Lecture: The Seeds of Civic Engagement in Contemporary Urban Communities, Nov. 3

Event: Sandra Ball-Rokeach, professor of communication and sociology in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, will receive the 2009 Wayne A. Danielson Award for Distinguished Contributions to Communication Scholarship. In conjunction with the award presentation, she will give a lecture titled "The Seeds of Civic Engagement in Contemporary Urban Communities." The lecture is free and open to the public.

When: 3:30 p.m., Nov. 3, 2009

Where: Lady Bird Johnson Conference Room (CMA 5.160) in the College of Communication.

Background: Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach is the principal investigator of the decade-long research program, Metamorphosis: Transforming the Ties that Bind, an effort to understand the transformation of urban community under the forces of globalization, new communication technologies and population diversity and use those findings to inform practitioner and policy maker decisions.

The author of six books, Ball-Rokeach's forthcoming book is "Understanding Ethnic Media: Producers, Consumers, and Societies," and is co-authored with Matthew Matsaganis and Vikki Katz. She has been co-editor (with C.R. Berger) of Communication Research from 1992 to 1997, a Fulbright scholar at the Hebrew University and a Rockefeller Fellow at the Bellagio Study Center. She currently is a fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the International Communication Association.

The Wayne A. Danielson Award recognizes scholars who have made a significant contribution to the understanding of communication. This contribution may stem from new ideas that have important implications for the field, or a particular area of study. The contribution also may be viewed as the cumulative impact of a person's scholarly career.

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