Programs › New Brunswick, NJ
Studies argumentation and communication design in digital society, including AI and accountable algorithmic systems, using discourse analysis, digital ethnography, and computational methods.
Critically examines organized persuasion, public relations, and promotional culture, including the politics of environmentalism and nation branding.
Studies how speakers build mutual understanding and relationships in Russian and English talk-in-interaction using conversation analysis.
Applies social and political theory to popular and political culture, studying social movements, conspiracy culture, microfascism, and far-right digital cultures.
Studies community resilience by analyzing how interorganizational network relationships respond to disruptions, using social network analysis and theory building.
Studies media effects on public knowledge and opinion about climate change, partisan media and misinformation, and the role of comedy in social change.
Studies the history of American politics, the presidency, political spin, and journalism since 1900 through historical research and biography.
Builds and tests theory on health information disclosure and message engagement to promote prevention behaviors, including youth substance-use prevention programs.
Studies how media shape children's and adolescents' development, family life, and health, and designs and tests culturally sensitive health media campaigns.
Studies journalism in transition and conflict, including visual coverage of war, journalistic norms, media law, and journalism education, using qualitative and quantitative methods.
Studies how people perceive, avoid, and respond to health risk information, drawing on social psychology to improve risk communication and health decision-making.
Studies anti-Muslim racism, Islamophobia, and the politics of empire, with attention to race, gender, and media, through critical analysis.
Studies the role of media in children's lives and gender identity formation from global, cross-cultural, and multi-method perspectives.
Studies alternative and activist media and civic engagement among marginalized communities and youth, including Latinx public art and media activism in Ireland.
Studies misinformation, trust in institutions, public opinion, and attitudes toward AI using large-scale surveys, network science, and computational social science.
Studies how emerging technologies, especially artificial intelligence, transform journalism content, newsroom practices, media organization, and media-public relations.
Studies marginalization, resilience, and relational distancing in families and health contexts, building communication theory and qualitative methods.
Studies how communication shapes romantic and family relationships during transitions, advancing relational turbulence theory with longitudinal and dyadic designs.
Studies how patients, clinicians, couples, and families communicate about health issues and how dyadic communication supports well-being and resilience.
Studies organizational change and local news ecosystems using network analysis, archival research, interviews, and AI-driven large-scale data methods.
Studies behavior change communication and how knowledge brokers help evidence inform health policy and practice, using mixed methods and program evaluation.
Studies hybrid organizing, examining how nonprofits and social actors integrate competing goals, platforms, and institutional logics, using network and computational methods.
Studies how communication can reduce HIV-related health inequities, developing community-engaged prevention interventions and campaigns, including PrEP for Black women.
Studies technology use in urban life, youth culture, and criminal justice using urban and digital ethnography alongside surveys and mixed methods.
Studies how communities, clinics, and institutions build communication infrastructure for health, equity, and resilience in U.S. and Greek settings, including ethnic media.
Studies patient engagement and patient-clinician interaction in mental health and clinical care by analyzing everyday interactional practices in community and clinic settings.
Studies health communication for Latino/a/x and underserved communities, including social media health information, multilingual interventions, and LLM-delivered health information.
Studies race, gender, and social change in news and popular media, analyzing how journalism shapes understandings of activism and democracy through cultural studies.
Conducts traditional and cyber-based ethnographic research, drawing on training in anthropology; specific topical focus is not described in the profile.
Studies organizational socialization, interprofessional collaboration, and stakeholder engagement, including generative AI's role, using primarily qualitative methods.
Studies racialized disinformation and anti-Black discourse in Black social media spaces through Black feminist technology studies, digital ethnography, and discourse analysis.
Studies the politics of datafication, digital infrastructures, and platform governance from global perspectives, using qualitative and interpretive methods.
Studies how AI-driven algorithmic management and AI agents shape workers' perceptions, relationships, and well-being in organizations and the gig economy.
Studies how people seek, evaluate, and discuss information in digital media, focusing on credibility, misinformation, and media literacy, using computational, quantitative, and mixed methods.
Studies how communication technologies and changing workplace norms affect digital workers' well-being and belonging, and how organizations foster inclusion.
Studies how everyday people talk about and shape public life, developing computational text and network methods grounded in deliberative democracy.
Studies why people embrace or resist feminist and social change and how audiences engage news and misinformation, using cross-national surveys, experiments, and interviews.