Programs › Bloomington, IN
Studies African cinema, Nollywood, and postcolonial writing to trace how globalization and digital culture reshape the production and circulation of African artistic forms.
Builds immersive audio and extended-reality technologies, from networked musical co-creation and data sonification to technology-mediated K-12 experiential learning.
Studies the economies and markets of video games and social media from an economics perspective, including damages questions in legal cases.
Studies how new and social media reshape interactions among sports consumers, media, and sports organizations, including fan content creation and sports journalism.
Studies the material lives of technological artifacts, from design history to video game history and preservation, through archival, museum, and object-centered research.
Studies employee and stakeholder engagement, organizational listening, employee voice and dissent, and public trust in organizations, developing conceptual models of strategic communication.
Studies the history, law, economics, and policy of technology platforms, including a geopolitical and legal history of how Soviet-born Tetris entered Western markets.
Studies African, Caribbean, Latin American, and Black diasporic cinemas as practices of decolonization, migration, and redress through critical and historical analysis.
Studies the social and psychological effects of media on youth, including relationally aggressive portrayals, media violence, and children's self-esteem and body image.
Studies gender, globalization, and postcolonial media in South Asia from a feminist cultural studies perspective, using qualitative and audience research methods.
Theorizes information and communication technologies, especially universal access, network development, and how metaphors and values shape our imagination of the Internet.
Studies cultivation, cultural indicators, and media effects on public opinion, focusing on science and environmental communication, including LLM-assisted content analysis of climate news.
Creates films, plays, and sound works exploring mental illness, memory, trauma, and adolescence, spanning screenwriting, scoring, and media production.
Makes documentary and multimedia work examining false memory and contaminated beliefs in the criminal justice system and documentary's own role in shaping memory.
Studies health communication and media effects from a media psychology and audience-analysis perspective, with federally and privately funded research programs.
Creates video installation, BioArt, and EcoArt works that combine archival, microscopic, and digital imagery to explore grief, memory, and ecological decay.
Studies public relations ethics, corporate social responsibility and sociopolitical advocacy, and reputation and relationship management through theory-driven strategic communication research.
Uses archival research to study the history of film and moviegoing in Native American and African American life in the nineteenth and twentieth-century United States.
Studies how professional norms and economic pressures shape news production, especially the century-long history of environmental journalism and local news ecosystems in the U.S.
Examines media screens as infrastructure and environment across transnational and urban geographies, with a focus on inter-Asian, Japanese, and Chinese screen media and video art.
Analyzes media law and policy, especially legal protection of journalists' sources, the right to anonymous speech, and rationales for free expression online and internationally.
Applies motivated cognition theories to how audiences process and remember mediated messages, analyzing television news and comedic news as sources of political information.
Studies agenda-setting, framing effects, and journalistic decision-making in political communication, drawing on political psychology and research methodology.
Studies journalism practice past and present, including the professionalization of journalism, prize culture, investigative reporting, and freedom of information, using historical and survey research.
Analyzes Black cinema and popular culture, from Blaxploitation to Black horror, in relation to racial discrimination and resistance in American film history.
Studies how media choice and exposure shape cognitive and emotional responses in sports and entertainment contexts, and evaluates large-scale opioid and tobacco health campaigns.
Uses framing analysis of health news to study responsibility and blame, public support for health policy, and AIDS messaging for African Americans.
Studies the history and theory of documentary and nonfiction film, especially films of revolutionary nation-building in the USSR, Yugoslavia, and Cuba.
Studies citizens' trust in and uncertainty about journalism and public institutions, including journalistic transparency, satirical news, and cross-national perceptions of news value.
Studies the history and culture of media technologies in everyday life, especially interfaces like buttons and screens, wearables, and body-technology relationships.
Studies film historiography of queer and gay male life, independent and underground cinema, film exhibition and counterpublics, and cinematic sound.
Works in advertising and strategic communication; the profile describes professional background rather than specific research topics.
Studies health risk and crisis communication around Ebola, COVID-19, and malaria vaccines in Ghana and Liberia, using qualitative methods and cross-national survey comparisons.
Studies the interpersonal, mental well-being, and learning benefits of video games and interactive media from a media psychology perspective.
Studies why people consume violent and morally charged media and how it affects them, using meta-analysis, psychophysiology, self-report, and content analysis.
Studies science and environmental communication involving Indigenous peoples, using ethnography and interviews in newsrooms and agencies plus surveys and experiments on audiences.
Studies luxury marketing and fashion consumer behavior on social media, examining how sustainability, artificial intelligence, and body image shape consumer culture.
Studies how platform-centric media and technology-driven information ecosystems reshape news engagement, trust in the press, and misinformation's threat to democratic values.
Uses critical-cultural and sociological approaches to examine race, gender, and class in lifestyle and fashion media discourses, activism, and political polarization.
Studies how smartphone and social media use affect adolescent well-being and mental health, combining surveys, smartphone data, wearables, and digital biomarkers.
Writes and directs narrative feature films in English and Japanese that blend live action, tokusatsu effects, and animation.
Critically examines how power and ideology operate through sport and sports media, studying social movements such as Know Your Rights Camp through collaborative case research.
Studies human-AI interaction and AI-mediated communication in advertising, examining responses to generative AI and LLMs with experimental and computational methods.