Faculty Research

Endacott, C. G. (2024). Enacting machine agency when AI makes one’s day: Understanding how users relate to AI communication technologies for scheduling. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 29(4), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmae011

Endacott, C. G., Millender, L., Duran, J., & Wilson, M. (2024). “None of us wanted to be at this party, but what a guest list”: How technology workers position themselves on LinkedIn following layoffs. Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502241289483

Grano, D. (2024). ‘In His Quiet Now’: Muhammad Ali, Black anger, and legacies of athlete activism. Journal Rhetoric & Public Affairs.

Myers, K. K., Endacott, C. G., & Snyder, J. (2024). “Your connection is unstable”: Remote socialization and effects on organizational assimilation. Management Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/08933189241259163

Petrovčič, A., Quan-Haase, A., Reisdorf, B. C., Žádník, Š., Hvalič-Touzery, S., & Laznik, J. (2024). Categorical and resource inequalities in self-reliant internet use and use-by-proxy among older adults in Slovenia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Technology in Society, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102735 .

Petrovčič, A., Reisdorf, B. C., Quan-Haase, A., Bartol, J., & Grošelj, D. (2024). Digital inequalities among internet users before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparison from two cross-sectional surveys in Slovenia. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123745

Petrovčič, A., Reisdorf, B. C., Vehovar, V., & Bartol, J. (2024). Disentangling the role of algorithm awareness and knowledge in digital inequalities: an empirical validation of an explanatory model. Information, Communication & Society, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2363896

Reisdorf, B., & Zillien, N. (2024). Digitale ungleichheit. In Handbuch Sozialstrukturanalyse (pp. 1-22). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

Swiatek, L., Vujnovic, M., Galloway, C., & Kruckeberg, D. (2024). Artificial intelligence, strategic communicators and activism. Routledge.

Dr. Min Jiang participated as a speaker in FGV Law School symposium on “Digital Sovereignty, AI Sovereignty” in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the G20 side event “Promoting Information Integrity” in São Paulo, Brazil in April 2024.

Dr. Min Jiang and Kristen Zhang, ‘24 M.A. presented the China team’s work at the 2024 International Communication Association conference in Gold Coast, Australia, and the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project Symposium at the University of Sydney in June 2024.

Debbie Baker’s proposal, “Gen Z, me, and online empathy: Mitigating instructor-student frustrations,” was selected for an Innovative Pedagogical Strategy Session at the 20th Teaching and Learning Online Conference hosted by Elon College on August 13, 2024.

Dr. Bibi Reisdorf was featured as a keynote speaker in November 2024 at the National Education Symposium: Connecting From Coast to Coast, Correction Service Canada with a talk titled: “Digital Barriers and Opportunities During Reentry.”

Dr. Camille Endacott was invited to be a keynote speaker at Baylor University’s Corporate Communication Symposium in November 2024. Dr. Endacott’s talk was titled: “Agents of Change: How AI Communicates for Us and Shapes Our Work.”

Dr. Tiffany Gallicano gave an invited lecture to our university’s subject librarians in August 2023 on ChatGPT titled “The use of ChatGPT for research and information seeking: What students need to know.“

Dr. Tiffany Gallicano was one of three panelists for AEJMC’s webinar, titled “AI in the JMC Classroom,” hosted by the association’s Standing Committee on Teaching on Sept. 19. Approximately 50 participants attended, and more than 100 people registered for the recording.

Dr. Rich Leeman presented a paper titled Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “A Time to Break Silence” as Turning Point: Constituting Community through the Social Gospel at the CCA Conference held September 29-30 at UNC Greensboro.

Dr. Stephanie Norander, along with graduate students Audrey Curry, Sherell Streetie, and Kristen Zhang, presented the paper titled Centering Student Mental Health as a Communicative Process and Project: Experiences with Student-Centered Learning in Graduate Education at the CCA Conference held September 29-30 at UNC Greensboro.

Dr. Erin Basinger, with graduate student co-authors Justin Hughes and Kelsey Singer presented their paper titled Death Stranding and the Commodification of Women in the Post-Apocalyptic Setting in the Health Communication Division at the NCA Conference held November 16-19 in National Harbor, MD.

Dr. Jason Black presented his paper titled Deliberating the Declaration: Democracy and the Declaration of Independence in Public Address Division at the NCA Conference held November 16-19 in National Harbor, MD.

Dr. Shanice Jones Cameron presented “Black People Don’t Do That”: Discursive Barriers and Black Women’s Digital Well-Being Networks in African American Communication and Culture Division and Health Disinformation, Coach Stormy, and the Monetization of Black Digital Ecosystems in the Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide Session at the NCA Conference held November 16-19 in National Harbor, MD.

Dr. Camille Endacott presented “Your Connection is Unstable”: A Longitudinal Study of Organizational Assimilation following Remote Socialization in the Organizational Communication Division and Brokering Work Relationships: Tertius Iungens, Affective Organizational Identification, and Tie Management in the Scholar to Scholar Session at the NCA Conference held November 16-19 in National Harbor, MD.

Dr. Min Jiang presented her paper titled Debating U.S.-China Power Relations: Soft Power, Hard Power, Sharp Power or Smart Power?  in the International and Intercultural Communication Division and U.S.-China Communication Scholars Summit in the International and Intercultural Communication Division at the NCA Conference held November 16-19 in National Harbor, MD.

Dr. Stephanie Norander presented Permission to Scream: From Frustration and Futility to Boundary Pushing and Academic Freedom in Teaching Communication Across Disciplines in the Instructional Development Division at the NCA Conference held November 16-19 in National Harbor, MD.

Dr. Margaret Quinlan presented her paper title Sequestering Silence and Embracing Expression: A Rhetorical Framing Analysis of #MedToo Discourse on Twitter in the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the NCA Conference held November 16-19 in National Harbor, MD.

Dr. Ashli Stokes presented You are What You Eat: Using Food to Shape and/or Undermine Identity in the American Studies Division at the NCA Conference held November 16-19 in National Harbor, MD.