Ph.D. Alumni
The following charts, organized by graduation year, list our Ph.D. alumni, their dissertation titles and chairs, and their current positions.
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2023
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
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Lauren Bridges | Victor Pickard | The Digital Growth Machine: The Politics of Land, Labor, and Waste at the Digital Frontier | Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University |
Kelly Diaz | Jessa Lingel | Lights, Camera, [Social] Action!: The Goals, Messages, and Impact of Youth Activism on Television | Postdoctoral Fellow, Swarthmore College, Lang Center for Civic & Social Responsibility |
Sean Fischer | Yphtach Lelkes | Don’t Judge an Album By Its Cover: Testing Competing Theories of Partisan Cultural Polarization | Data Scientist, Cincinnati Reds |
Emma Jesch | Robert C. Hornik | Cascade of Confusion: Examining Incongruent Spillover Effects From Exposure to Conflicting Health Information Across Two Methods | Cancer Prevention Fellow, National Cancer Institute |
Mia Jovanova | Emily Falk | A Person-Specific Approach to Study Health Behaviors | Scientific Director, CSS Health Lab at the School of Medicine at University of St. Gallen (HSG) and ETH Zurich |
Ava Kikut | Robert C. Hornik | What You Know or Who You Trust? Examining the Interactive Effects of Behavioral Beliefs and Source Trust on Prevention Behaviors Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic With Longitudinal Survey, Experimental, and Youth Participatory Action Research | National Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
Isabelle Langrock | Sandra González-Bailón | The Irony of Openness: Gender Inequality in Self-Governed Knowledge Systems | Postdoctoral Researcher, Sciences Po |
Florence Zivaishe Madenga | Barbie Zelizer | Taking Satire Journalism Seriously: Living and Laughing to Bring the State Down | Assistant Professor of Race and Communication, Boston College |
Muira McCammon | Barbie Zelizer | Government Communication: Deletion As Stagecraft and Statecraft | Assistant Professor, Tulane University |
Roopa Vasudevan | John L. Jackson, Jr. | High-Level Creativity: New Media Art and the Priorities of the Tech Industry | Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Diami Virgilio | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Contesting Lineage: #ADOS and the Online Reparations Discourse | Assistant Professor, College of Mount Saint Vincent |
2022
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
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David Elliot Berman | Victor Pickard | The Optimizers: Cultural Production in the Age of Platform Capitalism | Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania |
Heather Jaber | Marwan M. Kraidy | The Digital Bahdala: Recoding National Humiliation Across Post-Revolutionary Lebanon and Egypt | Assistant Professor, Northwestern University in Qatar |
Prateekshit "Kanu" Pandey | Emily Falk | Disentangling the Reciprocal Relationship Between Political Efficacy and News Sharing Behavior | Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara |
Jacob Pearl | Yphtach Lelkes | A House's Speech Divided: Applications of Text-as-Data for the Study of Elite Polarization in the U.S. House of Representatives (1983-2016) | Data Scientist, Aramark |
Mohammed Salih | Marwan M. Kraidy | The Islamic State: Discursive Articulations of Identity, Subjectivity, Community, and Statehood | Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute |
Kristin Shumaker | Emily Falk | Neural Synchrony in Successful Communication | Sr. Research Insights Analyst, Comcast Advertising |
Celeste Wagner | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Responding to Media Coverage of Gender-Based Violence in Argentina and the United States: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Intersecting Roles of Gender, Class, and Racialized Ethnicity Among General and Activist Publics | Assistant Professor, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications |
Chioma Woko | Robert C. Hornik | The Effect of Source Credibility on Promising Message Themes: A Message Pre-Testing Study to Test COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black Americans | UX Researcher, Meta |
Tian Yang | Sandra González-Bailón | How Do Digital Intermediaries Shape News Consumption? An Observational Study based on A Large Web Panel in the US (2016 to 2019) | Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Alvin Zhou | Sandra González-Bailón |
Characteristics of the U.S. Digital News Landscape: Trends and Patterns in Audience Behavior” |
Assistant Professor, Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota |
2021
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
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Yasemin Celikkol | Marwan M. Kraidy | Turkish TV Series in Bulgaria and Russia: The Terribly Charming Turk in the Global Media Matrix | Global Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University in Qatar |
Megan Genovese | Barbie Zelizer | Pop Culture Frameworks for Moral Expression in Left-wing Political Talk | Project Archivist, Presbyterian Historical Society |
Jennifer R. Henrichsen | Barbie Zelizer | Securing the Future of Journalism: How Discourse, Logics, and Champions Clarify Information Security in Journalism and Journalism Education | Assistant Professor, Washington State University |
Kwanho Kim | Robert C. Hornik | Moderating Roles of Smoker and Vaper Identities in Tobacco Regulation Communication | Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University |
Do Eon Lee | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Where the Two Trusts Meet: How Social Trust Influences Political Trust in the New Media Environment | Engagement Manager, McKinsey and Company |
Hanna E. Morris | Barbie Zelizer | Apocalyptic Authoritarianism in the United States: Power, Media, and Climate Crisis | Assistant Professor, University of Toronto |
Rui Pei | Emily Falk | Cultural Influences on Social Norm Development, Perception, and Conformity | Social Neuroscientist, Stanford University |
John Remensperger | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Becoming Party Activists: Grassroots Progressive Activism and the Democratic Party | Fellow, U.S. Digital Corps |
Leeann Siegel | Robert C. Hornik | Exploring Variation in How Media Depictions of Tobacco Use Affect Norm Perceptions: The Roles of Group Identity and Behavioral Similarity | Communication Research Scientist, RTI International |
2020
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
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Stefanie Gratale | Joseph N. Cappella | Dismantling the Art of Deception: Using "Inoculation" to Combat Misinformation from Misleading Cigarette Advertising | Instructor, Rutgers University |
Douglas Guilbeault | Damon Centola | The Social Network Dynamics of Category Formation | Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley |
Natalie Herbert | Joseph N. Cappella | Covering Scientific Uncertainty in Ongoing Research | Research Scientist, Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University |
Soojong Kim | John B. Jemmott III | Intergroup Dynamics of Information Propagation in Social Networks | Assistant Professor, University of California Davis |
Amber Hye-Yon Lee | Diana C. Mutz | How the Public Perception of Political Polarization Affects American Social Life | Researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
Subhayan Mukerjee | Sandra González-Bailón | News Reading Publics and Audience Fragmentation: Evidence from Online India (2014-2018) | Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore |
Samantha Oliver | Barbie Zelizer | Networked Memorialization: Victims of Communism Memorials in Germany, Russia, and the U.S. | Customer Education Program Manager, Siteimprove |
Pawel Popiel | Victor Pickard | Emergent Governance: The Politics of Competition in Digital Markets | Assistant Professor, Washington State University |
Revati Prasad | Marwan M. Kraidy | For Growth, for Glory, for Governance: Understanding Connectivity Efforts in Andhra Pradesh | Vice President of Programs, Benton Institute for Broadband & Society |
Natacha Yazbeck | Barbie Zelizer | What We Talk About When We Talk About Journalism | Assistant Professor, University of South Florida |
2010-2019
2019
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
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Opeyemi Akanbi | Joseph Turow | Contested Boundaries of Digital Work | Assistant Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University |
Elisa Baek | Emily Falk | The Role of Mentalizing in Information Propagation | Assistant Professor, University of Southern California |
