Curriculum Vitae


Email address: lscheidt@indiana.edu
Webpage: http://www.loisscheidt.com

Research and Teaching Interests
Adolescents in online venues, Computer-Mediated Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, virtual community, social network development, and Human Subjects Committees/Institutional Review Board policies as they relate to internet research.

Degrees

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

I have completed course work, and am scheduled to defend my qualifying paper Diary Weblogs as Genre on August 19, 2008.

Advisory committee:

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.


Academic Employment

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

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 and Grants
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

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.


Invited Presentations

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.


Presentations at Professional Meetings (via abstract submission)
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.

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.

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.


Panels Organized
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.


Courses Taught
* 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).

Oakland City College

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


Supervision of Dissertations and Theses
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 and School-level Service
University, Indiana University

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).

2003-2009. 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.


Professional Service Outside the University
Service to the Profession

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

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

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

Community Service

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

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 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); International Communication Association (ICA) Conference; Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC); New Media & Society (NMS); and Sex Roles.


Member in Professional Societies (in alphabetical order)
American Communication Association (2002 - present).
Association of Internet Researchers (2000 - present).
International Association of Qualitative Inquiry (2005 - present)
International Communication Association (2003 - present).

References

Available upon request.

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