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Associate professor

Chair: Blue Sky Workshop: Broadening Participation in Environmental Communication Research

Provost Professor

• “Black Leadership: Did the Political Leaning of Online News Platforms Matter in the Emotional Tone of Coverage for Kamala Harris and Cory Booker during the 2020 Primaries?” Political Communication
• “The Impact of Emotional-Personalization in News Coverage on Empathic Responses towards Victims of Racial Discrimination,” Journalism Studies
• “The Multimodal Populist Style of Viktor Orbán on the Campaign Trail, Managing COVID-19, and During Cucumber Time,” Visual Communication Studies
• “Understanding the Impact of Anger-Evoking and Efficacy-Eliciting Tweets in White Support for the BLM Movement,” Mass Communication
• “In the Absence of Gatekeeping: How Social Media Use Predicts Belief in Popular False Information during the 2020 Presidential Election,” Political Communication

Assistant professor

• “Black Leadership: Did the Political Leaning of Online News Platforms Matter in the Emotional Tone of Coverage for Kamala Harris and Cory Booker during the 2020 Primaries?” Political Communication
• “In the Absence of Gatekeeping: How Social Media Use Predicts Belief in Popular False Information during the 2020 Presidential Election,” Political Communication

Associate professor

• “Professional Role Ideals of Data Journalists around the Globe: Congruencies and Divergences between Role Conceptions and Narrated Role Performances,” Journalism Studies
• “Creative Strategies and Transparency Advocacy: How Data Journalists around the World Transcend Challenges of Data Access and Usability,” Journalism Studies

Associate professor

• Respondent, Research Escalator I: Children, Adolescents, and Media
• Chair, Marginalized Communities in CAM Research
• Chair, Problematic Media Use among Children and Adolescents
• Division/Interest Group Planner, Children, Adolescents, and the Media
• Division and Interest Group Chair, Children, Adolescents, and the Media

Assistant professor

“Citizen Forums: Examining a Journalistic Transparency Initiative’s Capacity to Foster Understanding, Connection, and Trust,” Journalism Studies

Associate professor

Discussant, “Engineering Bridges: The Cultural Politics of Technological Evolutions,” Communication History

Professor

• “Information Systems Panel Proposal: Data Collection in Pandemic Times,” Information Systems
• Chair: Communication Science and Biology Idea Blitz
• “Health Information Processing for Patients with Aphasia: Engagement and Encoding during Visual Interactive Narrative Interventions,” Communication Science and Biology

Professor

“In the Absence of Gatekeeping: How Social Media Use Predicts Belief in Popular False Information during the 2020 Presidential Election,” Political Communication

Associate professor

• “It’s Not Fair to (Not) Let Them Play: Female Athlete’s Moral Perceptions of Transgender Participation in Sport,” Sports Communication
• “Lighten Up, It’s Just a Joke: Effects of Sports Media Exposure on Rape Myth Beliefs and Bystander Intervention in Sexual Harassment and Assault,” Sports Communication

Associate professor

• “Need for Affiliation under Threat in the Context of Horror Video Games,” Game Studies
• “Health Information Processing for Patients with Aphasia: Engagement and Encoding during Visual Interactive Narrative Interventions,” Communication Science and Biology

Distinguished and Roy W. Howard Professor Emeritus

• Participant, “Agenda Setting at 50: Considering the Past & Future of a Milestone in Communications Research”
• Respondent, “Memorial for Sharon Dunwoody”
• “The American Journalist under Attack: Media, Trust, and Democracy,” Journalism Studies

Emeritus professor

“The American Journalist under Attack: Media, Trust, and Democracy,” Journalism Studies

Professor

“Identifying the Mediating Pathways between Pornography Consumption and Condomless Sex,” Mass Communication

Doctoral student

“Health Information Processing for Patients with Aphasia: Engagement and Encoding during Visual Interactive Narrative Interventions,” Communication Science and Biology

Doctoral student

“Investigating the Interactions between Climate Change Organizations and the Public on Twitter,” Communication and Technology

Doctoral student

“Exploring Kenyans’ Interactions with Misinformation on WhatsApp,” Mobile Communication

Doctoral student

• “Evidence of Negativity Bias Task-Based Functional Connectivity Analysis When Watching Affective Videos,” Communication Science and Biology
• “Health Information Processing for Patients with Aphasia: Engagement and Encoding during Visual Interactive Narrative Interventions,” Communication Science and Biology

MA’22

• “Black Leadership: Did the Political Leaning of Online News Platforms Matter in the Emotional Tone of Coverage for Kamala Harris and Cory Booker during the 2020 Primaries?” Political Communication
• “Press Independence in a Partisan Environment: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. News Coverage of the Kyoto Protocol, The American Clean Energy and Security Act, and the Paris Climate Agreement,” Political Communication
• “In the Absence of Gatekeeping: How Social Media Use Predicts Belief in Popular False Information during the 2020 Presidential Election,” Political Communication

Doctoral candidate

“Health Information Processing for Patients with Aphasia: Engagement and Encoding during Visual Interactive Narrative Interventions,” Communication Science and Biology

PhD’21

“How the Media Shape Public Perceptions of China and COVID-19: A Network Agenda-Setting Analysis,” Mass Communication

Doctoral student

“Picturing Resettlement: A Content Analysis of Visuals of Syrian Refugees in the United States,” Visual Communication Studies

Doctoral student

“In the Absence of Gatekeeping: How Social Media Use Predicts Belief in Popular False Information during the 2020 Presidential Election,” Political Communication

Doctoral candidate

• “How Does Online E-Cigarette Advertisement Promote Youth’s E-Cigarettes Use? The Mediating Roles of Social Norm and Risk Perceptions,” Health Communication
• “Social Media News Use and Affective Polarization: Mediating Roles of Political Discussion and Relative Hostile Media Perception,” Mass Communication
• “Direct and Indirect Effects of Relative Hostile Media Perception on Affective Polarization,” Political Communication
• “Evidence of Negativity Bias Task-Based Functional Connectivity Analysis When Watching Affective Videos,” Communication Science and Biology