Accomplishments: Department of Communication Studies
In April 2025, Jeffrey T. Child (Communication Studies) will become president of the largest regional communication association in the nation, the Central States Communication Association (CSCA). Child is the primary conference planner for CSCA鈥檚 94th annual convention being held April 1-6 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He organized this year鈥檚鈥
Jeffrey T. Child (Communication Studies) recently published an edited book chapter on intentional and mindful social media disclosure practices in a national book for first-year students about enhancing their resilience in college. The citation for the piece is: Child, J. T., & Craig, M. J. A. (2024). Intentional and mindful social media use:鈥
Jeffrey T. Child (Communication Studies) recently published an edited book chapter on intentional and mindful social media disclosure practices in a national book for first-year students about enhancing their resilience in college. The citation for the piece is: Child, J. T., & Craig, M. J. A. (2024). Intentional and mindful social media鈥
Tara McManus (Communication Studies) and co-author Courtney Rilinger (Park University) published the paper, "The Influence of Attributions, Emotions, and Sexual Health Knowledge on Support Provision to Friends with Sexual Health Uncertainties," in the journal Health Communication. The results indicate that the more participants assigned blame to鈥
Rebecca Rice (Communication Studies), published the article "Involuntary Adoption of Information and Communication Technologies During Emergencies: Temporality of Technology Use in Virtual Collaborations" in Management Communication Quarterly, with co-author Natalie Pennington (Colorado State University).
David R. Gruber (Communication Studies) published a book chapter titled "Material Forces in the Brain Sciences" in the "Routledge Handbook of Rhetoric and Power" edited by Nathan Crick.
The chapter initially reviews the scholarly literature sitting at the intersection of the neurosciences and rhetorical studies and argues that three sub-areas have鈥
Craig Hennigan (Communication Studies), with collaborators Tiana Brownen (Simpson College), Shanna Carlson (Illinois State University), A.J. Edwards (Louisiana State University - Shreveport), Shiela Ritchie (Abilene Christian University), Philip Samuels (Wichita State University), Zachary Thornhill (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Baker Weilert鈥
Rebecca Rice (Communication Studies) was awarded the Linda L. Putnam Early Career Scholar Award from the International Communication Association. This award recognizes the contributions of an early career scholar to organizational communication research. Specifically, this award honors a scholar no more than six years past receipt鈥
David R. Gruber (Communication Studies) published "A Forum on Neurorhetorics: Conscious of the Past, Mindful of the Future" as lead author in the journal Rhetoric Society Quarterly. The forum brings together multiple scholars to evaluate the past twelve years of research at the intersection of neuroscience and rhetorical studies, suggesting鈥
Laura V. Martinez (Communication Studies), Ph.D., authored the article, "That's what makes somebody circus": The collaborative process of transforming the meaning of pain through discourse in circus organizations," in Circus: Arts, Life, and Sciences. The article explores how aerial acrobats collaboratively transform the meaning of鈥
Assistant professor Laura V. Martinez' (Communication Studies) solo-authored autoethnographic piece, "Reclaiming the Body: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Organizational Identification, Concertive Control, and Deidentification Through Flight" was accepted for publication in the Journal of Autoethnography. This manuscript will appear in鈥
Tara McManus, with co-authors and MA graduates Brooke Wolfe and Hannah Novak (all Communication Studies), published an article, 鈥淢emorable Messages about Pregnancy and Abortion from the Perspective of College-Enrolled Emerging Adults,鈥 in the journal Health Communication. The study found that college students remember messages about pregnancy that鈥