Research Roundup

CI recognizes faculty excellence by compiling a list of publications, presentations, seminars, panels, funded projects, awards and more.
 

2023

News and Noteworthy

Spencer Greenhalgh (SIS)

Seminars and Panels

CI Research Seminar Series: Elizabeth Spencer (ISC)
  • Topic: "Focusing In: Applications and integrations of Visual Communication for Improved Outcomes and Greater Impact"
  • Date: March 8, 2023
  • Recording: Click here.
CI Research Seminar Series: Yu Chi (SIS)
  • Topic: "Exploring Knowledge Acquisition and Resource-Sharing Behaviors in Online Health Communities for Women with Ovarian Cancer."
  • Date: March 22, 2023
  • Recording: Click here.

Publications and Presentations

Spencer Greenhalgh (SIS)
Jihye Kim (ISC)
  • Kim, J. & Kim, M. (2023). Using personalization for cause-related marketing beyond compassion fade on social media. Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, 17(2), 299-316.
Firaz Peer (SIS)
  • Firaz Peer “The Human Infrastructure of Civic Data: A Taxonomy for Participatory Infrastructuring of Civic Data”. ACCEPTED AT European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) 2023.
Shannon Crawford Barniskis (SIS)
  • Shannon Crawford Barniskis. Presentation. "Trustworthy trustees: How librarians and judge executives understand and select trustees." Kentucky Public Library Association. March 30, 2023. 

Seminars and Panels

CI Research Seminar Series: Fatima Espinoza-Vasquez (SIS)
  • Date: February 28, 2023
  • Topic: Addressing Information Access Inequality from Below: Building an Alternative Sociotechnical Infrastructure with the Lexington Latinx Community
  • Recording: Click here.

Publications and Presentations

Renee Kaufmann (SIS)
  • Spence, P. R., Kaufmann, R., Lachlan, K., Lin, X., & Spates, S. A. (in press). Extending the Understanding of Online Discussions: A Replication of Online Students’ Perceptions of Identity and Helper Heuristics. Communication Education.
Shannon Crawford Barniskis (SIS)
  • Crawford Barniskis, S. (2023). Serious and casual leisure in public library makerspaces: The two-audience conundrum and research agenda. Library and Information Science Research, 45(2). (in press)
Fatima Vasquez Espinoza (SIS)
  • Espinoza Vasquez, F.., Santiago Ortiz, A., Mudd-Martin, G., (2023) Combining Intergroup Dialogue and Sociotechnical Infrastructure Design: Addressing Social and Technical Determinants of Health Information Disparities with the Latinx Community. International Journal of Qualitative Methods.
Evan Brody (COM)
Marko Dragojevic (COM) and Aurora Occa (COM)
Marko Dragojevic (COM)

  • Fasoli, F., Dragojevic, M., Rakić, T., & Johnson, S. (in press). Voice matters: Social categorization and stereotyping of speakers based on sexual orientation and nationality categories. Language and Communication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.02.001

  • Fasoli, F., Dragojevic, M., & Rakić, T. (2023). When voice signals nationality and sexual orientation: Speakers’ self-perceptions and perceived stigmatization. Psychology of Language and Communication, 27(1), 59-83. https://doi.org/10.58734/plc-2023-0004

Funded Projects

Sarah Geegan (ISC) and Kimberly Parker (ISC)
  • Persuasion and Message Design, Help Seeking for Mental Health Among Latinx College Students (2022 – 2023). Geegan, S. A. (PI), & Parker, K.A. (Co-PI). UNITE (United in True Racial Equity). $12,000
     

News and Noteworthy

Daniela DiGiacomo (SIS)
Brandi Frisby (SIS)

