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ARTICLES, PAPERS & COMMENTARIES:
Schaefer, D. J. (1997). Rethinking
online community: Making sense of an ideal speech situation. Unpublished
manuscript.
Schaefer, D. J. (1999). From community to community-ings: Making sense of electronic discussion groups. The Electronic Journal of Communication [On-line serial] 9 (2, 3, & 4).
Schaefer, D. J., & Dervin, B. (2001, July). Dialoguing in electronic public spheres: Reconceptualizing verbing as verbing micro-practices. Paper presented at the Rochester Intercultural Conference, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.
Schaefer, D. J., & Dervin, B. (2003, May). The constitution and distortion of electronic public spheres: A conceptual and empirical rethinking of online communication outcomes as verbing micro-practices. Paper presented at a non-divisional workshop held at the meeting of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA.
Schaefer, D.J. & Dervin, B. (2005, May). Online discussion groups, situation movement states, and dialogic quality: The potential for democratic electronic public spheres. Paper presented at International Communication Association annual meeting, New York City.
Dervin, B., Foreman-Wernet, L., Jansen, S. C., Schaefer, D., & Shields, P. (2001, May). Freedom is another word for nothing left to lose: On the inextricable necessity of theorizing <----> philosophizing in disciplining policy/practice. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Washington, DC.
Dervin, B., & Schaefer, D. J. (1998, March). Toward the communicative design of information design: A call for considering the communication implied in the mandate for information design. Paper presented at Vision Plus 4: The Republic of Information—An International Symposium on Design for Global Communication, Carnegie Mellon University, University Center, PA.
Dervin, B., & Schaefer, D. J. (1999). Peopling the public sphere. Peace Review, 11 (1), 17-23. Reprinted in: B. Dervin & L. Foreman-Wernet (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.). (2003). Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 341-348). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Dervin, B., & Schaefer, D. J. (2001). Beyond rhetorical and representational dialogue. Peace & Policy: Journal of the Toda Institute for Peace and Policy Research, 6, 29-33.
DISSERTATIONS & THESES:
Schaefer, D. J. (2001). Dynamics of electronic public spheres: Verbing online participation. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University. Advisor, Brenda Dervin.
MEETINGS, CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS:
Schaefer, D. J. (1999, May). Sense-Making
design for Web sites: Cyber-possibilities for an electronic public sphere. Paper presented at a non-divisional workshop held at the meeting of the International Communication Association, San Francisco.
Schaefer, D. J. (2003, May). Pedagogical Web sites, theory, and practice: The intersection of Sense-Making Methodology and online discussion groups. Paper presented at a non-divisional workshop held at the meeting of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA. (73 KB .pdf download).
Schaefer, D. J. (2005, May). Media Literacy and Singapore: Lessons from the Asian Context. Paper presented at a non-divisional workshop held at the meeting of the International Communication Association, New York City.