Jasmine Erdener | Guobin Yang | Excavating Radical Futures – Puppets, Robots, and the Fight for Technology | Assistant Professor, Koç University |
Kecheng Fang | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Mapping Media Bias in China | Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Elisabetta Ferrari | Guobin Yang | The Technological Imaginaries of Social Movements: The Discursive Dimension of Communication Technology and the Fight for Social Justice | AIAS-AUFF Fellow, Aarhus University |
Katerina Girginova | Marwan M. Kraidy | Social Media Events | Co-Director, Virtual Reality ColLABorative, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania |
Emily Dean Hund | Joseph Turow | The Influencer Industry: Constructing And Commodifying Authenticity On Social Media | Research Affiliate, Center on Digital Culture and Society, University of Pennsylvania |
Da Eun (Danny) Kim | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Seeking Ourselves Onscreen: Brand Personality, Self-Congruence, and Media Preferences | Director of Data Science, Sony Pictures Entertainment |
Eunji Kim | Diana C. Mutz | Entertaining Beliefs in Economic Mobility | Assistant Professor, Columbia University |
Yilang Peng | Sandra González-Bailón | Identifying Media Bias with Computer Vision | Assistant Professor, University of Georgia |
Jazmyne Sutton | Joseph N. Cappella | Can’t Get You Out Of My Head: The Effects Of Avoidance Eliciting Anti-Tobacco Warning Messages | Senior Project Director, SSRS |
John Vilanova | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Not Simply the Best: The GRAMMY Awards, Race, and America | Assistant Professor, Lehigh University |
Allyson Volinsky Levin | Robert C. Hornik | Variation on a Theme: Comparing Strategies for Choosing Health Communication Campaign Message Topics |
Assistant Teaching Professor, Villanova University |
Sijia Yang | Joseph N. Cappella | Morality in Tobacco Control Messaging: Effects of Moral Appeals on Persuasion and Retransmission | Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
2018
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
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Rosie Bae | Joseph N. Cappella | Selective Exposure to Misleading Information in the New Media Environment by at-Risk Youth: A Study of Pro-Smoking YouTube Videos | Data and Analytics Lead, Office of Strategic Diversity Planning and Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Joshua Becker | Damon Centola | The Network Dynamics of Social Influence in the Wisdom of Crowds | Assistant Professor, University College London School of Management |
Lyndsey Beutin | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Trafficking in Anti-Blackness: The Political Stakes of "Modern Day Slavery" Discourse in Global Campaigns to End Human Trafficking | Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Media Arts, McMaster University |
Christopher Cimaglio | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Contested Majority: The Representation of the White Working Class in US Politics from the 1930s to the 1990s | Assistant Professor, Denison University |
Rosemary Clark-Parsons | Guobin Yang | Doing it Ourselves: The Networked Practices of Feminist Media Activism | Director of Experimental Learning & Impact, Saxby's |
David Conrad-Pérez | Barbie Zelizer | Misguided Benevolence: How "Moments of Need" Came to Motivate American Journalism | Research Director, Center for Media & Social Impact, American University |
Nicholas Gilewicz | Barbie Zelizer | What Losing the Newspaper Means: Nostalgia and the U.S. Newspaper in Late Modernity | Assistant Professor, Manhattan College |
Kevin Gotkin | John L. Jackson, Jr. | The Marathon and on: Disability, Endurance, Aspiration | Artist-Organizer, Creatives Rebuild New York |
Nour Halabi | Barbie Zelizer | Radical (In)Hospitality: American Media and Regulatory Stances Toward Immigration and Travel Bans | Interdisciplinary Fellow, University of Aberdeen |
Elissa Kranzler | Robert C. Hornik | From Exposure to Effects: Examining the Cognitive Processes Underlying Effects of "The Real Cost" Youth-Targeted Anti-Smoking Media Campaign | Senior Researcher, Fors Marsh Group |
Emily Ladue | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Durham's Self-Help and the Financialization of the Bull City: Development without Displacement? Or Displacement without Development? | Adjunct Instructor, Duke University |
Corrina Laughlin | John L. Jackson, Jr. | What God Gave to Us: Digital Habitus and the Shifting Social Imaginary of American Evangelicalism | Instructor, Loyola Marymount University |
Tim Libert | Victor Pickard | Track the Planet: A Web-Scale Analysis of How Online Behavioral Advertising Violates Social Norms | CEO, webXray |
Eleanor Marchant | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Anyone Anywhere: Narrating African Innovation in a Global Community of Practice | User Experience Researcher, Meta |
Elena Maris | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Desperately Seeking the Producer: Audiences, Identity, and the Margins of the Internet | Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago |
Lee McGuigan | Joseph Turow | Selling the American People: Data, Technology, and the Calculated Transformation of Advertising | Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Yotam Ophir | Joseph N. Cappella | Spreading News: The Coverage of Epidemics by American Newspapers and Its Effects on Audiences — A Crisis Communication Approach | Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo |
Jonathan Pace | Sharrona Pearl | Internet Markets: Exchange Relations on Craigslist, eBay, and Silk Road | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University |
Christin Scholz | Emily Falk | Neural and Psychological Bases of Health News Sharing | Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam |
Aaron Shapiro | Jessa Lingel | Design, Control, Predict: Cultural Politics in the Actually Existing Smart City | Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Dror Walter | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Exploring Thematic Diversity in News Coverage and Social Media Activity of Political Candidates Using Unsupervised Machine Learning | Assistant Professor, Georgia State University |
Alex T. Williams | Victor Pickard | Profits Over Principles: Redlining in the Newspaper Industry | Senior Manager, Comcast Cable |
2017
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
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Devon Brackbill | Damon Centola | The Network Structure of Collective Innovation | Data Scientist, Facebook |
Christopher Cascio | Emily Falk | The Neural Mechanisms of Conformity across Socioeconomic Status and Development | Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin |
Deepti Chittamuru | John B. Jemmott, III | Persuasive Technologies in HIV Prevention: A Structural Intervention for African American Young Adults | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California Merced |
Andrew Daniller | Diana C. Mutz | Politics as Sport: The Effects of Partisan Media on Perceptions of Electoral Integrity | Research Associate, Pew Charitable Trusts |
Rowan Howard-Williams | Marwan M. Kraidy | A World of Our Own: Climate Change Advocacy in the Anthropocene | Communications Strategy Advisor, Global Diversity Foundation |
Jin Woo Kim | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Assessing Civic Competence Against the Normative Benchmark of Considered Opinions | Assistant Professor, Kookmin University |
Stella Lee | Robert C. Hornik | The Message as a Seed: Predicting the Diffusion of Anti-Smoking Arguments from Message Construal | Assistant Professor, Konkuk University |
Jiaying Liu | Robert C. Hornik | Effects of Media Exposure on Descriptive Social Norm Perception Formation: Experimental and Observational Studies of Why and How Repeated Exposure Matters | Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara |
Doron Taussig | Michael X. Delli Carpini | The Meaning of Merit: The American Idea of What We Have Earned, What We Deserve, and Whether We Got Lucky | Visiting Assistant Professor, Ursinus College |
Kate Zambon | Marwan M. Kraidy | Integration: The Cultural Politics of Migration and Nation in the New German Public | Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire, Durham |
2016
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
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Omar Al-Ghazzi | Marwan M. Kraidy | Communicating History: The Mnemonic Battles of the 2011 Arab Uprisings | Associate Professor, London School of Economics |
Gretta Blackwell | John L. Jackson, Jr. | The Birth of a Princess: Boughetto, Popular Media, and the Shifting Boundaries of Black Middle-Class Femininity | Prairie View A&M University |
Sun-ha Hong | Carolyn Marvin | Data Epistemologies/Surveillance and Uncertainty | Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University |
Michelle Jeong | Robert C. Hornik | Sharing in the Context of Tobacco and E-Cigarette Communication: Determinants, Consequences, and Contingent Effects | Assistant Professor, Rutgers University |
Minji Kim | Joseph N. Cappella | When Similarity Strikes Back: The Positive and Negative Role of Character-Audience Similarity in Anti-Smoking Campaigns | Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina |
Deborah Lubken | Carolyn Marvin | How Church Bells Fell Silent: The Decline of Tower Bell Practices in Post-Revolutionary America | |
Debora Lui | Carolyn Marvin | Situating the 'Maker Movement': Tracing the Implementation of an Educational Trend Within Public Libraries | UX Researcher, UserZoom |
Shane Mannis | Robert C. Hornik | Constructing the Exercising Self: Social Media Identity Work and Exercise Behavior | Senior UX Researcher, Instagram |
Sara Mourad | Marwan M. Kraidy | The Boundaries of the Public: Mediating Sex in Postwar Lebanon | Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut |
Danielle Naugle | Robert C. Hornik | The Evaluation of a Mass Media Campaign to Promote Exclusive Breastfeeding in Vietnam | Research & Evaluation Officer, Johns Hopkins University |
Sandra Ristovska | Barbie Zelizer | Human Rights Through the Lens: A Study of the Institutionalization and Professionalization of Video Activism | Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder |
Yoel Roth | Sharrona H. Pearl | Gay Data | VP, Head of Trust & Safety, Match Group |
Jasmine Salters | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Touching Paranoia: A Black Feminist Autoethnography on Race, Desire, and Erotic Massage | Mellon ACLS Post-Doctoral Content Strategist, ACLS |
Alexandra Sastre | Marwan M. Kraidy | Towards a Radical Body Positive: Reading the Online Body Positive Movement | Associate Director of Campus Communications, Swarthmore College |
Holli Seitz | Joseph N. Cappella | Mammography Exemplars in Online News Commentary: Prevalence of Exemplars, Effects on Risk Perceptions and Mammography Intentions, and Mechanisms of Action | Associate Professor, Mississippi State University |
Dina Shapiro-Luft | Joseph N. Cappella | Smoking-Related Self-Concepts and Value Expressive Messages: Effects on the Determinants of Smoking Cessation | Senior Director of Survey Research, Greater New York Hospital Association |
Rui Shi | Joseph N. Cappella | Viewer-Generated Comments to Online Health Policy News: Content, Dynamics, and Influence | Assistant Professor, Rowan University |
Laura Silver | Diana C. Mutz | China in the Media: Effects on American Opinion | Associate Director of Global Attitudes Research, Pew Research Center |
Jingwen Zhang | John B. Jemmott, III | Networked Social Influence: Online Social Network Physical Activity Interventions for Young Adults | Associate Professor, University of California Davis |
2015
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
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Rosemary Avance | Carolyn Marvin | Constructing Religion in the Digital Age: The Internet and Modern Mormon Identities | Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University |
Felicity Duncan | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Collective Action and Digital Information Communication Technologies: The Search for Explanatory Models of Social Movement Organizations' Propensity to Use DICTs in Developed Democracies | Financial Researcher and Writer, Intuition Publishing |
Kyung Lee | Barbie Zelizer | The Rise of Brand Journalism: Understanding the Discursive Dimensions of Collectivity in the Age of Convergence | Senior Statistical Analyst, Office of Strategy Management, Fairfax County |
Rocio Nunez | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Woman with a Movie Camera: The Dearth of Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hollywood | Chief Creative Officer, Spring Forward Media |
Katherine Wong | Marwan M. Kraidy | Harnessing Hollywood Hype: Film Marketing Meets the Challenges and Opportunities of the 21st Century | Research Consultant, Common Sense Media |
2014
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
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Derek Blackwell |
Carolyn Marvin |
Digital Disruption: An Exploratory Study of Trust, Infidelity, & Relational Transgressions in the Digital Age |
Associate Professor, Prairie View A&M University |
Nora Draper |
Joseph Turow |
Reputation Inc.: The Industrialization of Digital Self-Presentation and Online Privacy |
Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire |
Timothy Fallis |
John L. Jackson, Jr. |
Pro-Christian Humor and the Online Carnival |
Adjunct Professor, Hawai'i Pacific University |
Le Han |
Barbie Zelizer |
Micro-Blogging Contesting Modernities: Producing and Remembering Public Events in Contemporary Chinese Social Media Platforms |
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University |
Hyun Kim |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Attractability and Virality: The Role of Message Features and Social Influence in Health News Diffusion |
Associate Professor, Seoul National University |
Tara Liss-Marino |
Sharrona H. Pearl |
Sell (It) Yourself: Marketing Pleasure in Digital DIY |
Director of Advising and Student Success, Drexel University |
Piotr Szpunar |
Barbie Zelizer |
Homegrown Terrorist, Networked Citizen, Double: Identity, Belonging and Citizenship in an Age of Limitless Conflict |
Associate Professor, University of Albany (SUNY) |
2013
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
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Christopher Ali |
Marwan M. Kraidy |
Where is Here? An Analysis of Localism in Media Policy in Three Western Democracies |
Pioneers Chair, Professor of Telecommunications, Penn State |
Angel Bourgoin |
Robert C. Hornik |
The Use of the Internet for Alternative Views on Health |
Senior Researcher, John Snow, Inc. (JSI) |
Andrew Crocco |
Carolyn Marvin |
The Mobocratic City: Race, Space and Citizenship in Nineteenth Century Philadelphia |
Director, Insight and Analytics, Wealthfront, Inc. |
Susan Haas |
Carolyn Marvin |
Communities of Journalists and Journalism Practice at Radio Free Europe during the Cold War (1950-1995) |
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Matthew Lapierre |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Development and Persuasion Processing: An Investigation of Children's Advertising Susceptibility and Understanding |
Associate Professor, University of Arizona |
Kara Liebeskind |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Parental Mediation from Looney Tunes to Angry Birds: Examining How Parents are Dealing with the Content-Specific Issues of Old Media and the Unique Challenges of New Media |
Senior Director, Smarty Pants |
Susan Mello |
Robert C. Hornik |
Toxic? The Nature and Effects of Mothers' Exposure to Pediatric Environmental Health Information in the Media |
Associate Professor, Northeastern University |
Ryan Paquin |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Customizing Message Content to Facilitate Decisions About Participating in Genomics Research: A Reasoned Action Approach |
Research Public Health Analyst, RTI International |
Sarah Parvanta |
Robert C. Hornik |
Understanding Socioeconomic Disparities in Responsiveness to Belief Strategies for Smoking Cessation Messages |
Director, ALS Focus Program, The ALS Association |
Alison Perelman |
Katherine E. Sender |
Political Appetites: Food as Rhetoric in American Politics |
Executive Director, Philadelphia 3.0 |
Elizabeth Roodhouse |
Michael X. Delli Carpini |
Buying In: Socially Conscious Consumption and the Architecture of Choice |
Streaming Data Science & Engineering, Netflix |
Andy Tan |
Robert C. Hornik |
Cancer-Related Direct-to-Consumer Advertising - A Study of Its Antecedents, Influence on Patient Information Seeking Behaviors, and Contingent Effects |
Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania |
Emily Thorson |
Diana C. Mutz |
Belief Echoes: The Persistent Effects of Corrected Misinformation |
Assistant Professor Political Science, Syracuse University |
Khadijah White |
John L. Jackson, Jr. |
Raising the Volume: Media and the Rise of the 21st Century Tea Party |
Associate Professor, Rutgers University |
2012
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
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Anne Arnold |
Michael X. Delli Carpini |
Political Sophistication, Deliberation, and the Structure of Opinions about Public Issues |
Senior Operations Officer, World Bank |
Aymar Jean Christian |
Katherine E. Sender |
Off the Line: Independent Television and the Pitch to Reinvent Hollywood |
Professor, Northwestern University |
Susanna Dilliplane |
Diana C. Mutz |
