Every tenure-line faculty member in the collected programs, through five lenses. Filters combine; counts update as you narrow.
Studies argumentation and communication design in digital society, including AI and accountable algorithmic systems, using discourse analysis, digital ethnography, and computational methods.
Teaches newspaper editing and reporting as managing editor of a student-staffed community newsroom, drawing on long metro newspaper experience.
Studies investigative news quality, ownership, and audience trust in local TV news using content analysis, experiments, and surveys.
Designs and studies strategic behavior-change communication on environmental, wildlife conservation, public health and food system issues, such as wildfire smoke protection.
Studies persuasion and campaigns involving social media in health and political communication, including humor as a reaction to fear appeals.
Studies language attitudes toward non-U.S. accents and how African immigrants negotiate racial identity in the U.S., using quantitative and qualitative methods.
Studies telenovelas, Turkish dramas, and the ties between melodrama, culture, and society, especially in Venezuela, through critical cultural studies and qualitative methods.
Studies risk perception and responses to campaigns that inform decisions about disaster preparedness, concussion reporting, and climate change, aiming to build theories of message design.
Studies leadership communication, organizational training and change, and learning processes, including feedback strategies that improve learning outcomes.
Holds an assistant professorship in media and communication; the department profile provides no research description.
Studies strategic political campaign messaging and political image repair and their effects on citizens, at the intersection of public relations and political communication.
Studies how places such as the National Mall become rhetorically constructed sites of public memory and fan pilgrimage, using rhetorical and qualitative methods.
Studies African cinema, Nollywood, and postcolonial writing to trace how globalization and digital culture reshape the production and circulation of African artistic forms.
Studies how journalists and newsrooms use social media and mobile devices, including newsroom social media policies and the influence of user-generated content on editorial decisions.
Studies how family members and partners communicate under stress and how it shapes relational, mental, and physiological health, using surveys, diaries, lab interactions, and biomarkers.
Studies how uncertainty drives information seeking and decision-making, developing the Theory of Motivated Information Management and a Chronic Uncertainty Framework for immigrant communities.
Studies advocacy, activism and community building in public relations, often on taboo or stigmatized issues, using qualitative, rhetorical and community-engaged methods.
Studies how documentary and participatory media mobilize publics for social change, combining rhetorical and cultural analysis with documentary production practice.
Studies mobile communication, infrastructures, platforms, and digital economies as systems that organize social and political life, drawing on media history and political economy.
Studies the science of science communication, examining how audience segments make meaning of science and environmental messages and why campaigns fail.
Studies rhetorical theory and historiography of empire and colonialism, political rhetoric, and social movements, including semicolonial rhetoric, through historical rhetorical analysis.
Studies how children, families, and vulnerable audiences process advertising and persuasive media, and develops media literacy approaches.
Studies how virtual reality, video games, social media, and virtual agents shape attitudes and behaviors in health, consumer, conservation, and education contexts.
Theorizes how media platforms in India and the United States empower civic protest and expression, integrating agenda-setting and agenda-melding concepts.
Studies how people use media to express themselves and participate in democratic life, combining social science with engineering and design perspectives.
Studies multimodal and multisensory interaction, such as gesture and the senses, in scientific laboratories and everyday technology use through ethnographic and ethnomethodological research.
Studies how young children comprehend and learn from educational media and technology, often in partnership with children's media producers and community groups.
Produces long-form narrative journalism and Spanish-language podcasting on Latin America, especially Peruvian politics and society, alongside fiction.
Studies how communication and persuasion shape attitudes, beliefs, and behavior, and designs interventions that promote health, science understanding, and beneficial policy.
Examines media technologies in US prisons and jails as terrains of repression and resistance, using media history and critical prison studies.
Studies cognitive and emotional effects of social media in persuasion, including alcohol marketing, digital aggression, online counterfeits, and attitudes toward nations.
Studies broadband policy, the digital divide, and rural connectivity in the United States using critical, qualitative methods and community-based broadband stories.
Makes biographical, experimental, and animated documentary films on artistic and historical figures such as Chopin, Cicero, and García Lorca.
Studies mass media history, including the history of local TV news, Spanish-language television, and presidential media relations, using historical methods.
Studies social influence across personal, relational, organizational, media, and public contexts, often synthesizing research through meta-analysis.
Studies reggae, Rastafari, Afrobeat and hip-hop performance cultures across the African diaspora, especially Jamaica and Ghana, through multimodal ethnography.
Studies how disabled and autistic young people and their families use mobile and digital media, examining the social, cultural, and health implications of communication technologies.
Studies public opinion, popular support for war, and news coverage using extreme-scale data science methods and cross-national comparative research.
Reports and produces international broadcast, investigative and documentary journalism, with a recurring focus on migration and Latin America.
Studies international and online journalism and the struggle for press freedom in Latin America, drawing on long professional practice and journalist training.
Studies science communication, emergent media and Indigenous storytelling, using creative multimedia to bridge Indigenous knowledge and science for civic engagement.
Studies how globalization, violence and new media technologies reshape citizenship and publicness, through critical analysis of Latinx and Latin American media, immigration and narcoculture.
Studies the persuasive effects of misinformation, native advertising, and climate disinformation and efforts to correct them, using qualitative and quantitative methods.
Traces how journalism's sociotechnical systems, platforms, algorithms and AI shape public life, combining science and technology studies with normative theory of press freedom.
Studies public engagement with science and environmental risks, including humor and incivility online, trust in information sources, and social media talk about climate.
Studies how political identity and gender are rhetorically constructed and contested in popular media, and how gender equity relates to democratic health.
Studies how violence, mortality, pain, and illness shape political subjectivity, drawing on performance studies, cultural studies, and queer and gender studies.
Studies sports, race, and media, focusing on Black athlete activism and the sport justice movement in the era of #BlackLivesMatter.
Examines the history and culture of visual and digital media, from documentary and experimental history in film, TV, and games to data visualization and surveillance, as a scholar-practitioner.
Studies relationships among religion, media, race, and technoculture, using interviews, textual analysis, digital ethnography, and text mining.
Studies cognitive, emotional, and physiological responses to televised sports and advertising, plus content analysis of sports commentary and food ads aimed at youth.
Studies web history, software, AI and visual culture, historicizing big data systems alongside time-travel media through historical and critical-interpretive analysis.
Studies writing instruction, including response to student writing, writing assessment, writing across the curriculum, literacy theory, and digital literacies.
Studies the music business and emerging music industry, entrepreneurship and technology, artificial intelligence and music, music production, and experiential learning.
Examines identity, voice and cultural representation in media and public spaces, including ethnographic work on Mexican American ethnicity and rhetoric of museums and memory.
Studies how journalistic practices such as errors, transparency, and AI use affect audience perceptions of news accuracy and credibility.
Studies how ethnic-specific strategic messages and stereotypes in media affect minority audiences, and how race and partisanship shape fears about interracial conversations on political issues.
Studies health misinformation and social media influence, building deep learning models to classify vaccine misinformation and designing counter-campaigns.
Teaches public relations, digital PR and social media strategy and coordinates a student PR agency; no specific research agenda is described.
Critically examines organized persuasion, public relations, and promotional culture, including the politics of environmentalism and nation branding.