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Communication: Faculty Scholarship

Faculty Scholarship from 2025 2025

Generative AI and Journalism: Hype, The Always Already New, Hype, and Directions for Scholarly Imagination, Nik Usher

Nonprofit News Public Communication Data, Nik Usher

Amplifying Extremism: Small Town Politicians, Media Storms, and American Journalism, Nik Usher and Jess Hagman

Faculty Scholarship from 2024 2024

Fragmented Selves: Introducing Students to Archival Research and Historical Representations, Sophie Downing

Why News Organizations ‘Platform’ Illiberal Politics: Understanding News Production, Economic Insolvency, and Anti-Democratic Pressure Through CNN’s 2023 Trump Town Hall, Nik Usher

Faculty Scholarship from 2023 2023

Infusing Theology in Changemaking Curricula: Engaging Justice Natives With Christian Social Thought, Jonathan Bowman PhD

“I Remember Feeling Pretty Darn Lucky”: Crafting Family Resilience in Response to a Medical Emergency, Sophie Downing

Incorporating mini lessons on the hidden curriculum in communication classrooms, Sophie Downing and China C. Billoette Verhoff

Contact-Tracing Apps as Boundary Objects of Pandemic Governance: The State-by-State Approach to Contain the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States, Eugene Jang, Jeeyun (Sophia) Baik, and Katrin Fischer

Oaxacalifornia: Indigenous Transnational Spaces as Grassroots Cosmopolitanism, Antonieta Mercado

Reactions to the U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Social Media & Youth Mental Health, Susannah Stern

Catching Babies: Helping Students Understand Reproductive Justice Through Black Maternal Health, Jillian A. Tullis

Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks, Nik Usher

Faculty Scholarship from 2022 2022

“You can get clarity that other students may feel the same way you do”: exploring students’ decision-making around and motivations for engaging in evaluative talk about instructors, Maria Hannah

Fighting COVID-19 in Illinois: A Case Study of Local Health Department Officials’ Reliance on Facebook, Nik Usher

Journalism as historical repair work: Addressing present injustice through the second draft of history, Nik Usher and Matt Carlson

Faculty Scholarship from 2021 2021

From Media Capture to Platform Capture, Nik Usher

Faculty Scholarship from 2020 2020

Beggars and Choosers: How Google and Facebook compromise media independence with their corporate donations, Nik Usher

Faculty Scholarship from 2019 2019

What Is Data Journalism For? Cash, Clicks, and Cut and Trys, Nik Usher

Faculty Scholarship from 2018 2018

Hacks, Hackers and the Expansive Boundaries of Journalism., Nik Usher

“How Interactivity Can Build Transparency: What Tech Can Teach Us about Rebuilding Media Trust, Nik Usher

Women and Technology in the Newsroom: Vision or Reality From Data Journalism To The News Startup Era, Nik Usher

Faculty Scholarship from 2016 2016

The Constancy of Immediacy: From Printing Press to Digital Age, Nik Usher

Faculty Scholarship from 2012 2012

History of (Future) Progress: Hyper-Masculine Transhumanist Virtuality, Diane Marie Keeling

Faculty Scholarship from 2011 2011

Cinema and Choric Connection: Lost in Translation as Sensual Experience, Brian L. Ott and Diane Marie Keeling