The Impact of Partisan News Exposure on American Public Opinion and Behavior: Evidence from the 2008 Presidential Election |
Deputy Director, Aspen Institute |
Jeffrey Gottfried |
Michael X. Delli Carpini |
Get a Cue Already! How Election Campaigns Matter in Different Informational Environments |
Associate Director of Internet & Technology Research, Pew Research Center |
Brittany Griebling |
Carolyn Marvin |
The Casualization of Intimacy: Consensual Non-Monogamy and the New Sexual Ethics |
Instructor, Temple University |
Heidi Khaled |
John L. Jackson, Jr. |
The Politics of Fashion in American Consumer Culture |
Senior Qualitative Analyst, Magid |
Lauren Kogen |
Marwan M. Kraidy |
Suffering Through the News: How the American News Media Cover Hunger in Africa and at Home |
Associate Professor, Temple University |
Lauren Sessions-Goulet |
Keith N. Hampton |
Friends in All the Right Places: Social Resources and Geography in the Age of Social Network Sites |
Research Advisor & Consultant, Sessions Research |
Sarah Vaala |
Robert C. Hornik |
Mothers' Cognitions and Structural Life Circumstances as Predictors of Infants' and Toddlers' Television and Video Exposure |
Associate Professor, High Point University |
2011
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
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Young Baek |
Joseph N. Cappella |
The Impact of Deliberation on Social and Semantic Networks: Citizens' Mental Models of Bioethical Issues in Genetics Using Automated Textual Analysis |
Associate Professor, Yonsei University |
Cabral Bigman-Galimore |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Social Comparison Framing: Examining the Effects of Racial Health Disparities Risk Information |
Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Peter Busse |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Normative Appeals: Understanding the Effect of Normative Messages on the Formation of Intentions to get Tested for HIV Among Latinos in the United States |
Associate Professor, Universidad de Lima |
Brooke Erin Duffy |
Joseph Turow |
Magazines...Without the Magazine: Remaking Boundaries in an Era of Media Convergence |
Associate Professor, Cornell University |
Christopher Finlay |
Carolyn Marvin |
Between Leverage and Legacy: Producing the 2012 London Olympics in a Global New Media Environment |
Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University |
Sonho Kim |
Klaus Krippendorff |
The Voice on Paper: A Dialogic Critique of Public Opinion Polling |
Senior Researcher, Korea Press Foundation |
Alyssa Klein (Hersh) |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Social Support Online: Testing the Effects of Highly Person-Centered Messages in Breast Cancer Support Groups |
Vice President, iMarketResearch |
Oren Livio |
Carolyn Marvin |
The Right to Represent: Negotiating the Meaning of Military Service in Israel |
Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Haifa University |
Lourdes Martinez |
Robert C. Hornik |
Anticipated Regret and the Formation of Behavioral Intention: Implications for the Design of Persuasive Health Messages |
Associate Professor, San Diego State University |
Joel Penney |
Barbie Zelizer |
Body Screen/Body Politic: The Uses of Political T-Shirts in the Digital Age |
Associate Professor, Montclair State University |
Mario Rodriguez |
Paul Messaris |
Paranoid Androids: Facebook Privacy, Online Reputation, and Employment Concerns of College Seniors |
Assistant Professor, American University in the Emirates |
Ashley Sanders-Jackson |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Narrative as Structure |
Associate Professor, Michigan State University |
Keren Tenenboim Weinblatt |
Barbie Zelizer |
Journalism's Missing Links: Kidnapping and Captivity Coverage Around the World |
Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof), Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
2010
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
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Daniel Berger |
Barbie Zelizer |
"We Are the Revolutionaries": Visibility, Protest and Racial Formation in 1970s Prison Radicalism |
Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Scholarship, University of Washington, Bothell |
Jean Brechman |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Narrative "Flow": A Model of Narrative Processing and its Impact on Information Processing, Knowledge Acquisition and Persuasion |
Associate Professor, The College of New Jersey |
Xiaoxia Cao |
Diana C. Mutz |
Pathways to Eliciting Aid: The Effects of Visual Representations of Human Suffering on Empathy and Help for People in Need |
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee |
Brenda Curtis |
Paul Messaris |
Examining the Mechanisms of Tailoring: Extending the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction |
Chief, Technology and Translational Research Unit, National Institute of Health |
Seth Goldman |
Diana C. Mutz |
Effects of the 2008 Obama Presidential Campaign on White Racial Prejudice |
Honors Associate Professor of Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Bruce Hardy |
Michael X. Delli Carpini |
A Communication Model of the Impact of Presidential Candidate Character Traits on Vote Preference |
Associate Professor, Temple University |
Shawnika Hull |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Risky Business: An Examination of the Relationship between Message Frame, Risk Perceptions and Intentions to Seek HIV-Antibody Testing |
Associate Professor, Rutgers University |
Nehama Lewis-Persky |
Robert C. Hornik |
Keeping Children Healthy: How the Effects of Normative Messages on Parent Intentions Vary With Social Normative Beliefs and Personality |
Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof), University of Haifa |
Rebekah Nagler |
Robert C. Hornik |
Steady Diet of Confusion: Contradictory Nutrition Messages in the Public Information Environment |
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota |
Moira O'Keeffe |
Paul Messaris |
Media and the Making of Scientists |
Senior Learning Designer, Humana |
Jessica Piotrowski |
Deborah L. Linebarger |
Evaluating Preschoolers' Comprehension of Educational Television: The Role of Viewer Characteristics, Stimuli Features, and Contextual Expectations |
Professor, University of Amsterdam |
A. Susana Ramirez |
Robert C. Hornik |
Communicating Cancer Prevention Information to U.S. Latinos: The Moderating Role of Acculturation |
Associate Professor, University of California Merced |
Michael Serazio |
Barbie Zelizer |
Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing |
Associate Professor, Boston College |
Adrienne Shaw |
Katherine E. Sender |
Identity, Identification and Media Representation in Video Game Play: An Audience Reception Study |
Associate Professor, Temple University |
Riley Snorton |
John L. Jackson, Jr. |
Tapped in the [Epistemological] Closet: Black Sexuality and the Popular Imagination |
Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago |
Russell Tisinger |
Diana C. Mutz |
The Influence of Television Fiction on Political Attitudes |
Senior Researcher, L&M Policy Research |
Lokman Tsui |
Barbie Zelizer |
A Journalism of Hospitality |
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication |
Deborah Wainwright |
Deborah L. Linebarger |
Television as Parenting Tool: The Role of Parental Efficacy, Attitude, and Television Use in Parenting in Children's Television Exposure |
Producer/Director, Young Minds Entertainment |
2000-2009
2009
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
---|---|---|---|
Mary Bock |
Klaus Krippendorff |
One Man Band: The Process and Product of Video Journalism |
Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin |
Jasmine Cobb |
John L. Jackson, Jr. |
Racing the Trans-Atlantic Parlor: Picturing Freedom in the Early Nineteenth Century |
Professor of African & African American Studies and of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University, Duke University |
Kenneth Farrall |
Michael X. Delli Carpini |
Suspect Until Proven Guilty: A Problematization of State Dossier Systems via Two Case Studies: The United States and China |
Project Manager and Business Developer, MTM Linguasoft |
Nadine Gabbadon |
Joseph Turow |
Reconstructing Age by Redefining Boundaries: Women's Service Magazines and the 50+ Market |
Senior Associate, Client Services, Grovider |
Billy Herman |
Michael X. Delli Carpini |
The Battle Over Digital Rights Management: A Multi-Method Study of the Politics of Copyright Management Technologies |
Associate Dean, Metro State University |
Jocelyn Landau |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Effects of Messages About Genetics, Race, and Health on Public Opinion About Personalized Medicine and Health Policy |
Head of Global Product Experience Research, Netflix |
Chul-Joo Lee |
Robert C. Hornik |
