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Department e-newsletter:
May 2008

School of Arts and Performance

NEWS EVENTS

Where are our alumni now?

Jared Smith '08
Binghamton Press Sun-Bulletin, NY

Dan Smith '94
R-News, Rochester, NY

Crystal Smith '07
ESPN, Bristol, CT

Candace Smith '02
PR Firm, Myrtle Beach, SC

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Alex Lyon

Assistant Professor


Education: Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder
M.A. California State University Northridge
B.A. Rhode Island College
Area of Specialty: Organizational Communication
Research Interests: Culture, Power, Social, Cultural, and Intellectual Capital
Publications:

Lyon, Alexander, & Chesebro, Joseph (in press). The Politics of Knowledge: A Critical Perspective on Organizational Knowledge. In Heather Canary & Robert McPhee (Eds.), Communication and Organizational Knowledge: Contemporary Issues for Theory and Practice. NY: Routledge.

Lyon, A. & Ulmer, Robert R. (2010). Ethics in “Big Pharma”: Communicating the Risks of Medicine. In Case Studies for Organizational Communication (3rd ed.). Joann Keyton & Pam Shockley-Zalabak Eds. Los Angeles: Roxbury.

Lyon, A. (2008). The Mis/recognition of Enron Executives’ Competence as Cultural and Social Capital. Communication Studies, 59, 371-387.

Lyon, A. (2007). "Putting Patients First": Systematically Distorted Communication and Merck's Marketing of Vioxx. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 35, 376-398.

Lyon, A. (2006). The Difficulties of Virtual Leaders. In J. Keyton & P. Shockley-Zalabak (Eds.), Case Studies for Organizational Communication: Understanding Communication Processes. Oxford University Press.

Lyon, A. (2005). 'Intellectual Capital' and Struggles over the Perceived Value of Members' Expert Knowledge in a Knowledge-Intensive Organization. Western Journal of Communication, 69, 251-271.

Lyon, A. (2004). Participants' Use of Cultural Knowledge as Cultural Capital in a Dot-com Start-up Organization. Management Communication Quarterly, 18, 175-203.

Deetz, S., Grim, A & Lyon, A. (2003). Communicative praxis and collective decision making. In R. E. Ramsey & D. Miller (eds.), Experiences between philosophy and communication: Engaging the philosophical contributions of Calvin O. Schrag (pp. 55-72). Albany: State University of New York Press.

Awards:

2009 "Top Paper" award for NCA’s Organizational Communication Division. Co-authored with Julien Mirivel.

2006 "Top Four Paper" award for the Western Communication Association’s Organizational Communication Interest Group.

Administrative Roles Coordinator of Graduate Studies
E-mail: alyon@brockport.edu
Office Holmes 229
585-395-5772