Annette N. Markham
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Department
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EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Major: Organizational Communication, Minor: Interpretive Research Methods
Dissertation: Going Online: An Ethnographic
Narrative.
Committee: William K. Rawlins (chair); Dennis K. Mumby;
DianeWitmer; W. Jack Spencer
M. A.
Major: Organizational Communication
Thesis: Dealing
with Confusion and Tension in a Northwest Design Firm: A Cultural Analysis
B. S.
Major: Speech Communication
ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
8/01-present Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
8/97-6/01 Assistant
Professor
Department of Communication Studies
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
8/99-6/00 Coordinator of First Year
Learning Community Initiatives
One-year appointment by the Office of
the Academic Provost and Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Communication
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
BOOK
Life Online: Researching Real Experiences in Virtual Space.
IN PRESS WORKS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS
Representation in online
ethnographies: A matter of context
sensitivity. In Chen, S. L. S., G. J. Hall and M. D. Johns
(Eds.). Online Social Research:
Methods, Issues, and Ethics (pp. 131-145).
Internet as Research
Context. In Seale, C., Gubrium,
J., Silverman, D., and Gobo, G. (Eds.). Qualitative
Research Practice.
Critical Junctures and
Ethical Choices in Internet Ethnography. In
Thorseth, M. (Ed.) Making Common
Ground,
CONTRACTED WORKS FOR EDITED COLLECTIONS
Knowing Other in Internet Ethnography.
In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y.
(Eds.). Handbook of Qualitative Research, 3rd Edition.
(this is arguably the most widely read handbook of
qualitative methods in the
Qualitative methods and Internet: Practices and Principles. In Silverman, D. (Ed.). Qualitative Research: Theory, Method, and Practices, 2nd
Edition.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Designing discourse: A critical analysis of strategic ambiguity
and workplace control. Management Communication Quarterly, 9
(4), 389-421. (1996)
The rhetoric of
self-directive management and the operation of organizational power. Communication Reports, 8 (1),
45-53. (1995, with Michael Salvador)
JOURNAL
ARTICLE WORK IN PROGRESS
Go Ugly Early:
Fragmented Narrative and Bricolage as Ethnographic Method.
Journal length manuscript under revision for submission. Target venue:
College English
Identity and image management in the online
classroom:
Frame…reframe….frame….reframe. Journal length manuscript under revision. Targeted for submission to: Journal of Educational Technology.
Digital Time, Digital
Space: The R/Evolution Of Ethnography And The Ethnographer On-Line. Journal length manuscript under revision. Targeted for submission to: Journal of
Contemporary Ethnography
Researching Life Online: Constraints of the Flesh, Possibilities of
the Spirit. Journal length manuscript under revision for
submission to Qualitative Inquiry.
Fostering Dialogical
learning in the computer-mediated classroom.
Paper under revision for submission.
Target venue not selected.
Tools...Places.....Ways
of Being: Making sense of
computer-mediated communication. Paper
under revision for submission. Target
venue not selected.
Virtually No Difference: Women’s
subjectivities as men’s sexual fantasies in cyber-sex CD ROM games. Journal length manuscript under
final revision for submission to Critical Studies in Media Communication.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Journal
Special Issue: Qualitative Internet
Research: Dialogue with Internet
Researchers. Special
issue of Qualitative Inquiry.
Contract negotiation underway with Editors Norman Denzin and Yvonne
Lincoln. (with Nancy Baym)
Edited
Book: Anonymity. Edited book
proposal underway. Call for submissions in progress. Target publisher: Routledge Press.
Solo-Authored
Book: Burnt Toast or worse, Burnt Out:
Narrative Accounts of Technology Use, Stress, and Burnout. Book proposal under revision for
submission to Alta Mira (Rowman & Littlefield) Press. Introductory chapter and chapter outlines
complete.
Solo-Authored
Book: Images of Internet: Metaphorical
Conceptions and Consequences. Book proposal underway. Target Publisher, Sage
REFEREED PAPERS OR
PANELS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
The Importance of
Context Sensitivity in Doing Internet Ethnography. Panel creator and moderator. Competitively selected panel accepted for
inclusion at the third annual convention of the Association of Internet
Researchers,
Ethnography is an
ethnography is an ethnography? Paper
presented on a competitively selected panel (above) at the third annual
convention of the Association of Internet Researchers, Maastricht, The
Netherlands, October 2002.
