Lois Scheidt

Ph.D. Indiana University in Information Science specializing in Computer-Mediated Communication.

Doctoral Candidate, I successfully defended my qualifying paper Diary Weblogs as Genre on May 7, 2009.

Dissertation Committee (under construction)

Susan Herring, Professor of Information Science, School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), Chair.
Mary L. Gray, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Culture

Advisory committee:

Susan Herring, Professor of Information Science, School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), Chair.
John Paolillo, Associate Professor, SLIS and School of Informatics, SLIS Representative;
Gary Ingersoll, Emeritus Professor of Counseling and Educational Psychology, School of Education, Outside Minor Representative (interdisciplinary minor in Adolescence);
Norman Denzin, Research Professor of Communications, Professor of Sociology, Professor of Cinema Studies, Professor of Criticism and Interpretive Theory (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), additional member;
Eric Peterson, Professor Communication and Journalism (University of Maine) additional member.

My goals for dissertation are as follows:

Preliminary dissertation proposal work to be completed 2009.
Dissertation proposal to be defended spring 2010.
Dissertation to be defended spring 2011.

M.I.S. Indiana University specializing in Human Computer Interaction. Awarded August 2001.

M.P.A. Indiana University specializing in Human Resources Management. Awarded May 1989.

B.S. Ball State University in Technical Theatre. Awarded May 1983.

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Graduate Assistant. Faculty Council Office (January 2010 - present).

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Research Assistant. Sociology Department and Instructional Support Services, Campus Instructional Consulting, Visual Methods Project (December 2007 - March 2009).

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), classes taught at IUPUC, Columbus, Indiana. Adjunct Instructor (1 class).
School of Informatics, 1 class, (August 2006 - December 2006).

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis, Indiana. Teaching Fellow (3 classes). School of Informatics (August 2005 - May 2006).
2 classes in Indianapolis at IUPUI.
1 class in Columbus at IUPUC.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis, Indiana. Teaching Assistant (1 class). School of Informatics (January 2005 - May 2005).

Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus (IUPUC), Columbus , Indiana. Adjunct Instructor (2 classes).
Communication Studies, 2 classes, (August 2003 - April 2004).

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Research Assistant, School of Library and Information Science (August 2001 - July 2004).

Oakland City College, Oakland City, Indiana. Adjunct Instructor (3 classes). Adult Degree Program (February 1994 - September 1994).

Awards

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40) Best Paper Nominee: Herring, S. C., Paolillo, J., Ramos-Vielba, I., Kouper, I., Wright, E., Stoerger, S., Scheidt, L. A., & Clark, B. (2007). Language networks on LiveJournal. In Proceedings of the Forty Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. http://www.blogninja.com/hicss07.pdf.

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38) Best Paper Nominee: Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Paolillo, J., Scheidt, L. A., Tyworth, M., Welsch, P., Wright, E., & Yu, N. (2005, January). Conversations in the blogosphere: A social network analysis "from the bottom up". In Proceedings of the Thirty-eighth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. http://www.blogninja.com/hicss05.blogconv.pdf.

Edublog 2004 Best Research Based Blog Nominee (2004, December): Scheidt, L. A. Professional-Lurker: Comments by an academic in cyberspace.

Edublog 2004 Best Blogged Paper Award (2004, December 10): Herring, S. C., Scheidt, L. A., Bonus, S., & Wright, E. (2004, January). Bridging the gap: A genre analysis of weblogs. In Proceedings of the Thirty-seventh Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. http://www.blognija.com/DDGDD04.doc.

Grants

Associate Faculty Professional Development Grant, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana, $350 to attend the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2-5, 2007.

Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship (FFTF), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Fellowship was served as a faculty member of the School of Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN. $8000 per semester for academic year 2005-2006.

Digital Generations Conference Fee Waiver, (2004, May), London. $174.97 (£100 conversion as of May 15, 2004).

Women in Science Program (WISP) Grant, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (2003, December 23), $500 to attend the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37).

Teaching Research Ethics Workshop, Poynter Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (2003, May 14-17), $300.

Travel Award to the Society for Research on Adolescents Bi-annual Conference, New Orleans (2002, April 11-14) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), $750.

Travel Award to the 2nd Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Minneapolis, MN (2001, October 10-14). Indiana University, School of Library and Information Science, $300.

