JMC Graduate Faculty
Graduate faculty members are professors who have been approved by the Graduate School to chair and serve on theses and dissertation committees. To form your committee, you should work with your faculty adviser to help determine which faculty are a "good fit" with the subject, the theory and the methodology, based on their research interest and publications. Below is a list of JMC graduate faculty.
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Research interests: media law and history, with an emphasis on broadcast history and regulation, especially early radio from 1900 to 1940 Research methods: historical methods, qualitative methods, legal research methods |
Research interests: journalism's responses to the changing news industry and audience behaviors, community journalism and community engagement, the intersection of journalism and public relations, health communication Research methods: survey research, in-depth interviews, focus groups, case studies |
Research interests: international communication, political communication, social media, science communication, media framing, media uses and gratifications, journalism excellence and credibility Research methods: content analysis, surveys, experiments, historical research, interviews |
Research interests: public relations management, tourism issues, women's rights Research methods: qualitative methods |
Research interests: media literacy, religion and journalism, educational technology and curriculum, digital creative works - especially video Research methods: mixed-methods, survey development |
Research interests: Digital media law and policy Research methods: legal and historical |
Research interests: public relations, strategic planning and messaging, health communication - specifically, how perceptions of trust influence attitudes, behaviors, and involvement (among other variables) within the context of agricultural and health communication; career aspirations and socialization of women and students in PR Research methods: experiments, surveys, in-depth interviews |
Research interests: health communication, risk communication, health education and promotion, social change, women and communication, ICTs Research methods: focus groups, surveys, participant observation, cultural studies, in-depth interviews |
Research interests: international communication, media and democracy, development communication, community media, political communication, media and civic engagement, media technology Research methods: content analysis, surveys, field observations, focus groups, case studies, interviews |
Research interests: media and community engagement, alternative news distribution platforms, news deserts, media history Research methods: in-depth interviews, focus groups, historical research |
Research interests: new media technology, social media and social advertising, streaming television, uses and gratifications, social capital, social influence, entertainment studies Research methods: online surveys, experiments, data mining and content analysis, online interviews |
Research interests: crisis and risk communication, focusing on understanding stakeholder/public psychology and emotions during crisis as well as developing responsive crisis communication strategies; social media (crisis) communication strategies; disaster and organizational crisis communication Research methods: quantitative experiment, survey, content analysis, case studies |