Ph.D. Students

Research interests: Social media and interpersonal relationships; big data and communication channel 

Research interests: Communication across cultures; computer-mediated communication

Research interests: Gender display and stereotyping; visual communication; social media; computer-mediated communication; political self-expression; media effects; feminist media studies; mixed methods

Research interests: Unintended effects of health communication and entertainment media; digital media literacy; mobile health communication; role of embodiment and narrative in persuasion

Research interests: Urban communication; intersection of work and technology; mobile and social media; cultural Identities; media and social movement

Research interests: Health, environmental and risk communication; judgment making; attitude and behavior change; persuasion and youth; communication for social change; framing and effect of news stories on the audience

Research interests: Intercultural communication; computer-mediated communication; intergroup communication and gender studies

Research interests: Academic labor; accessibility and diversity; belonging; digital labor; feminist media studies and intersectional feminist HR practices; intergroup and intragroup communication; the interplay of work and technology; mixed methods
 

Research interests: Mass media; social media; identity; values, representations and stereotypes;  media campaigns; communication and public policy; political communication; content analysis

Research interests: Social media, identity process, self-concept change, stigma, privacy/visibility, online social support

Research interests: Environmental, science, and risk communication; constructions of risk in mediated texts such as those about climate change or environmental restoration; spatial dimensions of risk communication and the sociotechnical networks in which discourses are embedded; framing theory; the role(s) of policy infrastructures and controls in mediated risk discourses. 
 

Research interests: Computer-mediated communication, intercultural communication, and chronemics

Research interests: Science communication in social context; role of communication in social and political transformation; science journalism; communication of science controversies; role of communication in shaping policies; Public opinion in China’s sociopolitical transformation

Research interests: Health communication and messaging; health preventative measures; persuasion theories; human behavior and development; influence of health messages on unhealthy behaviors, misconceptions and negative attitudes around healthy behavior

Research interests: Human-robot interaction, computer-mediated communication; social networks and social information seeking; teamwork in virtual reality

Research Interests: Environmental judgment and decision-making, biases in environmental perception and judgment, and virtual embodiment and pro-environmental attitude and behavior
 

Research interests: Computer-mediated communication, interpersonal communication, therapeutic and behavioral interventions, existential psychology, terror management theory, mixed methods
 

Research interests: Risk and science communication; risk perception and decision-making in communities in the process of energy development and in the context of natural hazards and disaster preparedness

Research interests: Health, persuasion, and quantified human-computer interaction. Currently focusing on tailoring to intrinsic/extrinsic motivations via Fitbit

Research interests: Cross-cultural communication, inter-group dynamics, computer-mediated communication

Research interests: Discursive work between technology, society, and policy; persuasive elements in media; sociological imagination of technology; the intersection of city life and autonomous technologies

Research interests: Human Computer Interaction, virtual reality, avatars & identity, embodied cognition,emotional regulation, & mental health technologies

Research interests: Social inequality, social identity, motivation and goal pursuit processes, psychological processes, evidenced-based interventions and policy applications, open science, mixed methods

Research interests: Interpersonal communication; computer-mediated communication; health communication; family communication

Research interests: Privacy and disclosure, human-computer interaction, digital labor, well-being

Research interests: Role of technology in companionship; gender; commodification of companionship; digital labor; correlations between new media and social interaction

Research interests: Media effects, entertainment media, entertainment education, narrative persuasion, parasocial interactions, emotions

Research interests: Persuasion, discrete emotion, health behavior, message design and effects, health campaigns, tobacco messaging, climate change communication, health disparities, experimental design
 

Research interest: Human-robot/agent interaction, humor and emotion, interpersonal and group communication theory, computer-mediated communication

Research interests: Social media, mobile phones, cyberbullying, and computer-mediated communication
 

Research interests: Social media; network analysis and visualization; political communication; organizational communication; environmental communication and climate change

Research interests: Media psychology; health risk communication; media and message effects; strategic health messages; narrative communication; health policy

Research interests: Social media communication; impression management; network analysis; intergroup evaluation and discrimination

Research interests: Intergroup and intragroup communication, social network analysis, knowledge exchange under computer-mediated contexts