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Department of Communication 5th Annual Distinguished Lecture
(Special Event)
The Department of Communication will host its 5th Annual Distinguished Lecture Monday, March 3, from 7:30-8:30 p.m. in 2150 Torgersen Hall on the Virginia Tech campus. Featured speaker Dhavan V. Shah will give a talk titled, "Mobilization, Socialization, and Participation in a Digital Age: Building the Communication Mediation Model." The event will be open to the public free of charge.
The Distinguished Lecture event, held annually by the Department of Communication since 2010, features a leading scholar of international reputation who shares knowledge from a program of research on a communication-related topic that is of interest to the entire Virginia Tech community. The featured speaker presents one signature lecture on campus and takes part in a number of smaller events during an extended visit to Virginia Tech.
The 2014 Distinguished Lecturer, Dhavan V. Shah, is the Louis A. & Mary E. Maier-Bascom Professor at the University of Wisconsin, where he is Director of the Mass Communication Research Center (MCRC) and Scientific Director in the Center for Health Enhancement System Studies (CHESS). Shah's research focuses on communication influence on social judgments, civic and political engagement, and health support and behavior. He has developed three major lines of inquiry, with his most recent work extending insights and techniques from his prior examinations of the influence of news framing and the power of online interactions into the development and deployment of digital technologies for individual and community health. These programs of research center on: (1) the influence of message framing and processing on decision-making and opinion formation; (2) the capacity of mass and interpersonal communication, especially online communication, to encourage civic engagement and political participation; and (3) the effects of computer-mediated interactions, particularly the expression of social support, on the management of cancer, aging, and addiction. Across these domains of work, he has increasingly applied computational techniques to social science questions, exploring the role of social media harvesting, machine text coding, communication network mapping, and "big data" analytics.
Questions about the Distinguished Lecture event and other on-campus events featuring Dr. Shah can be directed to Dr. James D. Ivory, an associate professor in the Department of Communication (jivory@vt.edu; 540.231.6507).
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