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Nancy Baym

Nancy Baym is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas, where she teaches in the areas of New Communication Technology and Interpersonal Communication. Her research focuses on the internet, addressing issues such as the role of language use in creating identities, relationships and communities. She also conducts comparative research placing the internet relative to other communication channels in everyday social interaction. She is the author of Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom and Online Community (Sage, 2000) and the editor of a a forthcoming special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication/Revue Electronique de Communication titled The Interpersonal Internet. She received her Ph.D. in Speech Communication from the University of Illinois in 1994.

Keywords:
Internet, online interaction/computer mediated communication, interpersonal communication, nonverbal communication, identity, relationship, community, ethnography (of speaking)