Media Interviews

Interviewed and quoted in the Boston Globe, A window into their lives: For teenage girls, writing about their lives online is another way to stay connected with friends by Irene Sege, April 4, 2008.

Interviewed live on XM and ABC Radio's, the Satellite Sisters show, on teens, parents, and the internet, August 21, 2007. Audio download available.

Interviewed and quoted in the Back-to-school tips from Indiana University, July 16, 2007.

Interviewed and quoted in the Bloomington Herald-Times "Girls gone wired: Teens take innermost thoughts online" by Sarah Morin, July 7, 2005.

Publications

Book Chapters

Weems, M. E., White, C. J., Shelley, C., McHatton, P. A., Melina, L., deCarteret, P., Brown, R. N., Wyatt, J., Goode, J., Bond, T., & Scheidt, L. A. (2008). Heartbeats: Exploring the power of qualitative research expressed as Auto/Ethnograpic performance texts. In N. K. Denzin & M. D. Giardina (Eds.), Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence (pp. 270-287). Walnut Creek CA: Left Coast Press.

Herring, S. C., Scheidt, L. A.n, Kouper, I., and Wright, E. (2006). A longitudinal content analysis of weblogs: 2003-2004. In Tremayne, M. (Ed.), Blogging, citizenship and the future of media. London: Routledge. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/tremayne.pdf.

Scheidt, L. A. (2006). Adolescent diary weblogs and the unseen audience. In Buckingham, D. and Willett, R. (Ed.), Digital generations: Children, young people and new media. London: Lawrence Erlbaum. http://loisscheidt.com/linked/2006/Adolescent_Diary_Weblogs_and_the_Unseen_Audience.pdf.

Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Scheidt, L. A., & Wright, E. (2004). Women and children last: The discourse construction of weblogs. In L. J. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, & J. Reyman (Eds.), Into the blogosphere: Rhetoric, community, and culture of weblogs. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. .http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/women_and_children.html.

Scheidt, L. A. & Wright, E. (2004). Common visual design elements of weblogs. In L. J. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, & J. Reyman (Eds.), Into the blogosphere: Rhetoric, community, and culture of weblogs. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/common_visual.html.

Journal Articles

Herring, S. C., Scheidt, L. A., Wright, E., & Bonus, S. (2005). Weblogs as a bridging genre. Information, Technology, & People, 18(22), 142-171. http://www.blogninja.com/it&p.final.pdf.

Proceedings

Herring, S. C., Paolillo, J., Ramos-Vielba, I., Kouper, I., Wright, E., Stoerger, S., Scheidt, L. A., & Clark, B. (2007). Language networks on LiveJournal. In Proceedings of the Forty Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. http://www.blogninja.com/hicss07.pdf.

Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Paolillo, J., Scheidt, L. A., Tyworth, M., Welsch, P., Wright, E., & Yu, N. (2005). Conversations in the blogosphere: A social network analysis "from the bottom up". In Proceedings of the Thirty-eighth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. http://www.blogninja.com/hicss05.blogconv.pdf.

Herring, S. C., Scheidt, L. A., Bonus, S., & Wright, E. (2004, January). Bridging the gap: A genre analysis of weblogs. In Proceedings of the Thirty-seventh Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. http://www.blogninja.com/DDGDD04.doc.

Other Publications

Scheidt, L. A. (2009). Book Review: Jill Walker Rettberg, Blogging. New Media & Society, 11, 1262-1264.

Herring, S. C. and Scheidt, L. A. (2006, February 10). Doing gender in Computer-Mediated Communication: The blogosphere. Presented at Cyberworld Unlimited, Bielefeld Germany. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/bielefeld.ppt.

Scheidt, L. A. (2005, October 9). Teaching Hurricane Katrina. Presented at the meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Chicago, IL. http://loisscheidt.com/working_papers_archive/Informatics_and_Disaster.ppt.

2009

Scheidt, L. A. (2009, October 17). Drilling down: A look at the digital ways bloggers tell their personal stories. Presented at the School of Library and Information Science Doctoral Research Forum, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Scheidt, L. A. (2009, October 8). Genres of diary weblogs produced by adolescent males. Presented at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Milwaukee, WI.

2008

Scheidt, L. A. (2008, May 16). Terms of service agreements and research design. Presented at The Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL.

2007

Scheidt, L. A. (2007, October 20). Purposeful keyword searching: Using available tools to build an archive of adolescent blogs. Presented at Internet Research 8.0: Let's Play, Vancouver, CA.