Media, Social Capital, and Health Information Diffusion: A Multilevel Approach |
Professor, Seoul National University |
Robin Stevens |
Robert C. Hornik |
Aids in Black & White: The Influence of News Coverage of HIV/AIDS on HIV/AIDS Testing among African Americans and White Americans, 19932007 |
Associate Professor, University of Southern California Annenberg School |
Jason Tocci |
Paul Messaris |
Geek Cultures: Media and Identity in the Digital Age |
Senior User Experience Manager, PTC |
Kenneth Winneg |
Michael X. Delli Carpini |
Online Political Participation in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election: Mobilizing or Reinforcing? |
Managing Director of Survey Research, Annenberg Public Policy Center |
Magdalena Wojcieszak |
Vincent Price |
When Deliberation Divides: How People With Strong Views Respond to Political Disagreement |
Professor, University of California Davis |
Kimberly Woolf |
Robert C. Hornik |
Children, Parents and Prosocial Television for Children: Accounting for Viewing and Looking for Effects |
Academic Advisor and Research Supervisor for Undergraduate Studies, Annenberg School for Communication |
2008
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
---|---|---|---|
Carlin Barmada |
Robert C. Hornik |
The Influence of Individual and Message Characteristics on Anti-Drug AD Evaluations |
Provider Engagement Specialist, Children's National Medical Center |
Eran Ben-Porath |
Michael X. Delli Carpini |
Codes of Professionalism; Norms of Conversation: How Political Interviews Shape Public Attitudes toward Journalists |
EVP, Public Opinion Research, Social Science Research Solutions |
John Campbell |
Larry P. Gross |
Virtually Home: The Commodification of Community in Cyberspace |
Self-employed, Independent scholar |
Paul Falzone |
Paul Messaris |
Documentary for Change |
Director, Peripheral Vision International |
Lauren Feldman |
Vincent Price |
To Opine or Not to Opine: The Consequences of Opinionated News for Political Information Processing, Attitudes, and Knowledge |
Professor, Rutgers University |
Sehoon Jeong |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Attributions and Racial Cues in News About Obesity: Effects on the Public's Attributions About Weight and Opinions About Health Policies |
Professor, Korea University |
Josh Lauer |
Carolyn Marvin |
The Good Consumer: Credit Reporting and the Invention of Financial Identity in the United States, 1840-1940 |
Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire, Durham |
Mihaela Popescu |
Oscar Gandy |
Keeping it Dirty: Defining and Redefining Obscenity in American Judicial Discourse, 1873-2007 |
Professor, Cal State San Bernadino University |
Lee Shaker |
Michael X. Delli Carpini |
Media, Choice, & Citizens' Local Political Knowledge, Attitudes, & Behavior |
Associate Professor, Portland State University |
Min Shim |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Self-Disclosure in Online Support Groups: The Patterns of Disclosure and Their Potential Health Benefits for Women with Breast Cancer |
Associate Professor, Inha University, South Korea |
Weiyu Zhang |
Vincent Price |
Deliberation and the Disempowered: Attendance, Experience and Influence |
Associate Professor, National University of Singapore |
2007
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
---|---|---|---|
Jatin Atre |
Elihu Katz |
Choice Under Conditions of Abundance: The Behavior of Television Audiences |
Chief Marketing Officer, Insurity |
Lemi Baruh |
Oscar Gandy |
The Guilty Pleasure of Watching Like Big Brother: Privacy Attitudes, Voyeurism and Reality Programs |
Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland |
Matthew Carlson |
Barbie Zelizer |
On the Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and Journalistic Authority |
Professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
Rohitashy Chattopadhyay |
Paul Messaris |
Cultural Influences on Indian Television Commercials: A Qualitative Analysis |
Culture Cushion |
Ariel Chernin |
Robert C. Hornik |
The Relationship Between Children's Knowledge of Persuasive Intent and Persuasion: The Case of Televised Food Marketing |
Director of Market Research, Etsy |
Lee Humphreys |
Carolyn Marvin |
Mobile Sociality and Spatial Practice: A Qualitative Fieldstudy of New Social Networking Technologies |
Professor and Chair, Cornell University |
Lela Jacobsohn |
Robert C. Hornik |
Explaining the Boomerang Effects of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign |
Public Health Communication and Behavior Change Consultant, Self Employed |
Yahui Kang |
Joseph N. Cappella |
The Effects of Smoking Cues in Anti-Smoking Public Service Announcements on Smoking Urge, Message Processing and Intention to Quit Smoking |
Director, Intel Corporation |
Bridget Kelly |
Robert C. Hornik |
Effects of Benefit-Target Framing on Intentions to Engage in Avian Flu Vaccination and Other Health Behaviors |
Public Health Research Scientist, RTI International |
Zhan Li |
Oscar Gandy |
Media Performance and Global Policy Making: A Comparative Study of Press Coverage on Global Warming |
Associate Professor, Xiamen University |
Jody Madeira |
Barbie Zelizer |
Ties Out of Bloodshed: Collective Memory, Cultural Trauma, and the Prosecution and Execution of Timothy McVeigh |
Professor of Law and Louis F. Neizer Faculty Fellow, Indiana University Bloomington |
Kelli Maxwell (Lammie) |
Vincent Price |
The (Not-So) "Powerless Elite". Celebrity Endorsements of Political Candidates |
Associate Dean for Student Success, Carnegie Mellon University |
Kimberly Meltzer |
Barbie Zelizer |
Irreconcilable Differences: An Analysis of Television's Difficult Marriage with Journalism as seen Through the Roles of Its Anchors, 1950-2006 |
Professor and Chair, George Mason University |
Dannagal Young |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Two Presidential Candidates Walk into a Bar. Late-Night Political Humor: Cognitive Processes, Political Consequences and Normative Implications |
Professor, University of Delaware |
2006
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
---|---|---|---|
Clarissa David |
Vincent Price |
Learning Political Information From the News: A Closer Look at the Role of Motivation |
Professor, University of the Philippines |
Vani Henderson |
Robert C. Hornik |
Investigating TV Viewing and Overweight in Pre-Adolescent and Adolescent Girls |
Head of UX Research, Google |
Jennifer Horner |
Carolyn Marvin |
Blood and Ballots: Military Voting and Political Communication in the Union Army During the United States Civil War, 1861-1865 |
Manager & Partner Liason, MTM Linguasoft |
Kate Kenski |
Kathleen Hall Jamieson |
The Gender Gap in Political Knowledge: Do Women Know Less Than Men About Politics? |
Professor, University of Arizona |
Bethany Klein |
Barbie Zelizer |
As Heard on TV: A Critical Cultural Analysis of Popular Music in Advertising |
Professor of Media and Communication, University of Leeds |
Rosa Martey |
Oscar Gandy |
Managing Gender in Online Spaces: Gender Role Flexibility and Women's Internet Job Searches |
Professor, Colorado State University |
Eun-Kyung Na |
Vincent Price |
The Effect of Internet Use on Social Network Heterogeneity and Civic Culture: Trust, Tolerance, and Participation |
Associate Professor, Kookmin University |
Jeffery Niederdeppe |
Robert C. Hornik |
Contingent Effects of Cancer News Coverage on Sought and Scanned Information Exposure |
Professor, Cornell University |
Ji Hoon Park |
Barbie Zelizer |
Race on Reality TV: How the Genre Mediates Textual Construction and Audience Reading of Race |
Professor, Korea University |
Natalie Stroud |
Vincent Price |
Selective Exposure to Partisan Information |
Professor, University of Texas at Austin |
2005
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
---|---|---|---|
Amy Branner |
Larry P. Gross |
Is Being There Necessary? Deriving Community Identity in Haines, Alaska |
Director, Fund Development, The SF Market |
Masaki Hidaka |
Vincent Price |
Issue Publics and the Internet: How Interested Individuals Use the Net |
Lecturer, Centers for Academic Programs |
Tina Huey |
Larry P. Gross |
The Legitimization of Knowledge in Discourse About Genetically Modified Food |
Associate Director for Faculty Development, University of Connecticut |
Andrea Wagner Duff |
Carolyn Marvin |
Life-Writing of Alzheimer's Disease and Quadriplegia: On the Cusp of the Illness Chaos Story |
Writer, Education Advisory Board |
Xiaoquan Zhao |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Ambivalence in Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Marijuana Use: Its Influence on the Intention, Behavior, and the Processing of Anti-Drug Messages |
Professor, George Mason University |
2004
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
---|---|---|---|
Mariaelena Bartesaghi |
Klaus Krippendorff |
