This episode features Professor Cynthia Stohl in conversation with Professor Shiv Ganesh. Professor Stohl shares her perspective on the rapid expansion of the field of communication during the 1980s, where researchers shifted to a more  embedded and global approach. She discusses how  the International Communication Association continues to globalize through affiliate journals and hubs. Professor Stohl also shares some stories about her challenges doing organizational communication research among factory workers in New Zealand.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Shiv Ganesh

Cynthia Stohl

Sponsors

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Shiv Ganesh

Professor of Communication

Moody College of Communication

The University of Texas at Austin

LinkedIn: shivganeshnzus

Facebook: shivtalk

Cynthia Stohl

Distinguished Professor 

Department of Communication  

University of California, Santa Barbara

Works referenced in episode

Bimber, B., Flanagin, A., & Stohl, C. (2012). Collective action in organizations: Interaction and engagement in an era of technological change. Cambridge University Press.

Harness, D. Ganesh, S. & Stohl, C. (in press) Visibility Agents: Organizing Transparency in the Digital Era. New Media and Society.

Knapp, M. L., Stohl, C., & Reardon, K. K. (1981). “Memorable” messages. The Journal of Communication. 

Putnam, L. L., & Stohl, C. (1990). Bona fide groups: A reconceptualization of groups in context. Communication Studies.

Stohl, C. (1993). European managers' interpretations of participation:  A semantic network analysis. Human Communication Research, 20, 1, 97-117.  

Stohl, C. (1995). Organizational communication: Connectedness in action. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.  

Copy and Audio Editor:

Dominic Bonelli

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

This episode features Professors James Cummings and Byron Reeves as they discuss Professor Reeves’s background and research in media psychology. Professor Reeves explores the topic of media effects and explains how data science within this area of the communications field has changed throughout his career.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Byron Reeves

James Cummings

Sponsor:

The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication; Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Byron Reeves

Policy Emeritus Professor of Communication

Professor, School of Education

Stanford University

Twitter: @byronreeves

James Cummings

Assistant Professor, Emerging Media Studies 

Boston University

Twitter: @_jjcii 

Works referenced in episode: 

Reeves, B., Robinson, T., & Ram, N. (2020). Time for the human screenome project. Nature, 577(7790), 314-317.

Script and Audio Editors:
Bennett Pack
Jacqueline Colarusso

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

In this episode, Professor Scott Poole, in conversation with Professor Andy Pilny, discusses the discourse and interactions within groups trying to accomplish a common goal. Dr. Poole also shines light on different theories, processes, and observations he’s made in group settings throughout his illustrious career. 

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella 

Andrew Pilny

Scott Poole

Sponsor:

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Scott Poole 

David L. Swanson Professor Emeritus of Communication | Director of The Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences | Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 

Fellow in Organization Science Program | Vrije University, Netherlands

Andrew Pilny 

Associate Professor of Communication | University of Kentucky 

Works referenced in episode: 

Pilny, A. & Poole, M. S., (2017) Group Processes: Data-Driven Computational Approaches (Editors)., Springer. 206 p.

Poole, M. S. & DeSanctis, G., ( 2009), Applied research on group decision support systems: The minnesota GDSS project. Routledge Handbook of Applied Communication Research. Taylor and Francis, p. 558-583 26 p.

Arrow, H., Henry, K. B., Poole, M. S., Wheelan, S., & Moreland, R. (2005). Traces, Trajectories, and Timing: The Temporal Perspective on Groups.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Bennett Pack

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

This episode features Professor Judee Burgoon in conversation with Professor Norah Dunbar. They discuss how Judee became interested in the field of communication, especially interpersonal communication. Judee shared how she developed EVT, Expectancy Violations Theory, one of the most influential theories in the field, and her other contributions like interpersonal deception theory. Also, she talked about her thinking of the big intellectual questions of communication in the next decade.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Norah Dunbar

Judee Burgoon

Sponsor:

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Norah Dunbar

Professor, Department of Communication

University of California Santa Barbara

Twitter: @nedPhD

Judee Burgoon

Director of Research, Center for the Management of Information

Professor of Communication

Professor of Family Studies and Human Development

University of Arizona

Facebook: judee@arizona.edu

LinkedIn: Judee Burgoon

Works referenced in episode:

Burgoon, J. K., Buller, D. B., & Woodall, W. G. (1989). Nonverbal communication: The unspoken dialogue. Harpercollins College Division.

