COMMUNEcating in the Spaces In-Between: Creating New Understandings of Organizing and Communicative Practice Around the Globe
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2008
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0893318908323573
Abstract
This essay describes the authors' efforts to engage disciplinary calls for greater diversity through the construction of an international online community and conference, COMMUNEcation. They describe the commitments and goals of the community and conference, the construction of the COMMUNEcating space, and their encounters with disciplinary, geographically, and linguistically diverse scholars in their mutual exploration of global and organizing practices in their local contexts. The conference contributions and conversations prompted the authors to ask three salient questions around scholarly understandings of the Other and Othering practices of organizing and communicating across the globe—Where is the Other? Who is the Other? and What is the Other? The second half of the essay discusses these questions in detail and concludes with the authors' reflections on creating “spaces inbetween” through technology and an introduction to the multiauthored collaborative essay and conference product from the Scholars of the COMMUNEcation Network that follows.
Publication Information
Nelson-Marsh, Natalie; Broadfoot, Kirsten J.; and Munshi, Debashish. (2008). "COMMUNEcating in the Spaces In-Between: Creating New Understandings of Organizing and Communicative Practice Around the Globe". Management Communication Quarterly, 22(2), 313-321.