The Self And Other In
Ethnographic Storytelling. Panel participant
at a competitively selected panel at the annual convention of the National
Communication Association,
Digital Time, Digital
Space: The R/Evolution Of Ethnography And The Ethnographer On-Line. Panel participant at a competitively selected
panel at the annual convention of the National Communication Association,
Interviewing
in Silence, Making Bodies from Texts, and other stories of conducting
ethnographies online. Paper presented at a competitively selected
panel at the annual convention of the National Communication Association,
Researching
the Cyborganization. Roundtable participant for competitively
selected panel at the annual convention of the National Communication
Association,
Losing,
Gaining, and Reframing control: Lessons
from students of online courses. Paper (invited) presented at the second
international conference entitled:
Learning2000.
Researching
Online, Living in the Body, Performing Scholarship. Competitively selected paper presented at the
Couch-Stone Symposium for Symbolic Interaction.
Life
Online: Constraints of the Flesh,
Possibilities of the Spirit. Paper presented on
a competitively selected panel at the annual convention of the Society for the
Study of Symbolic Interaction, Chicago, IL, July 1999.
Creating
Community in Online Classrooms:
Paradoxes and Challenges. Invited
speaker and panelist at the National Communication Association Summer
Conference on Communication and Technology,
Epistemologically
shifting states: CMC research at the
millennium's edge. Competitively selected paper presented at
the annual convention of the Northwest Communication Association,
Building Community in
the Online Classroom: The importance of
openness and informal dialogue. Invited
speaker at the Instructional Technology Conference: IT99:
The New Millennium. Sponsored by
Virginia Tech,
Ethnography in
Cyberspace: Knowing and Presenting the
Other in Text. Paper presented on a competitively selected
panel at the annual convention of the National Communication Association.
Fostering Dialogical
learning in the computer-mediated classroom.
Paper presented on a competitively selected panel at the annual
convention of the National Communication Association.
Tools...Places.....Ways
of Being: Making sense of
computer-mediated communication.
Competitive paper presented at the ICA/NCA International Summer
conference: "Organizing for the
Future."
Organizing online
communities through narrative and dialogue.
Paper presented on a competitively selected panel at the annual
convention of the Central States Communication Association, St. Louis, MO,
April 1997.
Organizing online
communication: The discursive negotiation of reality in Cyberspace. Paper presented at the annual Organizational
Communication Mini-Conference,
Virtually no
difference: Women’s subjectivities as
men’s sexual fantasies in cyber-sex games.
Competitively selected paper presented at the annual convention of the
Speech Communication Association,
Constructions of
identity and violence in Cyberspace: An
analysis of the hacker. Competitively
selected paper presented at the annual convention of the International
Communication Association,
Murder, metaphors, and
the media: Journalistic representations
of the O.J. Simpson case. Competitively
selected paper presented at the annual convention of the Speech Communication
Association,
Joining the Disney cast(e): A metaphor analysis of emotional labor. Competitively selected paper presented at the
annual convention of the International Communication Association,
Designer discourse: A critical analysis of power and paradox in
the workplace. Competitively selected paper presented at the
annual convention of the Speech Communication Association,
Friendship and the dialectic
of control: An exploration of
relationships across the hierarchy. Paper
presented on competitively selected panel at the annual convention of the
Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November 1994.
(Interpersonal and Small Group Interaction Division).
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
·
Ad hoc manuscript reviewer for
Sage Press and Alta Mira Press.
·
Ad hoc manuscript reviewer for
the journals: New Media Society, Qualitative Inquiry, Journal of Contemporary
Ethnography, Journal of Electronic Communication.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
PEW Advisory Committee. Selected as one of 18 scholars from North
American to evaluate and advise the PEW Internet & American Life Project, April 15, 2002 in Chicago , IL
Keynote Speaker. Making Common Ground: Methodological and
Ethical issues in doing Internet-research, a Nordic interdisciplinary
conference and workshop at NTNU, Trondheim , Norway June 1, 2002 .
Invited professor/respondent. Graduate level course: Internet and Ethics. Sponsored by the Programme for Applied Ethics
at Norwegian University Trondheim , Norway June 3-6, 2002 .
Computer-Mediated Communities. University of Missouri
Online
Relationships: Real? Virtual?
