Kent State University

Teaches public relations, digital PR and social media strategy and coordinates a student PR agency; no specific research agenda is described.

Studies algorithmic news recommender systems, partisan news and political polarization, political information processing, health communication and user experience design.

Studies journalism education, scholastic journalism, young people's media practices and information literacy.

Studies social support, health literacy and religiosity in health contexts, including family communication and parents' COVID-19 vaccination intentions.

Focuses on public relations education and digital public relations, integrating web and social media strategy into PR curricula.

Studies media uses and effects, free speech law and media regulation, sports communication, and the role of YouTube and social media in political campaigns.

Studies the intersection of interpersonal and mediated communication, especially how people use media for interpersonal purposes.

Studies older adults' identity, intergenerational and intergroup communication, elder abuse in family caregiving, and political identity and partisan media use.

Studies literary journalism and the digital evolution of magazines, including audience reception of digital long-form journalism.

Focuses on digital public relations, digital analytics, social media strategy and crisis communication.

Studies uses and effects of emerging media such as social media, virtual reality and esports, cross-platform media behavior during mega sporting events, and media management.

Studies health communication across settings, focusing on how disenfranchisement, power and resistance shape health decision-making.

Studies intercultural and gender communication and Chinese political communication, including state legitimacy discourse, environmental rhetoric and U.S. media portrayals of other nations.

Uses qualitative interviews and participant observation to study health inequality among marginalized populations, focusing on end-of-life care, HIV/AIDS and substance abuse.

Works in multimedia journalism, photojournalism and documentary studies.

Works in sound design, screen composition and film and television production as a creative practitioner.

Studies the psychological and emotional effects on journalists of covering traumatic news, including post-traumatic stress, compassion fatigue and emotional labor.

Uses media ethnography to study Middle Eastern and Turkish media, global media industries and how mediated identities negotiate nationalism and globalization.

Studies how public relations is portrayed in media, popular culture and publicity campaigns, and researches health messaging.

Studies how parent-child communication and parental mediation strategies can reduce advertising's effects on children's materialism, and consumer communication among college students.

Studies how newsroom managers handle online challenges, legacy newsroom transformation, startup news sites, reader comments and unpublishing requests.

Studies how media use for political information shapes partisanship and political discussion with in-group and out-group members, and consumer communication among college students.

Studies mass and political communication across news, film, infotainment, fandom, political social media use and conspiracy-theory-oriented media.

Studies ICT adoption, the digital divide and social change, including post-revolution Tunisia and transnational Tunisian family communication, plus media literacy and acculturation.

Works in filmmaking, screenwriting, directing and producing as a creative practitioner.

Uses critical political economy and postcolonial approaches to study global media flows, media policy and state-media relations in Ethiopia and its diaspora.

Studies interpersonal and rhetorical communication, including gender portrayals in Caldecott Medal-winning children's books.

Studies gender, sexuality and disability in film, television and digital media from a critical media studies perspective, focusing on health and embodiment.

Studies race, gender and technology across feminist, Black and digital humanities scholarship, including archiving Twitter hashtag feminism, alongside documentary filmmaking.

Studies how scientists and journalists can communicate contentious science and environmental issues, using documentaries and narratives to counter biased judgment and engage citizens.

Studies journalism and press-politics issues, conducting engaged research with organizations on sustainability, innovation and representation in media.

Works in documentary filmmaking and film and television production as an independent filmmaker.