Doerfel, M. L., & Connaughton, S. L. (2005, May). The semantic structure of competition: Election year winners and losers in U.S. televised presidential debates, 1960-2004. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the International Communication Association, New York, NY.

Diao, F., & Doerfel, M. L. (2005, October). Technology adoption and emergent organizational structures: Implementing an email system at a local municipal government. Paper presented at the annual convention of the Association of Internet Researchers, Chicago, Il.

Connaughton, S. L., & Doerfel, M. L. (2006, May). When organizational members choose to exit: Communication networks, identification, and intent to leave. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany.

Vasilyeva, A., & Doerfel, M. L. (2006, May) Psychological orientation, identification, and communicator styles and the shaping of employee social networks. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany.

Keeler, T. L., & Doerfel, M. L. (2008, January). Creativity, proximity, and centrality: Entrepreneurial use of social media for business recovery. Paper presented to the Sunbelt annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, St. Pete Beach, FL.

Doerfel, M. L., Lai, C., Keeling, A., Keeler, T. L., & Barbu, D. (2007, May). The communication structure of recovery: Post-Katrina New Orleans inter organizational networks. Paper presented to the International Communication Association, Montreal.

** Top Paper in Organizational Communication by the Organizational Communication Division of ICA.

Chewning, L. V., Lai, C-H., & Doerfel, M. L. (2010, November). Organizational resilience following disaster: A longitudinal view of ICT use to rebuild communication structures. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the National Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.

Taylor, M., & Doerfel, M. L. (2011). Examining the interorganizational relationships that build a city’s social capital: Evidence from Zagreb, Croatia. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011

Doerfel, M. L., & Haseki, M. (2012, November). Building Interorganizational COMMunity During Disaster: Social Media Use, Social Networks, and Public Relations Management. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the National Communication Association, Orlando, FL.

**Paper awarded Top-2 Research Paper by the Public Relations division of NCA.

Doerfel, M. L. (2013, June). Disasters as punctuated equilibrium: Chance for change or not a chance. Participant on panel, Disaster and emergency communication around the globe: Opportunities for organizational communication research, held at the annual meetings of the International Communication Association, London, UK.