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Annis Golden's Teaching and Research Interests:

My research focuses on how individuals negotiate their relationships with organizations, including both employee-employer relationships, and healthcare consumer-healthcare provider relationships. I am particularly interested in how these processes are shaped by new information and communication technologies.

• Organizational communication
• Health communication
• Communication and the management of work-life relationships
• Social effects of new information and communication technologies
• Discourse analysis
• Communication theory

Research Projects

• Overcoming Barriers to African American Women’s Reproductive Healthcare Seeking. African American women suffer significant disparities in disease incidence and health outcomes in relation to reproductive health, including HIV/AIDS, STIs, breast and cervical cancer. Small towns and cities, home to increasing numbers of African American women, present unique contextual challenges for reproductive health promotion: limited numbers of reproductive healthcare providers, difficulty in traveling to and from providers’ locations, and privacy concerns, in addition to lack of knowledge about preventive reproductive healthcare, and fear of discovering a health problem, which are faced by low income African American women more generally. This study will evaluate the impact of community-based education and transportation interventions on healthcare seeking, with the goal of identifying effective health promotion strategies that can be reproduced in similar settings and improving women’s health.
   
• Communication Among Healthcare Providers and Families of Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injuries in a Rehabilitation Setting. The project’s goal is to arrive at a better understanding of the range of problems that staff and families encounter in their interactions, and to identify interactional resources that might be useful in resolving them. The study will combine analysis of conversational interactions between staff and families with analysis of follow-up interviews.
  

Publications/Presentations

Articles

• Golden, A. G. (2009). Employee families and organizations as mutually enacted environments: A sensemaking approach to work-life interrelationships. Management Communication Quarterly, 22, 357-384.
• Kuhn, T., Golden, A. G., Jorgenson, J., Buzzanell, P., Berkelaar, B. L., Kisselburgh, L. G., Kleinman, S., & Cruz, D. (2008). Management Communication Quarterly, 22, 162-171.  Cultural discourses and discursive resources for meaningful work: Constructing and disrupting identities in contemporary capitalism.
• Golden, A. G. (2007). Fathers’ frames for childrearing: Evidence toward a “masculine concept of caregiving.” The Journal of Family Communication, 7, 265-285.
• Golden, A. G. & Geisler, C. (2007). Work-life boundary management and the personal digital assistant. Human Relations, 60, 519-551.
• Golden, A. G. & Geisler, C. (2006). Flexible work, time, and technology: Ideological dilemmas of managing work-life interrelationships using personal digital assistants. The Electronic Journal of Communication /La Revue Electronique de Communication, 16(3-4). Available http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/v16n34.htm
• Golden, A. G., Kirby, E. L., & Jorgenson, J. (2006). Work-life research from both sides now: An integrative perspective for organizational and family communication. In C. S. Beck (Ed.), Communication yearbook 30 (pp. 143-195). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Kirby, E. L., Golden, A. G., Medved, C. E., Jorgenson, J. & Buzzanell, P. M. (2003). An organizational communication challenge to the discourse of work and family research: From problematics to empowerment. Communication Yearbook 27.
• Golden, A. G. (2002). Speaking of work and family: Spousal collaboration on defining role-identities and developing shared meanings. Southern Communication Journal, 67(2), 122-141.
• Golden, A. G. (2001). Modernity and the communicative management of multiple role-identities: The case of the worker-parent. The Journal of Family Communication, 1, 233-264.
• Golden, A. G. (2000). What we talk about when we talk about work and family: A discourse analysis of parental accounts. The Electronic Journal of Communication, 10(3-4). Available http://www.cios.org/www/ejc/v10n3400.htm.

Chapters in Edited Collections

• Golden, A. G. (2009). The gendered paradox of efficiency in ICT mediated work-life interrelationships: Caring more about work while working in more care. In S. Kleinman (Ed.) The culture of efficiency. New York: Peter Lang.
• Golden, A. G. (2009). “This just isn’t working out”: Gender, technology, and work/family. In E. L. Kirby and M. C. McBride (Eds.) Gender actualized: cases in communicatively constructing realities. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.
  

