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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Ethnocomm-ers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is my great pleasure to announce <b>the first Ethnocomm e-seminar</b>! Don’t worry, the event will not take place until
<b>February 1, 2016</b>, so there is plenty of time for things like going to NCA, wrapping up the fall semester, and enjoying the holidays.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As you may already know, an e-seminar is a focused online exchange that centers on a particular topic or reading. For our first e-seminar, our shared reading will be
<b>Tamar Katriel</b>’s 2015 essay titled “Expanding ethnography of communication research: Towards ethnographies of encoding.” The essay appeared in the most recent issue of the journal
<i>Communication Theory</i>. The complete text can be downloaded from here: <a href="http://bit.ly/1PKOaUG">
http://bit.ly/1PKOaUG</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz</b> had graciously agreed to author a response to Tamar’s essay. We will kick off the e-seminar by sharing Tamar’s essay and Wendy’s response on February 1, 2016. During the following 2-3 weeks
<b>all Ethnocomm subscribers will be invited</b> to post responses to Tamar’s essay and Wendy’s response. We will also invite Tamar to respond to the responses posted to the list during these 2-3 weeks. The e-seminar will conclude after Tamar’s response and
a few concluding posts.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the spirit of full disclosure I should mention that we are modeling this e-seminar on the structure of a series of successful online seminars on the Ling-Ethnog list.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am looking forward to the discussion for two reasons. First, I am certain that you will find Tamar’s essay and Wendy’s response equally thought-provoking. Second, I hope that the exchange about a theoretically oriented essay will allow
us to continue the conversation about ethnography of communication and communication theorizing that began at a Blue Sky Workshop titled “Ethnographers of Communication Joining Theoretical Conversations Outside Their Subfield: Challenges and Possibilities”
at the last ICA convention in Puerto Rico.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards, David<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">David Boromisza-Habashi, Ph.D.<br>
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">College of Media, Communication and Information, University of Colorado Boulder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://colorado.academia.edu/DavidBoromiszaHabashi"><span style="color:blue">http://colorado.academia.edu/DavidBoromiszaHabashi</span></a>
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