Here you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty in the College of Communication.
Submissions from 2022
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
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
Exploring Bottled Water Purchase Intention via Trust in Advertising, Product Knowledge, Consumer Beliefs and Theory of Reasoned Action, Carolyn A. Lin and Xiaowen Xu
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
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
Silicon Valley + Hollywood = Convergence 2.0, Gary Edgerton
Review of Kaitlynn Mendes, Jessica Ringrose, and Jessalynn Keller, Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Educating Journalism Students on Gender and Inequality, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh, Ingrid Bachmann, and Mia Moody-Ramirez
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
Information Source Dependence, Presumed Media Influence, Risk Knowledge and Vaccination Intention, Carolyn Lin, Xiaowen Xu, and Linda Dam
Audience response to endemic and non-endemic sponsors of esports events, Ryan Rogers, Lee Farquhar, and Jacob Mummert
Motivational Differences Among Viewers of Traditional Sports, Esports, and NBA 2K League, Ryan Rogers, Lee Farquhar, and Jacob Mummert
Extending the Roberts Court’s Affirmation of Individual expressive Rights to the First Amendment Claim in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Nancy J. Whitmore
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 2019
A content analysis case study of media and public trust in Japan: After the quake, Rose G. Campbell
Statistical distributions of consonant variants in infant-directed speech: evidence that /t/ may be exceptional, Laura Dilley, Jessica Gamache, Yuanyuan Wang, Derek M. Houston, and Tonya R. Bergeson
“Country Music, Lil Nas X, and the ‘Old Town Road’ Controversy”, Gary Edgerton
On the Road Again with Ken Burns and Country Music, Gary Edgerton
Internews: A case study of gender in media development, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Making Meaning of Media Development Today, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Generating Civically-Engaged Undergraduate Student Scientists in General Education Classrooms, Tara T. Lineweaver and Tonya R. Bergeson
The effects of prototypicality and gender salience on liking and friendship potential of a female interlocutor, Rong Ma, Anita Atwell Seate Atwell Seate, and Nick Joyce
Visual habituation in deaf and hearing infants, Claire Monroy, Carissa Shafto, Irina Castellanos, Tonya Bergeson, and Derek Houston
Do you enjoy TV, while Tweeting? Effects of multitasking on viewer’s transportation, emotions and enjoyment., Suji Park, Xiaowen Xu, Brenda Rourke, and Saraswathi Bellur
The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century, Ann Savage
Submissions from 2018
Cultivating intergroup emotions: An intergroup threat theory approach, Anita Atwell Seate Atwell Seate, Rong Ma, Hsin-Yi Chien, and Dana Mastro
Preference for Infant-Directed Speech in Infants With Hearing Aids: Effects of Early Auditory Experience, Tonya Bergeson-Dana
Gender Issues in News Coverage, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Great Decisions: South Africa, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Appraisal models of intercultural communication apprehension among sojourners., Rong Ma and Dale Hample
Effects of Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Factors on College Students’ Bottled Water Purchase Intentions, Xiaowen Xu and Carolyn Lin
Submissions from 2017
“This is who we are!” National identity construction and the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Anita Atwell Seate Atwell Seate, Rong Ma, Irina Iles, Thomas McCloskey, and Shawn Parry-Giles
Assisted music listening in hearing loss, Tonya Bergeson-Dana and Rachael Holt
Panacea, placebo or prudence: Perspectives and constraints for corporate dialogue, Øyvind Ihlen and Abbey Levenshus
The Minimized Face of Internal Communication: An Exploration of How Public Relations Agency Websites Frame Internal Communication and its Connection to Social Media, Abbey Levenshus and Laura Lemon
The art of engagement: dialogic strategies on Twitter, Abbey Levenshus and Beth Sundstrom
Reexamining the use of tentative language in emails: The effects of gender salience and gender typicality, Rong Ma and Anita Atwell Seate Atwell Seate
Marketplace commodification of risk communication: Consequences for risk bearers and implications for public relations, Michael J. Palenchar, Robert L. Heath, Abbey Levenshus, and Laura Lemon
Classic Media Review, Ann Savage
