WSCA 2018LSI Business Meeting

Agenda: Language and Social Interaction Interest GroupBusiness Meeting

February 17, 2018

Santa Clara, CA

Secretary: Chelsea Chapman

Attendees:Chris Bingham, Kourtney Maison, Kellie Brownlee, Natasha Shrikant, Leah Wingard, Evelyn Ho, Chris Koenig, Chelsea Chapman, Julianna Kirschner, Jacqueline Bruscella, Jerri Strickland, Wayne Beach, Charlotte Jones, and Catherine Brooks.

  1. Meeting Called to Order by Division Chair, Jacqueline Bruscella
  1. Review and Approval of 2017 Minutes and Today’s 2018 Agenda by Jacqueline Bruscella
  1. News on Submissions for WSCA 2018 by Jacqueline Bruscella
  2. Number of submissions:
  • Competitive Panels: Received: 14 papers, Accepted/Requested: 12 papers arranged into 3 panels
  • Program Panels: Accepted 3 of the 3 received (one co-sponsored with Health Comm)
  • Paper acceptance rates over time:
  • 2018: 85%
  • 2017: 92%
  • 2016: 66%
  • 2015: 73%
  • Related comparisons to previous years (in total paper submissions):
  • 2018: 14
  • 2017:12
  • 2016: 35
  • 2015: 19
  • Thank you to our Reviewers: Pooja Bhangay, Chris Bingham, Catherine Brooks, Jacqueline Bruscella, Chelsea Chapman, Alan Hansen, Charlotte Jones, Julianna Kirschner, Benjamin Mann, Amanda Meise, Chevelle Newsome
  • Thank you to our Panel Chairs:Jacqueline Bruscella, Charlotte Jones, Christopher Koenig, David Redkey, & Bobbi Van Gilder
  1. Presentation of Awards, by Jacqueline Bruscella

Top Paper: “So the Federal Deficit's Gonna Increase Again”: Indexicality and Neoliberal Discourse in a Texas Business Community

Natasha Shrikant, University of Colorado, Boulder

Jeanette Musselwhite, University of Colorado, Boulder

Top Student Paper:Bad Body Politics: The Function of Compulsory Able-Bodiedness in the Body Politic Metaphor

Kourtney Maison, University of Utah

Top Debut Paper:Do Not March For Me, I'm Already Free: The Discursive Politics of White Women Opposed to the Women's March on Washington

Shanna G. Hagenah, Boise State University

Top 4 Paper:Rural and Gendered: Analyzing Discourses of Gendered Rurality through Commercial Wall Decorations

Victor Cameron Coronado, San Francisco State University

  1. Election of New Secretary by Vice Chair, Julianna Kirschner: Chelsea Chapman would like to nominate a new member, Jerri Strickland of SDSU, focused on studying health communication through conversation analysis.
  1. Duties cover the next three meetings
  2. Self-nominations and also colleagues’ nominations are encouraged!
  3. Responsibilities:
  • Secretary: Taking notes during LSI meeting and send to chair, help recruit for reviewers and submissions
  • Vice Chair: Be sure to attend conference; attend program planning meeting year prior to serving as chair; attend Legislative Assembly
  • Chair: Division planner (programming, agenda); remain in contact with WSCA; attend Legislative Assembly
  • Jerri Strickland has been unanimously voted in! Congratulations! Thank you for your service to LSI.
  1. Old Business, by Julianna Kirschner
  2. We created a Facebook page but there has not been much action: Thoughts and Discussion?
  3. Ideas:
  4. Look into WSCA programs for last 5 years, note who has presented, find them, and invite them to the Facebook group
  5. Start online writing groups within the FB group, monthly submissions organized by officers
  6. Reach out to the schools, grad directors, and program coordinators that are in Seattle (throughout Washington) to get those grad students to join the FB group
  7. Create monthly FB posts that highlight the types of people in the division
  8. Membership and number of paper submissions:Thoughts and Discussion?
  9. Ideas:
  10. Organize another joint program between Health Communication and LSI
  11. Organize a joint program that connects Organizational Communication with LSI
  12. Host a panel of people from corporate cultures around Seattle (REI, etc.)
  13. Joint panels/programs are to our advantage
  14. Encourage the submission of extended abstracts, this past year’s submissions were primarily full papers—encouraging abstracts could bolster submissions
  15. Organize an ungraduated friendly type of division, have a place for works in progress that could bolster membership
  16. Host a works-in-progress panel and a late breaking call for papers right before the conference
  17. Host a methodology panel—teach members and newcomers about the types of methodologies that make up the LSI division
  18. Acceptance rates for papers are increasing, we should be more discerning with our papers when we can (more submissions will help keep the acceptance rate competitive)
  19. Other Ideas:
  20. International Encyclopedia of LSI
  21. As an interest group we could promote this
  22. Host a panel that emphasizes the diversity of LSI work—highlight the encyclopedia in this panel
  23. Write substantive chapters that highlight the diverse areas of LSI
  24. Next year we should host a double slot for CA data session (we always seem to need more time than what is allotted)
  1. New Business, by Julianna Kirschner
  1. Next year’s conference:
  2. Julianna Kirschner, Chair
  3. Chelsea Chapman, Vice Chair
  4. Jerri Strickland, Secretary
  1. Announcements/discussion/issues/questions/sharing about conferences or events of interest, by Secretary Chelsea Chapman
  2. Send out sign-up sheet for interested reviewers and panel chairs
  1. Adjournment, by Jacqueline Bruscella

