July 3, 2024 Faculty, graduate students, and recent alumni from the College of Media co-presented 16 topics of research at the 74th annual International Communication Association Conference—the largest academic conference for communication scholars—on June 20-24, 2024, in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The ICA aims to advance the scholarly study of human communication by encouraging and facilitating excellence in academic research […]
May 14, 2024 The Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising has honored several faculty and graduate students with awards for extraordinary teaching, research, service, and mentoring. The recipients received $500 to be placed in a discretionary account to support their teaching, service, or research, and a certificate. Named after James Webb Young, a legendary advertising executive and […]
The Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising faculty members and Institute of Communications Research doctoral students participated as moderators, panelists, and research paper presenters at the American Academy of Advertising annual conference, March 18-20, 2021. Their research topics included chatbot advertising, online ethical behaviors, advanced computational advertising research, the complexity of brands taking a stand, generational […]
Heading off a disease outbreak like COVID-19 means motivating people to assess their risk and alter their behavior, and yet the role of social media in that process is little understood. A recently published study of social media use in South Korea during a 2015 MERS outbreak suggests emotions might play a key role. […]