Revise & Resubmit Kim Bissell

We've got another ICYMI episode on deck for you today because well, let's be honest, everyone is busy and deadlines are upon us and it's hard to schedule guests during this very busy time. But, today's episode is a great one to catch if you haven't already and if you have, it's a great one to listen to a second time.

Join us today for Episode 6 of Season 6 of Revise and Resubmit where we get to chat with Dr.
Natalie Devlin, now an associate professor in the Stan Richards School of
Advertising and Public Relations. Natalie Brown Devlin researches crisis
communication and digital media in the context of sport. Her work examines how
social media empowers organizational stakeholders during sports-related crises.
She previously worked in digital advertising as a senior analyst of strategic
account analytics, where she provided custom analyses and consumer insights to
client marketing executives. This fall, Devlin teaches a course on digital
metrics in the Texas Media Program.
This is such a fun conversation
with Dr. Devlin because we get to hear not only about her time as a Ph.D.
student in C&IS at the University of Alabama but also how the stars aligned
in a chance meeting with Dr. Jennings Bryant and how that meeting led her to
have the family she has now. 
Dr. Devlin is a prolific scholar
in sports communication, and for someone who has only been doing it a few
years, she's making quite a mark! More importantly. Dr. Devlin is so
down-to-earth and fun and just truly likeable. You just won't want to miss this
one.  
Follow her on Twitter
@NatalieBDevlin.
You can follow us on Twitter
@ICIRAlabama or on Instagram @ICIRUA. 
Here are a few links to just SOME
of her publications:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/jicrcr/vol3/iss1/3/
https://journals.humankinetics.com/configurable/content/journals$002fijsc$002f10$002f3$002farticle-p371.xml?t:ac=journals%24002fijsc%24002f10%24002f3%24002farticle-p371.xml
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077699015574484?casa_token=WV3DupwpFVIAAAAA%3ARYhY9L9iYVI65GcxyaHJaBJ-AK6jR-PlU1vi9vpI8WaaCnO3c3DVz64frQ6f3CLVZVBaa8eQ_bHf

ICYMI: Today's episode is a great one as we catch up with Dr. Mary Meares, an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. Have you ever traveled outside of the country, especially to a place where your native language wasn't being spoken? How did it make you feel? Were you challenged by the experience in a good one or did you find yourself looking for something familiar? In addition to having lived and worked abroad, her research dives into the effects of culture. When you think about how we learn what the world is and how we learn about other people, that learning comes from so many different places--personal experiences, what you might learn in the classroom and even from the media. Mary's research looks at all of these things as a mechanism of understanding intercultural competence and ways it can be taught to others. Fun fact: she is reading a book--Gullah Geechee--Lessons from the Matriach--by Emily Meggett from Edisto Island and that's where Mary's ancestors are from! This is such a fun conversation and it really is going to push you to think about how we learn about others the next time you travel. Don't miss it!

Falling Backwards Into Things–The Path to Research in Identity, Stigma and Organizing

I say this about every episode but I definitely have to say it about this one---YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS TODAY'S EPISODE. 

Wow. We cover a lot of territory with Dr. Peter Jensen, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Communication & Information Sciences. But first, fun fact: Peter is the first guest we have ever had who said he actually dreamed of being a professor as a young child, and this inspiration came from watching Indiana Jones films where Indiana Jones was in a classroom teaching!! 

But, on to the real stuff. Dr. Jensen studies organizational communication, but what he really looks at it why we organize the way we do, and the communicativeness of the process. What does that really mean? It means he studies things like stigma within an organization and how underlying stigma about topics such as incarceration carry over into decisions that are made, the ways individuals are interacted with and treated, and ultimately the structural issues related to stigma. Peter has worked with and studied individuals who have been incarcerated and who then are trying to re-engage with the world and return to the identity they might have had prior to serving time in prison. Peter is an ethnographer, which means he works in the field and he works directly with the population he is studying as well as the organizations working to help them (or not). 

We cover so much territory in today's conversation, and it certainly sheds light on the breadth and depth of the work being done in the broad area of communication research. 

To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama

ICYMI: Don't miss episode #7 of Season 6 of Revise and Resubmit as we catch up with Dr. Kaitlin Miller, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. Learn more about how 6th grade Kaitlin had a big dream of working in broadcast journalism and how that dream became a reality for her after finishing her master's degree in broadcast journalism. Kaitlin tells us about her time working as a broadcast journalist in Bozeman, Montana where she essentially was a one-stop shop for all of the stories she worked on--setting up the camera, the lights, the audio, doing the reporting, doing the editing and packaging it all together. But, then she tells us about how the workplace for her and other women in the felt was challenging, isolating, and at times, filled with harassment. Her professional experiences tie directly into what she does now as a professor of journalism and guide much of the research she does on journalistic practices, the intersectionality of oppression and identity specific to gender and race, but how she firmly believes that journalism matters. We talk about her approach to teaching her own journalism students and how she inspires them (our words not hers) to follow their dreams and passions as storytellers. And, throughout today's conversation we hear so many funny stories about her professional work in broadcast journalism. Let's just say a bear enters this conversation! You don't want to miss today's episode as we catch up with Dr. Kaitlin Miller!

In today’s episode, we are catching up with another former guest in our What’s New With series, and I say this every time, but again, today’s episode is SO MUCH FUN!!! Dr. Kenon Brown, an associate professor in the Department of Advertising and Public relations actually gave us an answer to one question that we had never heard before–what he wanted to be when he grew up. But, I’m not going to spoil it now! You’ll just have to tune in!

When we last caught up with Dr. Brown, we were in the height of the pandemic and lock down and he was doing a lot of research on athletes and image repair because there’s always one or two who isn’t making the best decisions, but today, he tells us how his research has shifted a little to focus on the WHY AND HOW of audience perceptions about athletes. What traits are most important in helping us identify more and resonate more with specific athletes? He breaks it all down for us!

To follow Kenon on Twitter: @KenonABrown

To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama

In the third of our of "What's New With..." series, we have the great opportunity to catch up with Dr. Cynthia Peacock, now an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies within C&IS. When we last spoke with Cynthia, she was telling us about the time she took her students to attend the Iowa Caucuses, and about all of her work in political communication. She's been busy these last two years, and in today's episode, we get to hear all about it. She is currently working on a study about relational communication when individuals do not share the same political ideology--can you imagine the potential drama? But, she's also looking into issues such as the changes in the online environment, including social media, and how these changes will affect political engagement and opinion exchange. I don't want to give away too much here, but I will just say, this is another really fun one!! As a fun fact about Cynthia, she wanted to be a criminal psychologist or a National Geographic photographer when she was growing up, and her pathway to academia is an interesting (but cool) one!

To follow Cynthia on Twitter: @CynPeacock

To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama