Here you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty in the College of Communication.

Follow

Submissions from 2022

PDF

Running up Against a Brick Wall: U.S. Metajournalistic Discourse of Gender Equality in Newsrooms, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh and Tim P. Vos

Submissions from 2021

PDF

A multi-study examination of the role of repeated spaced retrieval in the word learning of children with developmental language disorder, Laurence B. Leonard, Sharon L. Christ, Patricia Deevy, Jeffrey D. Karpicke, Christine Weber, Eileen Haebig, Justin B. Kueser, Sofía Souto, and Windi Krok

PDF

Exploring Bottled Water Purchase Intention via Trust in Advertising, Product Knowledge, Consumer Beliefs and Theory of Reasoned Action, Carolyn A. Lin and Xiaowen Xu

PDF

Effects of Website Credibility and Brand Trust on Responses to Online Behavioral Advertising, Xiaowen Xu, Tai-Yee Wub, and David J. Atkin

Submissions from 2020

PDF

Help a fan out? Effects of fandom type and task type on people’s behavioral intentions toward different types of fans in a collaborative effort, Anita Atwell Seate Atwell Seate, Rong Ma, E. L. Cohen, and Irina Iles

Link

Silicon Valley + Hollywood = Convergence 2.0, Gary Edgerton

PDF

Review of Kaitlynn Mendes, Jessica Ringrose, and Jessalynn Keller, Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh

Link

Educating Journalism Students on Gender and Inequality, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh, Ingrid Bachmann, and Mia Moody-Ramirez

Link

News Constructions of South Africa’s Trial of the Century: Identity Discourse in the Steenkamp Shooting and Pistorius Trial, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh and Nancy Worthington

Link

Information Source Dependence, Presumed Media Influence, Risk Knowledge and Vaccination Intention, Carolyn Lin, Xiaowen Xu, and Linda Dam

Link

Audience response to endemic and non-endemic sponsors of esports events, Ryan Rogers, Lee Farquhar, and Jacob Mummert

Link

Motivational Differences Among Viewers of Traditional Sports, Esports, and NBA 2K League, Ryan Rogers, Lee Farquhar, and Jacob Mummert

PDF

Extending the Roberts Court’s Affirmation of Individual expressive Rights to the First Amendment Claim in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Nancy J. Whitmore

Link

The alternatives to being silent: exploring opinion expression avoidance strategies for discussing politics on Facebook, Xiaowen Xu, Tai-Yee Wu, and David Atkin

Submissions from 2016

PDF

Effects of familiarity and presentation mode on auditory-visual speech recognition in adults with aphasia, Rachel Hahn Arkenberg and Mary Gospel

Link

Bringing the Digital World to Students: Partnering with the University Communications Office to Provide Social Media Experiential Learning Projects, Courtney Childers and Abbey Levenshus

Impacting Student Satisfaction, Engagement and Motivation in Online and Traditional Classrooms, Jen Eden, Ryan Rogers, and Nadine Hoffman

Link

Television in America, Gary R. Edgerton

PDF

Adaptation of Phonetics Course Material to Accommodate a Blind Student, Mary Gospel, Kathleen Camire, and Haley Summer

Link

A mixed-methods approach to assessing actual risk readership on branded drug websites, Mariea Hoy and Abbey Levenshus

Link

Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film, Casey R. Kelly

Link

Vocal matching in interactions between mothers and their normal-hearing and hearing-impaired twins, Maria Kondaurova, Mary Fagan, Laura Dilley, and Tonya Bergeson-Dana

Link

Building context-based knowledge of government social media communication through an ethnographic study of the US Coast Guard, Abbey Levenshus

Pills and power ups: How in-game substance shapes players’ attitudes and real-life substance abuse intentions, Ryan Rogers and Jessica Myrick

PDF

Fun Versus Meaningful Video Game Experiences: A Qualitative Analysis of User Responses, Ryan Rogers, Julia Woolley, Brett Sherrick, Nicholas David Bowman, and Mary Beth Oliver

Link

Lesbian Popular Music, Ann Savage

Link

Fighting Back: Inner-City Community Responses to Food Insecurity, Xiaowen Xu, Xun Zhu, and Mary Bresnahan

Submissions from 2015

PDF

A Humanistic Approach to Understanding Child Consumer Socialization in US Homes, Lucy Atkinson, Michelle R. Nelson, and Mark A. Rademacher

Link

Phonetic modification of vowel space in storybook speech to infants up to 2 years of age, Evamarie Burnham, Elizabeth Wieland, Maria Kondaurova, J. Devin McAuley, Tonya Bergeson, and Laura Dilley

PDF

Eliciting Behavior From Interactive Narratives: Isolating the Role of Agency in Connecting With and Modeling Characters, Francesca R. Dillman, Ryan Rogers, and Lisa Barnard

Link

The Countdown to Y2KTV and the Arrival of the New Serialists, Gary R. Edgerton

PDF

Facebook Frets: The Role of Social Media Use in Predicting Social and Facebook-Specific Anxiety, Lee Farquhar and Theresa Davidson

PDF

Tolerance on Facebook: Exploring Network Diversity and Social Distance, Lee Farquhar and Theresa Davidson

