Andrew Pilny

andrew.pilny@uky.edu

859-257-8676

236 Grehan Building

Department of Communication

Assistant Professor

Associate Membership

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. in Communication, 2015 Dissertation title: Social movements as networks of communication episodes Committee: Marshall Scott Poole (Chair) Michelle Shumate (Director), John Lammers, Jana Diesner
M.A .in Communication, 2010 Chair : Michelle Shumate
B.A. in Political Science, 2008
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Bio

 

Andrew Pilny (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky. His main research areas concerns the develop of effective organizing social systems and structures. His research has been applied to nonprofit organizations, social movement groups, work teams, and dark organizations. Andy also specializes in social network analysis. His work has been featured in Information, Communication, & Society, Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, Communication Yearbook, Western Journal of Communication, and Social Psychology Quarterly. 

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Recent Publications

Riles, J., Varava, K., Pilny, A., & Tewksbury, D. (forthcoming) Representations of interpersonal interaction and race/ethnicity: An examination of prime-time network television. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media.

Pilny, A., Schector, A., Poole, M. S., & Contractor, N. (in press). An illustration of the relational event model to analyze group interaction processes. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice.

Ahmed, I., Pilny, A., & Poole, M. S. (in press). Understanding aggressive and non-aggressive individual behaviors in a MMORPG. In Lakkaraju, K. & Gita Sukthankar, G. (Eds.), Social Interaction in Virtual Worlds. Cambridge University Press.

Carlson, E., Cooper, K., & Pilny, A (In press). Mixing methods in organizational communication research.  In E. Cohen (Ed.), Communication Yearbook, 40. New York: Routledge.

Ford, J. L., Ford, J. S., Frei, S. S., Pliny, A., & Berkelaar, B. L. (In press).  A network under stress: Using embeddedness to understand uncertainty management and resilience in campus emergencies. Journal of Applied Communication Research.

Pilny, A., & Poole, M.S. (forthcoming) A computational social science perspective into organiztional communication. In P. Salem & E. Timmerman (Eds.) Transformative Practices and Research in Organizational Communication. Hershey, PA:IGI Global.

Pilny, A., & Poole, M.S. (forthcoming) A computational social science perspective into organiztional communication. In P. Salem & E. Timmerman (Eds.) Transformative Practices and Research in Organizational Communication. Hershey, PA:IGI Global.

Riles, J., Pilny, A., & Tewksbury, D. (forthcoming). Media fragmentation in the context of bounded social networks: How far can it go? New Media & Society

Pilny, A., Poole, M.S., Reichelmann, A., & Brennan, K. (in press). A structurational group decision-making take on the public goods game: Results from an online experiment. Journal of Applied Communication Research.

Shumate, M., Cooper, K., Pilny, A., Pena y Lillo, M. (forthcoming). The nonprofit capacities instrument. Nonprofit Management & Leadership.