Dr. Natalie Nelson-Marsh earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She also has two bachelor's degrees, in Communication and English Literature, from the University of Utah. Dr. Nelson-Marsh has been teaching in the Department of Communication at Boise State University since 2004. Her teaching specialties include organizational communication and culture, non-traditional organizing, communication and technology, the theory and philosophy of communication, and qualitative research methods. One of her current research projects includes a qualitative study of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the virtual organization responsible for the continued development of the Internet infrastructure. Dr. Nelson-Marsh is an active participant in the Western States Communication Association, the National Communication Association, and the International Communication Association. She is a reviewer for Management Communication Quarterly Journal, and Culture and Organization Journal, and in 2010 was an invited reviewer for the Charles Redding Dissertation of the Year Award, an award of the International Communication Association which was awarded, in 2007, to her dissertation titled "Reconsidering the Conceptual Relationship between Organizations and Technology: A Study of the Internet Engineering Task Force as a Virtual Organization".
Articles
COMMUNEcation: A Rhizomatic Tale of Participatory Technology, Postcoloniality and Professional Community (with Kirsten J. Broadfoot and Debashish Munshi), New Media & Society (2010)
This article explores our experiences in creating and participating with(in) a virtual conference organized as...
A Mosaic of Visions, Daydreams, and Memories: Diverse Inlays of Organizing and Communicating From Around the Globe, Management Communication Quarterly (2008)
This collaboratively multiauthored essay presents diverse tales of organizing and communicative practices in our...
COMMUNEcating in the Spaces In-Between: Creating New Understandings of Organizing and Communicative Practice Around the Globe (with Kirsten J. Broadfoot and Debashish Munshi), Management Communication Quarterly (2008)
This essay describes the authors' efforts to engage disciplinary calls for greater diversity through...
Reengineering Identity: A Case Study of Multiplicity and Duality in Organizational Identification (with Timothy Kuhn), Management Communication Quarterly (2002)
Recent theoretical work in organizational identification has developed two themes: that members of complex organizations...
Contributions to Books
Gaming the System: Ethical Challenges in Innovative Organizations, Case Studies in Organizational Communication: Ethical Perspectives and Practices (2012)
Virtual Matters: Exploring the Communicative Accomplishment of Virtual Work and Virtual Ethnography, Virtual Work and Human Interaction Research (2012)
Recent research highlights the complexity of virtual work and calls on researchers to examine virtual...
The Strategic Use of "Distance" Among Virtual Team Members: A Multi-Dimensional Communication Model (with Paul M. Leonardi and Michele Jackson), Virtual and Collaborative Teams : Process, Technologies and Practice (2004)
Distance, in the context of virtual teams, has traditionally been treated as an unproblematic, in...
Presentations
Ambiguity and Abstraction: Exploring the Contestation of Boundary Objects and the Modality of Communication (with Michele H. Jackson), 'What is an Organization? Materiality, Agency and Discourse' Preconference: International Communication Association Meeting (2008)
(Inter)actively Connecting: The Communicative Constitution of the National Communication Association as a 'Virtual' Organization, 92nd Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association (2006)