Research and Insights: Culturally Appropriate Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Messages: Targeting Racially and Ethnically Diverse Mothers

Wednesday July 29, 2020

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States. It’s also the leading cause of death for women globally. But educational information that doesn’t take into account cultural differences among women may not be as effective as communication embracing those differences.

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Research and Insights: Examining the Effects of Internal Communication and Emotional Culture on Employees’ Organizational Identification

Friday July 17, 2020

There is a growing body of evidence that supports the impact of a positive emotional culture on employees’ job satisfaction, employee-organization relationships, company financial performance, and more. Employees with high organizational identification tend to act in the organization’s best interest and internalize the mission, vision, and goals of the company.

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Research and Insights: Misinformation on Instagram: The Impact of Trusted Endorsements on Message Credibility

Wednesday July 15, 2020

Instagram continues to be one of the fastest growing social networks and currently has more than one billion users. While Instagram has not been a focus of investigations into misinformation, it has not been immune to bad actors. And the nature of the Instagram platform, for example the inability to link to credible sources, makes establishing authenticity problematic.

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Research and Insights: Emotional Framing of News on Sexual Assault and Partisan User Engagement Behaviors

Thursday June 25, 2020

The news media often frames information using words that can elicit emotions to attract audience attention and promote certain actions. Emotional frames are especially prevalent on issues that involve morality, such as news regarding sexual harassment and sexual assault.

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Research and Insights: Moving from Directives toward Audience Empowerment: A Typology of Recycling Communication Strategies of Local Governments

Wednesday June 24, 2020

Just when most people have become accustomed to existing recycling practices, municipalities and community members are having to change course due to the 2018 Chinese National Sword policy, which bans most U.S. imported solid waste. As a result, what was once …

Research and Insights: Communication Behaviors During Presidential Elections: An Examination of Time, Events, and Battleground States

Monday June 22, 2020

As election season continues, scholars want to know what communication behaviors look like during a campaign cycle. Do communication behaviors increase? Do events like debates and polls affect an individual’s quest for information? Does it matter where …

Research and Insights: A Typology of Local Government Recycling Communication Strategies

Monday June 15, 2020

Just when most people have become accustomed to existing recycling practices, municipalities and community members are having to change course due to the 2018 Chinese National Sword policy, which bans most U.S. imported solid waste. As a result, what was once …

Research and Insights: Selling Feminism: How Female Empowerment Campaigns Employ Postfeminist Discourses

Friday June 5, 2020

Pro-female advertisements, or femvertisements, receive praise for empowering women. But is that the message that’s actually received? Award-winning femvertisements often draw on the empowering messages contained within feminist ideals while also neutralizing the true political force of those ideals, thus undoing the work of feminism.

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Research and Insights: Controversial Conversations: The Emotions Evoked by Anti-Terrorism Advertising

Thursday June 4, 2020

Brands often use social issue advertising to evoke emotion in their media campaigns. This type of advertising, however, could elicit emotional responses beyond what the advertiser intended.

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Research and Insights: Succeeding in Online Education

Tuesday June 2, 2020

As the global pandemic forced most higher education institutions around the world to move classes to all-online formats, colleges and universities began examining whether or not online education is effective for the long term.

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Research and Insights: Four Things Schools Should Do to Teach Data Journalism

Monday June 1, 2020

The use of data has become a vital investigative tool for journalists. But many journalism programs and courses worldwide are insufficient or unable to provide students with the essential skills needed to gather, analyze and present data.

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Research and Insights: Self-Control and Need Satisfaction in Primetime: Television, Social Media, and Friends

Friday May 29, 2020

Spending time watching TV, hanging out with friends or scrolling through social media can be viewed as a waste of time and energy. But what if the use of this leisure time actually helps improve self-control (e.g. capacity to self-regulate behavior) and can satisfy intrinsic psychological needs (autonomy, competence, and relatedness)?

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