Here you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty in the College of Communication.
Submissions from 2013
College Completion: Performance-Based Funding Can Enhance Individual Investments and Promote the Public Good, Jayne M. Comstock
The Value of a Liberal Arts Education: A Self-Evident Truth, Jayne M. Comstock
Smash Cut to Black, Gary Edgerton
Terror, Torture, Soldier, Spy, Gary Edgerton
Performing and Interpreting Identity, Lee Farquhar
South Africa: Newsrooms in Transition, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Community support for chronic aphasia, Mary Gospel
Age-related changes in prosodic features of maternal speech to prelingually deaf infants with cochlear implants, Maria Kondauroava and Tonya Bergeson
E-Government in Public Diplomacy: An Exploratory Analysis on Factors Affecting Interactive Interfaces in Ministry of Foreign Affairs Web Sites, Hyung Min Lee and Kevin Y. Wang
Mapping Large International Corporations’ Interactive Web Utilization and Examining Variances in Web Interactivity, Hyung Min Lee and Kevin Y. Wang
Review of the book Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics, Abbey Levenshus
Malcolm Chisholm: An Evaluation of Traditional Audio Engineering, Paul Linden
The Morning Comes Alone, Paul Linden
Contribution of hearing aids to music perception by cochlear implant users, Nathaniel Peterson and Tonya Bergeson
Old Games, Same Concerns: Examining First Generation Video Games Through Popular Press Coverage from 1972-1985, Ryan Rogers
Mapping Web Interactivity: A Comparative Study of Congressional Campaign Websites, Kevin Y. Wang, Hyung Min Lee, David Atkin, and Cheonsoo Kim
Fair and Square?: An examination of the relationships among classroom justice and relational teaching messages, Laura E. Young, Sean M. Horan, and Brandi N. Frisby
Submissions from 2012
Defying Borders: Transforming Learning Through Collaborative Feminist Organizing and Interdisciplinary, Transnational Pedagogy, Terri Carney, Margaretha Geertsema Sligh, Ann M. Savage, and Ageeth Sluis
Speech intelligibility and prosody production in children with cochlear implants, Steven B. Chin, Tonya R. Bergeson, and Jennifer Phan
Avoid False Dichotomy in Higher Education: Be both Mission-Driven and Market-Smart, Jayne M. Comstock
Building the Future - One College Graduate at a Time, Jayne M. Comstock
Higher Ed "International Exchange Rate" Leaves Intellectual Capital Behind, Jayne M. Comstock
We Should Have High Standards for all Students, Not Just Those at Harvard, Jayne M. Comstock
What You Measure is What You Get Service Learning Can be Cost-Effective Way to Enhance Quality and Student Success, Jayne M. Comstock
Brody Must Die, Gary Edgerton
JFK, Don Draper, and the New Sentimentality, Gary Edgerton
Like It or Not, Aaron Sorkin Has Found His Niche, Gary Edgerton
The ‘Most Interesting Man in the World', Gary Edgerton
The Tragic Beauty of Ken Burns's The Dust Bowl (2012), Gary Edgerton
Media Globalization, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Selective Amnesia and Racial Transcendence in News Coverage of President Obama’s Inauguration, Kristen Hoerl
Neocolonialism and the Global Prison in National Geographic's Locked Up Abroad, Casey R. Kelly
Genesis in Hyperreality: Legitimizing Disingenuous Controversy at the Creation Museum, Casey R. Kelly and Kristen Hoerl
Effects of deafness on acoustic characteristics of American English tense/lax vowels in maternal speech to infants, Maria V. Kondauroava and Tonya R. Bergeson
Affective properties of mothers’ speech to infants with hearing impairment and cochlear implants, Maria Kondaurova, Tonya Bergeson, Huiping Xu, and Christine Kitamura
Race, Hegemony, and the Birth of Rock & Roll, Paul Linden
Communication practices of US elected and non‐elected officials : Toward a new model of government communication, Brooke Liu, Abbey Levenshus, and J. Suzanne Horsley
The Virtual Locker Room: Perceptions of Hate Speech in Online Gaming, Ryan Rogers
Stoking the Research Fire: Three Views, Charles C. Self and Margeretha Geertsema-Sligh
Nasal Batten Grafts: Are Patients Satisfied?, Ahmed Sufyan, Michelle Ziebarth, Nancy Crousore, Tonya Bergeson, and Mimi Kokoska
Lifestyle Drugs and the Neoliberal Family, Kristin A. Swenson
Effects of simultaneous speech and sign on infants’ attention to spoken language, Jonathan Y. Ting, Tonya R. Bergeson, and Richard T. Miyamoto
Mixing Metaphors: Sociological and Psychological Perspectives on Virtual Communities, Kevin Y. Wang
Facing the Fear: A Free Market Approach for Economic Expression, Nancy J. Whitmore
Submissions from 2011
Maternal speech to hearing-impaired infants in the first year of hearing aid or cochlear implant use: a preliminary report., Tonya Bergeson-Dana
The Effects of Age and Infant Hearing Status on Maternal Use of Prosodic Cues for Clause Boundaries in Speech, Tonya Bergeson and Maria Kondauroava
Music Cognition in Breast Cancer Survivors, Debra Burns, Tonya Bergeson, Susan Perkins, Brenna McDonald, Andrew Saykin, Fred Unverzagt, and Victoria Champion
Religious Violence: Myth or Global Reality?, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Blood-Speak: Ward Churchill and the Racialization of American Indian Identity, Casey R. Kelly
Affective Labor and Governmental Policy: George W. Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, Kristin A. Swenson
Submissions from 2010
Effects of congenital hearing loss and cochlear implantation on audiovisual speech perception in infants and children, Tonya R. Bergeson, Derek M. Houston, and Richard T. Miyamoto