Publications and Presentations

Evan Brody (COM), Spencer Greenhalgh (SIS) and colleague
Sean Burns (SIS)
  • Burns, C.S. (2023). The issues with journal issues: Let journals be digital libraries. Publications, 11(1)
Erika Engstrom (JAM) and Ashley McCann (UK Honor Student)
  • McCann, Ashley, & Engstrom, Erika. (2023). A lack of Joi: Hegemonic femininity and the male gaze in Blade Runner: 2049. Popular Culture Review, 34(1), 51-83.
Fatima Espinoza-Vasquez (SIS) and Shannon Oltmann (SIS)
  • VEspinoza Vasquez, F.K.; Oltmann, S. (2023) Information precarity and the agentic practices of marginalized communities: Puerto Rican activists addressing the crisis before, during, and after Hurricane Maria. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)
Brandi Frisby (SIS)
Sarah Geegan (ISC), Kimberly Parker (ISC), Bobi Ivanov (ISC), Diane Francis (COM) and colleagues
  • Geegan, S. A., Parker, K. A., Dogan, J., Ivanov, B., Tristan, A., & Francis, D. B. (accepted). COVID 19 vaccine hesitancy and acceptance: The influence of communication between Black Americans and health professionals. The International Journal of Health, Wellness and Society.
Luke LeFebvre (SIS) and colleagues
  • LeFebvre, L., LeFebvre, L. E., & Allen, M. (2023). Virtual environment presentations: A qualitative exploration of user perceptions. PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality. Advanced online version. https://doi.org/10.1162/pres_a_00367
  • LeFebvre, L. E., & LeFebvre, L. (2023). Metasynthesis in Communication research: Synthesizing the past to aid the future. Communication Education. Advanced online version. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2023.217144
  • LeFebvre, L., Florence, D., & Dao, M. (2023). Center alliance: Transforming communication practices in the mathematics classroom. In J. Burchfield & A. Kedrowicz (Eds.), Teaching communication across disciplines for professional development, civic engagement, and beyond. Lexington.
Kimberly Parker (ISC), Bobi Ivanov (ISC), Erin Hester (ISC) and colleague
  • Roberson, L., Parker, K. A., Ivanov, B., & Hester, E. B. (2023). Feasibility and acceptability of a curricula to promote healthy eating in the golden years. Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal. http://doi.org/10.1111/fcsr.12467
Jessalyn Vallade (SIS), Renee Kaufmann (SIS) and Adam Tristan (COM)
  • Vallade, J. I., Tristan, A., & Kaufmann, R. (2023). Highlighting the intersectional experiences of students of color: A mixed methods examination of instructor (mis)behavior. Communication Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2023.2169727

 

2022

Seminars and Panels

CI Research Seminar Series: Yung Soo Kim (JAM)
  • Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2022
  • Topic: Reader Reactions to an Ethical Dilemma Faced by Photojournalists
  • Recording: Click here.
CI Research Seminar Series: Andy Pilny (COM)
  • Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2022
  • Topic: COVID-19 contact tracing: A communication network perspective
  • Recording: Click here.
Panel: Daniela DiGiacomo (SIS) and colleagues
  • DiGiacomo, D. & Taylor, C. (Invited Panelist, Dec. 12). “Researching and communicating the value add of information literacy across the education continuum.” Kentucky Virtual Library.
     

Publications

Daniela DiGiacomo (SIS) and colleagues
  • Taylor, C. & DiGiacomo, D. (in press). Approaches to information literacy conceptualization in K-12 and higher education contexts: A review of the current scholarly literature. Journal of Information Literacy.
  • DiGiacomo, D., Usher, E., Han, J., Abney, J., Cole, A. & Patterson, J. (in press). The benefits of belonging: Students' perceptions of their online learning experiences. Distance Education.
Brandi Frisby (SIS) and colleagues
  • Flanigan, A., Hosek, A., Frisby, B. N., Babchuk, W. & Ray, E. (Accepted). Effects of Classroom Digital Distraction Policies and Prevention on Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Student-Digital Distraction Policies and Prevention on Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Student-Instructor Rapport. Communication Education.
Montina Jiang (ISC) and colleagues
  • Yang J., Jiang, M. & Kim, T. (2023). Authentic Warmth in These Uncertain Times: The Impact of Authenticity in COVID-19 Advertising on Brand Warmth and Consumer. Journal of Promotion Management, 29(2), 259–279. https://doi.org/10.1080/10496491.2022.2143988
  • Yang J., Jiang, M. & Kim, T. (2023). Authentic Warmth in These Uncertain Times: The Impact of Authenticity in COVID-19 Advertising on Brand Warmth and Consumer. Journal of Promotion Management, 29(2), 259–279. https://doi.org/10.1080/10496491.2022.2143988
Nicky Lewis (COM) and colleagues
  • Brown, K. A., Lewis, N., Barnidge, M. & Boman, C. D. (2022). Black Lives Matter to the NBA: The impact of sport fanship and political affiliation on the perception of the NBA’s racial justice initiatives during the 2020 playoff bubble. International Journal of Sport Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2022-0150
Brian Real (SIS) and colleagues
  • Adle, M., Behre, J., Real, B. & Jean, B. S. (2023). Moving toward Health Justice in the COVID-19 Era: A Sampling of US Public Libraries’ Efforts to Inform the Public, Improve Information Literacy, Enable Health Behaviors, and Optimize Health Outcomes. The Library Quarterly, 93(1), 26-47.
Elizabeth Spencer (ISC) and colleagues
  • A. M. Mason, Josh Compton, & Elizabeth A. Spencer (accepted) Understanding Individual Differences in the Early-stage Dimensions of “Vestedness” within Midwestern Populations toward the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The Midwest Quarterly
Zixue Tai (JAM) and colleagues
  • Sida, Chen, Tai, Zixue & Liu, Jianping (forthcoming). Barriers, Facilitators and Sustainers in Tai Ji Quan Practice: A Mixed-Methods RE-AIM Assessment of College Students versus the General Population. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. Ahead of Print, https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2022-0354
  • Tai, Zixue (2022). Social Media and Contentious Action: The Use and Users of QQ Groups in China. Media and Communication, 10(4), 66-76. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i4.5894

