Faculty and Academic Staff for Communication
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Jenny Barnett |
Jenny Barnett is a Lecturer specializing in media writing and editing. A publishing industry veteran with over 20 years’ experience in top-level positions on national magazines, she developed Writing and Editing for the Media (COMM 3040) and also teaches Organizational Writing (COMM 3030). Formerly Executive Editor in Chief at Harper’s Bazaar and Executive Editor at Marie Claire in the US and the UK, Jenny is also an editorial consultant, freelance editor and writer, and is currently a ... More > |
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Natalie Bazarova |
Dr. Natalie Bazarova’s research focuses on the intersection of interpersonal communication, communication technology, and social cognition. Her research interests include disclosure and privacy in social media, attributional judgments, virtual groups, personal relationships, and intercultural collaboration. Natalie's work has appeared in Human Communication Research, Communication Yearbook, Communication Research, and Small Group Research, and has been recognized by several top paper awards from ... More > |
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Kathy Berggren |
Helping other people to learn fascinates me! My primary teaching goal is to provide students the confidence to be effective communicators in their personal, public, and intellectual lives. Learning should be meaningful and applicable to oneÕs experiences. More > |
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Sahara Byrne |
My most recent research aims to explain and predict when unintended effects occur in response to persuasive and strategic messages, especially those that are designed to be pro-social – such as health campaigns. I am especially interested in testing when and why youth resist campaigns, interventions, and policies designed to protect them from engaging in risky behaviors. More > |
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E. lauren Chambliss |
My interest and experience is in communicating science for impact and influence for public audiences, but particularly target audiences, media, policy makers and opinion/thought leaders, and targeted stakeholder groups. Focus is on understanding audience and using research-based techniques, narrative, identification etc in multiple media messaging, including online and social media, to convey messages and improve public understanding of science-based information and solutions to global ... More > |
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Susan Fussell |
Dr. Susan Fussell's interests include computer-mediated communication, social computing, computer-supported cooperative work, and human-robot interaction. One of her major research projects focuses on understanding how people's cultural backgrounds influence computer-mediated communication. Another current project looks at how visualization tools affect communication during collaborative analysis tasks. She is also involved in a large collaborative project called StepGreen.org that aims to ... More > |
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Geri Gay |
Dr. Geri Gay is the Kenneth J. Bissett Professor and Chair of Communication at Cornell University and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow. She is also a professor in Information Science and the director of the Interaction Design Lab at Cornell. Her research focuses on social and technical issues in the design and application of interactive communication technologies. Specifically, she is interested in social navigation, persuasive computing, affective computing, social networking, mobile ... More > |
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Tarleton Gillespie |
Tarleton Gillespie is currently an associate professor in the Communication Department here at Cornell, with graduate field appointments in Information Science and Science & Technology Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California at San Diego in 2002, his M.A. from the same in 1997. His first book, Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture, was published in June of 2007 by MIT Press. More > |
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Jamie Guillory |
Jamie Guillory is a Postdoctoral associate studying Communication. Her primary research interests focus on how new forms of technology affect perceptions and behavior in health contexts (e.g., pain, eating). More > |
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Jeffrey Hancock |
My research program at Cornell has focused on examining social interactions mediated by information and communication technology, with a particular emphasis on how people produce and understand language in these contexts. In general, my theoretical approach draws on collaborative action-oriented models of communication, in particular Herb Clark's model of language use, and self-presentational frameworks that describe interpersonal motivations. My research has focused on two types of language ... More > |
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Lee Humphreys |
Dr. Lee Humphreys studies the social uses and perceived effects of communication technology. Her research has explored mobile phone use in public spaces, emerging norms on mobile social networks, and the privacy and surveillance implications of location-based services. Her recent scholarship tries to historicize social media into a broader context of communication practices. Often using qualitative field methods, she focuses on how people integrate communication technology in their everyday ... More > |
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Gilly Leshed |
