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Shrikant, Natasha

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  • I am a communication scholar with expertise in how everyday conversation is consequential for identity negotiation and community building. I use discourse analytic and ethnographic methods to understand how everyday conversation provides agency for participants to negotiate the larger scale processes and that shape their lived experiences. Current projects include analyzing the communicative constitution of misinformation via social media in Asian American communities and designing communication strategies to pre-empt misinformation.

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  • Discourse analysis, identity, culture, ethnography

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  • COMM 2400 - Discourse, Culture and Identities
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
    Considers how communication is central to constructing who people are and examines social controversies related to talk and identities. Students learn to analyze and understand discourse, defined as everyday talk and conversation, through the practice of discourse analysis.
  • COMM 3740 - Qualitative Research Methods
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022
    Learn to collect and analyze qualitative data (interviews, observations, focus groups) in order to answer research questions about communication and society. Focuses on research that investigates meaning, understanding, process, and interpretation in order to enhance our knowledge of human interaction. Recommended prerequisites: COMM 1210 and COMM 1600.
  • COMM 4220 - Senior Seminar: Functions of Communication
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Fall 2024
    Topical seminar on the functions of communication across interpersonal, group, organizational, and public contexts. Reviews current theory and research on topics such as communication and conflict, persuasion, and ethical dimensions of communication practices.
  • COMM 4950 - Senior Thesis: Honors
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018
    For exceptional communication majors who wish to graduate with department honors and receive credit for writing an honors thesis. For students accepted into COMN Honors program and currently completing COMN Honors Thesis project.
  • COMM 5435 - Readings in Community and Social Interaction
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2023
    Focuses on how everyday communication practices shape and are shaped by community contexts. Contains theoretical and empirical readings that illustrate how interactions among group members negotiate and maintain distinct communities and how group communication practices reflect shared norms among community members. Also reviews methods to study everyday interactions among community members (e.g., discourse analysis, qualitative coding, surveys and applied approaches/methods).
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