Temple University

Studies intercultural communication, negotiation and conflict management, and social influence, comparing China with Western cultures using quantitative statistical methods.

Studies global media flows and the local negotiation of transnational popular culture, especially in Japan, through ethnography and critical textual analysis of gender, race and class.

Examines online and mobile privacy, security and surveillance, institutional uses of ICTs, ICTs in urban revitalization, and the cultural meaning of virtual community.

Studies conflict resolution intervention and education, alternative dispute resolution and organizational dispute systems, including school violence prevention programs.

Focuses on investigative, urban and multimedia reporting and journalism law, drawing on long professional experience as a reporter and editor.

Studies media history, public memory and gender through historical and cultural analysis of American magazines, journalism and visual stereotypes.

Studies the history of American journalism, the rise of objectivity as a norm, and why young Americans disengage from news, through historical and cultural analysis.

Studies how digital and mobile media shape journalistic practice, including journalists' Twitter use, personal branding and learning from mobile news, via surveys and experiments.

Studies global and environmental communication and Latin American media and cultural theory, using ethnographic methods and documentary media.

Studies digital equity and how underrepresented populations come to information technologies, using cultural studies, autoethnography and participatory action research.

Studies citizens' and community media in armed-conflict and post-conflict Colombia and in Philadelphia, including grassroots climate communication, through long-term fieldwork.

Studies gender, sexuality and representation in video games and gamer culture and LGBTQ game history, using qualitative and archival research.

Focuses on broadcast journalism, media entrepreneurship and production management, with emphasis on media programming and industry partnerships.

Studies how community-driven local journalism built with human-centered design and harm-reduction frameworks affects quality of life in low-income neighborhoods.

Examines child-targeted advertising and its ethical and legal implications, including children's responses to food ads and links between youth media use and well-being.

Studies political, science and health communication, knowledge acquisition and opinion formation, and emerging technologies using survey research and advanced quantitative methods.

Studies the social implications of data science, semantic web technologies and tech companies' role in warfare, examining how emerging digital technologies reshape media and governance.

Studies communication for and about social change with underserved communities, including intimate partner violence and trauma, through community-based research and evaluation.

Applies behavioral science to how media and communication shape attitudes, policy and social change, and develops strategy and leadership tools for purpose-driven organizations.

Studies psychological and physiological processing of mediated experiences, especially telepresence, using experimental, survey and content-analytic methods.

Analyzes how law, technology, copyright and sovereignty shape marginalized communities' musical creativity, such as Jamaican popular music, DJ culture and pirate radio.

Studies Japanese advertising and popular culture, comparing Japanese and U.S. television advertising through cultural and content analysis.

Studies ethical news reporting on marginalized groups, visual communication in news and coverage of gun violence, using textual analysis and audience-focused research.

Examines how design and advertising shape cultural narratives and public discourse through visual communication design practice, including reproductive-rights projects.

Studies the political economy of global media industries and visual representation, especially television in Afghanistan, through feminist media ethnography and documentary film.

Studies ethics of care in photojournalism, visual representation of marginalized communities, anti-racism in generative AI imagery, and movement and solutions visual journalism.

Studies digital cultural production, including the free labor of fan and game-modding communities and technology-mediated activism in the digital rights movement, via case studies.

Studies science and risk communication, public understanding of science and communication effects, including concussion-reporting interventions and AI and ocean literacy.

Studies community-centered, engaged and antiracist local journalism and how newsrooms build trust with marginalized communities, using community-based qualitative research.

Studies reggae, Rastafari, Afrobeat and hip-hop performance cultures across the African diaspora, especially Jamaica and Ghana, through multimodal ethnography.

Studies public relations ethics, corporate social advocacy and stakeholder response, and nonprofit and public interest communication in digital and emerging media environments.

Studies how organizations communicate about AI and other emerging technologies in risk and crisis contexts, including risk-benefit framing, privacy fatigue and trust.

Studies inclusion, accessibility and community engagement in news media, linking journalism studies with organizational communication through qualitative research.