PDF

Framing of Jacob Zuma and Polygamy in Die Burger (2008-2013), Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh

PDF

Women's eNews: Reaching Out to the Arab World, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh

Integrating LPAA into the classroom and the clinic: Undergraduate, Mary Gospel

The effect of aphasia on social life and social network, Mary Gospel

PDF

Cooking Without Women: The Rhetoric of the New Culinary Male, Casey R. Kelly

PDF

Exoticizing Poverty in Bizarre Foods America, Casey R. Kelly

PDF

Shaved or Saved? Disciplining Women’s Bodies, Casey R. Kelly and Kristen Hoerl

PDF

The Paradox of Public Diplomacy on the Web: An Empirical Analysis on Interactivity and Narratives of Nation-States' Ministry of Foreign Affairs Web Sites, Hyung Min Lee, Kevin Y. Wang, and Yejin Hong

PDF

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Application in a University Arts Management Setting, Paul Linden

PDF

Video games as meaningful entertainment experiences, Mary Beth Oliver, Nicholas David Bowman, Julia K. Woolley, Ryan Rogers, Brett I. Sherrick, and Mun-Youn Chung

PDF

“Get Rich or Die Buying:” The Travails of the Working-Class Auction Bidder, Mark A. Rademacher

PDF

“I’m Here to Do Business. I’m Not Here to Play Games.” Work, Consumption, and Masculinity in Storage Wars, Mark A. Rademacher and Casey R. Kelly

PDF

The Use of Theatre to Develop Social and Communication Behaviors for Students with Autism, Suzanne Reading, James Reading, Robert J. Padgett, Samantha Reading, and Pete Pryor

PDF

It’s not the model that doesn’t fit, it’s the controller! The role of cognitive skills in understanding the links between natural mapping, performance, and enjoyment of console video games, Ryan Rogers, Nicholas David Bowman, and Mary Beth Oliver

PDF

Being in Common: In Celebration of Ronald W. Greene's Woolbert Award, Kristin A. Swenson

Link

Building an intelligent government, intelligent city, and intelligent citizenry through ICTs: Smart city innovations in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Kevin Y. Wang and Chao-Ming Wu

Link

Vowel space characteristics of speech directed to children with and without hearing loss, Elizabeth Wieland, Evamarie Burnham, Maria Kondaurova, Tonya Bergeson, and Laura Dilley

Submissions from 2014

PDF

Vitamin D An Examination of Physician and Patient Management of Health and Uncertainty, Keisa Bennett, Brandi N. Frisby, Laura E. Young, and Deborah Murray

Link

Hearing versus listening: Attention to speech and its role in language acquisition in deaf infants with cochlear implants., Tonya Bergeson and Derek Houston

Conversational scaffolding with couples with an aphasic partner, M. Bissmeyer and Mary Gospel

Link

Phonetic variation in consonants in infant-directed and adult-directed speech: The case of regressive place assimilation in word-final alveolar stops, Laura Dilley, Amanda Millett, Devin McAuley, and Tonya Bergeson

Link

50 Years Ago, As '1964' Reminds Us, Beatles and Hillbillies Reigned on TV, Gary Edgerton

PDF

Synchrony, complexity and directiveness in mothers' interactions with infants pre- and post-cochlear implantation, Mary K. Fagan, Tonya R. Bergeson, and Kourtney J. Morris

PDF

Correlates of Social Anxiety, Religion, and Facebook, Lee Farquhar and Theresa Davidson

PDF

Gender Mainstreaming in Journalism Education, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh

Living with aphasia: The clients and caregivers as teachers, Mary Gospel

Butler University's Indianapolis Community Requirement: Helping students understand community and diversity, Mary Gospel, Donald Braid, and S. Thompson

PDF

Remembering Radical Black Dissent: Traumatic Counter-Memories in Contemporary Documentaries about the Black Power Movement, Kristen Hoerl

PDF

Bizarre Foods: White Privilege and the Neocolonial Palate, Casey R. Kelly

PDF

Détournement, Decolonization, and the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969–1971), Casey R. Kelly

PDF

Feminine Purity and Masculine Revenge-Seeking In Taken (2008), Casey R. Kelly

Link

Strange/Familiar: Rhetorics of Exoticism in Ethnographic Television, Casey R. Kelly

Link

True’ Love Waits: The Construction of Facts in Abstinence-Until- Marriage Discourse, Casey R. Kelly

PDF

“We Are Not Free”: The Meaning of in American Indian Resistance to President Johnson's War on Poverty, Casey R. Kelly

Make A Move, Paul Linden

PDF

Strong-Tie Social Connections Versus Weak-Tie Social Connections, Mark A. Rademacher and Kevin Y. Wang

PDF

Media Versus Individual Frames and Horizontal Knowledge Gaps: A Study of the 2010 Health Care Reform Debate Online, Kevin Y. Wang, David J. Atkin, and Tuen-Yu Lau

PDF

Viral Marketing, Kevin Y. Wang and Mark A. Rademacher

PDF

Clearing the Smoke: Understanding Organizational Change Communication and Misalignment in High-Risk Contexts, Laura E. Young