Month: September 2012

Jing Yin Profile

ProfilesJing Yin (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, USA) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo and Fellow at the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies.

Jing Yin

Her research interests include Chinese media and globalization, media discourse and representation, and non-Western feminist discourse. She won a Top Paper Award from the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association. She co-edited two editions of The Global Intercultural Communication Reader (Routledge, 2008 and 2014) and guest-edited a special section of China Media Research on “Cultural Traditions and Ethical Concerns in the Age of Global Communication” (Vol. 9, No. 2, 2013). She has published in such journals as China Media Research, Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse Processes, Howard Journal of Communications, Javnost—The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Journal of the Association of University Technology Managers, Review of Communication, and Technovation. Her works also appeared in several scholarly books including Chinese Communication Studies: Contexts and Comparisons, Encyclopedia of Communication Theory, Encyclopedia of Political Communication, Intercultural Communication: A Reader, and Systems and Policies for the Globalized Learning Economy. She served as a member of the editorial board of Human Communication: A Journal of the Pacific and Asian Communication Association and reviewed manuscripts for Asian Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Intercultural Communication Studies, and Journal of Multicultural Discourses.

Selected Publications:

Miike, Y., & Yin, J. (2015). Asiacentricity and shapes of the future: Envisioning the field of intercultural communication in the globalization era. In L. A. Samovar, R. E. Porter, E. R. McDaniel, & C. S. Roy (Eds.), Intercultural communication: A reader (14th ed., pp. 449-465). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

Yin, J. (Ed.). (2013). Cultural traditions and ethical concerns in the age of global communication [Special section]. China Media Research, 9(2), 64-110.

Yin, J. (2011). Popular culture and public imaginary: Disney vs. Chinese stories of Mulan. Javnost-The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, 18(1), 53-74.

Yin, J. (2009). Negotiating the center: Towards an Asiacentric feminist communication theory. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 4(1), 75-88.

Yin, J., & Miike, Y. (2008). A textual analysis of fortune cookie sayings: How Chinese are they? Howard Journal of Communications, 19(1), 18-43.

Yin, J. (2007). The clash of rights: A critical analysis of news discourse on human rights in the United States and China. Critical Discourse Studies, 4(1), 75-94.

Yin, J. (2006). Toward a Confucian feminism: A critique of Eurocentric feminist discourse. China Media Research, 2(3), 9-18.

Yin, J. (2006). China’s second Long March: A review of Chinese media discourse on globalization. Review of Communication, 6(1/2), 32-51.

Yin, J. (2005). Constructing the Other: A critical reading of The Joy Luck Club. Howard Journal of Communications, 16(3), 149-175.

Yin, J. (2002). Telling the truth? A cultural comparison of “facilitating discussion” in American talk. Discourse Processes, 33(3), 235-256.

Institute Français de l’Education 2

I returned to the Institute Français de l’Education for September and October of 2012. IFE is one part of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. My primary project here is to document College for Kids, a program found across the United States, for the French. I have several other projects as a result of prior connections with scholars here, and will add notes about my progress over the next few months to this page…

… I’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to add much in the way of notes about what I’m doing. Most of my time the first month was spent reviewing book proofs for the book I was working on while at IFE last year, Learning Matters: The Transformation of US Higher Education. It’s co-authored with a former UW-Parkside colleague, Peter Hoff, who went on to become President of the University of Maine… It was published at the end of October, with a description, quotes, and further details provided here.

September 24, 2012: I participated in a meeting of the Comité Scientifique, La pédagogie universitaire à l’heure du numérique: Questionnement et éclairages et recherche  [Scientific Committee, University pedagogy in the digital age: Questions and research clarifications], at IFE.

September 27, 2012: I participated in the colloquium launching the new Michel Serres Institute for Resources and Public Goods. I’m one of the Founding members by virtue of sporadically helping them think about how to manage interdisciplinary, international and intercultural conversations.

October 2, 2012: I gave a talk about my project at IFE this year, entitled “Iterations: An Examination of Learning within a College for Kids course,” to the ICAR lab here, which stands for Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations. Very receptive group with lots of good questions after.

October 15, 2012: I gave a talk entitled “College for Kids = Hands-on Activities for Students, Professional Development for Teachers” for the Fondation La main à la pâte, in Paris, France, described in further detail here.

October 17-19, 2012: I participated in Journées ViSA [Vidéos des situations d’enseignement et d’apprentissage, or Videotapes of teaching and learning contexts], as a member of the Conseil Scientifique [Scientific Council], which was held at the Université Bordeaux Segalen, in Bordeaux, France. This is a research team I’ve been connected to for the past 4 years, and this was my 5th (and last) meeting with them. It has been a pleasure working with all of you!

October 25, 2012: I presented “Best practices: How the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning solves the problems offered by today’s students” as part of the Colloque “Le métier d’enseignant aujourd’hui et demain” [Colloquium on the Teaching Profession Today and Tomorrow] at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

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Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
Director, Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Utah State U job ad

The Department of Languages, Philosophy, & Communication Studies at Utah State University invites applications for a tenure-track position: Assistant Professor in Communication Studies. Candidates should have a Doctorate in a Communication related field completed by August 12, 2013. Other qualifications include: specialization in one or more of the following areas: international communication, interpersonal communication, and/or technology and communication; demonstrated ability to conduct and publish scholarly research and to effectively teach a variety of courses; ability to mentor undergraduate students. Typical teaching load is 2/2. Utah State University is a Carnegie Research University located in a mountain valley 80 miles north of Salt Lake City.

Job Requirements:
(1) Doctorate in Communication completed by August 12, 2013;
(2) demonstrated ability to effectively teach a variety of courses;
(3) demonstrated ability to conduct research and publish scholarly research;
(4) ability and willingness to mentor undergraduate students;
(5) Satisfactory background check per university policy.

Apply online. Along with the online application, please attach:
(1) a curriculum vita;
(2) a cover letter expressing your interest in the position;
(3) a sample of research;
(4) evidence of teaching effectiveness, such as recent teaching evaluations, portfolio, etc. (.doc, .docx, .pdf format);
(5) The names and email addresses of three references. (Your references will be sent an email from USU, asking them to upload a letter of recommendation on your behalf).

Review of a applications begins October 15, 2012