Recent Research

Recent Research by Faculty & Students

  • Majdik, Z. P., Graham, S. S., Shiva Edward, J. C., Rodriguez, S. N., Karnes, M. S., Jensen, J. T., Barbour, J. B., & Rousseau, J. F. (2024). Sample size considerations for fine-tuning large language models for named entity recognition tasks: Methodological study. JMIR AI, 3, e52095. https://doi.org/10.2196/52095

  • Westerman, D., Vosburg, M., Liu, X. G., & Spence, P. R. (2024). What’s in a name and/or a frame? Ontological framing and naming of social actors and social responses. Human-Machine Communication, 8, 185-203. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.8.9

  • Majdik, Z. P., & Graham, S. S. (2024). Rhetoric of/with AI: An introduction. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 54(3), 222–231. https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2024.2343264

  • Graham, S. S., Harrison, K. R., Edward, J. C. S., Majdik, Z. P., Barbour, J. B., & Rousseau, J. F. (2024). Beyond bias: Aggregate approaches to conflicts of interest research and policy in biomedical research. World Medical & Health Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.608

  • Walden, J., & Zeng, C. (2024). Work in transition: Exploring pandemic-displaced employees' communication. Journal of Communication Management, ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCOM-08-2022-0096

  • Vosen Callens, M., Westerman, D. K., & Cross, A. C. (2023). Why we hate‐watch: The role of nostalgia and investment in WWE viewership. The Journal of Popular Culture, 56(1), 70-90.https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13207

  • Westerman, D., Kelly, S., Vareberg, K. R., Rocker, K. T., & Bowman, N. D. (2023). Current trends and future directions: Technology. In M. G. Strawser (Ed.), Instructional communication in professional contexts (pp. 167-186). Cognella.

  • Bowman, N. D., Vareberg, K. R., Rocker, K. T., Kelly, S., & Westerman, D. (2023). Background: Technology. In M. G. Strawser (Ed.), Instructional communication in professional contexts (pp. 147-166). Cognella.

  • Rabby, M. M. F., Platt, C. A., & Zeng, C. (2022). Assimilation, organizational support, and impostor syndrome as predictors of GTAs’ communicatively restricted organizational stress (CROS). Communication Reports, 1-15.

  • Vareberg, K. R., & Westerman, D. (2022). Seeking connection while connecting: The increased role of technology in student-instructor communication post-COVID. In M. Strawser (Ed.), The COVID-19 impact on higher education stakeholders and institutional services (pp. 81-91). Lexington Books.

  • Beck, S. J., & Paskewitz, E. A. (2022). An exploratory investigation of teacher perceptions of education and communication at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 6, 83-99. https://doi.org/10.31446/JCP.2022.1.09

  • Wang, W., Atkinson, L., Kahlor, L. A., Jamar, P., & Lim, H. S. (2022). Avoiding Covid‐19 risk information in the United States: The role of attitudes, norms, affect, social dominanceorientations, and perceived trustworthiness of scientists. Risk Analysis.

  • Lu, S. (2022). News technology innovation as a field: A structural topic modeling analysis of patent data in mainland China. Communication & Society, 59, 147-175. http://cschinese.com/issueArticle.asp?P_No=90&CA_ID=688

  • Majdik, Z. P., & Wynn, J. (2022). Building better machine learning models for rhetorical analyses: The use of rhetorical feature sets for training artificial neural network models. Technical Communication Quarterly 32(1), 63–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2022.2077452

  • Zeng, C., & Lu, S. (2022). Paradigm repair and news engagement: Exploring Bari Weiss’s resignation from the New York Times. Journalism Practice, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2022.2118153

  • Spates, S. A., Westerman, C. Y. K., Laam, L., & Goke, R. (2022) Exploring the relationship between perceptions of safety culture and patient safety events in inpatient clinical teams. Journal of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement, 10(3), 83-95.https://doi.org/10.22038/psj.2022.62858.1348

  • Lu, S., Liang, H., & Masullo, G. M. (2022). Selective avoidance: Understanding how position and proportion of online incivility influence news engagement. Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502221130837 
     
  • Vosen Callens, M. (2022). “There goes my antihero: How Wendy Byrde broke bad.” Heroism Science, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.26736/hs.2022.01.05
     
  • Kingsley Westerman, C. Y., Haverkamp, E. M., & Zeng, C. (2022). Understanding disclosure of health information to workplace friends. Behavioral Sciences, 12, 355. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs12100355
     
  • Collins, R. F. (2022). Chocolate: A cultural encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO.
     
  • Lammers, S. M., Woods, R. J., Brotherson, S. E., Deal, J. E., & Platt, C. A. (2022). Explaining adherence to American Academy of Pediatrics screen time recommendations with caregiver awareness and parental motivation factors: Mixed methods study. JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, 5(2), e29102. https://doi.org/10.2196/29102
     
  • Lu, S., & Zhong, L. (2022). From believing to sharing: Examining the effects of partisan media’s correction of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. International Journal of Communication, 16(22). https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18132
     

  • Shah, P., Wang, W., Yang, J. Z., Kahlor, L., & Anderson, J. (2022). Framing climate changemitigation technology: The impact of risk versus benefit messaging on support for carbon captureand storage. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 119, 103737.

  • Graham, S. S., Majdik, Z. P., Barbour, J. B., & Rousseau, J. F. (2022). Associations between aggregate NLP-extracted conflicts of interest and adverse events by drug product. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 290, 405–409. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220106

  • Graham, S. S., Karnes, M. S., Jensen, J. T., Sharma, N., Barbour, J. B., Majdik, Z. P., & Rousseau, J. F. (2022). Evidence for stratified conflicts of interest in research contexts: A methodological review. BMJ Open, 12, e063501. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063501

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