Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies) and Tēvita O. Ka'ili recently published an article titled, "Kū Kia‘i Kahuku: Indigenizing Social Media, Civic Streaming, and Sociospatial Symmetry" in the journal Communication, Culture, and Critique. The article argues that the Kū Kiaʻi Kahuku community movement's (an Indigenous and ecological…

Rebecca Rice (Communication Studies) published the article, “Constituting absence as reliability: The case of COVID-19 response networks,” in Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management.

Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies) delivered an invited talk to the Brigham Young University School of Communications in Provo, Utah, on Sept. 21, 2023. The talk was titled," Kū Kiaʻi Kahuku: Civic Rhythms and the Knitting of Hearts and Minds."

Seong-min Park and Christopher Forepaugh (both Criminal Justice), along with a scholar from the Korean Institute of Criminology, recently published a peer-reviewed article, "Understanding the Association of Subjective Perception and Emotional Resentment With Micro- and Macro-Level Violence: A Multilevel SEM Examination of Relative Deprivation…

A new edition of a well-known undergraduate textbook in Denmark titled, "Retorik: Teori og Praksis," [Rhetoric: Theory & Practice] has been published with a chapter dedicated to Visual Rhetoric written by David R. Gruber (Communication Studies). The book was edited by Charlotte Jorgensen and Lisa Villadsen and will be widely used across…

Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) and co-author Samantha Senda-Cook (Creighton University) won the 2023 Oravec Journal Article Award in Environmental Communication for their article titled, "Building Coalitions from Shared Pieties: Polyvocal Religious Environmentalism at the Asian Rural Institute," which was published in the …

Linda Dam (Journalism and Media Studies) and Carolyn A. Lin and Xihui Wang (both University of Connecticut) have published an article titled, "TikTok Videos and Sustainable Apparel Behavior: Social Consciousness, Prior Consumption and Theory of Planned Behavior," in Emerging Media. The study explores the role of social media in promoting…

Linda Dam (Journalism and Media Studies), Zhan Xu (Northern Arizona University), and Suji Park (Konkuk University) have published an article titled, "Using Virtual Reality in E-Cigarette and Secondhand Aerosol Prevention Messages: Implications for Emotional Campaign Design," in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. The study…

Stephen Bates (Journalism and Media Studies) published "Climatotherapy and the Influx of the Ill." The newspaper article recounts the late-19th-century migration of ailing Easterners to Southern California, lured by doctors' claims that the "salubrious" climate could cure disease. Some dissenting doctors, however, argued that an…

Linda Dam and Benjamin Burroughs (both Journalism and Media Studies), and Anne Marie Basaran Borsai (University of Connecticut, Stamford, Connecticut), have published an article titled, "(Over)Eating with our Eyes: An examination of Mukbang Influencer Marketing and Consumer Engagement with Food Brands," in the Journal of Promotion…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science)  co-authored article, "The Multiverse of Taiwan’s Future: Reconsidering the Independence–Unification (Tondu) Attitudes" in Political Studies Review. Wang and others proposed a new measurement to capture the independence-unification preference among Taiwanese people regarding the China-…

Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) has been awarded the Early Career Award by the Rhetoric and Community Theory Division of the National Communication Association. The award honors a current member of the division who has established an innovative and robust research project within eight years of having earned the Ph.D. degree…