Burgoon, J. K., Bonito, J. A., Ramirez Jr, A., Dunbar, N. E., Kam, K., & Fischer, J. (2002). Testing the interactivity principle: Effects of mediation, propinquity, and verbal and nonverbal modalities in interpersonal interaction. Journal of communication, 52(3), 657-677.

Copy and Audio Editor:

Kate In

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

This episode features past ICA president, Professor Emeritus Peter Monge in conversation with Professor Noshir Contractor. They discuss Professor Monge’s transition from theological studies and education to a pioneer in the field of communication and his subsequent contributions to the areas of systems theory, communication networks, and organizational communication. Professor Monge further provides insight on how ICA, and the field of communication as a whole, has evolved since the 1970s and how he envisions the field further evolving, via globalization efforts and his introduction of evolutionary and ecological theory into organizational communication research.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Noshir Contractor 

Peter Monge 

Sponsor:

The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore

More from our guests: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Noshir Contractor 

Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences | McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science 

Professor of Management & Organization | School of Communication & the Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern University 

Director | Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group

Peter Monge

Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization | Marshall School of Business 

Professor Emeritus of Communication | Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

University of Southern California 

Works Referenced in Episode:

Farace, R. M., & Monge, P. R. P. and Russell, H. 1977. Communicating and Organizing. Reading, MA: Addison-Wedsey Publishing Co.

Hilbert, M., Oh, P., & Monge, P. (2016). Evolution of what? A network approach for the detection of evolutionary forces. Social Networks, 47, 38-46.

Monge, P. R., Contractor, N. S., & Contractor, P. S. (2003). Theories of communication networks. Oxford University Press, USA

Copy and Audio Editors:  

Lucia Barnum 

Dominic Bonelli 

Sharlene Burgos 

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

This episode features Homero Zuniga in conversation with Teresa Correa. They discuss Homero’s background from Spain to the US of how he stepped into journalism, media, and communication, giving suggestions for people who don't speak English. He also mentioned his contribution to build a better informed and civic society where all citizens can participate in the value of democracy.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Teresa Correa

Homero Gil de Zuniga

Sponsor:

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Teresa Correa

Full Professor and Director of Centro de Investigación en Comunicación

Literatura y Observación Social (Research Center in Communication, Literature and Social Observation), CICLOS UDP

School of Communication at Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.

Twitter: @tcorrear @Ciclos_udp  @comyletrasudp

Homero Gil de Zúñiga

Distinguished Research Professor at University of Salamanca

Professor at Pennsylvania State University

Senior Research Fellow at Universidad Diego Portales.

Twitter: @_HGZ_ @USAL @PSUBellisario 

Works referenced in episode:

Gil de Zúñiga, H., Jung, N., & Valenzuela, S. (2012). Social media use for news and individuals' social capital, civic engagement, and political participation. Journal of computer-mediated communication, 17(3), 319-336. 

Correa, T., Hinsley, A. W., & De Zuniga, H. G. (2010). Who interacts on the Web?: The intersection of users’ personality and social media use. Computers in human behavior, 26(2), 247-253.

Copy and Audio Editor:

Jabari Clemons

Lacie Yao

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

In this episode, Professor Isabel Molina-Guzmán interviews Professor Angharad Valdivia on her foundational scholarship to women and gender studies and Latina/o studies. Professor Valdivia advocates for diversifying communication and understanding the difference between international and intersectional. She discusses how she teaches issues of incarceration and environmental justice through watching and discussing media.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Angharad Valdivia

Isabel Molina-Guzmán

Sponsor:

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Angharad Valdivia

Research Professor

Affiliate faculty member in the Women and Gender in a Global Perspective Program and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Twitter: @AngharadValdivi

Isabel Molina-Guzmán

Professor in Latina/Latino Studies and Communication

Faculty affiliate of the Institute of Communication Research, Gender & Women’s Studies and Latin American & Caribbean Studies

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Twitter: @LaProfaMolina

Works referenced in episode 

Valdivia, A. N. (2020). The gender of Latinidad: Uses and abuses of hybridity. John Wiley & Sons.

