Programs › Evanston, IL
Studies Black women's and queer digital resistance, misogynoir, and hashtag activism, combining critical analysis of social media networks with documentary and health-justice work.
Studies culture, arts, creative work, and globalization through long-term ethnography, such as opera fandom and the global design and production of shoes.
Studies attention, self-presentation, and collaboration in online environments from an HCI perspective, including LGBTQ+ experiences online and deception in text messaging.
Studies digital culture from a comparative perspective with a focus on Latin America and Latinx USA, currently examining mental health and selfhood in digital life.
Writes confrontational plays and television drama as a playwright and TV producer rather than conducting empirical communication research.
Studies the political economy of legacy and web television and power in media, using community-based creative R&D and production to build reparative media platforms.
Studies how social and knowledge networks form and perform in business, science, healthcare, and space teams using network science and computational social science.
Studies leadership and teamwork, including multiteam systems and human-AI teams, using laboratory and online experiments, meta-analyses, and field studies.
Studies computational journalism, including automation and algorithms in news production, algorithmic accountability and transparency, and social media in news contexts.
Writes plays, screenplays, TV, and documentary podcasts, working as a dramatist and audio storyteller rather than an empirical researcher.
Studies intersections of race, cultural representation, and technoscientific design, drawing on science and technology studies and history, from Black inventors to sports technology.
Studies rhetoric as an intellectual tradition and the political impact of global modernities, working through theoretical and interpretive analysis of public culture.
Studies design, innovation management, and organizational behavior, focusing on human-centered design thinking, prototyping, and student design for social impact.
Studies how technological mediation affects communication and collaboration, building and evaluating novel collaboration technologies in HCI and CSCW.
Studies rhetoric and modern visual public culture, such as public photography and civic spectatorship, through rhetorical and critical analysis of political judgment.
Studies the history of American TV news, conservative and right-wing media, and political movements, using historical analysis of broadcasting and coverage such as Chicago 1968.
Directs and edits independent fiction and documentary films about individuals and communities transformed by crisis.
Studies global communication and Arab media, culture, and politics, examining geopolitics, identity, comparative media systems, media industries, and digital sovereignty.
Studies health communication and patient safety, especially medication safety and drug name confusion, using health information technology and predictive analytics.
Studies media, public opinion, and policy on science, environment, elections, and international security, using cross-national surveys and field experiments.
Creates animated films, infographics, and children's media, exploring animated ethnography and writing on information design and educational media.
Creates interactive, data-driven, and VR media art and graphic novels that explore environmental politics such as ocean and space pollution through creative coding and making.
Studies media history alongside climate, energy, and environment and science and technology studies, through historical research on telegraphy, satellites, and global TV.
Studies the cultural history of electronic media and the occult, psychosis, and low or trash cinema, through historical and critical analysis of media and taste.
Studies collaboration, governance, and inclusion in participatory online communities such as Wikipedia, using community data science and computational methods.
Studies how government and nonprofit interorganizational networks such as systems of care can be designed for social impact, using network analysis and service outcome data.
Studies the cultural history of sound media and music, from phonograph cultures and performance to eco-sonic media, through historical and experimental audio scholarship.
Makes ethnographic and experimental documentary films between the US and China, using anthropological fieldwork to explore discarded places and social transformation.
Studies the history and theory of television, film, and digital media with a feminist focus on gender, domestic technologies, design, and everyday life.
Studies film and television culture through critical-cultural theory, gender, and history, currently analyzing the appeal of formulaic Hallmark TV for women.
Directs documentary films on African American history, race, and US immigration policy, such as histories of HBCUs and the undocumented.
Writes plays, television series, and screenplays as a dramatist and TV producer rather than conducting empirical communication research.
Studies how media shape transgender equality, focusing on the digital media strategies of social movements for and against trans rights in the US, plus design in political branding.
Makes experimental, narrative, and documentary films exploring American identity and belonging, including collaborative work with Hmong communities in Montana.
Studies the sociology of art and culture in a global frame, examining how artists from peripheral countries gain recognition in global cultural fields and markets.
Writes plays, operas, and musicals as an award-winning playwright rather than conducting empirical communication research.
Studies the history of early and silent cinema and animation, especially how scientists, physicians, and educators used motion pictures, through archival film history.
Writes and produces television and film and studies race, class, gender, and othering in the television writers' workspace.
Studies how online spaces disseminate information and attention, including LLM use in science and music creation, using network science and human-centered computing.
Studies how to communicate uncertainty and make statistics usable through information visualization, building and evaluating interactive systems and visualization techniques.
Directs independent feature and short films and curates film programs, working as a filmmaker rather than an empirical researcher.
Studies race, stardom, performance, and reception in film, especially the history of African American performers and audiences in classical Hollywood.
Studies rhetorical history of nineteenth-century US popular education and social reform, such as the lyceum system and clandestine debating among young Black men.
Studies the history and theory of cinema and related media, examining how emerging technologies such as widescreen, digital cinema, and VR reshape spectatorship.
Studies how risk and uncertainty are communicated to patients and publics, especially in genetics, designing and evaluating theory-guided messages for informed decision-making.
Studies the history and form of narrative podcasting, radio drama, and audio fiction within sound studies, alongside field-recording-based sound art.
Studies misinformation correction, strategic storytelling, and emotion in social influence across health, politics, and science, developing models of persuasion and debunking.
Studies how AI and digital platforms reshape work, hiring, and expertise in organizations, with a commitment to designing fair and accountable communication technologies.
Designs technologies to address health inequities for marginalized communities, particularly supporting queer and trans people's holistic health needs.
Studies AI literacy and human-AI interaction, using learning sciences and design research to build public AI literacy interventions and co-creative, embodied museum exhibits.
Studies how authoritarian governments like China use digital media and AI for information manipulation, combining computational and qualitative methods.
Makes nonfiction films that humanize complex social and political structures, drawing on labor rights organizing in Mexican migrant communities in Texas.
Writes genre scripts, especially horror, sci-fi, and procedurals, for film, television, theatre, audio drama, and video games.
Studies political, nonfiction, and experimental cinema, theorizing political realism in Indian documentary through anticolonial thought, Marxist aesthetics, and psychoanalysis.
Studies antiracist and anticolonial radical media histories, such as Chicana/o Los Angeles and Algerian Paris media activism in the 1970s, through archival research.
Studies internet cultures and memes in the Global South, examining how transnational youth use creative online tactics across five languages and geopolitical contexts.