Organizing Virtual Organizational Communication—Living the Dialectic of Bursting Boundaries and Rebuilding Community

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

This panel will be the “Grand Opening” of this virtual community which was built to the specifications that emerged from the 2008 Alta conference. It will also act as a workshop to provide feedback on the structure of the wiki, the profile system developed for the social networking capacity, the outreach and engagement model and global strategic communication plan built by faculty, staff and students from the Annenberg School at USC.

Sub Unit

• Organizational Communication Division

Chair

• Patricia Riley, University of Southern California

Presenters

• Linda Putnam, University of California, Santa Barbara

• David Seibold, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Eric Eisenberg, University of South Florida

• J. Kevin Barge, Texas A&M University

Respondents

• Timothy Kuhn, University of Colorado, Boulder

• Michele Jackson, University of Colorado, Boulder

• Stanley Deetz, University of Colorado, Boulder

Session Organizer

• Patricia Riley, University of Southern California