Explanatory Paths, Therapeutic Directions, Conversational Destinations: Accountability and Authority in Therapeutic Interaction |
Associate Professor, University of South Florida |
Nancy Duda |
Oscar Gandy |
The Intersection of Privacy Concern and Trust: Beliefs of Privacy Orientation Groups |
Senior Survey Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research Inc. |
David Gudelunas |
Larry P. Gross |
Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education |
Dean and Professor of Communication, University of Tampa |
Oren Meyers |
Barbie Zelizer |
Israeli Journalists as an Interpretive Memory Community: The Case Study of Haolam Hazeh |
Associate Professor, University of Haifa |
Lilach Nir |
Vincent Price |
What We Think Others Think: A Motivated Reasoning Model of Public Opinion Perception and Expression |
Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Anca Romantan |
Robert C. Hornik |
A Longitudinal Model of Social Amplification of Commercial Aviation Risks: Exploring U.S. News Media Attention to Fatal Accidents and Media Effects on Air Travel Behavior, 1978-2001 |
|
Melinda Schwenk-Borrell |
Paul Messaris |
Selling Democracy: The U.S. Information Agency's Portrayal of American Race Relations, 1953-1976 |
Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland University College |
Claire Wardle |
Barbie Zelizer |
Monsters and Angels: A Comparison of Broadsheet and Tabloid Press Coverage of Child Murders from the US and UK, 19302000 |
Professor of the Practice & Co-Director, Information Futures Lab, Brown University School of Public Health |
Emily West |
Carolyn Marvin |
Greeting Cards: Individuality and Authenticity in Mass Culture |
Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
2003
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
---|---|---|---|
Kelli D'apice |
Joseph Turow |
Media Dependent Regulators: Media's Reported Impact in the Regulatory Environment and Related Implications for Agency Practices and Policymaking |
|
John Huxford |
Barbie Zelizer |
It's the End of the World as We Know It: Journalism and the Prediction of Catastrophe |
Associate Professor, Illinois State University |
2002
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
---|---|---|---|
Mark Brewin |
Elihu Katz |
The History of Election Day in Philadelphia: A Study In American Political Ritual |
Associate Professor, University of Tulsa |
David Dutwin |
Vincent Price |
Can People Talk Politics? A Study of Deliberative Democracy |
Senior Vice President, Business Ventures & Innovation, University of Chicago |
Brian Southwell |
Robert C. Hornik |
Mass Media and Memory Traces: Multilevel Explanation of Encoded Exposure to Television Content |
Senior Research Scientist, RTI International |
Jennifer Stromer-Galley |
Vincent Price |
New Voices in the Public Sphere: Political Conversation in the Internet Age |
Professor, Syracuse University |
Yariv Tsfati |
Joseph N. Cappella |
The Consequences of Mistrust in the News Media: Media Skepticism as a Moderator in Media Effects and as a Factor Influencing News Media Exposure |
Professor and Department Chair, University of Haifa |
M. Louise Woodstock |
Barbie Zelizer |
Cure without Communication: Self-Help Books and Popular Notions of Self Communication, 1860-2000 |
Associate Professor, Ursinus College |
2001
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
---|---|---|---|
Courtney Bennett |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Evaluations and Emotion: Influencing Public Health Policy References Via Facial Effect |
Director, Stewardship, Saint Mary's College of California |
James Devitt |
Kathleen Hall Jamieson |
Whose News? How Television News Fails Political Discourse |
Managing Director of Public Affairs/Adjunct Faculty, New York University |
Erika Falk |
Kathleen Hall Jamieson |
Women, Press, and The Presidency |
Program Director, Israel Institute |
Jessica Fishman |
Carolyn Marvin |
Documenting Death: Photojournalism and Spectacles of the Morbid in the Tabloid and Elite Newspaper |
Director, Message Effects Lab, University of Pennsylvania |
Alice Hall |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Factors Shaping the Effects of Visual Media Texts on Viewer Understandings |
Professor and Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, University of Missouri-St. Louis |
Marc Ostfield |
Carolyn Marvin |
Attack, Pain, and Danger in Group Life: Thrown to the Wolves |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Paraguay |
David Park |
Larry P. Gross |
Putting the World on the Couch: Cultural Authority as a Dimension of Mid-20th Century Popular Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis |
Professor, Lake Forest College |
Susan Sherr |
Paul Messaris |
Visual Representation and the Prediction of Emotion |
Vice President of Demographic and Policy Research, Social Science Research Solutions |
Michele Strano |
Carolyn Marvin |
As Time Goes By: Ritualized Remembering Through Wedding Photography |
Associate Professor, Bridgewater State College |
Jo Stryker |
Robert C. Hornik |
A Longitudinal Analysis Of The Effects Of News Media Messages On Health Behaviors |
Chief of Research and Evaluation, Center for Disease Control, National Center for Health Statistics |
Eric Zimmer |
Vincent Price |
For To All Those Who Have, More Will Be Given: The Matthew Effect, Nonprofit Organizations, And The Adoption Of Internet Technologies |
President, University of Saint Francis |
2000
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
---|---|---|---|
A. Joseph Borrell |
Oscar Gandy |
Alcohol Advertising Over the Public Airwaves: A Study Of Radio Station Managers' clearance of Alcohol Related Advertisements |
Dean of Academic Affairs, Hillsborough Community College |
Stacy Davis Graebner |
Joseph N. Cappella |
The Role of Discrete in Advertising Context Effects |
Market Research Consultant, Self-Employed |
Isabel Molina Guzman |
Larry P. Gross |
Culture Wars In The Classroom: A Discursive Analysis of Conflict in Two Public School Districts |
Professor Latina/Latino Studies, Media & Cinema Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
Nicole Keating |
Klaus Krippendorff |
May the Best History Win: Documentary Production and The Politics of Historical Representation Amidst the Downsizing of the National Endowment for the Humanities |
Professor, Woodbury University |
Gangheong Lee |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Information Environment, Cognitive Appraisal, and Discrete Emotions in Citizens' Political Evaluation and Behavior: The 1996 U.S. Presidential Campaigns |
Professor, Daegu University |
Kimberly Maxwell |
Robert C. Hornik |
Do Friends Matter?: The Role of Peer Influence on Adolescent Risk Behavior |
Self-employed |
Marsha Siefert |
Larry P. Gross |
Mediating Opera for America: Magazine Biographies, Opera Singers and National Identity |
Associate Professor, Central European University |
John Sullivan |
Oscar Gandy |
Constructing the Cable Television Market in Latin America: A Structurational Approach to Organizational Knowledge in U.S. Cable Networks |
Professor, Muhlenberg College |
Paul Waldman |
Kathleen Hall Jamieson |
Deliberation in Practice: Deliberative Theory, News Media, and Political Conversation |
Contributing Editor and Columnist, The Prospect |
Richard Wray |
Robert C. Hornik |
Alternative Explanations: Examining Exposure Recall, Selective Perception, and Response Bias In the Evaluation Of A Domestic Violence Prevention Radio Campaign |
Professor and Dept. Chair Behavioral Science, Saint Louis University |
Itzhak Yanovitzky |
Robert C. Hornik |
Mass Media, Social Control, and Health Behavior Change: A Longitudinal Analysis Of Media Effects On Drunk-Driving Behavior, 1978-1995 |
Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus |
1990-1999
1999
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
---|---|---|---|
Sean Aday |
Kathleen Hall Jamieson |
Public Journalism and the Power of The Press: Exploring The Framesetting Effects Of The News |
Associate Professor, George Washington University |
David Gleason |
Larry P. Gross |
Becoming Dominant: Shifting Control and the Creation of Culture in Provincetown, MA |
SVP, Research E! And Esquire Networks, NBC Universal |
1998
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
---|---|---|---|
Linus Abraham |
Paul Messaris |
Subtle Manifestations of Prejudice: Implicit Visual Constructions of Black Pathology |
Rector, National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) |
Robin Nabi |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Reasoning Through Emotion: An Explication and Test of a Cognitive-Functional Model for the Effects of Discrete Negative Emotions on Information Processing, Attitude Change, and Recall |
Professor, University of California Santa Barbara |
David Phillips |
Oscar Gandy |
Digital Cash and the Surveillance Society: Negotiating Identification in New Consumer Payment systems |
