Susan Herring

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Susan Herring
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Susan Catherine Herring (b. 1955) is an American linguist and communication scholar who researches gender differences in Internet use, and the characteristics, functions, and emergent norms associated with language, communication, and behavior in new online forms such as social media. [1] [2] [3] She is Professor of Information Science and Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington, where she founded and directs the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication. [4] In 2013 she received the Association for Information Science & Technology Research Award for her contributions to the field of computer-mediated communication. [5] She has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Herring also founded and directed the BROG project. [6] [7]

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Education

Susan Herring has a Bachelor of Arts in French from the State University of New York at Potsdam, a Master of Arts in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991, with a dissertation entitled, "Functions of the verb in Tamil narration". [8] [9] As part of her education, she studied several European languages at the Faculté des Lettres and the Institut de Touraine in Tours, France, and conducted doctoral-dissertation research in Madurai, India, as a Fulbright–Hays scholar. [8]

Academic appointments

After serving as a graduate student Instructor in the French Department and the Linguistics Department at U.C. Berkeley in the 1980s, Susan Herring was appointed as an Instructor in the Special Languages Program at Stanford University to teach Tamil, the South Dravidian language she researched for her doctoral dissertation, in the spring of 1989. Following her appointment as an assistant professor in the English Department at California State University, San Bernardino, in 1989, Herring was promoted to associate professor in 1992. She then moved to the University of Texas at Arlington, where she was an associate professor in the Linguistics Program from 1992 to 2000. She has worked at Indiana University since 2000 in the Department of Information and Library Science (formerly the School of Library and Information Science), [10] where she was promoted to professor in 2002. She also holds an Adjunct Professor appointment in the Indiana University Linguistics Department. She is a fellow in the Center for Research on Learning Technologies, a fellow in the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, and she directs the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication, which she founded in 2014, at Indiana University. In 2012–2013, she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. [8]

Editorial appointments

The International Communication Association elected Herring Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication in November 2004; she served in that capacity until December 2007. In January 2008, she was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Language@Internet. She serves on 11 editorial and advisory boards, including Discourse & Communication ; Discourse, Context & Media; the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication ; Linguistik Online; PeerJ Computer Science; Pragmatics & Beyond New Series; Pragmatics and Society; The Information Society ; the LINGUIST List; and Writing Systems Research. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Susan Herring". Experts & Speakers Faculty Profile. Indiana University. Archived from the original on 20 November 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  2. ↑ "Susan C. Herring". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  3. ↑ Herring, Susan Catherine (1991). Functions of the Verb in Tamil Narration. UC Berkeley.
  4. ↑ "New IU center for computer-mediated communication". New IU center for computer-mediated communication. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  5. ↑ Susan Herring to Receive the ASIS&T Award
  6. ↑ The Language of Social Media
  7. ↑ "Communication Styles Make a Difference". The New York Times . Archived from the original on 2023-02-04.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "Curriculum Vitae Susan C. Herring". Indiana University. 16 February 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  9. ↑ "Publications | Linguistics". lx.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  10. ↑ "Susan C. Herring". Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering: Profile. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
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