Junck Colloquium with Adam Saffer

Adam Saffer, Ph.D., will discuss communication networks in the latest Mary Junck Research Colloquium talk Friday, March 6 in Curtis Media Center 201-202.

We will serve lunch at 11:45 a.m., with the talk, “Networks of Attention: Domain Crossing, Identity and Emergent Publics,” to follow at noon. We request that attendees register below to help with food planning.

Speaker

Adam J. Saffer is an associate professor of strategic communication at the University of Minnesota and former UNC Hussman faculty member. As a communication network researcher, Saffer takes a sociological approach to questions about how individuals, groups, and organizations use and are influenced by communication networks.

His main area of research has gathered primary relational data from international networks to reveal the underlying mechanisms that influence the likelihood of connections forming among NGOs, government agencies and private firms as they collectively address issues. Saffer’s more recent work studies how the social ties individuals activate in response to messages or events influence their identities, opinions and behaviors.