Making feminist media: third-wave magazines on the cusp of the digital age, Ann Savage
Infant-directed speech enhances attention to speech in deaf infants with cochlear implants, Yuanyuan Wang, Tonya Bergeson-Dana, and Derek Houston
Submissions from 2016
Effects of familiarity and presentation mode on auditory-visual speech recognition in adults with aphasia, Rachel Hahn Arkenberg and Mary Gospel
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
Television in America, Gary R. Edgerton
Adaptation of Phonetics Course Material to Accommodate a Blind Student, Mary Gospel, Kathleen Camire, and Haley Summer
A mixed-methods approach to assessing actual risk readership on branded drug websites, Mariea Hoy and Abbey Levenshus
Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film, Casey R. Kelly
Vocal matching in interactions between mothers and their normal-hearing and hearing-impaired twins, Maria Kondaurova, Mary Fagan, Laura Dilley, and Tonya Bergeson-Dana
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
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
Lesbian Popular Music, Ann Savage
Fighting Back: Inner-City Community Responses to Food Insecurity, Xiaowen Xu, Xun Zhu, and Mary Bresnahan
Submissions from 2015
A Humanistic Approach to Understanding Child Consumer Socialization in US Homes, Lucy Atkinson, Michelle R. Nelson, and Mark A. Rademacher
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
Eliciting Behavior From Interactive Narratives: Isolating the Role of Agency in Connecting With and Modeling Characters, Francesca R. Dillman, Ryan Rogers, and Lisa Barnard
The Countdown to Y2KTV and the Arrival of the New Serialists, Gary R. Edgerton
Facebook Frets: The Role of Social Media Use in Predicting Social and Facebook-Specific Anxiety, Lee Farquhar and Theresa Davidson
Tolerance on Facebook: Exploring Network Diversity and Social Distance, Lee Farquhar and Theresa Davidson
Framing of Jacob Zuma and Polygamy in Die Burger (2008-2013), Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
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
Cooking Without Women: The Rhetoric of the New Culinary Male, Casey R. Kelly
Exoticizing Poverty in Bizarre Foods America, Casey R. Kelly
Shaved or Saved? Disciplining Women’s Bodies, Casey R. Kelly and Kristen Hoerl
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
Entrepreneurship: Theory and Application in a University Arts Management Setting, Paul Linden
Video games as meaningful entertainment experiences, Mary Beth Oliver, Nicholas David Bowman, Julia K. Woolley, Ryan Rogers, Brett I. Sherrick, and Mun-Youn Chung
“Get Rich or Die Buying:” The Travails of the Working-Class Auction Bidder, Mark A. Rademacher
“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
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
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
Being in Common: In Celebration of Ronald W. Greene's Woolbert Award, Kristin A. Swenson
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
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
Vitamin D An Examination of Physician and Patient Management of Health and Uncertainty, Keisa Bennett, Brandi N. Frisby, Laura E. Young, and Deborah Murray
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
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
50 Years Ago, As '1964' Reminds Us, Beatles and Hillbillies Reigned on TV, Gary Edgerton
Synchrony, complexity and directiveness in mothers' interactions with infants pre- and post-cochlear implantation, Mary K. Fagan, Tonya R. Bergeson, and Kourtney J. Morris
Correlates of Social Anxiety, Religion, and Facebook, Lee Farquhar and Theresa Davidson
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
Remembering Radical Black Dissent: Traumatic Counter-Memories in Contemporary Documentaries about the Black Power Movement, Kristen Hoerl
Bizarre Foods: White Privilege and the Neocolonial Palate, Casey R. Kelly
Détournement, Decolonization, and the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969–1971), Casey R. Kelly
Feminine Purity and Masculine Revenge-Seeking In Taken (2008), Casey R. Kelly
Strange/Familiar: Rhetorics of Exoticism in Ethnographic Television, Casey R. Kelly
True’ Love Waits: The Construction of Facts in Abstinence-Until- Marriage Discourse, Casey R. Kelly
“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
Strong-Tie Social Connections Versus Weak-Tie Social Connections, Mark A. Rademacher and Kevin Y. Wang
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
Viral Marketing, Kevin Y. Wang and Mark A. Rademacher
Clearing the Smoke: Understanding Organizational Change Communication and Misalignment in High-Risk Contexts, Laura E. Young
