Drexel University

Studies investigative and sports journalism, sourcing patterns, journalism history and the cultural history of fame through textual, narrative and ideological analysis.

Studies public relations strategies for organizational relationship and reputation management, including AI, social media and crisis storytelling, and strategic health messaging.

Studies how people converse and argue politically and morally in chatrooms and on Twitter, combining quantitative content analysis with qualitative discourse analysis.

Studies portrayals of violence against women and multilingual productions in television and streaming video, using multimodal discourse analysis of content and audience-producer dynamics.

Studies the commodification of culture and production of value, cultural change in American higher education, and how digital technologies and AI shape online learning interactions.

Studies emergent online practices, disinformation, inauthentic coordinated behavior and gendered interaction on social media, using mixed-method analysis of user-generated content across cultures.

Studies public relations, political and crisis communication, international negotiations and international news coverage, using political discourse analysis.

Studies data and computational journalism, the use of machine learning and automation in digital news, and the history of computational communication technologies.

Studies strategic communication including relationship, reputation and crisis management and CSR/CSA, plus science and environmental communication and audiences' emotional and cognitive responses.