Growing Up Comm

In this episode of Growing Up Comm, Sarah Pila-Leiderman interviews Jennifer Le (Senior Manager of Conference Services & Office Manager), Laura Sawyer (Executive Director of ICA), and Noshir Contractor (ICA President-Elect) as the communication world prepares for the the first every hybrid International Communication Association Conference anchored in Paris, France with 11 Regional Hubs around the world. Sarah Pila and company spend some time highlighting the upcoming event, and the best approach to experiencing the conference both in person and virtually. The panel also discusses how to engage the crowds, overcome social anxieties, and multiple opportunities to “recharge” one’s battery.

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Featuring

Sarah Pila-Leiderman

Jennifer Le

Laura Sawyer

Noshir Contractor

Sponsor:

International Communication Association

More from the host & speakers: 

Sarah Pila-Leiderman

Research Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences | Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Twitter - @SarahCPila

Jennifer Le 

Senior Manager of Conference Services & Office Manager |  International Communication Association

Twitter - @jenuinle

Email - [email protected]

Laura Sawyer

Executive Director | International Communication Association

ICA Twitter - @icahdq 

Twitter - @LSawyerED

Email - [email protected]

Noshir Contractor

President-Elect | International Communication Association P

Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences | Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University

Twitter - @noshir

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/noshcontractor/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/noshir.contractor 

Email: [email protected]

Links to pages reference in the episode:

Accessibility page

Curated map of restaurants, pharmacies, print shops around the conference venue

Conference questions - [email protected]

Code of Ethics issues on-site - [email protected]

SECAC Twitter: @ICASECAC
ICA Student and Early Career Scholars Community Facebook Group Page

In this episode, host Sarah Pila-Leiderman guides a panel of guest speakers through the implications of social media for early career scholars.

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Featuring:
Sara Grady
Reyhaneh Maktoufi
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch

Sponsor:

International Communication Association

More from our host and guests:

Sara Grady
Sara Grady is a media psychologist and her research explores narrative experience on psychological and biological levels. What makes movies feel real? Why do we care about fictional characters and events enough to revisit them time and again, or talk about them with friends? In other words, what motivates narrative entertainment processing, how is it so intrinsically rewarding, and how does a story experience unfold over time? 

She uses a variety of quantitative approaches to assess the emotional and cognitive processes underlying entertainment’s functional value for users, especially as a coping mechanism when we’re under stress.

•  sara-grady.com
• @smgrady
• @CommDeptMSU

Reyhaneh Maktoufi
Reyhaneh (Rey) Maktoufi, PhD, is a DC-based, Iranian researcher and science communicator. She is the co-producer, host and illustrator of PBS/NOVA's digital series Sciencing Out, a mini-series on women in history who have used different strategies to communicate their science. Rey successfully defended her Ph.D. in Media, Technology, and Society at Northwestern University. She is a Rita Allen Foundation Civic Science Fellow in Misinformation at GBH|NOVA. As a researcher, media strategist/consultant, and producer, her main fields of interest are science communication, misinformation, curiosity, public engagement with scientists, and science communication in media. She was a visiting researcher at the Adler Planetarium, where she studied science communication and facilitated workshops on communication skills and she's also a producer at The Story Collider podcast. Before starting a Ph.D., Rey has been working as a health communication facilitator and cancer preventive/palliative care campaign manager in Tehran, Iran. Rey currently enjoys working with different nonprofits such as the Communicating Science Conference (ComSciCon). She also engages in science outreach through writing blog-posts and making science comics and has been interviewed on outlets such as the Smithsonian Magazine and the SETI Institute's podcast Big Picture Science.

• @TheCosmicRey

Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at University of Connecticut, where she is part of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. I'm also a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (inCHIP), the Connecticut Institute for Brain and Cognitive Science (IBACS), and the Sustainable Global Cities Initiative (SGCI).

Her research focuses on information sharing as communication on social media. Specifically, she investigate the effects of using social media to engage with news content, share health activities, disclose personal information, ask questions, seek social support, and how scientists can use these platforms to engage with the public.

• anne-oeldorf-hirsch.uconn.edu
• @anneohirsch

Links to pages reference in the episode:

SECAC Twitter: @ICASECAC
ICA Student and Early Career Scholars Community Facebook Group Page

This new podcast series from the International Communication Association Podcast Network will cover topics relevant for students and early career scholars: finding work-life balance, leveraging social media for personal branding, navigating the global job market, dealing with insecurity and rejection, and getting the most from ICA conferences. Guests have navigated these issues and more and will entertain and inform you with fun anecdotes and lessons learned along the way. 

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Featuring

Sarah Pila-Leiderman

Sponsor:

The International Communication Association

More from the host & speakers:  

Sarah Pila-Leiderman

Research Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences | Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

@SarahCPila
Student & Early Career Community at ICA

Links to pages reference in the episode:

SECAC Twitter: @ICASECAC
ICA Student and Early Career Scholars Community Facebook Group Page