University of Hawaii at Manoa

Studies how people in close relationships express and manage emotions, adult play and persona sharing, using surveys, diaries, laboratory studies and experiments.

Studies how information and communication technologies and social media address social inequality, including digital divide, broadband policy and substance use prevention.

Studies how people process and produce messages and accommodate their communication in intergroup settings, including communication about age and aging, grounded in accommodation theory.

Studies how people integrate diverse knowledge in interdisciplinary scientific collaborations and social Q&A communities, using sociotechnical document analysis and scientometrics.

Studies communication during problematic relationship events, including conflict, deception, breakups and apologies, and how nonverbal behaviors shape interpersonal judgments.

Studies intercultural communication, persuasion and social influence, and human-machine communication, including non-Western perspectives and Korean culture.

Writes narrative nonfiction and investigative journalism on American life, including the opioid epidemic and the patriot movement, and adapts journalism for the screen.

Studies governance, policy and ethics of big data, AI and the Internet of Things, including health data for AI, communication rights and social media platform governance.

Studies science communication, emergent media and Indigenous storytelling, using creative multimedia to bridge Indigenous knowledge and science for civic engagement.

Studies the history of American media and the Middle East, literary journalism, and media portrayals of outlaws and rebels through media history and biography.

Studies public relations, strategic communication and political campaigns, developing agenda-building and agenda-setting theory in US and international contexts.

Studies the social and psychological effects of immersive media such as virtual environments and video games, and develops interactive interventions for health and well-being.

Studies intercultural communication and Japanese and East Asian history, including the Hawaiian diaspora in the Bonin Islands, wartime propaganda and historic Japanese audio recordings.

Studies how online platform features and political content influence attitudes, judgments and behaviors, and how platforms inform risky practices among vulnerable people.

Studies interpersonal health communication, especially mental illness disclosure and social support, and family and peer communication about body image.

Studies the history of libraries and archives, ethnic print cultures, Asian American and Pacific Islanders in LIS, and intellectual freedom and censorship.

Studies gender, sexuality, labor and governance in platformized cultural production such as Chinese live streaming, using ethnography, interviews, walkthroughs and discourse analysis.

Studies how media exposure, social identity and trust shape adolescent health behavior, using quantitative, mixed-methods and community-based participatory action research.

Studies Indigenous and Native Hawaiian information practices, co-creating Hawaiian-language controlled vocabularies and knowledge organization systems.

Studies data practices and gendered data work in library, archive and museum collections from an intersectional feminist lens, using archival research and interviews.