Department e-newsletter:
May 2008
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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 |
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| 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 |