Selected Conference Papers

• Golden, A. G. (2008). Understanding privacy concerns in accessing reproductive healthcare for low-income African American women in a small-town Setting: Intersections of organizational and individual identities and the social construction of public and private. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Montreal, May.
• Golden, A. G. (2007). The role of information and communication technologies in the management of organizational inclusion: Interaction, integration, and segmentation of work and personal-life. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, November.
• Golden, A. G. (2007). Understanding privacy concerns in accessing reproductive healthcare among low-income African American women in a small-town setting: The ecology of the individual-organization relationship. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender, Omaha, NE, October.
• Golden, A. G. (2006). Managing organizational inclusion: The influences of organizational identification, employee identity, and relationship partners. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX, November.
• Golden, A. G. (2006). Work-life management: Private and public dimensions and their implications for communication research. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX, November.
• Golden, A. G. (2006). Fathers’ frames for childrearing: Evidence toward a “masculine concept of caregiving.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX, November.
  # Golden, A. G. (2006). Reframing work and family conflict: Metaphors and dialectics of work and childcare in the discourse of working fathers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender, St. Louis, MO, October.
• Golden, A. G. (2006). New health information technology systems: Their representation in public discourse and potential for impact on patient-provider interaction. Presented to the Health Communication Division at the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Philadelphia, April.
• Golden, A. G. & Geisler, C. (2005). Work-life boundary management and the personal digital assistant: Practical activities and interpretative repertoires. A “Top Three Paper” presented to the Organizational Communication Division at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Boston, November.
• Golden, A. G. (2004). Moving forward/looking back: Paradoxes of the humanized organization. A discussion panel with Teresa M. Harrison, George E. Cheney, Dennis K. Mumby, Erika L. Kirby, Sarah J. Tracy, Angela C. Trethewey, Paige P. Edley,  Annika K. Hylmo, David Butts, Jennifer Bezek, Jennifer Dane, Lorraine Kisselburgh, Joshua Frye. Sponsored by the Organizational Communication Division at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, November.
• Golden, A. G. (2002). (Re)constructing Work-Family Research: From Problematics to “Communication in Action” A roundtable discussion with P. M. Buzzanell, J. Jorgenson, E. L. Kirby, C. E. Medved, D. L. Mumby, L. L. Putnam, C. Stohl, L. M. Turner, and R. L. West. Co-sponsored by the Organizational Communication Division and the Family Communication Division at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, November.
• Golden, A. G. (2001). Work and family: Toward a communication research agenda. A roundtable discussion with P. M. Buzzanell, B. Farley-Lucas, S. Ferris, K. Galvin, J. Jorgenson, E. L. Kirby, and C. E. Medved. Co-sponsored by the Organizational Communication Division and the Family Communication Division at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Atlanta, November.
• Golden, A. G. (2000). What we talk about when we talk about work and family: A discourse analysis of conversational accounts by working parents. Presented to the Family Communication Division at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Seattle, November.
• Golden, A. G. (1999). Speaking of work and family: Spousal collaboration in the discursive production of self-identity. Presented to the Ethnography Division at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, November.
• Golden, A. G. (1998). Public discourse and personal accounts: Work and parenting as a model for the private management of culturally contested meanings. Presented to the Family Communication Division at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, New York, NY, November.
• Golden, A. G. (1996). Together talking : The collaborative construction of worker-parent identities in dual earner couples. Presented to the Language and Social Interaction Division at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, San Diego, CA, November.
• Golden, A. G. (1996). Classical rhetoric and everyday conversation. Presented at the annual meeting of the New York State Speech Communication Association, Monticello, NY, October.
• Golden, A. G. (1995). Juggling work and parenting: Modernity and the communicative management of multiple roles. A “Top Four Paper” and “Top-Ranked Student Paper” presented to the Family Communica-tion Division at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, San Antonio, TX, November.
• Golden, A. G. (1994). Men and women, work and family: The communicative management of couples’ work in the transition to parenthood. Presented to the Interpersonal and Small Group Interaction Division at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, November.

Grants

• Golden, A. G., Principal Investigator, and Pomerantz, A. Co-Principal Investigator. (2009). Overcoming Barriers to African American Women's Reproductive Healthcare Seeking. Funded:  $1,325,322 (Total Direct and F&A) over 5 years by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (of the National Institutes of Health) as part of an Exploratory Centers of Excellence grant to the University at Albany’s Center for Elimination of Minority Health Disparities.
• Golden, A. G. (2009). University at Albany, Faculty Research Awards Program – Category B. Funded $2,500, with Anita Pomerantz. Communication Among Healthcare Providers and Families of Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injuries in a Rehabilitation Setting.
  

Professional Service

• Associate, Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities, University at Albany (www.albany.edu/cemhd).
• Faculty, the Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College (http://www.bioethics.org/)

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