Seminars and Panels

CI Research Seminar Series: Erin Hester (ISC)
  • Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2022
  • Topic: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Confronting Wicked Problems with Strategic Communication
  • Recording: Click here.

Seminars and Panels

CI Research Seminar Series: Kimberly Parker (ISC) and Sarah Geegan (ISC)
  • Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2022
  • Topic: Building Teams to Work on Social Problems
  • Recording: Click here.
     

Funded Projects

Nancy Harrington (COM)
  • Grant: Evaluation of a Persuasive Health Communication Intervention Designed to Increase HIV/HCV Screening among Emergency Departments Patients Who Currently, Formerly or Never Injected Drugs, Co-investigator. National Institute on Drug Abuse. Roland C. Merchant, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, PI.
     

Publications

Sarah Barriage (SIS) and colleagues
  • Grafelman, K., & Barriage, S. (2022). No finish line: Creating inclusiveness in children’s programs. Children and Libraries, 20(3), 3-11. https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.20.3.3
Spencer Greenhalgh (SIS)
  • Greenhalgh, S. P. (2023). "I'm a French teacher, not a data scientist!": Culture and language across my professions. In I. C. Plough & W. Tamboura (Eds.), Cultures and languages across the curriculum in higher education (pp. 99-112). Routledge.
Hyun Ju Jeong (ISC) and co-author Deborah Chung (JAM)
  • Hyun Ju Jeong & Deborah S. Chung (Accepted). Corporate social responsibility (CSR) from the news media lens: With moderation of media attribution and type of media in CSR communication. Journal of Media Ethics.
Jihye Kim (ISC) and co-author Hyun Ju Jeong (ISC)
  • Kim, J. & Jeong, H. J. (Accepted). 'It’s my virtual space’: The effect of personalized native advertising within social media. International Journal of Advertising
Renee Kaufmann (SIS) and colleagues
  • a. Spence, P. R., Lachlan, K., & Kaufmann, R. (accepted). “They must have something to hide:” Testing the impact of identity masking in news on perceptions of organizations and risks. Electronic News.
  • LeRoy, L.S. & Kaufmann, R. (in press). Identifying student motivations for webcam use in online courses. Interactive Learning Environments. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2022.2115516
  • Kaufmann, R. & Sellnow, D. D. (2022). “Instructional communication, technology, and the online learning environment: What next? – Pedagogy of renewal.” In M. L. Houser and A. M. Hosek (Eds.). The Handbook of Instructional Communication: Rhetorical and Relational Perspectives 3rd Edition. *Invited Book Chapter, (referred) ISBN: 9798765706985
  • Sellnow, D. D. & Kaufmann, R. (2022). “Instructional communication, technology, and the online learning environment: Then and now.” In M. L. Houser and A. M. Hosek (Eds.). The Handbook of Instructional Communication: Rhetorical and Relational Perspectives 3rd Edition. *Invited Book Chapter, (referred) ISBN: 9798765706985

News and Noteworthy

Buck Ryan (JAM)

