Programs › Tuscaloosa, AL
Studies how sports media content and consumption shape public understanding of gender, race and identity, including Native American mascots and athlete mental health.
Uses autoethnography and personal narrative to study the lived experiences and identities of Black women, especially those from the rural U.S. South.
Focuses on journalism practice and storytelling, including journalism education, media credibility and the professional and ethical norms of reporting.
Writes long-form journalism and narrative nonfiction about the people of the American South, drawing on a Pulitzer-winning reporting career.
Applies computational and novel statistical methods to large-scale data to study how the communicative structures of online organizations emerge and evolve.
Studies image and reputation management, crisis response and fandom in sports media, examining how communication shapes audience perceptions and trust.
Studies online communities, social media dynamics and organizational resilience, including early computational analysis of large-scale social media.
Studies representation and social justice in children's and young adult literature, children's book awards, and the history of U.S. children's publishing and librarianship.
Examines public relations history, law and crisis communication strategy, and studies leadership and ethics in the PR profession.
Studies nonverbal and deceptive communication, and communication in Deaf culture and sign language contexts.
Studies the quality, trustworthiness and integrity of health information across digital platforms and institutions, developing evidence-based quality indicators.
Draws on evolutionary psychology to explain engagement with persuasive media, social media and AI, including excessive use, well-being and youth identity formation.
Studies organization-public relationships, crisis management and AI adoption in strategic communication using cross-cultural and computational approaches.
Studies relationship dissolution, mediated communication and the evolving relationship lexicon (e.g., ghosting), as well as small group and instructional communication.
Studies the sociology of news organizations and media institutions, examining how routines, norms and new media forms evolve across local and global contexts.
Studies nonprofit public relations, advocacy, fundraising and health messaging, examining which campaigns and stories mobilize supporters and build trust.
Uses quantitative methods to study media effects, persuasion and campaign messaging in health communication and prosocial advocacy.
Uses action research and community engagement to study social justice in library and information science and community informatics for underserved populations.
Studies library services to diverse populations and diversity in print and digital children's and young adult media, including service to Latino communities.
Uses interviews with journalists to study digital journalism, lifestyle journalism and how the profession adapts to change.
Takes a critical digital media approach to voice assistants, chatbots and conversational AI, examining labor, power and human-machine relationships.
Focuses on school librarianship and educational leadership, preparing school library media specialists as instructional leaders and advocates.
Uses critical/cultural and rhetorical theory to study athlete voice, public memory of campus desegregation, and LGBTQ+ advocacy in sport and public spaces.
Studies the environmental conditions, social dynamics and leadership strategies that build and sustain creative cultures in advertising.
Studies risk and protective factors for adolescents in economically disadvantaged communities and designs and evaluates community-based health interventions.
Studies crisis and risk communication and information resilience, examining how organizations build trust and counter mis- and disinformation during crises.
Studies information seeking and exchange via social media during crises and in everyday interaction, using natural language analysis.
Examines how algorithmic personalized advertising shapes consumer decisions, privacy concerns, trust and perceived autonomy, with implications for regulation.
Focuses on public speaking instruction, helping scientists and engineers communicate technical expertise by combining rhetorical theory with practical coaching.
Studies risk and crisis communication with an emphasis on Arab media and international contexts, alongside documentary and live television production.
Creates artist books exploring archives, self-representation, population mapping and urban planning, examining how information is organized and displayed visually.
Develops information and sustainability ethics frameworks to guide library and information professionals in building just and resilient communities.
Uses critical cultural, rhetorical and community-based participatory approaches to examine health communication and media representation affecting transgender communities.
Produces documentary and multimedia work on broadcast coverage of U.S. natural disasters and partners with Central Alabama organizations on media messaging.
Writes, directs and produces independent narrative feature films exploring character, place and human experience.
Examines media diversity, representation and newsroom practices, including community-centered journalism that amplifies underrepresented voices.
Studies how social media, podcasts and memes shape news engagement, political participation and public opinion, combining computational data with surveys.
Integrates rhetoric and neuroscience to study how public discourse, accessibility and learning models foster resilience, inclusion and social change.
Uses biometric methods such as facial expression analysis and attention tracking to study how children and parents process advertising, including influencer marketing.
Studies how government agencies and organizations craft and deliver crisis and emergency communication to maintain credibility and support disaster response.
Studies how people use health apps, social media and online communities to manage health, and how platform governance and influencers shape information.
Studies American visual culture, early cinema historiography and audiovisual archiving, applying digital humanities methods to film archives.
Studies internal communication, employee engagement and mindfulness in strategic public relations, and their role in workplace culture and wellbeing.
Applies natural language processing, text mining and large language models to information problems in science, health, education and the humanities.
Uses qualitative and narrative analysis to study intercultural communication, including intercultural friendship, cultural risk perceptions and workplace mistreatment.
Draws on sociological perspectives to study harassment of journalists, media ownership, political pressure and the conditions of contemporary news work.
Studies how verbal, visual and sensory cues shape group decision-making and persuasion, and how metacognition informs everyday use of communication theory.
Examines how visual and verbal rhetoric enables violence, focusing on war propaganda, public memory and democratic engagement.
Studies the history of film's relationships with music and other industries in the late twentieth century, including cinematic rock stardom and Motown Productions.
Uses interviews, surveys and experiments to study uses and effects of entertainment and social media, including narcissism, parental restriction and self-control.
Studies communication pedagogy and experiential education, including internships, advising and mentoring that prepare students for professional work.
Studies how people form, express and avoid political opinions in their social networks, and how disagreement and media exposure shape deliberation and civic engagement.
Studies relational communication under stress, including communal coping, supportive communication, transgressions and repair, and the role of personal networks.
Focuses on competitive speech and debate, argumentation and public address, examining how advocacy shapes public discourse and democratic participation.
Studies archival and library history, archival research methods, and the publication of original historical sources and book arts collections.
Focuses on journalism ethics, professional responsibility and journalism education, including work revising the SPJ Code of Ethics.
Studies sports journalism, sports fan identity, social media and news credibility, focusing on how audiences engage with sports content across platforms.
Draws on sociology to study how legitimacy, leadership and recognition are produced through communication in advertising, public relations and creative industries.
Studies how science, environmental and risk information is communicated to publics and how media framing and science PR shape public perception.
Takes a feminist approach to musicians' creative labor across media industries, including merchandise, brand partnerships and digital self-presentation.
Writes literary scholarship, poetry and prose on cultural history, place and outsider communities, including Bohemian New Orleans and Loujon Press.
Studies human-centered AI, AI and information ethics, human-robot interaction and AI literacy, examining how intelligent systems can support human flourishing.
Studies how refugees and diasporic communities use rhetoric to negotiate identity, power and belonging, drawing on rhetorical, postcolonial and social movement theory.
Examines right-wing media, press criticism and ideological journalism in the United States through archival and ethnographic research.
Studies how campaigns, elected officials and brands use social media, advertising and strategic messaging to persuade and build relationships with voters and consumers.
Studies the history of the book and bookbinding through close material analysis of physical books, from medieval manuscripts to artists' books.
Studies how organizations communicate CSR and prosocial values to employees and publics, and how these messages shape organization-public relationships.
Studies how experts and institutions communicate science, environmental and health information to publics, including science PR and social media strategy.
Combines communication, neuroscience and psychology to study problematic media use and how technology affects the mental health and brains of teens and young adults.
Studies AI in journalism, misinformation and digital influence operations, focusing on how technology shapes information access and credibility in the Global South.
Produces investigative reporting and documentary films on justice, conflict and global issues, drawing on three decades in print and television journalism.
Makes observational documentary films examining how social policies such as the death penalty and electoral politics shape individual lives and American identity.
Studies cultural production in livestreaming, esports and the creator economy, examining relations among creators, platforms, audiences and commercial interests.
Produces personal documentaries on racial and economic disparity, otherness and social isolation, centering lived experiences of marginalized communities.
Produces independent feature films and brings industry experience in film development, production and distribution to creative media teaching.
Holds an assistant professor post in library and information studies; the directory listing gives no research description.
Studies how AI, human-computer interaction and immersive VR shape brand communication, attention, emotion and trust, including VR for intergenerational empathy.
Studies how users interact with search engines and generative AI, and designs information assistant tools to support learning and task completion.
Studies advertising literacy, sustainability public service announcements and the psychological factors shaping consumer responses to persuasive messages.
Studies how people interpret risk and scientific forecasts and use AI decision support, co-designing hydrology and hazard communication tools with public agencies.
Studies television genres, gender and screen culture, including teen TV and women showrunners in U.S. network television.
Studies crisis communication and disaster journalism, including local news in recovery, misinformation and social media in rural and underserved communities.
Studies family communication, relational maintenance and wellbeing, including marital resilience and the impostor phenomenon among graduate students.
Studies how human-machine communication and AI-driven interactive campaigns shape cognitive and emotional processing of social marketing messages.
Studies social support for sexual assault survivors, inclusive classroom practices and intergenerational communication.
Holds an assistant professor post in journalism and creative media; the directory listing gives no research description.
Uses computational methods, network analysis and experiments to study advocacy on contentious social issues, information flow, AI and countering misinformation.
Studies how expatriate managers and host-national employees navigate cultural differences and build trust and collaboration in multicultural workplaces.
Studies journalistic cultures in the Global South, including media capture, professional roles and political-economic pressures, through comparative analysis.