Faculty Research Areas

• Communication and Culture examines human interaction as always grounded in cultural contexts. Cultural dimensions of communication can be approached by the in-depth study of particular contexts, by comparison of different contexts, or by examination of what happens when participants from different backgrounds interact.
  • Faculty in this area: Susan Davis, Pat Gill, Grace Giorgio, Scott Jacobs, Jennifer Kam, Michèle Koven, Daniel Schiller, Inger Stole
    
    

• Communication and Health pertains to the multifaceted association between communication and health, including (but not limited to) campaigns to improve health behaviors, individuals and families coping with health issues, communication within and about health organizations and institutions.
  • Faculty in this area: John Caughlin, Marian Huhman, Sally Jackson, Jennifer Kam, Andy King, Leanne Knobloch, John Lammers, C.J. Lee, Brian Quick, Lauren Weiner, Barbara Wilson

• Communication and Organizations examines the varied communication processes that underlie organizing. Organizing occurs in many forms (e.g., coordination of paid and volunteer work, ad hoc organizing among first responders in an emergency, the formation of professional standards).
  • Faculty in this area: Mardia Bishop, John Lammers, Scott Poole

• Interpersonal Communication examines the processes of human interaction. Interpersonal communication occurs in many contexts (e.g., among coworkers, between friends, within families). It can happens in face-to-face interactions or interactions mediated through communication technologies (e.g., telephones, computers).
  • Faculty in this area: John Caughlin, Susan Davis, Scott Jacobs, Marian Huhman, Jennifer Kam, Michèle Koven, Leanne Knobloch, Lauren Weiner

• Mediated Communication and Technology concerns how people send and receive messages across time and space. Research in this area examines message flows to large and small audiences, with an emphasis on how technologies of communication influence the formation, transmission, and reception of messages. It also examines the social, political, and organizational forces that act on the creation and use of communication technologies.
  • Faculty in this area: Cara Finnegan, Pat Gill, Sally Jackson, Andy King, C.J. Lee, Robert McChesney, Scott Poole, Brian Quick, Daniel Schiller, Inger Stole, David Tewskbury, Barbara Wilson

• Rhetoric and Public Discourse explores the ways in which people create public communities. It occurs in a variety of social settings and concerns itself with the creation of social truths, the kinds of values and beliefs that are developed by public advocates and used to guide social and political decisions.
  • Faculty in this area: Susan Davis, Cara Finnegan, Scott Jacobs, Robert McChesney, John Murphy, Ned O'Gorman, Daniel Schiller, David Tewskbury,