Programs › Norman, OK
Studies persuasion and resistance to misinformation and conspiracy theories, testing inoculation, reactance, and mediated intergroup contact theories with quantitative methods.
Studies media literacy, horror media, documentary, race, and popular culture through rhetorical criticism and cultural studies.
Studies leadership communication, organizational culture, and behavioral ethics, theorizing how organizations learn morally through communication and team learning.
Brings decades of network broadcast journalism experience covering war and terrorism; the profile describes professional practice rather than a research program.
Studies journalism ethics and excellence in journalistic practice, including online journalism, ethical use of narrative and language, and values in ethical decision-making.
Produces and directs video and television programming, including public broadcasting and international training work; the profile describes production practice rather than research.
Studies interpersonal relationships, including long-distance relationships, friendships, stepfamilies, and serial arguments, with attention to computer-mediated communication.
Studies First Amendment law and policy for a free marketplace of ideas amid corporate and government power, and media narratives in sports-media history.
Studies cognitive and emotional processing of media, especially health messages for communication regulatory science, using psychophysiological measures and eye tracking.
Studies deception and lie detection, developing and testing Truth-Default Theory through experiments, and works on persuasion, measurement validation, and research methods.
Studies why people hold political and health beliefs, examining partisanship, fake news, third-person perceptions, and political advertising effects.
Studies television news and crisis coverage, including media lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil disaster and the future of the newspaper industry, through case studies.
Studies how people engage with news and journalists on social and mobile media and how newsrooms adopt AI and automated journalism.
Brings a long newspaper career in political and business reporting and community journalism; the profile describes professional practice rather than research.
Studies global public relations, media transparency, and PR ethics, including hidden influences in news worldwide and strategic communication in Russia.
Studies brand experience and digital advertising effects, including VR ads and YouTube pre-roll attention, using surveys and eye-tracking.
Works as a commercial director and screenwriter in advertising, television, and independent film; the profile describes creative practice rather than research.
Studies how emotion and cognition shape persuasion and maladaptive beliefs such as bias, deception, and misinformation, developing reactance and inoculation-based mitigation strategies.
Studies how people argue and manage conflict in interpersonal and intercultural relationships, including online, using quantitative modeling, scale development, and SEM.
Teaches advertising art direction, visual communication, and design thinking; the profile describes creative practice rather than a research program.
Studies how news media construct and maintain collective memory of events such as 1960s social unrest and how this shapes news coverage, public agendas, and politics.
Studies how individuals grieve and seek information on social networking sites after personal loss, natural disasters, and mass shootings, linking crisis, health, and PR.
Studies health and organizational communication in marginalized communities, including polio vaccine resistance in Nigeria and HIV/AIDS prevention in Tanzania.
Studies women in media leadership, media management, and international media, with grant work on media and small business in South Asia and prior research in Africa and Europe.
Studies public relations and health communication using surveys, field experiments, content analysis, interviews, focus groups, and computational social media analytics.
Studies scholastic and collegiate journalism education, service learning, and community journalism.
Studies how people process theory-based health messages in mass media, designing and testing campaigns on vaping, HPV vaccination, tobacco, and mental illness stigma.
Studies crisis and risk communication for disaster resilience, examining how knowledge networks among nonprofits, community groups, and local governments support emergency management.
Studies how streaming platforms are reshaping the US documentary film industry, examining production cultures and media ethics as a media sociologist and filmmaker.
Studies communication during cross-cultural transitions of sojourners such as students abroad, missionaries, and military families, mainly using qualitative and mixed methods.
Studies how message design and audience characteristics shape risk perception and behavior change in health, risk, and science communication, including analyses of HINTS survey data.
Studies how narratives shape understanding of self and others, including morality and representation, using NLP, computer vision, audio processing, and brain imaging.
Studies intergroup and intercultural communication, including accent stereotyping, ethnolinguistic identity, and attitudes toward Latino immigrants in the US.
Writes speculative fiction with an Afrocentric viewpoint, with interests in comparative mythology and culture-specific storytelling.
Studies cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to health and risk messages such as gambling and nicotine ads, combining self-report with psychophysiological measures.
Writes young adult and adult fiction as a bestselling novelist; the profile describes creative writing rather than a research program.