Dr. Jorgenson joined the Communication faculty in 1996. Her research interests center on the meaning of work, work-life relationships and, recently, the use of visual methods in family communication research.

Undergraduate course offerings

• Communication and Working Life
• Family Communication
• Women and Communication

Graduate course offerings

• Communication and Working Life
• Family Communication
• Framing and Sense-Making in Social Life
• Gender in the Workplace

Representative publications

• Jorgenson, J. & Sullivan, T. (2009). Accessing children’s perspectives through participatory photo interviews. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 11(1), Art. 8.


• Nicholas, M., Bartesaghi, M. & Jorgenson, J. (2009). Between text and talk: Managing interaction in the IM interview. Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Comunication, 16, 3-4.


• Kuhn, T., Golden, A., Jorgenson, J., Buzzanell, P., Berkelaar, B., Kisselburgh, Kleinman, S. & Cruz, D. (2008). Cultural discourses and discursive resources for meaningful work: Constructing and disrupting identities in contemporary capitalism. Management Communication Quarterly, 22, 1, 162-171.


• Jorgenson, J. (2006). Seeing work-life from children’s standpoints. Electronic Journal of Communication/ La Revue Electronique de Communication 16, 3-4.


• Golden, A., Kirby, E. & Jane Jorgenson. (2006). Work-life research from both sides now: An integrative perspective for organizational and family communication. In C. Beck (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 30. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 143-195.


• Jorgenson, J. & Bochner, A. (2004). Imagining families through stories and rituals. Handbook of family communication A. Vangelisti (Ed.), Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 513-538.


• Steier, F. & Jorgenson, J. (2003). Ethics and aesthetics of observing frames. Cybernetics and Human Knowing, 10, 3-4, 124-136.


• Jorgenson, J. (2002). Engineering selves: negotiating gender and identity in technical work Management Communication Quarterly, 15, 3, pp. 350-380.


• Bird, S.E. & Jorgenson, J.(2002). Extending the school day: gender, class and the incorporation of technology in everyday life. Women and everyday uses of the Internet: Agency and identity M. Consalvo & S. Paasonen (Eds.), New York: Peter Lang, pp. 255-274.

Education

Ph.D., Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 1986.