Yup - The Comm department has been around for a while.
I took an Organizational Communication class in the Communications department from Everett Rogers in the 80s. Rogers later got credit for mapping the diffusion of innovations and coining terms such as "Early Adopters" that are now a common part of the Silicon Valley lexicon.
I remember how excited he was about the emerging silicon valley corporate culture. I remember being highly amused when he was looking at how organizational research was done in the past and how that would soon all be up ended. In those days Journals and Published papers used methodologies such as tracking paper memos and interoffice envelopes to see who communicated with whom in American corporations. Yup, you heard right - TRACKING PAPER MEMOS and INTEROFFICE ENVELOPES! Hah - That game was over.
Thank God for the coming of e-mail.
I took an Organizational Communication class in the Communications department from Everett Rogers in the 80s. Rogers later got credit for mapping the diffusion of innovations and coining terms such as "Early Adopters" that are now a common part of the Silicon Valley lexicon.
I remember how excited he was about the emerging silicon valley corporate culture. I remember being highly amused when he was looking at how organizational research was done in the past and how that would soon all be up ended. In those days Journals and Published papers used methodologies such as tracking paper memos and interoffice envelopes to see who communicated with whom in American corporations. Yup, you heard right - TRACKING PAPER MEMOS and INTEROFFICE ENVELOPES! Hah - That game was over.
Thank God for the coming of e-mail.
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