Publications

Maria Cahill (SIS) and colleagues
  • LeFebvre, R. A., Cahill, M., Luzić, G. (accepted). Children’s librarians’ conceptualizations of school readiness. Public Library Quarterly.
Marko Dragojevic (COM) and colleague
  • Dragojevic, M., & Gasiorek, J. (in press). Effects of task performance expectancy violations on processing fluency and speaker evaluations. Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
Diane Francis (COM), Anita Silwal (CI doctoral student) and colleague
  • Silwal, A., Zelaya, C. M., & Francis, D. B. (in press). Beliefs underlying colorectal cancer information seeking among young Black adults: A reasoned action approach elicitation study. Journal of Cancer Education.
Derek Lane (COM) and colleagues
  • Jin, X. & Lane, D. R. (in press). To know or not to know? Exploring COVID-19 information seeking with the risk information seeking and processing model. Journal of Information Science.
  • Lane, D. R., Frey, T. K., & Tatum, N. T. (in press). Affective approaches in the instructional context. In M. L. Houser and A. M. Hosek (Eds.) Handbook of instructional communication: Rhetorical and relational perspectives (3rd ed). Routledge.
  • Lane, D. R. (in press). Historical trends in instructional communication research. In . D. D. Sellnow and M. G. Strawser (Eds.) Teaching communication: Strategies for a new age (Vol. 1). Cognella.
  • Lane, D. R. (in press) Survey methods. In E. Y. Ho, C. L. Bylund, J. C. M. Van Weert, I. Basnyat, N. Bol, & M. Dean (Eds). The international encyclopedia of health communication. Wiley.
  • Sellnow, T. L., Lane, D. R., & Sellnow, D. D. (in press). Instructional risk and crisis communication. In M. L. Houser and A. M. Hosek (Eds.) Handbook of Instructional Communication: Rhetorical and Relational perspectives (3rd ed). Routledge.
  • Sellnow, T. L. , Sellnow, D. D., Johansson, B., Lane, D. R., & Seeger, M. W. (in press). The IDEA model theoretical framework: An explication of risk communication as engaged public relations. In C. H. Botan and E. Sommerfeldt (Eds.) Public relations theory III: In the age of publics. Routledge.
  • Strawser, M. G., & Lane, D. R., (in press). Beyond the academy: An introduction. Instructional communication in professional contexts. Cognella.
Luke LeFebvre (SIS) and colleagues
  • LeFebvre, L., LeFebvre, L. E., Carmack, H. J., & Lazić, G. (2022). Preparing the next generation of teachers inappropriately: When introductory course directors engage in teacher misbehaviors. Advanced online version. Communication Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2022.2112248

News and Noteworthy

Buck Ryan (JAM)
Al Cross (JAM)
  • Cross hosted the International Society of Weekly Newspapers Editors conference here at UK. Gathering in person for the first time in three years, ISWNE members explored the history, culture and newspapers of Kentucky’s Bluegrass region and some of the challenges facing their craft – including the evils of social media, dealing with the local impact of national politics, and the need for new business models – and, of course, editorial critiques.
     

Publications

Sarah Barriage (SIS)
  • Barriage, S. (2022). Young children’s interest-driven information practices. Information & Learning Sciences. Advance online publication. doi:10.1108/ILS-03-2022-0037
Yu Chi (SIS) and colleagues
  • Chi, Y., Thaker, K.M., He, D., Hui, V., Donovan, H., Brusilovsky, P., Lee, Y.J. (forthcoming/in press). Knowledge Acquisition and Social Support in Online Health Communities: Analysis of an Online Ovarian Cancer Community. JMIR Cancer. doi:10.2196/39643. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/39643
  • Zou, N., Chi, Y., He, D., Xie, B., & Wang, Z. (2022). Together they shall not fade away: Opportunities and challenges of self-tracking for dementia care. Information Processing & Management, 59(5), 103024.
Marko Dragojevic (COM) and colleague
  • Dragojevic, M., & Gasiorek, J. (in press). Effects of task performance expectancy violations on processing fluency and speaker evaluations. Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
Hyun Ju Jeong (ISC), Deborah Chung (JAM) and Jihye Kim (ISC)
  • Hyun Ju Jeong, Deborah S. Chung, & Jihye Kim (accepted). Brands are humans on social media: The effectiveness of human tone-of-voice on consumer engagement and purchase intentions. International Journal of Communication.
Nicky Lewis (COM) and colleague
  • Lewis, N., & Norris, A. E. (in press). Identification with and social comparison to teen mothers on Teen Mom over time. Health Communication.
Kelly McAninch (COM) and colleagues
  • McAninch, K., Basinger, E., Delaney, A. & Wehrman, E. (2022). Integrating relational turbulence theory and the theory of resilience and relational load to investigate the relationships of couples with chronic illness. Communication Quarterly. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2022.2100267