2006

Herring, S. C., Clark, B., Kouper, I., Paolillo, J., Ramos-Vielba, I., Scheidt, L. A., Stoerger, S., and Wright, E. (2006, April 28). Linguistic diversity and language networks on LiveJournal. Presented at the meeting of the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference - Sunbelt XXVI, International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Vancouver, BC.

2005

Scheidt, L. A. (2005, November 20). The performativity of naming: Adolescent weblog names as a metaphor. Presented at the meeting of The Health of the Discipline, National Communication Association (NCA), Boston, MA. http://loisscheidt.com/working_papers_archive/The_Performativity_of_Naming.pdf.

Paolillo, J., Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Mercure, S., Scheidt, L. A., Welsch, P., and Wright, E. (2005, October 8). Conversation and connectivity in the blogosphere. Presented at the meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Chicago, IL. http://www.blogninja.com/aoir2005.brog.doc.

Scheidt, L. A.n (2005, September 24). Creating conversation by pressing a link: Which invitations do third-parties accept? (Poster). Presented at the meeting of the SLIS Ph.D. Conference, Bloomington, IN.

Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Mercure, S., Paolillo, J., Scheidt, L. A., Welsch, P., and Wright, E. (2005, February 18). Social network dynamics in the blogosphere. Presented at the meeting of the Sunbelt XXV, International Network for Social Network Analysis, Redondo Beach, CA.

Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Scheidt, L. A., and Wright, E. (2005, January 6). From the bottom up: A social network analysis of the "blogosphere". Presented at the meeting of the Hawaii International Conference on System Science, Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island, HI. http://loisscheidt.com/linked/2005/From_the_Bottom_Up.pdf.

2004

Scheidt, L. A. (2004, September 21). Addressing the unseen: The audience envisioned for adolescent diary weblogs. Presented at the meeting of the AoIR 5.0: Ubiquity, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), University of Sussex at Brighton, Brighton UK.

Wright, E. and Scheidt, L. A. (2004, September 18). Common visual design elements of weblogs (Poster). Presented at the meeting of the SLIS Ph.D. Conference, Bloomington, IN.

Yu, N., Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Paolillo, J., Scheidt, L. A., Tyworth, M., Welsch, P., and Wright, E. (2004, September 10). Visual analysis of weblog social networks (Poster). Presented at the meeting of the InfoVis Open House, Bloomington, IN.

Scheidt, L. A. (2004, July 27). Adolescent diary blogs and the unseen audience. Presented at the meeting of the Digital Generations: Children, Young People, and New Media, The Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, Institute of Education, University of London, London UK. http://loisscheidt.com/linked/2004/Adolescent_Diary_Blogs_and_the_Unseen_Audience_abstract.pdf.

Scheidt, L. A. (2004, July 15). The adolescent diary blog and its external audience: Who are posts addressing? (Poster). Presented at the meeting of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Mentee Workshop, Arlington, MD.

Scheidt, L. A. (2004, May 31). The adolescent diary blog and its audiences: An external focus. Presented at the meeting of the Console-ing Passions, The International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism, New Orleans. http://loisscheidt.com/linked/2004/An_External_Focus_abstract.pdf.

Scheidt, L. A. (2004, May 29). Buxom girls and boys in baseball hats: Adolescent avatars in graphical chat spaces. Presented at the meeting of the 54th Annual Conference, International Communication Association, New Orleans. http://www.slis.indiana.edu/research/working_papers/files/SLIS-WP-03-04.pdf.

Scheidt, L. A. (2004, April 8). "Dear blog:" A look at adolescent diary blogs and their audiences. Presented at the meeting of the SW/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, San Antonio, TX. http://loisscheidt.com/linked/2004/Dear_Blog_abstract.pdf.

Herring, S. C., Scheidt, L. A., Bonus, S., and Wright, E. (2004, January 6). Updatability, interactivity, community: Blogs as bridging genre. Presented at the meeting of the Hawaii International Conference on System Science, Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island Hawaii. http://www.blogninja.com/dg.abs.doc.

2003

Herring, S. C., Scheidt, L. A., Wright, E., and Bonus, S. (2003, October 16). Beyond the unusual: Weblogs as genre. Presented at the meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Toronto, Ontario. http://www.blogninja.com/air.abs.doc.

