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Susan Catherine Herring (b. 1955) is an American linguist and communication scholar who researches gender differences in Internet use, and the characteristics, functions, and emergent norms associated with language, communication, and behavior in new online forms such associal media.[1][2][3] She is Professor of Information Science and Linguistics atIndiana University Bloomington, where she founded and directs the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication.[4] In 2013 she received theAssociation for Information Science & Technology Research Award for her contributions to the field ofcomputer-mediated communication.[5] She has been a fellow at theCenter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences atStanford University. Herring also founded and directed the BROG project.[6][7]
Susan Herring has aBachelor of Arts in French from theState University of New York at Potsdam, aMaster of Arts inLinguistics from theUniversity of California, Berkeley, and aPh.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991, with a dissertation entitled, "Functions of the verb in Tamil narration".[8][9] As part of her education, she studied several European languages at the Faculté des Lettres and the Institut de Touraine inTours, France, and conducted doctoral-dissertation research inMadurai, India, as aFulbright–Hays scholar.[8]
After serving as a graduate student Instructor in the French Department and the Linguistics Department at U.C. Berkeley in the 1980s, Susan Herring was appointed as an Instructor in the Special Languages Program atStanford University to teachTamil, the South Dravidian language she researched for her doctoral dissertation, in the spring of 1989. Following her appointment as an assistant professor in the English Department atCalifornia State University, San Bernardino, in 1989, Herring was promoted to associate professor in 1992. She then moved to theUniversity of Texas at Arlington, where she was an associate professor in the Linguistics Program from 1992 to 2000. She has worked atIndiana University since 2000 in the Department of Information and Library Science (formerly the School of Library and Information Science),[10] where she was promoted to professor in 2002. She also holds an adjunct professor appointment in the Indiana University Linguistics Department. She is a fellow in the Center for Research on Learning Technologies, a fellow in the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, and she directs the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication, which she founded in 2014, at Indiana University. In 2012–2013, she was a fellow at theCenter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.[8]
TheInternational Communication Association elected Herring Editor-in-Chief of theJournal of Computer-Mediated Communication in November 2004; she served in that capacity until December 2007. In January 2008, she was appointed Editor-in-Chief ofLanguage@Internet. She serves on 11 editorial and advisory boards, includingDiscourse & Communication;Discourse, Context & Media; theJournal of Computer-Mediated Communication;Linguistik Online;PeerJ Computer Science;Pragmatics & Beyond New Series;Pragmatics and Society;The Information Society; theLINGUIST List; and Writing Systems Research.[8]