Associate Professor, University of Toronto |
Sarah Sayeed |
Robert C. Hornik |
Characteristics of Parent-Child Communication and its Relationship to Adolescents' Exposure to and Understanding of Televised Sexuality |
Chair and Executive Director, NYC Civic Engagement Commission |
Emory Woodard IV |
Robert C. Hornik |
By All Means!: A Multi-Method Investigation of the Relationship between Television, Consumerism, and Criminal Behavior |
Dean, Graduate Studies in Liberal Arts & Sciences, Villanova University |
1997
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Bernadette Barker-Plummer |
Oscar Gandy |
News as a Political Resource: A Case Study of the Media Strategies and Media Representation of the National Organization for Women, 1966-1980 |
Linda Browning (Delana) |
Carolyn Marvin |
More Than Just Appearances: Cosmetic Practices and the Cultural Construction of Gender |
Rona Buchalter |
Carolyn Marvin |
Good Neighbors: The Social Negotiation of Place |
Joohan Kim |
Elihu Katz |
On the Interactions of News Media, Interpersonal Communication, Opinion Formation, and Participation: Deliberative Democracy and the Public Sphere |
Katharina Kopp |
Oscar Gandy |
The Role of Private Philanthropic Foundations in Communications Policy Making Defining the 'Public Interest' - The Ford and Markle Foundations' Influence on Policy Making at the Federal Communications Commission |
Ramona Lyons |
Carolyn Marvin |
Speakers For The Dead and the Social Construction of Medicolegal Deathwork |
Andrew Maxfield |
Robert C. Hornik |
Behavioral Planning and the Cognitive Antecedents to Behavior: An Experiment Over the Internet Concerning Physical Activity |
June Rhee |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Framing the Health Care Reform Campaign of 1993-94: News Frame, Interpretation, and Public Opinion Change. |
Cindy Wong |
Larry P. Gross |
Communities Through the Lens: Grassroots Video in Philadelphia as Alternative Communicative Practice |
1996
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Darin Klein |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Accuracy and Distortion in Judgment and Recall of Political Discourse |
Chien Lei |
Charles R. Wright |
Political Orientations and the Influences of Cohort Membership and Time: Patterns of Change in Tolerance, Confidence, and the Strength of Party Affiliation |
William Mikulak |
Paul Messaris |
How Cartoons Become Art: Exhibitions and Sales of Animation Art as Communication of Aesthetic Value |
Shinichi Saito |
Joseph N. Cappella |
The Image of the Partner: Television's Contribution to Japanese Perceptions of America |
1995
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Elvira Arcenas |
Carolyn Marvin |
Communication In the Making of Academic Communication |
Lynne Edwards |
Oscar Gandy |
The Relationship Between Values, Commitment, and Television Program Preferences Among Young Black Women |
Fatos Goksen |
Robert C. Hornik |
The Role of Social Support and Social Influence in Maternal Infant Feeding Behavior: Examination of Social Support as a Multifaceted Concept |
Christopher Koepke |
Robert C. Hornik |
The Role of Communication in Childhood Vaccinations |
Wendy Mansfield |
Oscar Gandy |
Strategic Communication in the Public Policy Process: The Case of Electronic Monitoring of Employees |
Charles Mcclure |
Klaus Krippendorff |
How Brand Names Brand Societies: A Comparative Study of Brand Names Registered in Selected English-Speaking Countries, 1870-1980 |
Yoshimi Nishino |
Robert C. Hornik |
Conversation About Aids and the Media Environment In Thailand: Mass Media Roles In Context Building and Content Providing for Interpersonal Discourse |
Catherine Preston |
Larry P. Gross |
In Retrospect: The Construction and Communication of a Nationalvisual Memory |
Clement So |
Klaus Krippendorff |
Mapping the Intellectual Landscape of Communication Studies: An Evaluation of its Disciplinary Status |
Jisuk Woo |
Oscar Gandy |
Structural Continuity and Transformations of the U.S. Copyright Law with Regard to Computer Programs: Actors' Communicative Interactions Through the Use of Structural Rules and Resources |
1994
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
R. Brian Attig |
Joseph N. Cappella |
Using Visuals to Teach Text Material: The Influence of Emotional Intensity and Encoding Instructions on the Ability of Television Public Service Messages to Produce a Learning Effect for Informationally Nonredundant Text |
Robert Drew |
Carolyn Marvin |
Where the People are the Real Stars: An Ethnography of Karaoke Bars in Philadelphia |
Mary (Bessie) Lee Lawton |
Oscar Gandy |
More than Protest: Communication and the Political 'Capacitation' of Philippine Health Non-Governmental Organizations |
Moira Marie McLoughlin |
Larry P. Gross |
Culture Under Glass: First Nation in Canadian Museums |
Eugene Michaud |
Larry P. Gross |
Left Out: American Leftists and American Media |
Eleanor Novek |
Oscar Gandy |
Newmaking, Knowledge Construction, and Self-determination: A Community Newspaper as an Empowerment Strategy for African American High School Students |
Amy Sarch |
Carolyn Marvin |
Dirty Discourse: Birth Control Advertising in the 1920s and 1930s |
Zhong Zheng |
Robert C. Hornik |
Social Influence as a Component of Contextual Effects: A Study of Diarrheal Treatment in Zaire |
1993
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Jelena Grcic Polic |
Oscar Gandy |
HDVT Policy Formation in the United States: The Federal Communications Commissions's Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service, 1987-1991 |
1992
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Herminia Alfonso |
Klaus Krippendorff |
On the Logic of Socially Shared Inquiry: An Examination of Participatory Research And Related Development Efforts from a Communication Process Perspective |
Barry Dornfeld |
Larry P. Gross |
Interpretation, Authorship, and Cross-Cultural Representation: A Study of Childhood, a Public Television Documentary Series |
Pablo Halpern |
Oscar Gandy |
Media Dependency and Political Perceptions in an Authoritarian Political System: The Case of Chile's Left |
Gwenyth Jackaway |
Carolyn Marvin |
The Press Radio War, 1924-1937: A Battle to Defend the Professional, Institutional, and Political Power of the Press |
Bette Kauffman |
Larry P. Gross |
Woman Artist: Communicating Social Identity |
Steven Leuthold |
Larry P. Gross |
Telling Our Own Story: The Aesthetic Expression of Collective Identity in Native American Documentary |
Bernadette McNulty |
Charles R. Wright |
Homeless and Hopeless: Resignation in News Media Constructions of Homelessness as a Social Problem |
Nancy Morris |
Larry P. Gross |
National Identity Under Challenge: Puerto Rico in the Twentieth Century |
Pamela Sankar |
Carolyn Marvin |
State Power and Record-Keeping: The History of Individualized Surveillance in the United States, 1790-1935 |
Daniel Tate |
Kathleen Hall Jamieson |
Ideology And Ambiguity: Models Of Narrative Relationship Among Narrators, Narrative Situation and Addressed Audiences Of Woman's Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Published from 1910 to 1930 |
Krystyna Warchol |
Larry P. Gross |
The Market System of the Art World and New Art: Prices, Roles, and Careers in the 1980s |
James Woods |
Larry P. Gross |
The Corporate Closet Managing Gay Identity On The Job |
1991
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Derek Bouse |
Paul Messaris |
The Wilderness Documentary: Film, Video, and the Visual Rhetoric of American Environmentalism |
Eva Illouz |
Larry P. Gross |
Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Introduction to a Political Economy of Love |
Jeffrey McDowell |
Robert C. Hornik |
The Relationship Between Quality of Access to Telecommunication and Communication Activity in Semi- Rural Areas of Thailand |
Nikhil Sinha |
Oscar Gandy |
Choices and Consequences: A Cross-National Evaluation of TeleCommunication Policies in Developing Countries |
Diane Umble |
Carolyn Marvin |
The Coming of the Telephone to Plain Country: A Study of Amish and Mennonite Resistance in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania at the Turn of the Century |
Karin Gwinn Wilkins |
Oscar Gandy |
Development Communication Interpretations in Organizational Contexts |
1990
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Victor Caldarola |
Larry P. Gross |
Reception as Cultural Experience: Visual Mass Media and Reception Practices in Outer Indonesia |
Lisa Henderson |
Larry P. Gross |
Cinematic Competence and Directorial Persona In Film School: A Study of Socialization and Cultural Production. |
Amy Jordan |
Christine Bachen |
The Role of Mass Media in the Family System: An Ethnographic Approach |
Lois Silverman |
Larry P. Gross |
Of Us and Other Things: The Content and Functions of Talk by Adult Visitor Pairs in an Art and a History Museum |