News and Noteworthy

Al Cross (JAM)
  • Cross reports that the second National Summit on Journalism in Rural America (the first one was in 2007) posed a research question: “How do rural communities sustain local journalism that supports local democracy?” His group is continuing to pursue answers to that question through a list-serve for Summit attendees, a planned website, and an online follow-up to the conference this winter. Their report on the Summit is at https://irjci.blogspot.com/p/national-summit-on-journalism-in-rural.html.
Buck Ryan (JAM)

Funded Projects

Erin Hester (ISC) and Sarah Geegan (ISC)
  • Erin Hester (Principal Investigator) & Sarah Geegan (Co-Investigator), in partnership with the UK Human Development Institute (a unit of the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research at UK and part of a nationwide network of University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities), the College of Public Health and the Center for Health Equity Transformation (of the College of Medicine) have been awarded a Sustainability Challenge Grant in the amount of $43K titled "Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility Without Leaving the Community Behind”. This project will develop and pilot best practices for organizations to implement CSR communication that intentionally includes the perspective of individuals with disabilities.
     

Publications

Kody Frey (SIS) and colleague
Brandi Frisby (SIS), Jessalyn Vallade (SIS), Corey (Joseph) Huber (CI graduate student), Adam Tristan (CI graduate student) and Alexis Hadden (COM)
  • Frisby, B. N., Vallade, J. I., Huber, C. J., Tristan, A., & Hadden, A. (Accepted). An analysis and comparison of the instructor-student relationship using relational framing theory. Western Journal of Communication.
Allison Scott Gorden (COM) and colleagues
  • Van Scoy, L. J., Scott, A. M., Green, M. J., Witt, P. D., Wasserman, E., Chinchilli, V. M., & Levi, B. H. (in press). Communication Quality Analysis: A user-friendly observational measure of patient-clinician communication. Communication Methods and Measures.
Spencer Greenhalgh (SIS) and colleague
Nancy Harrington (COM) and colleagues
  • Lukacena, K. M., Keck, J. W., Freeman, P. R., Harrington, N. G., & Moga, D. (in press). Patients’ attitudes toward deprescribing and their experiences communicating with clinicians and pharmacists. Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety.
Shannon Oltmann (SIS), Sarah Barriage (SIS) and colleagues
  • Oltmann, S. M., Kitzie, V., & Barriage, S. (2022). “For me, it is an intellectual freedom issue”: Drag storytimes, neutrality, and ALA core values. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006221100853
  • Kitzie, V., Floegel, D., Barriage, S., & Oltmann, S. M. (2022). How visibility, hypervisibility, and invisibility shape library staff and drag performer perceptions of and experiences with drag storytimes in public libraries. Library Quarterly, 92(3), 215-240. https://doi.org/10.1086/719915

News and Noteworthy

Maria Cahill (SIS) and Soohyung Joo (SIS)
  • The paper Storytime Programs as Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors? Addressing Children’s Needs through Diverse Book Selection by Maria Cahill, Erin Ingram, and Soohyung Joo, which was published in The Library Quarterly, was selected for the 2022 LRRT Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research.
Al Cross (JAM)
  • Cross's work was profiled through WEKU.  You can access the interview here.
Spencer Greenhalgh (SIS)
  • Greenhalgh's work was profiled through WEKU.  You can access the story and interview here.
     

Funded Projects

Erin Hester (ISC) and Adriane Grumbein (ISC)
  • Erin Hester and Adriane Grumbein received funding for their project, Testing Revisions to the Protection Motivation Theory: Can Compassion-based Messages Elicit Other-Protection?
     