Valdivia, A. N. (Ed.). (1995). Feminism, multiculturalism, and the media. Sage.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Troy Cruz

Dominic Bonelli

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

In this episode, Professor Shiv Ganesh interviews Professor Stan Deetz on his life journey and the evolution of communication from the early days of rhetoric. Professor Deetz breaks down his ideas about the limitations of liberal models of democracy as well as his hopes for generative democracy. He also expresses his frustration with the marginalization of emergent theories and how that manifests itself in academia and in the International Communication Association.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Shiv Ganesh

Stan Deetz

Sponsor:

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Stan Deetz

President of Interaction Design for Innovation

Professor Emeritus and President’s Teaching Scholar

University of Colorado, Boulder

Shiv Ganesh

Professor in the Moody College at the University of Texas at Austin

Twitter: @utexasmoody

Works referenced in episode 

Deetz, S. (1992). Democracy in an age of corporate colonization: Developments in communication and the politics of everyday life. SUNY press.

Deetz, S. (2021). The politics of mediation: Colonization to co-generative democracy. In J. Wasko and J. Swartz (Eds.)  MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry (pp. 132-145). Chicago: Intellect/University of Chicago Press.

Deetz, S. (2017). Disarticulation and conflict transformation: Interactive design, collaborative processes, and generative democracy. Communication and conflict transformation through local, regional, and global engagement, ed. PM Kellett, and TG Matyók. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Daniel Christain

Dominic Bonelli

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

This episode features Ronald Rice in conversation with Abel Gustafson. They discuss Ronald’s background of how he merged as a communication analyst. Ronald also shared his thoughts on developments and insights as he was involved in the world of computers and information networks at the front row, and how he brought communication technology and network analysis together to understand how people use computer media communication.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Abel Gustafson

Ronald Rice

Sponsor:

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Abel Gustafson 

Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Film, & Media Studies

University of Cincinnati

Twitter: @abelgustafson

LinkedIn: Abel Gustafson, PhD

Ronald Rice

Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication

Department of Communication

University of California Santa Barbara

Works referenced in episode:

Rice, R. E. (1984). The new media: Communication, research, and technology. SAGE Publications, Incorporated.

Rice, R. E., & Atkin, C. K. (Eds.). (2012). Public communication campaigns. SAGE publications.

Copy and Audio Editor:

Dominic Bonelli

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

In this episode, Barbara Osborn interviews Professor Emerita Sandra Ball-Rokeach about her struggles and triumphs working as a woman in sociology and communication theory since the 1960s. Professor Ball-Rokeach tells anecdotes about her time serving on the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence under President Lyndon B. Johnson. This experience led her to develop media system dependency theory, a multi-level analysis from the psychological to the sociological. Professor Ball-Rokeach also discusses how she brought theory to practice through her Metamorphosis project, which focused on civic engagement in 11 major communities in Los Angeles County.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Barbara Osborn

Sandra Ball-Rokeach

Sponsor:

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Barbara Osborn

Senior Strategist at Wow The Crowd

LinkedIn: Barbara Osborn, Ph.D.

Twitter: @Bosborn  

Sandra Ball-Rokeach

Professor, Emerita of Communication at USC Annenberg

Works referenced in episode: 

DeFleur, M. L., & Ball-Rokeach, S. (1989). Theories of mass communication (Vol. 5). New York: Longman.

Ball-Rokeach, S. J. (1998). A theory of media power and a theory of media use: Different stories, questions, and ways of thinking. Mass Communication and Society, 1(1-2), 5-40.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Dominic Bonelli

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

This episode features Dr. Michael Schudson in conversation with Dr. Lynn Berger. They discuss Dr. Schudson’s work on media studies, professionalism, and objectivity within the field of sociology and his subsequent discovery of and integration into the field of communication. Dr. Schudson further discusses his work on the guiding principles of journalism and the importance of objectivity and peer review within media, politics, and academia.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Lynn Berger 

Michael Schudson 

Sponsor:

The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore

More from our guests: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Lynn Berger

Journalist & Care Correspondent | De Correspondent

Twitter: @LynnBerger1984 

Michael Schudson

Professor of Journalism | Columbia Journalism School 

Columbia University

Works Referenced in Episode:

Frost, R., & Untermeyer, L. (1951). The road not taken (pp. 18-20). Holt.

