Interests: My research interests focus on the complex social dynamics of collective identity and organization creation, how inclusion is attained within organizations, and the phenomenon of wonder, each with an eye to how we imagine and create the future. I am particularly interested in the relationship between micro-social action and macro outcomes, mediated/unmediated experience, and extreme and unusual contexts and draw on both interpersonal and digital means of exploring phenomena.
Methods & Techniques: Grounded theory, netnography, field work, interviews, focus groups, survey design, usability studies, mixed method and multi-modal (visual, symbolic, and textual) analysis using social media data.
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
2021-22, NOA-AGEP Graduate Coach/Graduate Research Fellow, Facilitating the Acquisition of Conflict Competencies for STEM PhD Students and Post Docs: A Qualitative Field Study
2018-19 and 2020-21, Freedman Student Fellow, Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Kelvin Smith Library
MANUSCRIPTS ACCEPTED
Sweitzer, S.C. Motorcycles, Mindgasms & Meaning: Navigating the Blind Curves of Digital Scholarship
Status: Chapter accepted for publication for Revealing Meaning: Feminist Methods in Digital Scholarship (Eds. Martin, K. and Froehlich, H.)
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Jané, S.E., Sweitzer, S.C., Bilimoria, D. Inclusion and Exclusion (Title Withheld for Blind Review)
Status: Under review at Academy of Management Review (4*)
PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS
Sweitzer, S. C. (Accepted for July 2023). “The visual imagination of collective identity on Instagram (Paper Presentation). European Group for Organisational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2023. Virtual. Sub-theme 41: Imagination and Language: The Poetics of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Becoming
Sweitzer, S. C. (Aug 2022). “#GirlsWhoRide: Social Media Affordances-In-Practice and Their Role in Organization Creation” (Paper Presentation). Academy of Management Conference 2022, Seattle, WA.
Sweitzer, S. C. (Oct 2021). “The Role of Social Media Images in Emergent Identity Construction.” (Doctoral Student Consortium Paper). Association of Internet Researchers Conference. Virtual.
Jané, S. E., Sweitzer, S. C., Bilimoria, D. (2021). Perceptions of Group Membership: Bringing Intentionality to the Forefront of Inclusion and Exclusion* (Paper Presentation). Academy of Management 2021. Virtual.
*Nominated for “The Phillips and Nadkarni Award for Outstanding Paper on Diversity and Cognition” by the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division
Jané, S. E., Sweitzer, S. C., Bilimoria, D. (2021). The Social-Symbolic Work of Constructing a Radically Inclusive Organization (Paper Presentation). European Group for Organisational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2021. Virtual.
Sweitzer, S. C. (2021). Digitally-mediated practices of online and offline organization creation (Paper Presentation). European Group for Organisational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2021. Virtual.
Sweitzer, S. C. (2021). A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Incorporating Instagram Images and Captions into Small Story Analysis. (Paper Presentation). International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Virtual/Champaign, IL.
Sweitzer, S. C. (2020). A wonder-full Antidote to Anxiety: A Virtual Exchange of Experiences. Quantum Storytelling Conference. Virtual.
Sweitzer, S. C. (2019). “Dynamics of Organizational Emergence in the Digital Age.” Up Close and Personal: Ethical Social Media Research in a Distant and Big Data World (Symposium Paper). Association for Computers and the Humanities Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
RESEARCH TALKS
Sweitzer, S. C. (2019). “Dynamics of Accidental Organization Formation in the Digital Age.” Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship Research Showcase, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Jané , S. E. and Sweitzer, S. C. (2019), “I’d rather earn it on my own”: Exploring the Mechanisms of Inclusion. (Paper Workshop) Western Academy of Management, Rohnert Park, CA.
Sweitzer, S. C. (2019) “A Sense of Wonder: From Idiosyncratic Trait to a Capacity that Can Be Developed” (Doctoral Student Consortium Paper Workshop) Western Academy of Management, Rohnert Park, CA.
Sweitzer, S. C. (2018) “Wonder and Self-Concept: From an Idiosyncratic Trait to Something We May Train Ourselves to Embody.” Ethics/Morals Table Chat-n-Chew, Beamer-Schneider Professorship in Ethics, Cleveland, Ohio.
GUEST LECTURES
Images, Algorithms & Instagram: Reinforcing and Breaking Gender Stereotypes Online, for undergraduate course on Society and Media, University of Southern Denmark, 2021
Social Media Research: The Ethics of Studying Digital Social (Inter)Actions, for undergraduate course on Interrogating Information: Research and Writing for a Digital Public, Case Western Reserve University, 2021
The Power of Perspective Taking: Framing & Worldviews, for undergraduate and master’s level leadership courses, Case Western Reserve University, 2019
The Art of Organizational Navigation, for graduating MBA class, University of Utah, 2020, 2021