Mentor: Dr. Romin Tafarodi
Associate Professor
Project Description
We are currently looking at how people converse and experience each other online and how this differs from face-to-face dialogue. Topics of focus include the expectations that people have of each other based on their social identities, the power of deliberation for finding common ground and developing consensus, and the potential of digital technologies to both widen and bridge social divides. This SROP position would involve qualitative coding of previously transcribed conversations.
Mentorship Statement
Mentoring is a richly personal, practical, and dialogical form of learning. Sadly, there is limited opportunity for undergraduate mentoring in today’s context of growing class sizes, asynchronous lectures, virtual learning, and too few supervised research positions. Mentoring in my lab would involve face-to-face meetings with me and members of my research group. Together, we would provide the SROP student with training in the interpretation and coding of transcribed conversations. My decision to participate in this program reflects my commitment to increasing the diversity of voices and sensibilities in our academic community.