Schudson, M. (2001). Politics as cultural practice. Political Communication, 18(4), 421-431.

Schudson, M. (2020). Journalism: Why it matters. John Wiley & Sons.

Schudson, M. (1981). Discovering the news: A social history of American newspapers. Basic books.

Baldwin, M. (2018). Scientific autonomy, public accountability, and the rise of “peer review” in the Cold War United States. Isis, 109(3), 538-558.

Copy and Audio Editor:  

Sharlene Burgos 

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

This episode features Professor Brenda J. Allen in conversation with her friend, Professor Karen Ashcraft. They discuss Professor Allen’s background and research on different studies. Professor Allen also comments on her contributions to this field, her influential multi-edition book “Difference Matters”, and her philosophy and practice as a presenter.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Brenda Allen

Karen Ashcraft

Sponsor:

The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Brenda Allen

Professor Emerita, Department of Communication

University of Colorado Denver

Twitter: @TheBrendaJAllen

Facebook: Brenda J. Allen

LinkedIn: Brenda J. Allen, PhD

Instagram: dr.brendajallen

Karen Ashcraft

Professor of Department of Communication

College of Media, Communication & Information (CMCI)

University of Colorado Boulder

Works referenced in episode:

Allen, B. J. (2023). Difference matters: Communicating social identity. Waveland Press.

Lee Ashcraft, K., & Allen, B. J. (2003). The racial foundation of organizational communication. Communication theory, 13(1), 5-38.

Allen, B. J. (1996). Feminist standpoint theory: A black woman's (re) view of organizational socialization. Communication Studies, 47(4), 257-271.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Lacie Yao

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

This episode features Dr. Akiba Cohen in conversation with Dr. Ori Tenenboim. They discuss Dr. Cohen’s most notable communication research studies which broadly involved gauging public perceptions of television broadcasts and the newsworthiness of publicized events. Dr. Cohen goes on to discuss his contributions to the development and global popularization of Israeli communication scholarship as well as his role in paving the academic road for future Israeli communication scholars. 

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Ori Tenenboim 

Akiba Cohen 

Sponsor:

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

More from our guests: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Ori Tenenboim

Assistant Professor | School of Journalism, Writing and Media  

The University of British Columbia  

Twitter: @ori_tene 

Akiba Cohen

(Retired) Professor Emeritus | Department of Communication Studies | Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences 

Tel Aviv University 

Past President & Elected Fellow | International Communication Association 

Works Referenced in Episode:

Potter, W. J. (1993). Cultivation theory and research: A conceptual critique. Human communication research, 19(4), 564-601.

Ball‐Rokeach, S. J. (2008). Media system dependency theory. The international encyclopedia of communication.

Cohen, A.A. (1996). Global newsrooms, local audiences: a study of the eurovision news exchange.

Shoemaker, P. J., & Cohen, A. A. (2012). News around the world: Content, practitioners, and the public. Routledge.

Roeh, I., Katz, E., Cohen, A. A., & Zelizer, B. (1980). Almost midnight: Reforming the late-night news. SAGE Publications, Incorporated.

Copy and Audio Editor:  

Troy Cruz
Sharlene Burgos 

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

This episode features Dr. Gianpietro Mazzoleni in conversation with Dr. Cristian Vaccari. They discuss Dr. Mazzoleni’s integration into the subfield of political communication as an international student, his contributions to the popularity of populism research, and his continuing efforts to mentor a new generation of political scholars. Dr. Mazzoleni further discusses the subfield’s future as new digital media practices challenge existing paradigms for understanding the effects of political communications.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Cristian Vaccari 

Gianpietro Mazzoleni 

Sponsor:

The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from our guests: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Cristian Vaccari 

Professor of Political Communication | School of Social Sciences and Humanities 

Loughborough University 

Director | Center for Research in Communication and Culture 

Editor-in-Chief | International Journal of Press/Politics

Twitter: @prof_vaccari 

Gianpietro Mazzoleni

Retired Professor of Political Communication | Department of Social and Political Sciences

University of Milan

Co-Founder & Editor | Comunicazione Politica, Italian Journal of Political Communication 

Editor-in-Chief | International Encyclopedia of Political Communication 

Head of School | Milan International Summer School of Political Communication 

Twitter: @GPMazzoleni & @MilanPolcomm

Works Referenced in Episode:

Chadwick, A. (2017). The hybrid media system: Politics and power. Oxford University Press.

