Programs › Fort Collins, CO
Designs and studies strategic behavior-change communication on environmental, wildlife conservation, public health and food system issues, such as wildfire smoke protection.
Studies how political identity and gender are rhetorically constructed and contested in popular media, and how gender equity relates to democratic health.
Studies public engagement with science and environmental risks, including humor and incivility online, trust in information sources, and social media talk about climate.
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 local communities address wicked problems through public deliberation, collaborative decision-making and improved public communication in northern Colorado.
Studies race and ethnicity in American popular culture, East Asian and South Korean cinema, film censorship and regulation, and feminist film theory.
Studies the rhetoric of memory, place and materiality in everyday spaces such as museums, malls and suburbs, along with race, gender and Trump-era politics.
Studies film and television history and genres, including American TV, horror, omnibus films, fandom and transnational flows between Hollywood and South Korean cinema.
Examines the rhetoric of LGBTQ and queer public memory, including monuments, visual communication and the legacy of Nazi persecution for LGBTQ rights.
Studies the politics of gender representation in legal discourse, political communication and popular culture, including rhetorical analysis of judicial opinions.
Studies intercultural communication, international relations and global conflict, cultural memory, migration, and feminist perspectives on communication and leadership.
Studies public participation and deliberative democracy, focusing on the design and impact of community engagement programs such as the Citizens' Initiative Review.
Studies health and science communication, including messages for behavior change, citizen science on wildfire smoke and air quality, and media effects on youth views of science.
Studies news coverage and journalist behavior around major events, especially reporting on crime and tragedy victims, and television news and documentary production.
Studies identity and social interaction in virtual worlds, games and generative AI, using critical-cultural analysis, interviews, observation, surveys, experiments and game design.
Studies American television comedy, media industries and politics, including conservative comedians, Saturday Night Live archives and millennial masculinity.
Holds a professorship in journalism and media communication; the department profile provides no research description.
Studies how high reliability organizations such as fire departments communicate to protect member health and safety, respond to accidents, learn and use wearables.
Studies race, gender, disability and transnational mobility in digital media, including Black women travel influencers on Instagram, using qualitative social media research.
Studies media and democracy, linking news literacy with the sociology of media institutions and the historical development of communication policy.
Studies communication, culture and the natural world, such as stakeholder meanings of wildfire mitigation and online wilderness stories, using qualitative methods.
Studies the cultural politics of digital platforms, streaming services and media industries, including geoblocking and the global expansion of Spotify and Netflix.
Studies how communication in friendships and families, especially social support and informal caregiving, shapes health and well-being.
Studies the history of useful and workplace media, such as business television and educational film, and how ideas about the economy and small business circulate in US culture.
Studies rhetoric, sport and racial politics in the US, focusing on Black athlete activism, sports labor politics and racial capitalism.
Applies communication and persuasion theories to public relations and develops PR models, extending them to public diplomacy, crisis management and corporate reputation.
Studies strategic internal communication among organizations, leaders and employees, how it shapes trust and relationships, and the role of social media and generative AI.
Studies career and entrepreneurial organizing and gendered digital labor from feminist and decolonial perspectives, with work in the United States, China and Denmark.
Studies friendship and social connection and how communication technologies and modalities help people meet relational needs in the United States.
Studies the cognitive, attitudinal and behavioral effects of mediated communication in health, politics and children's educational television.
Studies advertising and media psychology, including problematic social media and video game use, synthetic media and AI, media leadership and ethical messaging.
Studies journalists' relationships with audiences, role conceptions and minority representation using textual analysis, ethnography, interviews and surveys.
Investigates how nineteenth-century American board games act as cultural artifacts that narrate national identity and the rhetorical power of design-based messaging.
Studies multimodal and visual storytelling in news and politics, including how visuals shape audience attitudes and how campaigns are portrayed in online news across countries.
Makes documentary films on science and social justice and works on participatory, community-based media production and migration and refugee stories.