Drexel University’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Committee (SSHRC), the Office of Research and the Drexel University Libraries invite you to attend the panel discussion Editors Circle: Sharing Insider Knowledge of Academic Publishing.

This event will explore the world of academic publishing from the perspective of two published authors. Themes to be discussed include different types of academic journals, how to get published, open access, and more. The discussion will be followed by time for Q&A from the audience.

Following the event, Dr. Herring will be available for meetings with individual faculty, staff and students interested in having more in-depth conversations about publishing and Open Access. Contact Asta Zelenkauskaite at az358@drexel.edu for more information or to schedule a meeting with Dr. Herring. 

Panelists:

• Susan C. Herring, PhD, Professor of Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Michael Johnson Jr., PhD, Diversity Resident Librarian, Drexel University Libraries

Moderator:

• Asta Zelenkauskaite, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Drexel University

About the Panelists
 

Susan C. Herring is Professor of Information Science and Linguistics and Director of the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication at Indiana University, Bloomington. For the past 30 years she has been researching structural, pragmatic, interactional, and social phenomena in communication mediated by digital technologies. Her recent research has focused on multimodal CMC, including communication mediated by telepresence robots, graphical icons, and video. A past editor of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, she currently edits the journal Language@Internet. Her publications include numerous scholarly articles on CMC, several guest edited journal special issues, and three edited books: Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Benjamins, 1996), The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture, and Communication Online (Oxford University Press, 2007, with B. Danet), and The Handbook of Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Conversation (Mouton, 2013, with D. Stein and T. Virtanen).

Michael Johnson, Jr. is the Drexel University Libraries' current Diversity Resident Librarian. His professional responsibilities at Drexel span the traditional areas of acquisitions, collection development, and adult reference services combined with archival project management. Prior to his arrival at Drexel, Dr. Johnson accumulated a decade of experience as a faculty member – most recently holding a tenure track appointment at California State University, Northridge – in addition to many years with the University of Wisconsin, and Washington State University. Dr. Johnson is the author of nearly 20 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters which can be found in publications like The Journal of Men’s Studies; Studies in Contemporary Culture; The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons; The Journal of New Media & Culture; Studies in Humanities, Humanities and Social Sciences Communication, and in edited collections by ABC-Clio, Praeger, Palgrave Macmillan, Information Age Press, McFarland and Lexington, among others. He regularly presents his research at regional, national, and international conferences.

Asta Zelenkauskaite is an associate professor of Communication. Her work research centers around emergent practices online by bridging multidisciplinary approaches drawn from social science tradition, Communication, Information Science and Linguistics. Her research focuses on the ways in which online interaction can create new spaces and practices for their users. Her work is interested in societal challenges of information mistrust and post-truth and the way such inauthentic information can be uncovered. She is focusing in the changes that social media bring to mass media landscape by studying these phenomena from a multi-method approach from macro and micro approaches.