Mazzoleni, G., Stewart, J., & Horsfield, B. (Eds.). (2003). The media and neo-populism: A contemporary comparative analysis. Greenwood Publishing Group.

Copy and Audio Editor:  

Kate In

Sharlene Burgos 

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

Dr. Shyam Sundar shares his experiences with a former student, Saraswathi Bellur, through his interdisciplinary work in computer science, psychology, and communication. Dr. Sundar also goes into detail regarding media effects through evolving and advancing technology and how he believes it has the potential to shape our future. His work in media effects has led him to pioneer the way scholars look at emerging technologies through his published theories: the MAIN Model, the Interactivity Effects Model, the Agency Model of Customization, and the Motivational Technology Model.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella 

Saraswathi Bellur

Dr. Shyam Sundar

Sponsor:

The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University 

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Saraswathi Bellur 

Associate Professor | Department of Communication

University of Connecticut

Twitter username: @bellur

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bellur/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saraswathi-saras-bellur-0507904/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarasbellur/

Dr. Shyam Sundar

James P. Jimirro Professor of Media Effects | Co-Director, Media Effects Research Laboratory 

Pennsylvania State University

Director, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence 

Twitter:@Shyamer

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/s.shyam.sundar.7

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sshyamsundar/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sss12/

Works referenced in episode: 

Sundar, S. S. (2008). The MAIN model: A heuristic approach to understanding technology effects on credibility (pp. 73-100). Cambridge, MA: MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Initiative.

Sundar, S. S., Jia, H., Waddell, T. F., & Huang, Y. (2015). Toward a theory of interactive media effects (TIME) four models for explaining how interface features affect user psychology. The Handbook of the Psychology of communication technology, 47-86.

Sundar, S. S., Bellur, S., & Jia, H. (2012). Motivational technologies: a theoretical framework for designing preventive health applications. In Persuasive Technology. Design for Health and Safety: 7th International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2012, Linköping, Sweden, June 6-8, 2012. Proceedings 7 (pp. 112-122). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Bennett Pack

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

In this episode, Professor Edmund Lee interviews his former mentor, Professor K. Viswanath, on his life’s work in health communication research. Viswanath reflects on how communication evolved over the years from a divided discipline between critical communication scholars and social science researchers to an interdisciplinary and mixed methods research field. He also discusses his mentors, Phil Tichenor, George Donohue, and Clarice Olien, who established the knowledge gap hypothesis. Viswanath speaks on how his thinking about the knowledge gap hypothesis expanded to larger issues of communication resources: access to information as well as the ability to act on it. This led Professor Viswanath to develop a new framework called the structural influence model (SIM) of health communication which he expands on in this conversation.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Edmund Lee

K. Viswanath

Sponsor:

The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from the host & speakers: 

 Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication; Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Host

Edmund Lee

Assistant Professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Twitter: @EdmundWJLee

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmund-w-j-lee-4b02b915/

Guest

K. Viswanath

Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication

Harvard University and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Twitter: @vishplus

Instagram: @viswanathlabharvard

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/viswanathlab/

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/k-vish-viswanath-913a9929

Works referenced in episode:

Glanz, K., Rimer, B. K., & Viswanath, K. (Eds.). (2015). Health behavior: Theory, research, and practice. John Wiley & Sons. 

Lee, E. W., McCloud, R. F., & Viswanath, K. (2022). Designing effective eHealth interventions for underserved groups: Five lessons from a decade of eHealth intervention design and deployment. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(1), e25419.