Interpersonal interaction on television: Family conflict and jealousy on prime time, Jamie Comstock and Krystyna Strzyzewski
Hybridity, Identity and Global Music: A review of Cultural Globalization: A User’s Guide, Margaretha Geertsema Sligh
Challenging the Lion in its Den: Dilemmas of Gender and Media Activism in South Africa, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Service learning: Speech and hearing practicum as community outreach, Mary Gospel
Review of Olympic Industry Resistance, by Jefferson Lenskyj, H. (2008), Allison Harthcock
Comparisons of U.S. Government Communication Practices: Expanding the Government Communication Decision Wheel, J. Suzanne Horsley, Brooke Liu, and Abbey Levenshus
Orwellian Language and the Politics of Tribal Termination (1953-1960), Casey R. Kelly
Online Relationship Management in a Presidential Campaign: A Case Study of the Obama Campaign's Management of Its Internet-Integrated Grassroots Effort, Abbey Levenshus
Coping with Narcissism: Causes, Effects, and Solutions for the Artist Manager, Paul Linden
Government and Corporate Communication Practices: Do the Differences Matter?, Brooke Liu, J. Suzanne Horsley, and Abbey Levenshus
Public relations professionals’ perspectives on the communication challenges and opportunities they face in the U.S. public sector, Brooke Liu and Abbey Levenshus
Ultrasound-guided needle aspiration: Impact of immediate cytologic review, Aaron Moberly, Emre Vural, Bari Nahas, Tonya Bergeson, and Mimi Kokoska
Review of Redesigning Women: Television after the network era, Ann M. Savage
Nasal Batten Grafts: Are Patients Satisfied?, Ahmed Sufyan, Mimi Kokoska, Tonya Bergeson-Dana, Michelle Ziebarth, and Nancy Crousore
Democratic Deliberation in Online Consultation Forums: A Case Study of the Casino Debate in Singapore, Kevin Y. Wang
Sense of Community and Political Mobilization in Virtual Communities: The Role of Dispositional and Situational Variables, Kevin Y. Wang
The Evolution of the Intermediate Scrutiny Standard and the Rise of the Bottleneck "Rule" in the Turner Decisions, Nancy Whitmore
Congress, The U.S. Supreme Court And Must-Carry Policy: A Flawed Economic Analysis, Nancy J. Whitmore
The Evolution of the Intermediate Scrutiny Standard and the Rise of the Bottleneck "Rule" in the Turner Decisions, Nancy J. Whitmore
Documents from 2009
Self-Study Leveraging: The QPC Model for Comprehensive Academic Program Review., Jamie Comstock and Kathy Booker
Falling Man and Man Men, Gary R. Edgerton
Women and News: Making Connections Between the Global and the Local, Margaretha Geertsema
Gender Mainstreaming in International news: A Case Study of the Inter Press Service, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh Blog, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Burning Mississippi into Memory? Cinematic Amnesia as a Resource for Remembering Civil Rights, Kristen Hoerl
Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims’ Trauma in Television News Coverage, 1990 - 2000., Kristen Hoerl
Deranged Loners and Demented Outsiders? Therapeutic News Frames of Presidential Assassination Attempts, 1973-2001, Kristen Hoerl, D. L. Cloud, and S. E. Jarvis
Review of the book Public relations: Strategies and tactics (9th ed.), Abbey Levenshus
Book Review: Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients, Kristin A. Swenson
General intelligence and modality-specific differences in performance: a response to Schellenberg, Adam T. Tierney, Tonya R. Bergeson, and David B. Pisoni
Inverting the Inverted Pyramid: A Conversation about the Use of Feminist Theories to Teach Journalism, Danna L. Walker, Margaretha Geertsema, and Barbara Barnett
Submissions from 2008
The Contemporary Television Series/Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting, Kenneth C. Creech
Conceptualizing Strategies for Research and Activism: A Media Sociology Approach, Margaretha Geertsema
Women Making News: Gender and Media in South Africa, Margaretha Geertsema
Let the domination begin: Sports fans’ construction of identity in on-line message boards, Allison Harthcock
Pretty in pink, Allison Harthcock
Sixteen candles, Allison Harthcock
Cinematic Jujitsu: Resisting White Hegemony through the American Dream in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, Kristen Hoerl
Mississippi’s Social Transformation in Public Memories of the Trial Against Byron de la Beckwith for the Murder of Medgar Evers, Kristen Hoerl
Public service in the information age: A study of e-government in Taiwan, T. Y. Lau, Kevin Y. Wang, and David Atkin
All This Time, Paul Linden
Feel Like I Ain't Got A Home, Paul Linden
Told Me A Lie, Paul Linden
Language skills of profoundly deaf children who received cochlear implants under 12 months of age: a preliminary study, Richard Miyamoto, Marcia Hay-Mccutcheon, Karen Kirk, Derek Houston, and Tonya Bergeson-Dana
Language skills of profoundly deaf children who received cochlear implants under 12 months of age: a preliminary study, Richard T. Miyamoto, Marcia J. Hay-McCutcheon, Karen Iler Kirk, Derek M. Houston, and Tonya Bergeson-Dana
Fashion and the College Transition: Liminality, Play, and the Structuring Power of the Habitus, Mark A. Rademacher
Women film directors and producers, Ann M. Savage
Capitalizing on Affect: Viagra (in)Action, Kristin A. Swenson
Effects of Early Musical Experience on Auditory Sequence Memory, Adam T. Tierney, Tonya R. Bergeson, and David B. Pisoni