[Interpretationandmethods] advice on job talks

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

Hmmm, I'm not sure that I have much advice.  I will say that I just  
gave a jobtalk, which was the hour long version of the 15 minute talk  
that i gave at last years conference.   The sole criticism was that  
some of the audience would have liked a model of the interaction  
between communities or publics and their interpretations of the  
policy appliances.  I take this as evidence that they wanted  
something that was a very clear diagram of what was happening, which  
I could have provided, but hadn't thought of providing.

Other than that, make sure you are clear about your theory/context,  
your evidence/interpretations, and your conclusions and then how your  
conclusions contribute to whatever the literature of the job is as  
advertised/discussed.  That's what I always want from a job talk, and  
usually people miss at least one of those.

My best advise after doing around 10 talks now is:  practice your job  
talk at least one time in your department, and go to any and every  
job talk you can find out about on your campus.  Speculation will get  
you in over your head, go to other departments job talks see what  
counts there, see who gets the offer.




On Nov 2, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Lara Rusch wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> A lot of advice is floating around my dept.'s grad list right now  
> about
> job talk presentations.
>
> I was wondering if anyone has particular advice or recommendations  
> for job
> talk presentations using interpretive methods? I'm sure I'm not the  
> only
> one wondering about this...
>
> Thanks!
> Lara Rusch
>
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jeremy hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)

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