Interactive Teaching
Strategies. Panel to present and demonstrate various
strategies and concerns in distance and distributed learning. Presented at the Instructional Technology Conference,
Life Online: The study of Science and the Self. Presentation for the Center for Science and
Technology Studies Guest Seminar Series, Fall 1998,
Building Community in
the Online Classroom: Pitfalls and
Challenges. Department of
Communication Studies Spring Research Colloquium series, January 1999.
Professional
Communication Issues in a Telecommuting Work Environment. Department of English sponsored: Bringing Business to Business Writing
Conference.
Virtually No
Difference: Women’s subjectivities as
Men’s sexual fantasies in CyberSex Games.
Department of Communication
Studies Colloquium Series. Spring
1998.
Real Experiences in
Virtual Spaces: Conversations with People in Cyberspace, Virginia Tech Women’s
Studies Spring Speaker Series, Spring 1998.
PROGRAM AND
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Co-Principle: Collaborative Research Project: CommLAB:
A Flexible Experimental Teaching and Learning Space, 2002-2003 (with Jim
Sosnoski)
·
Multiple
research projects upcoming with this facility, including qualitative assessment
of the use of various distance education technologies in both a graduate
classroom and an international virtual work team context.
·
Grant
from Center for Advancement of Distance Education for equipment support awarded
May 2002.
·
Experimental
course to test technology influence on classroom culture, Fall 2002
·
Spring
2003 research underway.
Coordinator
of Virginia Tech’s First-Year Learning Communities, 1999-2000
·
Special
one year appointment by the Provost to work within the Center for Excellence in
Undergraduate Teaching coordinating various university-wide initiatives
targeted to first year students.
·
Responsibilities
included: Identifying and analyzing
current learning community efforts and barriers; facilitating collaborative
efforts between academic and student affairs; developing new cross-disciplinary
programs aimed at enhancing the first year experience at Virginia Tech; and
improving public awareness of learning community goals and initiatives by
supervising development of learning communities website.
·
Coordinated
the development of pilot projects to test the viability of academic and
residential cohort learning communities.
·
Envisioned
and directed the growth of the common book initiative, which led to a
university-wide effort: In Fall 2000,
all entering students received a common book, Einstein’s Dreams and had
the opportunity to meet with the author Alan Lightman, watch student
performances based on the book, and use the book in their freshmen courses.
Chair,
Virginia Tech’s Common Book Initiative Committee, 1998-1999
·
Appointed
by the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education.
·
Responsibilities
included: Envisioning, developing,
implementing and assessing a previously nonexistent university-wide, Provost
supported initiative for freshmen to read and use a common book (Einstein’s
Dreams) across the first year curriculum.
·
Fall
1998 pilot: over 800 freshmen read the
book in several colleges and courses. In
1999, pilot grew to over 1,500 participants, almost half the incoming freshman
class. In 2000, all entering freshman—4,500
students—received the book.
·
Achieved
goal to have the President of University distribute book to all upper-level
administration.
·
Achieved
goal of having the Director of the branch campus in northern
Creator
and Director, Virginia Tech Communication Department Study Abroad Program,
1998-2000
·
For
summer 1999, developed COMM 2984: Global
Organizations: The Social and Legal
Impacts of Communication Technology
(taught at various locations in
·
For
summer 2000, enhanced size and scope of program in conjunction with
GRANTS
- Center for Learning and Instructional Technology Development,
with Jim Sosnoski. $6000 for
2002-2003.
- CEUT Summer Faculty Fellow, $6,000. 1998
- Purdue Research Foundation David Ross Research Grant, $12,000.
1996-97
AWARDS AND HONORS
- UIC Silver Circle Teaching Award nominee, Spring 2002
- Virginia Tech’s sponsored Representative at Internet II International
Summit Meetings, 1999
- Bruce Kendall Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997
- Alan Monroe Research Scholar Award, 1996
- Purdue Research Foundation Summer Research Grant, 1995
- 90% Teaching Evaluation Award, COM 114, 1992,
TEACHING AND ADVISING
- Teach two courses per semester
- Teach two-three independent studies per year in advanced qualitative
methods, critical organizational communication, or computer-mediated
communication with graduate students in Communication, English, Sociology programs.
- Direct
approximately two MA thesis projects per year.
COURSES DEVELOPED AND
TAUGHT
- COMM 200: Communication
Technology
- COMM 306: Organizational
Communication
- COMM 316: Writing for
Electronic Environments (Hypertext Theory and Design)
- COMM 494: Self, Other, and
Cyberspace
- COMM 501: Operationalizing Communication
Research
- COMM 594: Identity and
Internet