University of Iowa

Develops African American cultural criticism and a theory of "racialism" on media images of African Americans in youth media, popular culture and film.

Studies narrative, podcast and immersive longform journalism and how digital publishing industries shape multimedia storytelling, from 360/VR to gamified news.

Studies personal relationships and how they are rhetorically presented in everyday life.

Examines media and the politics of the body, focusing on gender, sexuality, race, youth cultures and sexual violence from a feminist perspective.

Studies algorithmic personalization, digital media production and disparities in scholarly knowledge production, including algorithmic imaginaries and election information disorder.

Studies television, media industries and media globalization, including race and media, platform studies, and Hungarian television and film location industries.

Studies media history and theory, including US and Mexican broadcasting history, race and ethnicity in media, community media, and the development of docudrama.

Studies health and interpersonal communication through community-engaged mixed-methods projects, including interventions and technology's role in health management.

Studies popular music, independent media and copyright law, producing books and documentary films on intellectual property and freedom of expression.

Studies how sport media make athletes and games meaningful, critically analyzing sports coverage in magazines, newspapers, websites, video games and video.

Studies the relationships among writing, language background, culture and pedagogy, especially in writing centers and second-language writing.

Studies news literacy, misinformation and engagement in global media, with a focus on African media, including current work on misinformation in Kenya.

Studies sport, media and U.S. culture, writing critical and industrial histories of sports film, television and documentary such as ESPN, NFL Films and ABC Sports.

Designs and evaluates theory-based health campaigns and studies risk communication and persuasion for audiences such as college students and rural and minority populations.

Studies critical environmental justice, linking race, disability, sexuality and environment, through queer ecology and archives, interviews and fieldwork in the US West and Iowa.

Studies rhetoric and reproductive justice, including US security culture, commercial surrogacy, queer kinship and care, and feminist movements.

Studies media law, media ethics and media sociology and how digital technology disrupts them, including hate speech coverage, public records and civility rules.

Studies how marginalized groups reshape dominant discourses through digital media, publics and counterpublics, including youth Internet activism in South Korea and intercultural coexistence.

Studies political communication, journalism and public opinion from a global and comparative perspective, with a focus on Latin America, Brazil and de-Westernizing knowledge production.

Studies interpersonal communication, social cognition and hurtful messages, examining how relational turbulence shapes how couples process relational messages.

Studies interpersonal and family communication under relational uncertainty, including in-law relationships, late-life parental divorce and sexual communication.

Studies media and social change in the Global South, including news on development, the political economy of colonial media technologies, and mobile media use in rural South India.

Studies relationships among water, infrastructure and religion, including the religious origins of network culture traced through the 1858 Atlantic Telegraph.

Studies media effects on health, health journalism and stigma using mixed methods: textual and content analysis, interviews, a national survey and experiments.

Studies how states seek control over global communications infrastructure, including the history of radio network governance and online anonymity.

Writes critical histories of games and entertainment software, tracing how the early American mobile games industry shaped platform economics and digital labor.

Studies Black American rhetorical cultures and Black women's public discourse, ratchetness and worldmaking, including figures such as Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion.

Studies how technology, politics and social identity interact on social media, analyzing multimodal messages with experiments and computational methods such as visual framing at scale.

Studies health and interpersonal communication: how resilience is built with close others and how narratives and emotion persuade people toward healthy behaviors.

Studies the political, economic and aesthetic forces in photojournalism and how non-fiction visual practices construct social difference, with work on visual theory and migration.

Studies how people process (mis)information on health, science and politics and the effects of strategic messages and AI content, using surveys, experiments and content analysis.