Dr. Güney is a faculty member in the Department of Informatics and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Technology in Government. You can learn more about this interdisciplinary program at http://www.albany.edu/cci/informatics/about.shtml or Dr. Güney's research at http://www.ctg.albany.edu.

• Teaching and Research Interests
• Research Projects
• Publications/Presentations
• Other Professional Activities
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Senem Güney's Teaching and Research Interests:

• Communicative practices and technology use in interorganizational collaboration, field research methods, discourse analysis

Publications/Presentations

Book chapters

• Güney, S. (2006). Making sense of a conflict as the (missing) link between collaborating actors. In F. Cooren, J. R. Taylor & E. J. Van Every (Eds.), Communication as organizing: Empirical and theoretical explorations in the dynamics of text and conversation (pp. 19-35). Mahway, NJ: LEA.

Published conference proceedings

• Güney, S., Browning, L. D., & McDaniel, R. R., Jr. (2003). Coping with complexity in the management of technology development. Paper presented at the Fourth Annual IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies Conference, Austin, Texas.
• Güney, S., Browning, L. D., & McDaniel, R. R., Jr. (2002). Managing complexity in technology development: Planning as an act of improvisation. Paper presented at the Third Annual IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies Conference, Austin, Texas.

Conference presentations

• Güney, S. (2008, May).  Texts and collaborative organizing: A new angle for examining the constitutive role of texts in organizational life.  Presented at a pre-conference of the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Montreal, Canada.
• Güney, S. (2006, November). Organizational identity-in-practice as a dynamic structure for collective action. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas.
• Güney, S. (2006, August). A case for complex representation of complex action in organizational research. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Georgia.
• Taylor, J., Güney, S., & Raymond, D. (2006, June). Immutable mobiles and organizational communication research. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany.
• Güney, S. (2005, November). Discursive construction of collective identity between collaborating organizations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Güney, S. (2005, May). The interplay between theory and method: Complex adaptive systems and ethnography. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New York City, New York.
• Güney, S. (2005, May). Making sense of a conflict as the (missing) link between collaborating actors. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New York City, New York.
• Güney, S., Ing, D., & Simmonds, I. (2004). Plans, organizational identity, and mediating spaces in inter-organizational relations. Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Systems Thinking in Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Güney, S. (2001). Organizational life in an emergency room: Humor as a sensemaking mechanism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Washington D.C.
• Güney, S. (2001). Building (new) bridges between the theory and practice of teamwork: How can the framework of distributed cognition contribute to the study of multidisciplinary teams in health care?. Paper presented at the meeting of Health Communication Scholarship and Careers: A Conference for Graduate Students, College Station, Texas.
• Güney, S. (1997). Multiple frames in everyday interaction. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, Illinois.

Other Professional Activities

Grants and fellowships

• Research Stipend from the IBM Center for the Business of Government, Washington, D.C.  Awarded to S. Güney, to start a longitudinal study of interorganizational collaboration among governmental, educational, and industrial partners for high-technology innovation at Albany Nano Tech, for the academic year of 2006-2007.
• IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies Faculty Award to support collaborative research between IBM organizations and academic programs. Awarded to D. V. Gibson, L. D. Browning, and S. Güney. May, 2001-December, 2002.
• William & Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellowship for The University of Texas faculty to develop teamwork based curricula for undergraduate courses. Awarded to J. K. Streeck and S. Güney, June 1998-January 1999.

Honors

• Distinguished Service Award, Department of Communication Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998-1999.
• Outstanding First Year M.A. Student, Department of Communication Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995-1996.

Links to websites related to research

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