Scheidt, L. A. (2003, September 5). Does avatar use increase communicative events: Girls yes boys no. Presented at the meeting of the New Research for New Media, Minneapolis, MN. http://loisscheidt.com/linked/2003/Does_Avatar_Use_Increase_Communicative_Events_poster.pdf.

Scheidt, L. A. (2003, April 26). Brandon arl Vedas, The first online suicide: Does the news media have it right? Presented at the Computer-Supported Interaction Conference, Oxford, OH.

2002

Scheidt, L. A. (2002, April 19). Managing the flamingo: Politeness in an adolescent chatroom. Presented at the Computer-Supported Interaction Conference, Oxford, OH.

2001

Scheidt, L. A. (2001, October 12). Adolescent avatars in graphical chat spaces. Presented at the meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

2008

Scheidt, L. A. and Kouper, I. (Organizers). (2008, May 16). Applying and extending qualitative inquiry to internet research: Processes and techniques. Presented at The Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL.

2007

Scheidt, L. A. and Kouper, I. (Organizers). (2007, October 20). Stages of blog research: Designing methodologies, constructing samples, and dealing with human subjects issues. Presented at Internet Research 8.0: Let's Play, Vancouver, CA.

Kouper, I. and Scheidt, L. A. (Organizers). (2007, October 20). Behind the scenes: Methods for studying genres, content and structure of blogs. Presented at Internet Research 8.0: Let's Play, Vancouver, CA.

* indicates a new course developed.
** indicates a required/core course.
*** indicates a complete revision of a previously taught course.

Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus (IUPUC)

I101. Introduction to Informatics** *** (4 credits).
Evaluations: Final (pdf).

I101. Introduction to Informatics** (4 credits).
Evaluations: Final (pdf).

C180. Introduction to Interpersonal Communication* ** (3 credits).
Evaluations: Midterm & Final (pdf).

R110. Fundamentals of Speech Communication* ** (3 credits).
Evaluations: Midterm & Final (pdf).

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

I101. Introduction to Informatics** (4 credits).
Evaluations: Final (pdf).

I101. Introduction to Informatics* ** (4 credits).
Evaluations: Final (pdf).

IVYTech

IVYT 107. Professional Presence (1 credit) @ 2 sections
Evaluations: Pending

IVYT 104. Critical Thinking (1 credit)
Evaluations: Pending

Oakland City College

BUS 2xx. Introduction to Human Resources* ** (3 credits) [3 sections]

Master's
Committee Membership

Altom, T. (2006). The effect of think-aloud on timed performance in usability testing. Unpublished masters thesis, School of Informatics, IUPUI.

University, Indiana University

2008. Served as a Mock Interviewer, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington IN.

2008. Panelist, Indiana University, School of Education Research Colloquium - Research trends in cyberspace with Human Subjects: From avatars and MySpace to Facebook...and beyond, Bloomington, IN (March 19, 2008).

2003-2012. Student Representative to the Bloomington Campus Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects.

School-level service, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University (service home)

2001-2002. Webpage Coordinator, Doctoral Student Association.

2001. Coordinator, Doctoral Student Association.

School-level service, IUPUI

2005-2006. Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.

Service to the Profession

2010 Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award 2010, Review Committee Member

2009-Present International Association of Qualitative Inquiry, Collaborating Sites Steering Committee Member

2005-2006. ASIST SIG Blogs, Wikis, Podcasting Blog, Co-editor

2004-2006. IRB Narratives Project, Ethics Working Committee, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Data Collection Coordinator

2001-2004. "Adolescent's Online" Listserv, Founder and Moderator

Community Service

2005. Taught "Got Blog?" Workshop*, Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, IN, (July 19, 2005). Contact = 1.5 hours, 10 adult students.

2005. Taught "Got Blog?" Workshop*, Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, IN (July 6, 2005). Contact = 1.5 hours, 12 adolescent students.

2000-2002. Instructor, Senior Cybernet, Bloomington, IN.

Peer Review

Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Conference; Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference; Behavior and Information Technology (BIT); Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC) Conference; Education, Communication, and Information (ECaI) ; Feminist Media Studies (FMS); Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS) Conference (various tracks); International Communication Association (ICA) Conference; Journal of Communication; Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC); National Communication Association (NCA) Conference; New Media & Society (NMS); and Sex Roles.

Curriculum Vitae

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