Copy and Audio Editors

Dominic Bonelli

Executive Producer

DeVante Brown

This episode features Professor Travis Dixon in conversation with Professor Marisa Smith. They discuss Professor Dixon’s work as a leading researcher in the field of media stereotyping and biased narratives in media outlets. Professor Dixon expands upon the rocky beginnings of the field of media stereotyping and goes on to express his hopes for the future of the field.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Marisa Smith 

Travis Dixon 

Sponsor:

The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from our guests: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Marisa Smith

Assistant Professor | Advertising + Public Relations Department and The School of Journalism

Michigan State University 

Twitter: @smithmarisaa 

Travis Dixon 

Professor of Communication | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professorial Scholar | Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication 

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 

Twitter: @Dr_TLDixon

Facebook: Travis Dixon 

Instagram: travisldixon

Works Referenced in Episode: 

Oliver, M. B. (1994). Portrayals of crime, race, and aggression in “reality‐based” police shows: A content analysis. Journal of broadcasting & electronic media, 38(2), 179-192.

Entman, R. M. (1992). Blacks in the news: Television, modern racism and cultural change. Journalism quarterly, 69(2), 341-361.

Potter, W. J. (1993). Cultivation theory and research: A conceptual critique. Human communication research, 19(4), 564-601.

Signorielli, N., Gerbner, G., & Morgan, M. (1995). Standpoint: Violence on television: The cultural indicators project.
Dixon, T. L. (2016). Understanding how the internet and social media accelerate racial stereotyping and social division: The socially mediated stereotyping model. In Race and Gender in Electronic Media. Taylor & Francis.

Copy and Audio Editor:  

Sharlene Burgos 

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

In this episode, Professor Megan Dillow interviewed Professor Walid Afifi on his network of role models to his ongoing push for community impact and equity in research production. Professor Afifi also shared his past experience of coming into the communication field, and how he has built research for communities and expanded the research goals.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Megan Dillow

Walid Afifi

Sponsor:

School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter - @CMHD_NU

Megan Dillow

Professor | Communication Department

West Virginia University

Twitter - @WestVirginiaU

Walid Afifi

Professor | Department of Communication

University of California at Santa Barbara

TED Talk

COVID-19 Lecture Series: Uncertainty Before, During, and after COVID-19

Works referenced in episode:

Afifi, W. A., & Weiner, J. L. (2004). Toward a theory of motivated information management. Communication theory, 14(2), 167-190.

Afifi, W. A., Littlejohn, S., & Foss, K. (2009). Theory of motivated information management (pp. 665-667). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Berger, C. R., & Calabrese, R. J. (1974). Some explorations in initial interaction and beyond: Toward a developmental theory of interpersonal communication. Human communication research, 1(2), 99-112.

Brashers, D. E. (2001). Communication and uncertainty management. Journal of communication, 51(3), 477-497.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Ilana Arougheti

Lacie Yao

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

This episode features Dr. Ellen Wartella and Dr. Fashina Aladé as they discuss Dr. Wartella’s research on children’s media and how it has affected public policy and evolved with new technologies. Dr. Wartella explores child development in an increasingly digital age and how communication research can play a role in safeguarding media for children and adolescents.

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Featuring

Fashina Aladé

Ellen Wartella

Sponsor:

The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from our guests: 

Fashina Aladé

Assistant Professor | Advertising and Public Relations 

Michigan State University 

Twitter: @ProfShina @MSUComArtSci

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Works referenced in episode:

Rideout, V. J., Vandewater, E. A., & Wartella, E. A. (2003). Zero to six: Electronic media in the lives of infants, toddlers and preschoolers. 

Lauricella, A. R., Cingel, D. P., & Wartella, E. A. (2016). Television, computers, and media viewing (children and adolescents).

Copy and Audio Editors: 

Sharlene Burgos

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

Architects of Communication Scholarship presents interviews with academic leaders in communication research and the International Communication Association. This episode features an interview between Denise Solomon and Michael Roloff, where they discuss Professor Roloff’s career beginnings and inspirations, the trajectory of his scholarly contributions, and his thoughts on the state of the communication discipline. In this episode, Roloff reminisces on the many mentors and colleagues in the field of communication who shaped his research.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Denise Solomon

Michael Roloff

Sponsor:

The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication; Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Denise Solomon 

Distinguished Professor, Department of Communication Arts & Sciences, Penn State University

Michael Roloff 

Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Communication Studies, Northwestern University

Works referenced in episode:

Roloff, M. E. (1981). Interpersonal Communication: The Social Exchange Approach. Sage.

Roloff, M. E., & Miller, G. R. (1981). Persuasion: New Directions in Theory and Research. Sage.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Jabari Clemons

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown