University of Colorado Boulder

Theorizes how gender, race, and sexuality shape work and organization, and how affect and viral masculinity fuel populism and the far right.

Studies media and religion, the politics of Muslim visibility, and diaspora media, including ethnic radio in Europe and digital religion.

Studies media poetics, media archaeology, and the history of computing and telecommunications networks that existed before or outside the internet.

Studies how organizational factors and market models of journalism shape news production and journalists' work practices, from a media sociology perspective.

Studies the global, organizational, and technological dimensions of public goods, including digital social movements, environmental justice, volunteering, and AI.

Studies public relations and the management of risk and crisis, including the history of PR and the rise of the corporate persona.

Theorizes how authority, agency, knowledge, and identity are constituted in sociomaterial, power-laden communication practices within organizations.

Studies public relations and health communication, focusing on organization-stakeholder communication strategies and practices in new media.

Studies environmental and climate justice and the rhetoric of social movements, analyzing advocacy around toxic pollution, plastics, and cultures of care.

Studies global public relations, including the role of culture in PR and crisis communication, corporate social responsibility, and PR for development.

Studies the history, culture, and politics of technology through cultural studies and historical research, focusing on algorithmic culture and book publishing.

Uses qualitative and interpretive methods to study security, media, and organizational communication, including post-9/11 media and the US nuclear weapons complex.

Studies how journalism and nonprofit practices address climate change, environmental degradation, information disorder, and social inequality amid technological change.

Uses qualitative methods to study the social-cultural role of public relations and strategic communication, including media representations of violence against women.

Studies how health message design and everyday information technologies influence people's health understanding and behavior for health promotion.

Uses ethnography of communication to study how speech genres such as public speaking and 'hate speech' circulate and gain value across cultures, including in the US and China.

Studies how news media represent race, identity, and Otherness, analyzing journalistic constructions of belonging in American journalism.

Studies press freedom and media systems in non-democratic contexts, decolonizing global media research and examining media in human rights crises, especially in East Africa.

Applies postcolonial approaches to organizational communication, studying indigenous, women's, LGBTQ, and grassroots organizing in Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire.

Studies new media, gender, and strategic communication for development and social change, including digital games for social change and organizational transparency.

Studies the uses and effects of digital and interactive media, the motivations behind uncivil online communication, and organizational transparency.

Studies public rhetoric and rhetorical history, analyzing how race, coloniality, and political power shape Latinx political identities such as in the Chicano movement.

Uses mixed methods to study how members of hazardous organizations, such as wildland firefighting crews, communicate about action and safety policies.

Studies how advertising language and messaging affect consumer attitudes, engagement, well-being, and prosocial and environmental behavior.

Studies broadcast journalism, war and conflict reporting, international communication, and telecommunication systems and policy.

Studies organizational communication and collaboration in the civil society sector, focusing on how nonprofit organizations communicate and work together.

Studies how technology reshapes the book industry, journalism, and media work, drawing on fieldwork with newsrooms and romance writers, publishers, and readers.

Studies intersectionality, racialized representation, and Africana women's history, with a focus on media and globalization in Southern Africa.

Develops rhetorical theory and comparative intellectual history drawing on Africana philosophy, addressing ethics, politics, aesthetics, and radical imagination.

Studies how images and video shape the pursuit of justice and human rights in legal and institutional contexts, including video activism and visual evidence.

Studies the moral psychology of advertising and PR practitioners and students, and the organizational influences on ethics in strategic communication.

Studies technology, democracy, and religion, designing and theorizing models of democratic ownership and governance for online platforms and cooperative economies.

Uses historical and political-economic methods to study media theory, public broadcasting policy, and sound preservation in the United States.

Uses ethnography and discourse analysis to study how interaction constitutes race and identity, including misinformation among Asian American communities online.

Studies how communication practices enable or inhibit democratic engagement, deliberation, and environmental activism through ethnographic fieldwork in the US and Nicaragua.

Studies how ideology spreads through popular culture and technology platforms, including privacy norms, copyright, and science in American public discourse.

Practices and teaches photojournalism and documentary photography, with a focus on visual storytelling in journalism.

Applies computational social science and machine learning, including LLMs, to analyze social media, news, and advertising data.

Studies interaction patterns in personal relationships, including deception, relational loss, social support, and family communication about money.

Examines media technologies in US prisons and jails as terrains of repression and resistance, using media history and critical prison studies.

Analyzes rhetorics of gender and race in mediated texts, examining transnational anti-Muslim sentiment, anti-Blackness, and feminist surveillance.

Studies the intersection of digital marketing and political communication, including how platform affordances and policies shape campaign strategies and merchandise.

Studies international news production and consumption, media attitudes in strong-state settings, and conflict reporting using surveys, experiments, content analysis, and interviews.

Studies media representations, media sociology, and sports communication using textual analysis, critical discourse analysis, ethnography, and in-depth interviews.

Studies textiles, memes, queer history, and pop culture through fiber art practice and community building in DIY spaces and libraries.

Uses critical race theory and discourse analysis to examine how oppression and resistance shape African American identities, language, and communication.

Uses mixed methods to study big data, privacy regulation, and personalization in advertising, and how platform politics shape consumer behavior.

Analyzes rhetoric and argument at the intersection of Black studies, gender and sexuality, and science and technology, including rhetorics of genetic genealogy.

Studies how AI technologies such as chatbots, personalized ads, and AI influencers shape consumer responses, and how AI agents can promote prosocial behavior.

Studies AI-driven strategic communication and its ethics, and the psychological effects of AI, VR, and AR technologies on advertising effectiveness.

Uses conversation analysis and ethnography to examine micro-level communicative practices in educational and political settings.

Studies how nonprofit and religious organizations practice public relations, engagement, and crisis communication using interviews, observation, surveys, and network analysis.

Studies journalists' experiences, ethics, and newsroom policies using feminist theory, focusing on women journalists in the Global South and coverage of sexual violence.

Uses archival history to study how media technologies, labor, and multinational IT firms such as IBM shaped US foreign policy in Latin America, especially Brazil.

Studies how people use digital and tactical media to make meaning of trauma and suffering, attending to the body, race, gender, and disability.

Analyzes rhetorics of apology, reparation, and trauma in US imperialism in the Pacific, using rhetorical criticism and historiography of Indigenous human rights.

Studies environmental media, sound, and surveillance, including underwater acoustic sensing in the Indian Ocean and the environmental costs of AI data centers.

Studies how VR and AR immersive media shape cognitive and emotional processes, attitudes, and behaviors in consumer, social issue, and health contexts.