Kranich, Matthew Maddex, Thomas Mattia, Phil Napoli, Katherine Ognyanova, Jonathan Potter, Shiffa Rizki, Carlett Spike, Mike Taibbi, Jennifer Theiss. DEAN JONATHAN POTTER by THE NUMBERS 8.1.2015 JONATHAN POTTER BEGAN HIS TERM AS DEAN OF THE SCHOOL ON AUGUST 1 R 10 BOOKS WRITTEN OR EDITED 30,186 CITATIONS TO HIS WORK REGISTERED BY GOOGLE SCHOLAR AT 2:46pm ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 16, 2015 PLENARY TALKS GIVEN AND WORKSHOPS TAUGHT IN MORE THAN 15 COUNTRIES SECONDS BETWEEN BEING OFFERED THE DEAN POSITION AT RUTGERS & ACCEPTING THE OFFER: 0.8 12 ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES IN WHICH HE HAS A DEGREE, TAUGHT OR HELD A LEADERSHIP ROLE toc interaction FALL 2015
Message FROM THE Dean Jonathan Potter began his term as dean of the school on August 1, 2015. Dean Jonathan Potter About me and my move to Rutgers … I joined the School of Communication and Information during this past summer. What is it that attracted me to join SC&I? Ideas, technology and social problems have changed with breathtaking speed in the past 50 years. Yet the organization of universities into departments has been slow to catch up. These organizations often reflect the assumptions and problems of the 20 th century rather than looking forward to the next century. Modern problems and modern technology require thinking, theories and methods that cut right across those traditional divisions. embedded in their texts and conversations. Through this approach, we see that attitudes may be best understood as parts of communication, whether that is face to face or mediated via newspapers and television, new media or email. The perfect interdisciplinary unit that is ready for addressing topics that need this cross-cutting approach will have journalism and media researchers who understand how mediated communication is put together and received, information scientists who understand questions about storage and retrieval of information and the human and technical systems that support that, and communication researchers who understand how conversation operates, how messages are formed into texts and made persuasive. TOC From my earliest time in academia I grappled with this as I moved from an honors degree in psychology, a master’s in philosophy of science and a doctoral degree in sociology. As I focused on the question of how to use rigorous empirical research to understand racism, sexism and homophobia, I found that I was informed by sets of ideas from communication, linguistics and even postmodern literary criticism. Being able to stand back from traditional boundaries was liberating and energizing and has helped me to develop, with a small community of others, a new approach that we called discursive psychology. One example of how we cut across boundaries is to think about attitudes. The study of attitudes is the centerpiece of psychological research on topics as diverse as racial prejudice and healthy eating. Attitudes are often conceived as a mental disposition, and psychologists have refined the study with measurement scales and even looking at neural pathways. But attitudes appear in relation to the real actions people do — a parent complimenting her daughter’s math score or a friend reporting how much they enjoyed last night’s game. Like all science, discursive psychology starts with careful observations of the world; in our case those observations are the descriptions of people’s judgments That is why SC&I attracted me. It is a unit with a cross-cutting interdisciplinary mix that is perfectly positioned for this creative and forward-looking work. As the social and technical world reinvents itself, SC&I is placed to make a telling contribution. And, it sits within an institution that is fluidly reinventing itself after its first 250 years and that is looking forward toward the next 250 years. I am not sure that I can quite convey my excitement and pleasure when walking down College Avenue on the first day of the semester with the queue of cars dropping off expectant freshmen. I have the privilege and responsibility of running a school that has the potential for transforming the lives of those students, equipping them for the radical changes that are to come, and producing the research and ideas that will reshape the future they will live in. Jonathan Potter 3 interaction FALL 2015
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