Deadline for OCIS Doctoral Consortium is Quickly Approaching

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The 2012 OCIS Doctoral Consortium will be held on August 3-4 in Boston,Massachusetts,USA.  This year’s consortium should be a great opportunity for doctoral students to gather valuable feedback on their dissertations and to network with other students and prominent faculty members.  Faculty advisers that have already confirmed their participation in the consortium include . . . →Read More:Deadline for OCIS Doctoral Consortium is Quickly Approaching

Join us at the New Doctoral Student Consortium at AOM San Antonio (August 13,2011)

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For those students who are early on in their PhD studies and will be attending the Academy of Management Annual Meeting this year,we recommend registering for the New Doctoral Student Consortium (NDSC).  This day-long program will be held on Saturday,August 13 and provides an opportunity for first and second year students to learn . . . →Read More:Join us at the New Doctoral Student Consortium at AOM San Antonio (August 13,2011)

Interview with Paul Leonardi –Part 2

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This post is the second part of an interview we recently conducted with Paul Leonardi regarding the the value OCIS can provide to communications students and scholars.

Why should communication students get involved in OCIS?

I think that involvement in OCIS helps to broaden the perspective that people studying communication have. Organizational communication is . . . →Read More:Interview with Paul Leonardi –Part 2

OCIS Doctoral Consortium 2011

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Details for the OCIS Doctoral Consortium for 2011 in San Antonio,Texas have been released! The consortium will be held on August 12-13 and will provide an opportunity for doctoral students to network,receive feedback on their research and discuss career issues. All interested PhD students working on research in the areas of Organizational Communications . . . →Read More:OCIS Doctoral Consortium 2011

Do you know about ICIS Socials?

We are putting together a list of socials,parties,meet-n-greets,and other events that are taking place in St. Louis,and we need your help! . . . →Read More:Do you know about ICIS Socials?

The Post-Doc Option

I recently had the opportunity to discuss this topic with Nick Berente,Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. Upon earning his PhD,he spent two years in a post-doc position at the University of Michigan’s School of Information before landing a tenure-track position at Georgia. Nick was gracious enough to share his experiences as a post-doc and offer up the following advice: . . . →Read More:The Post-Doc Option

Interview with Mike Smith

Interview with Mike Smith –Associate Professor of Information Systems and Marketing,Heinz College,Carnegie Mellon University

Michael D. Smith is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Marketing and co-director of the Center for Digital Media Research at Carnegie Mellon University,with appointments at the Heinz College’s School of Information Systems and Management . . . →Read More:Interview with Mike Smith

Kids and Doctoral Programs:The Challenges and Rewards

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We have several Ph.D. students offer their take on having kids during the course of their studies. While it does not offer definitive conclusions,there are a number of insights and perspectives on a very complicated topic. . . . →Read More:Kids and Doctoral Programs:The Challenges and Rewards

Some Thoughts for Dissertation Writing

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I’ve been reading Hart’s book,Doing a Literature Review,for class and he mentioned interesting points that I wanted to share. He stresses the importance of scholarship in writing. According to Hart,“There is,however,a difference between producing a piece of competent research and a piece of research that demonstrates scholarship,” (p. 8). Integration, . . . →Read More:Some Thoughts for Dissertation Writing

MyNetResearch Doctoral Awards

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MyNetResearch Doctoral Awards has been established to provide support to doctoral students.  In 2008,the award will recognize three (3) outstanding doctoral students from any discipline and from any country. These international awards will be awarded for the three most outstanding and innovative research ideas with the potential to lead to advancements in their respective . . . →Read More:MyNetResearch Doctoral Awards

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