Language and Social Interaction Interest GroupBusiness Meeting Minutes

February 19, 2017 Salt Lake City, Utah

Secretary: Julianna Kirschner

Attendees: Catherine Brooks, Jacqueline Bruscella, Julianna Kirschner, Chelsea Chapman, Charlotte Jones, Alan Hansen, Wayne Beach, Michael W. Jenkins, and Chris Bingham.

  1. Meeting Called to Order by Catherine Brooks. Everyone reviewed and approved the minutes from 2016 in San Diego.
  1. News on Submissions for WSCA 2017: Moving forward, we will advertise the division and what it has to offer.
  2. Number of submissions:

Competitive Panels: Received: 11 papers, Accepted/Requested: 10 papers arranged into 3 panels

Program Panels: Accepted two of the two received.

  1. Paper acceptance rates over time:

This year, 2017 Salt Lake City: 92%

For 2016:23/35 papers, 66%

For 2015:73%

  1. Related comparisons to previous years:

12paper submissions total, compared to 19 for 2015, and 35 for 2016

2 Panel Submissions, compared to 2 submitted for 2016

Overall, we have 5 panels this year for Salt Lake City (three paper panels, two other group presentation panels). We had 6 in 2015, 8 in San Diego 2016.

  1. Most divisions went down for panels this year. Media Studies went from 18 to 12 panels, Performance Studies has 10, etc. We would like to sustain the baseline of 6 panels for the LSI division.
  1. Thank you to reviewers:
  2. Brian Heisterkamp
  3. Charlotte Jones
  4. Benny LeMaster
  5. Ekaterina Moore
  6. Jacqueline S. Bruscella
  7. Subrina J. Robinson​
  1. Presentation of Awards (Certificate and Small Cash Award) by LSI Organizer

Ethnicity as an Incipient Membership Category Collection: Examining (In)Direct

Category Implicature in a Public Forum

Alan D. Hansen, Carroll College-Montana - Top Paper

Charisma: A Social Superpower

Sophia Holeman, Arizona State University - Top Debut Paper

Talking about Twitch: Dropped Frames and a Normative Theory of New Media

Professionalism

Christopher M. Bingham, University of Oklahoma - Top Student Paper

Just Kidding!: The Identity of the Standup Comedian From a Communicative Perspective

Rikki Tremblay, Arizona State University

Gary Ruud, California State University, Fullerton - A Top Four Paper

  1. Election of New Secretary (duties cover the next three meetings): Dr. Beach would like to nominate a new member, Chelsea Chapman of SDSU, focused on health management. Chris Bingham self-nominated; his work focuses on self-identity maintenance. Chris is a second year recipient of top paper award.

Responsibilities of the new member:

  1. Secretary (in Santa Clara 2018): Taking notes during LSI meeting and send to chair, help recruit for reviewers and submissions
  2. Vice Chair (in Seattle 2019): Be sure to attend conference; attend program planning meeting year prior to serving as chair
  3. Chair (in Denver 2020): Division planner; remain in contact with WSCA. It can be decided if they want respondents. Ideally 4 people on a panel, in case anyone gets sick or misses the panel.
  4. Chelsea Chapman has been voted in! Congratulations! Thank you for your service to LSI.
  1. Old Business
  2. Creating a website for the interest group: Jacqueline will explore this further next year.
  3. Gmail has been used for submissions and for consistency; flash drives represented the method in the past. Gmail is better, because it creates an archive.
  4. Important to continually clarify wording about what ‘debut’ means in calls for papers (e.g., cannot be published nor have presented at state, regional, national, or international conferences). Division planner should still verify with author of paper before it is submitted to the conference-wide award. This grey space will always be there for the Chair to determine if a person is truly “Debut.”
  5. Membership Count and Discussion: We need to garner more interest from WSCA broadly, and we can do this through word-of-mouth, social media, future website, etc.
  6. Social media presence: Julianna volunteered to create an LSI Facebook page. One does not currently exist. Masters and Ph.D. programs generally have groups, can invite those members to join Facebook page
  1. New Business
  2. Next year’s conference: Jacqueline Bruscella, Chair; Julianna Kirschner, Vice Chair; Chelsea Chapman, Secretary
  3. Leadership may be considered members of Legislative Assembly.
  4. The conference will be at the Hyatt in Santa Clara, near Levi Stadium. Hotel is a bit remote, but things are accessible via train.
  5. Entire conference has shifted by a day; preconference will be on Friday, half day on Monday.

Jacqueline requests assistance for getting people involved.

  1. Announcements/discussion/issues/questions/sharing about conferences or events of interest: Michael, Charlotte, Brian teaching panel later in SLC convention – 3 more activities left after business meeting concludes.
  1. Adjournment