Faculty Research

Blank, G., & Reisdorf, B. (2026). First-Level Digital Divides Matter: The Importance of Quality of Access and the Digital Divide in Predicting Internet Use. Proceedings of the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/6bfae447-f445-4963-984e-3ccc392ef582.

Harter, L. M., & Quinlan, M. (2026). Scenes, sparks, and stories of brave space-making in motion. Journal of Applied Communication Research. http://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2026.2637761

Jones Cameron, S. (2026). Mapping the User Trajectory: Black Women’s Digital Well-being Networks and Leveraging Social Support Affordances. Women’s Studies in Communication 49(1), 41-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2025.2588130

Piercy, C. W., Han, M., & Endacott, C. G. (2026). Brokering Work Relationships: Exploring the Tie Management Process in the Workplace. International Journal of Business Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177232948842514136

Winseck, D., Bouquillion, P., Jiang, M., Flew, T., Bizberge, A., & Hoskins, G. (2026). Networks of Power: Media and Internet Concentration, Platform Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy. International Communication Gazette.

Vujnovic, M., & Kruckeberg, D. (2026). The role of PIC in today’s increasingly turbulent globalized world. In B. R. Brunner & K. Chernin (Eds.), Public interest communications: Foundations, influence, and importance (227-242). Bloomsbury Academic.

Endacott, C. G. (2025). Understanding organizational control through simulating a study of extreme workplace health promotion. Communication Teacher, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2025.2473411

Galloway, C., Vujnovic, M., Swiatek, L., & Kruckeberg, D. (2025). Exploring artificial intelligence implications for journalism and mass communication education. Peter Lang.

Hancock, C., Newsham, T., Quinlan, M. M., & Tindall, L.* (in press). An interdisciplinary perspective on interdependence with suggestions for aging services providers. The Gerontologist.

Jiang, M., & Belli, L. (Eds.). (2025). Digital sovereignty in the BRICS countries: How the global South and emerging power alliances are reshaping digital governance. Cambridge University Press.

Jiang, M. (2025). Chinese Internet policies: Historical reflections and new research directions, Communication & The Public. https://doi.org/10.1177/20570473251316590

Jones Cameron, S. (2025). ‘Black people don’t do that’: A critical qualitative study of discursive barriers and black women’s digital well-being networks. Critical Discourse Studies, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2025.2462831

Kruckeberg, D., Vujnovic, M., Galloway, C., & Swiatek, L. (2025). AI, activism and strategic communication:   Grappling with evolving power dynamics.  In Y. Cheng & D. Vercic (Eds.), AI and strategic communication.  Wiley.

Laznik, J., Reisdorf, B. C., Petrovčič, A., & Hvalič-Touzery, S. (2025). Use-by-proxy in later life: A qualitative study with Internet users and nonusers. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2025.2577782

Mooney, J. T., Webb, J. B., Lipsky, L. M., Dahl, A. A., Quinlan, M. M., & Nansel, T. R. (2025). Psychometric properties of the Power of Food Scale during pregnancy and postpartum. Journal of Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/135910532513333244

Pilney, A., Endacott, C., & Treem, J. W. (2025). AI in the workplace. Wiley-Blackwell.

Swiatek, L., Vujnovic, M., Galloway, C., & Kruckeberg, D. (2025). The role of crisis in online audience participation’s influence on television content: A case study of The Activist. In A. C. Budaj & J. Anderson-Lopez (Eds.), Holding television accountable: Essays on audience demands in the Social Media Age. McFarland & Company.

Woo, D., & Endacott, C. G. (2025). Career resilience in a dynamic workforce. In M. L. Doerfel, J. A. Theiss, M. K. Venetis, & K. M. Scharp (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Resilience (pp. 233-251). Routledge.

Vujnovic, M., & Kruckeberg, D. (2025). Questions of power over (and control of) social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of Artificial Intelligence in public relations and Strategic Communication. In A. V. Laskin & K. Freberg (Eds.), Public relations and strategic communication in 2050: Trends shaping the future of the profession. Routledge.

Vujnovic, M., Swiatek, L., Kruckeberg, D., & Galloway, C. (2025). AI regulation and ethical considerations surrounding the use of Artificial Intelligence in PR: The need for transparency and accountability. In A. Wallace & G. Luttrell (Eds.), Public relations and the rise of AI. Routledge.

Basinger, E. D., Arroyo, A., Asbury, A., Asbury, M. B., Fox, R., Otis, H. N., Miller, N. P., Giles, H., & Turner, M. M. (2024). Dialogue on difference: Fat liberation in communication. Communication Monographs, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2024.2444318

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

Jiang, M. (2024). Models of state digital sovereignty from the Global South: Diverging experiences from China, India and South Africa. Policy & Internet, 16(4), 727-738. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.427

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. Ashli Stokes gave a talk on her book, Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia’s Search for Resilience, at Aldersgate Senior Living Community as part of the CHESS Lifelong Learning for Senior Communities Speaker Series on January 16th.

Dr. Min Jiang presented a talk titled “The Internet Age from PC to AI” as a part of the UNC Charlotte Ginkgo Residential Guest Speaker Series on February 11th at the Independent Picture House.

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.

Professor 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.”