Barbie Zelizer |
Larry P. Gross |
Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination and the Establishment of Journalistic Authority |
1980-1989
1989
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Nina Ferencic |
Robert C. Hornik |
Communication and Development: Factors Affecting Knowledge and Behavior Change at the Individual and the Community Levels in Response to a Health Communication Project in Ecuador |
Milton Mueller |
Carolyn Marvin |
The Telephone War: Interconnection, Competition, and Monopoly in the Making of Universal Telephone Service, 1884-1920 |
Ann-Marie Nazzaro |
Robert C. Hornik |
The Knowledge Gap Hypothesis and Salience in the Context of Health Maintenance Organizations and the Elderly |
1988
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Thomas Wickenden |
Klaus Krippendorff |
The Collective Communication of Social Choice Messages |
Michael Willmorth |
Larry P. Gross |
The Representation of American English Dialects in Prime Time Network Television Dramatic Programs |
1987
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Julie Dobrow |
George Gerbner |
Ths Social and Cultural Implications of the VCR: How VCR Use Concentrates and Diversifies Viewing |
Michael Griffin |
Larry P. Gross |
Amateur Photography and Pictorial Aesthetics: Influences of Organization and Industry on Cultural Production |
Robert Hanke |
Larry P. Gross |
"Suddenly a Restaurant Town": An Inquiry into Public Culinary Culture and Communication |
Stephen Prince |
Paul Messaris |
Power, Pain, and Pleasure in Pornography: A Content Analysis of Pornographic Feature Films, 1972-1985 |
Nancy Rothschild |
Larry P. Gross |
Television and the Family Context: Cohesion, Control, and Cultivation |
1986
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Jane Jorgenson |
Paul Messaris |
The Family's Construction of the Concept of "Family" |
Christopher Musello |
Larry P. Gross |
Family Houses and Social Identity: Communicational Perspectives on the Homes of Ridge County |
1985
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Cathy Hall |
Ray L. Birdwhistell |
The Communication of Expertise During Rapid Organizational Change: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Bank Holding Company During Deregulation |
Stewart Hoover |
Larry P. Gross |
The 700 Club as Religion and as Television: A Study of Reasons and Effects |
Hannah Kliger (Peltz) |
Charles R. Wright |
Communication and Ethnic Community: The Case of Landsmanshaften |
Judith McDivitt |
Robert C. Hornik |
Constraints to Knowledge Gain and Behavior Change in Response to a Multi-Media Health Education Project in the Gambia, West-Africa |
Janet Seykora |
George Gerbner |
Television's Contribution to Public Understanding of Science: A Comparative View |
1984
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Robert Aibel |
Larry P. Gross |
Art as Social Communication: The Ridge County Amateur Art World |
David Graper |
Paul Messaris |
The Presentation of Computers and Computer Technology in Newspapers Directed Toward Different Social Groups |
Duncan Holaday |
Ray L. Birdwhistell |
Making Media Fit: Short-Term Adjustment to a New Communications Technology in a West Javanese Village |
Catherine Kirkland |
Larry P. Gross |
For the Love of it: Women Writers and the Popular Romance |
Barbara Lynch |
Ray L. Birdwhistell |
Sacred Space: Spacial Communication Patterns in an Irish American and Slavic American Roman Catholic Parish |
1983
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Dona Schwartz |
Larry P. Gross |
Camera Clubs and Fine Arts Photography: Distinguishing between Art and Amateur Activity |
1982
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Stuart Sigman |
Ray L. Birdwhistell |
Some Communicational Aspects of Patient Placement and Careers in Two Nursing Homes |
Jane Gould Torous |
Robert C. Hornik |
A Theoretical Development and Empirical Test of Susceptibility to Media Effects |
1981
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Josephine Holz |
Charles R. Wright |
Communication about the Skokie March: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Reality |
James Miller |
George Gerbner |
Office of Telecommunications Policy and Broadcast Issues: A Case Study of Media-Interaction |
Carla Sarett |
Larry P. Gross |
Socialization Patters and Children's Television and Film-Related Play |
1980
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
George Custen |
Larry P. Gross |
Film Talk: Viewers Responses to a Film aa a Socially Situated Event |
Michael Morgan |
Larry P. Gross |
Longitudinal Patterns of Television Viewing and Adolescent Role Socialization |
Thomas Wick |
Barbara H. Smith |
Theories of Reading: A Review and Analysis of American Research on Proficient Reading in its Social Context |
1970-1979
1979
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Douglas Goldschmidt |
George Gerbner |
Joint Goods, Public Goods and Telecommunications: A Case Study of the Alaska Telephone System |
Marilyn Jackson |
Charles R. Wright |
Mass Media Exposure and Individual Political Activity |
Leslie Rado |
Larry P. Gross |
Communication, Social Organization, and the Redefinition of Death: A Case Study of the Institutionalization of an Idea |
1978
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Suzanne Jeffries-Fox |
Larry P. Gross |
Televisions's Contribution to Young People's Conceptions about Occupations |
Daniel Schiller |
George Gerbner |
An Exploration of the Origins of Objectivity in American News Reporting |
Kusum Singh |
George Gerbner |
Gandhi and Mao as Communicators: A Comparative Study of Practice and Theory |
James Taylor |
Klaus Krippendorff |
A Method for the Recording of Data Analysis of Structure in Task Groups |
1977
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Charles Goodwin |
Klaus Krippendorff |
Some Aspects of the Interaction of Speaker and Hearer in the Construction of the Turn at Talk in Natural Conversation |
Linda Lannus |
Charles R. Wright |
The News Organization and News Operations at the Urban Press: A Sociological Analysis Based on Two Case Studies |
Paul Licker |
Sol Worth |
The Role of the Recognition of Structure in Interaction and Communication |
Susan Lou McDonald |
Larry P. Gross |
Learning about Crime: Conceptions of Crime as They Relate to Use of Television and Other Information Sources |
Sari Thomas |
Larry P. Gross |
The Relationship Between Daytime Serials and Their Viewers |
1976
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
John Carey |
Ray L. Birdwhistell |
A Micro-Frame Analysis of the On-Camera/On-Mike Paralinguistic Behavior of Three Presidential Candidates |
Joseph Turow |
George Gerbner |
Client Relationship and Mass Media Policy: A Comparative Case Study of Mass Market Production and Distribution in Children's Book Publishing |
1975
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Eusebio Inocencio |
William Melody |
Differences in Perspective on Public Policy Issues: A Comparison of Federal, State, and Local Views on Broadband Cable Communications |
Paul Messaris |
Larry P. Gross |
Interpersonal Styles and Film Training |
Nancy Signorielli |
George Gerbner |
Men and Women in Television Drama: The Use of Two Multivariate Techniques for Isolating Dimensions of Characterization |
1974
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Richard Chalfen |
Sol Worth |
Film as Visual Communication: A Sociovidistic Study in Filmmaking |
John Clippinger, Jr. |
Klaus Krippendorff |
A Discourse Speaking Program as a Preliminary Theory of Discourse and a Limited Theory of a Psychoanalytic Discourse |
Mildred Harlow Downing |
George Gerbner |
The World of Day Time Television Serial Drama |
John Rossiter |
Larry P. Gross |
Children's Susceptibility to Television Advertising: A Behavioral Test of Cognition and Attitude |
Linda Shipley |
Charles R. Wright |
Communications Behavior of Persons Living in a Megalopolis: A Study of Mass Media Use and Interpersonal Communications of Commuters and Local Workers |
1973
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
James Murphy |
Larry P. Gross |
Attributional and Inferential Strategies in the Interpretation of Visual Communications: A Developmental Study |
1972
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Judith Miller |
Charles R. Wright |
Conversations in Semi-Public Places: Study of Reported Communication Between Occupational Specialists and Their Clientele in a Metropolis |
Heli Perrett |
Charles R. Wright |
Social Implications of Adult Literacy: A Study Among Migrant Women in Peru |
Lynn Waterhouse |
Dell Hymes |
Generic and Sociocultural Influence on Language Development |
1960-1969
1969
Alumnus | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title |
---|---|---|
Dolf Zillmann |
Percy Tannenbaum |
Emotion Arousal as a Factor in Communication-Mediated Aggressive Behavior |