Publications

Daniela DiGiacomo (SIS) and colleagues
  • DiGiacomo, D., Han, H., Trapp, S., & Kahloon, S. (2022). How Social Studies Teachers Conceptualize Civic Teaching and Learning in 2020:  Insights from a Research-Practice Partnership. Democracy & Education, 30 (1), 5.
  • Muetterties, C., DiGiacomo, D. & New, R. (2022). Recentering civics: A framework for building civic dispositions and action opportunities.  Democracy & Education, 30 (1), 5.
  • DiGiacomo, D, Usher, E., Griffiths, C., Flick, C., Kahloon, S., Goldstein, B., Bograd, S., Sippy, E., Farmer, S., Pavaluri, S., and the Kentucky Student Voice Team. (2022). Coping with Covid-19: Youth Experiences and Perspectives. Children, Youth & Environments, 32(1), 5-34.
Bobi Ivanov (ISC), Erin Hester (ISC) and colleague
  • Compton, J., Ivanov, B., & Hester, E. B. (accepted). Inoculation theory and affect. International Journal of Communication. 
Firaz Peer (SIS)
  • Firaz Peer. 2022. A Participatory Approach to Eliciting Local Values of Civic Data Justice. In Participatory Design Conference 2022: Volume 1 (PDC 2022 Vol.1), August 19-September 1, 2022, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3536169.3537788
Andy Pilny (COM) and colleagues
  • Ashwood, L., Pilny, A., Canfield, J., Johnson, M., & Thomson, R. (accepted). From Big Ag to Big Finance: A market network approach to power in agriculture. Agriculture and Human Values.
Zixue Tai (JAM) and colleagues
  • Tai, Zixue & Dai, Cheng (2022). College students’ attachment to their smartphones: a subjective operant approach. BMC Psychology 10, 145. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-00857-x
  • Willnat, Lars & Tai, Zixue (2022). Introduction to the Global Media and China Special Issue on Covid-19. Global Media and China. 7(1), 78-80. DOI:10.1177/20594364221081555
Rong Wang (COM) and colleagues
  • Wang, R., Li, L., & Fulk, J. (Accepted). Networking the Commons: Creative Commons Project Creators’ Funding Patterns in Crowdfunding. Online Information Review. 
  • Park, S. & Wang, R. (Accepted). Assessing the Capability of Government Information Intervention and Socio-economic Factors of Information Sharing during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Country Study using Big Data Analytics. Behavioral Sciences. 

Seminars, Presentations and Panels

CI Research Seminar Series: Maria Cahill (SIS)
  • Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2022
  • Topic: Libraries As Community Anchors for Young Children: Collaborations, Explorations, and Reflections
     

Funded Projects

Fatima Espinoza Vasquez (SIS)
  • Espinoza Vasquez was awarded a $43,202 UK UNITE grant for her project “Co-Developing a Community Infrastructure with Lexington’s Latinx Community.” This is Phase 2 of work that began with funding in 2020 from UK’s Igniting Research Collaborations program. Phase 3 will involve seeking external funding to develop an alternative sociotechnical infrastructure within the Latinx community.
     

Publications

Marko Dragojevic (COM)and colleague
  • Dayton, Z. A., & Dragojevic, M. (in press). Political partisanship and persuasion in the context of COVID-19. Communication Reports.
Erika Engstrom (JAM), David Stephenson (JAM), Yung Soo Kim (JAM) and colleague
  • Engstrom, E., Stephenson, D., Kim, Yung Soo, & Valenzano, J.M. (2022). 'Under His eye: Religious appropriation and American civil religion in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale. Journal of Media and Religion, https://doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2022.2059301
Montina Jiang (ISC) and colleagues
  • Yang J., Jiang, M., & Kim, T. (2022). Authentic Warmth in These Uncertain Times”: The Impact of Authenticity in COVID-19 Advertising on Brand Warmth and Consumer. Journal of Promotion Management.
Jihye Kim (ISC) and colleague
  • Kim, J. & Kim, M. (2022). How do calorie ending and price ending matter in the food consumption decision-making? International Journal of Consumer Studies, 46(3),731-743.
Kimberly Parker (ISC), Erin Hester (ISC), Bobi Ivanov (ISC) and colleagues
  • Parker, K. A., Hester, E., Geegan, S. A., Ciunova-Shuleska, A., Palamidovska-Sterjadovska, N., & Ivanov, B. (accepted). The declining population crisis among young educated people in North Macedonia: A qualitative analysis of reasons to leave or stay. Central and Eastern European Migration Review.
Andy Pilny (COM) and colleagues
  • Pilny, A., & Contractor, N. (forthcoming). Networks. In V. Miller & M.S. Poole (Eds.) Handbook of organizational communication theory and research. De Gruyter Publishing.
  • Leonardi, P., Pilny, A., Treem, J., & Sharma, N. (forthcoming). Artificial intelligence and organizational communication.  In V. Miller & M.S. Poole (Eds.) Handbook of organizational communication theory and research. De Gruyter Publishing.
Jennifer Scarduzio (COM), Anthony Limperos (COM) and colleagues
  • Adams, M., Scarduzio, J. A., Limperos, A. M., Fletcher, J. (In Press). Younger employees’ sexual harassment experiences on Facebook’s public feed verses direct messages: How the online setting impacts uncertainty and coping. Sexuality and Culture