Dr. Gilly Leshed’s research is in the areas of human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. She is interested in examining social and cultural issues within technical systems that challenge the fundamental design assumption of information technologies to help individuals and groups accomplish tasks more productively. Leshed conducts quantitative and qualitative empirical studies and designs information technologies that highlight theoretical concepts and that serve as ... More > |
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Lois Levitan |
Directs Recycling Agricultural Plastics Project, developing recycling infrastructure and markets, and Environmental Risk Analysis Program, helping citizens and policy-makers balance levels of concern with levels of risk and social impact. More > |
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Bruce Lewenstein |
Dr. Bruce V. Lewenstein is a widely-known authority on public communication of science and technology–how science and technology are reported to the public and how the public understands controversial scientific issues and "emerging technologies" such as biotechnology and nanotechnology. Trained as a historian of science, he often uses historical case studies in his research. He has also done extensive work evaluating "citizen science" outreach projects, in which citizens fully participate in ... More > |
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Katherine McComas |
My research program examines how people communicate about health, science, and environmental risks. Such communication can take place in many venues- from the front page of the New York Times, to the website of the CDC, to the local public meeting, to the doctor's office. I am particularly interested in how risk communication influences people's attitudes and behaviors, as well as incentives and barriers people face in the context of risk communication. Two concepts that figure prominently in my ... More > |
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Poppy McLeod |
Professor McLeod is as Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. She earned her Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Social Psychology from Harvard University, and her B.S. in Psychology from Syracuse University. Prior to joining the Communication faculty at Cornell, Professor McLeod taught in the Business Schools of Case Western Reserve University, University of Iowa and University of Michigan. More > |
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Jeffrey Niederdeppe |
Jeff Niederdeppe joined the faculty at Cornell University as an Assistant Professor of Communication in fall 2008. His research explores the effects of mass media campaigns and health news coverage on health behavior and social policy. Much of his published work has focused on the effectiveness of large-scale anti-tobacco media campaigns and the role of news coverage in shaping health behavior and policy. Current grant-funded projects aim to develop and test persuasive message strategies aimed ... More > |
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Clifford Scherer |
Research and extension activities in the past 10 years have focused on the development of strategies for the communication of complex scientific, technical and risk information to lay audiences, policy-makers and elected officials. Particular attention has been focused on developing models for presenting complex health and environmental risk information to non-scientists, and how that information is utilized, processed and integrated into decision-making. Recent work has concentrated on ... More > |
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Dawn Schrader |
Dawn Schrader studies the relationship between moral psychology and action. Her current research foci are 1) privacy issues, including the psychological value of privacy and increasing awareness of privacy implications for the individual and society; and 2) adolescent girls' social aggression; specifically, the protection of self-integrity and the promotion of ethical behavior in bystanders. More > |
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Jonathon Schuldt |
Jonathon Schuldt joined the Cornell faculty as an Assistant Professor of Communication in the summer of 2012. His research focuses on everyday judgment and decision making in the domains of environmental and health communication. Prior to Cornell, he was a faculty member at California State University - Northridge. He holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. More > |
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Michael Shapiro |
My research focuses on the mental processes involved in getting and using information from the mass media, including a variety of unconscious and more thoughtful mental processes we use to interpret messages and make decisions. My current focus is on the social psychology of narrative, examining the impact of narrative messages on judgments about realism and on the effectiveness of health messages. One aspect of this is an investigation of messages aimed at improving home food safety. This ... More > |
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Linda Van Buskirk |
Linda Van Buskirk specializes in the teaching of professional and academic writing, emphasizing the analysis of situation and audience, appropriate prose style, and clarity of thought. Her secondary specializations are gender communication, with a focus on teaching theories of the development of self-identity. More > |
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Y. Connie Yuan |
I teach and conduct research in the area of organizational communication. Specially, I am interested in studying knowledge management through the development of social capital, and the adoption and usage of information and communication technology. My ultimate goal is to integrate findings from organizational behavior and information systems, and to develop and test new social science theories that advance our understanding of knowledge management. More > |
