Stephanie Hendrick                                      Umeå, Sweden

Education

2004 - Present:

•PhD Candidate in English linguistics

             Department of Modern Languages

             Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
2004:

•Awarded Wallenberg Scholarship

2004:

•Earned Masters degree in English linguistics

             Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

1995-2000:

•Bachelor of Arts, Secondary Education - Comprehensive Language Arts (English, drama, journalism)

             University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Articles

2008
        Intimacies and Arguments: The public negotiation of gender, power and presentation         across weblog community boundaries.

2006

“False identity: The interplay between ‘the other’ and the network in academic weblog networks.” Paper accepted. To be presented at Blogher, San Jose, CA 2006.

“Following Conversational Traces: Part 1: Creating a corpus with the ICWSM dataset” Paper accepted. To have been presented at the ICSWM conference,

2005

“The blends we blog by: How our conceptualization of the format shapes our weblog identity.” Presented at forensic linguistic mini-conference, Umeå University.

“In search for a virtual settlement: An exploration of weblog community boundaries.” Lilia Efimova and Stephanie Hendrick. Presented at AOIR, Chicago, IL 2005

2004

  “The blog as an immersive space: Moblogging Jokkmokk 2004” – Stephanie Hendrick and Therese Örnberg. Presented at BlogTalk 2.0, Vienna.            

“Issues of Identity in Disembodied, Non-Textual Virtual Spaces: Case Study: Traveler.”

Seminars

•Departmental Seminars

•HUMlab Presentation – Presentation of paper from conference, BlogTalk 2.0

•Presentation at Telematica Institute, Enschede, Netherlands – WIP paper and presentation of HUMlab

•Departmental opponent to WIP seminar based on the grammar theories of M.A.K. Halliday.

•Conducted a blogging and wiki workshop at the conference, Från vision till praktik:

      Språkutbildning och informationsteknik on blogging in education.

1. • “Machinima and digital story telling” at Världens Språkdag, September 29th, 2006.
   

2. •   Engelskans representant vid Upptäcksfärden, October 12th, 2006.
   

3. •   Representative of The department of Modern Languages and HUMlab at Culture Night’s Humaniora and IT.   “Bloggar stereotype könsroller och myten om anonymitet.”, May 18th, 2007.
   

4. •   “YouTubing the American Presidential Debate”, December 18th, 2007. HUMlab seminar series, 2007.
   

Conferences (not yet complete)

•Conference poster, HUMlab, Den teknologiska texturen: möten mellan humaniora och informationsteknik.

•Panelist in Bloggforum in Stockholm, spoke about blogging and social networking software in academia

Media Participation

•Professional presentation at SVIT05, spoke about using the Internet and blogging in the classroom.

•Appearance on Västerbottensnytt as a researcher of weblogs in response to the Lars Danielsson case.

•Panelist in Bloggforum 2.0 in Stockholm, spoke about mobile blogging and podcasting as a form of social networking.

•“Vi ses på nätet” Interviewed (among others) for article in Forskning och Framsteg, Nr.2, mars 2006)

•“Blogga dig till drömkroppen” Interviewed as “Blog Researcher” about the use of blogs as a form of therapy. Aftonbladet (141 XXXXX), Monday, May 21st 2007.

Affiliations

•PhD Student representative for the following committees:

oInternationaliseringskomitten ( Ordinarie, 2005, 2006) (Suppleant, 2007)

oHUMlab (Ordinarie, 2006, 2007)

oArbetsutskott (Suppleant, 2006) (Ordinarie, 2007)

oInstitutionensstyrelsen för moderna språk (Ordinarie, 2005, 2006, 2007)

oHumanistiska fakultetsnämnden (Suppleant, 2006) (Ordinarie 2007)

1. •Director  for the Humanities PhD Student Union (Humanistiska doktorandföreningen) (2007)
   

2. •Director for the PhD section of Umeå Student Union (Sektionen) (2008)
   

Misc.

•Taught blogging course for Umeå library sciences.

•Member of the organizing committee for the Doktorand Workshop for the Digital Interaction Research Network.

•Arranger and host to seminar speaker Hossein Derakhshan, ‘Den farliga politiska bloggen’

•Taught HUMlab short course – Blogging for beginners (3 times)

•Taught HUMlab short course – Podcasting

•Taught HUMlab short course, with Jim Barrett – Web 2.0

•Taught HUMlab short course, Networking Online: Tips, tools, pitfalls and popularity.

•Co-arranger and host of BlogWalk 5

•Co-arranger of Work-In-Progress seminar for doktorander at Umeå University, Humanities Department, June 2007.