Seminars, Presentations and Panels

CI Research Seminar Series: Kody Frey (SIS) and Beth Bloch (SIS)
  • Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2022
  • Topic: Hidden Worlds: Exploring Unconscious Assumptions and Values about Scientific Practice, Classrooms, and Public Health
CI Research Seminar Series: Zixue Tai (JAM)
  • Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2022
  • Topic: From Capture to Containment: Contact Tracing for COVID-19 in China
     

News and Noteworthy

Brandi Frisby (SIS)
  • The latest volume of the journal Frisby edits, Basic Communication Course Annual, has been published. The open access can be found at https://ecommons.udayton.edu/bcca/.
Spencer Greenhalgh (SIS)

Seminars, Presentations and Panels

CI Research Seminar Series: Firaz Peer (SIS)
  • Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2022
  • Topic: All Data Are Human: The Human Infrastructure of Civic Data
CI Research Seminar Series: Ryan Bisel (University of Oklahoma)
  • Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2022
  • Topic: The Mutual Benefit of Cause-Related Marketing for Consumers and Brands: With the Warm Glow Effect on Purchase Happiness and Brand Attitude
  • Recording: Click here.
CI Research Seminar Series: Hyun Ju Jeong (ISC)
  • Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2022
  • Topic: The Mutual Benefit of Cause-Related Marketing for Consumers and Brands: With the Warm Glow Effect on Purchase Happiness and Brand Attitude
     

News and Noteworthy

Daniela DiGiacomo (SIS)
  • On March 10 in Frankfort, the Kentucky Student Voice Team (student educational justice group DiGiacomo works with) presented their recent research on student experiences of race and racial discussions in their KY K-12 classes.  A link to the report is here plus there are stories in the Louisville Courier-Journal and Lexington Herald-Leader.
Marko Dragojevic (COM), Aurora Occa (COM) and Zane Dayton (CI doctoral student)
  • Dragojevic, Occa and Dayton won a top paper award in the health communication division at ICA: Dragojevic M., Occa A., & Dayton, Z. A. (2022). Effects of character accent on transportation and persuasion in first-person health.
Kody Frey (SIS) and Jessalyn Vallade (SIS)
  • Frey and Vallade won a top paper in the instructional communication division at ICA: Frey, T. K., & Vallade, J. (2022, May). A practical guide to using multilevel modeling for instructional communication research and assessment.
     

Publications

Sarah Barriage (SIS) and colleagues
  • Barriage, S., Choi, H. J., Ray, A. E., Hecht, M. L., Greene, K., & Glenn, S. D. (2022). Exploring the relationship between youth information behavior, substance use, and substance use expectancies: A pilot study. In M. Smits (Ed.), Lecture notes in computer science: Vol 13193. Information for a better world: Shaping the global future (pp. 106-122). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96960-8_8
Yu Chi (SIS) and colleagues
  • Thaker, K.M., Chi, Y., Birkhoff, S., He, D., Donovan, H., Rosenbum, L., Brusilovsky, P., Hui, C., Lee, Y.J. (forthcoming/in press). Exploring Resource Sharing Behaviors for Finding Relevant Health Resources: An Analysis of an Online Ovarian Cancer Community. JMIR Cancer. doi:10.2196/33110 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/33110
Deborah Chung (JAM), Hyun Ju Jeong (ISC) and colleagues
  • Chung, D. S., Jeong, H. J., Lee, S., & Nah, S. (accepted). News credibility revisited: The roles of news comment engagement and news literacy on news portal credibility in South Korea. Asian Journal of Communication.
Daniela DiGiacomo (SIS) and colleagues
  • DiGiacomo, D., Han, H., Trapp, S., & Kahloon, S. (2022, in press). How Social Studies Teachers Conceptualize Civic Teaching and Learning in 2020:  Insights from a Research-Practice Partnership. Democracy & Education.
  • Muetterties, C., DiGiacomo, D. & New, R. (2022, in press). Recentering civics: A framework for building civic dispositions and action opportunities.  Democracy & Education.
Phil Hutchison (ISC)
  • Phillip J. Hutchison. “Celebrating a Comedy of Insults: Don Rickles meets Mikhail Bakhtin.” Comedy Studies 13:2 (Spring 2022). 10.1080/2040610X.2022.2040759
Jihye Kim (ISC) and colleague
  • Kim, J. & Kim, M. (2022). Rise of social media influencers as a new communication channel: Focusing on the roles of psychological well-being and perceived social responsibility among consumers? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(4):2362. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19042362
Luke LeFebvre (SIS)
  • LeFebvre, L. (2022). Speech Communication at Iowa State University: A department history and aftermath. Journal of the Association for Communication Administration, 39(2), 50–71. https://commadministration.org/issues
Aurora Occa (COM) and colleagues
  • Occa, A., Leip, A., Merritt, A. S., & Stapleton, J. L. (2022). Prevalence and correlates of invitation to participate in clinical trials among US adults. Preventive Medicine Reports, 101742.
Rong Wang (COM) and colleagues
  • Cooper, K. & Wang, R. (Accepted). From Reactionary to Revelatory: CSR Reporting in Response to the Global Refugee Crisis. Business & Society
  • Wang, R. & Chen, B. (Accepted). A Configurational Approach to Attracting Participation in Crowdsourcing Social Innovation: The Case of Openideo. Management Communication Quarterly.

Seminars, Presentations and Panels

CI Research Seminar Series: Don Helme (COM)
  • Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2022
  • Topic: The HEALing Communities Study: Lessons Learned from a Community-Based, Community-Driven Health Communication Campaign Initiative
     

Funded Projects

Don Helme (COM)
  • Helme is co-investigator on Development and Pilot Randomized Control Trial of a Text Message Intervention to Facilitate Secure Storage and Disposal of Prescription Opioids to Prevent Diversion and Misuse, a project funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (Kathleen Egan, East Carolina University, principal investigator: 1R34DA051710-01A1; R34; 8/21-5/24, $692,758).
     

News and Noteworthy

Sarah Barriage (SIS)
  • Barriage co-edited a special issue of the journal Library Trends titled "Family Matters: Mapping Information Phenomena within the Context of the Family." The full table of contents can be viewed at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47221.
     

Publications

Sarah Barriage (SIS) and colleague
  • Dalmer, N. K., & Barriage, S. (2021). Introduction. Library Trends, 70(2), 73-77. doi:10.1353/lib.2021.0017
Evan Brody (COM) and colleague
  • Pariera, K. L. & Brody, E. (in press). Encouraging parental sexual communication with teen sons: A social norms experiment. Health Communication.
Maria Cahill (SIS) and colleagues
  • Cahill, M., & Ingram, E. (accepted). Extratextual talk in public library storytime programs: A focus on questions. Journal of Early Childhood Research
  • Ingram, E., & Cahill, M. (accepted). Depictions of diversity in books recommended for storytime: A cautionary tale. Libri.
Diane Francis (COM) and colleagues
  • Pearce, K. Messerli, E., Leigh, M. L., Smalls, B., Francis, D. B., Yerramreddy, S., & Kiviniemi, M. (In Press). SARS-CoV-2 vaccine intentions in Kentucky. Journal of Appalachian Health.
  • Wright, K., McFarland, J. S., & Francis, D. B. (In Press). When race and agency collide: Examining pregnant Black women’s experiences in healthcare. Journal of Applied Communication Research.
Diane Francis (COM), Andy Pilny (COM) and colleague
  • Francis, D. B., Pilny, A., & Zelaya, C. M. (In Press). Predicting interpersonal cancer talk among Black women in the United States following Aretha Franklin’s death: The role of network-level factors. Journal of Applied Communication Research.
Montina Jiang (ISC) and colleagues
  • Jiang, M., Yang, J., Joo, E., & Kim, T. (2022). Advertising Value during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Authenticity. Journal of Interactive Advertising.
Luke LeFebvre (SIS) and colleagues
  • LeFebvre, L., Parsons, M. M., Entwistle, C., Boyd, R., & Allen, M. (2022). Rethinking PowerPoint slide design for multimedia learning. Journal of Educational Technology Systems. Advanced online version. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472395221077628

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