Three faculty members in NDSU’s Department of Communications were recently published or honored for their work.
A book written by Elizabeth Crawford Jackson, assistant professor of communication, has been named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2014 by Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
Crawford Jackson’s book “Tobacco Goes to College: Cigarette Advertising in Student Media, 1920-1980,” was published this year by McFarland.
Nan Yu, assistant professor of communication, has contributed to two peer-reviewed publications. The first study, published by the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, examines how Chinese immigrants in the United States seek health information online and how the ways they adapt to the host society influence their internet-based health information seeking behaviors.
The second study investigates different approaches mobile phone designers have taken to improve users’ Web browsing experiences. The research appears in the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing.
Amy O’Connor, NDSU associate professor of communication, and Amorette Hinderaker, NDSU alumna and assistant professor of communication at Texas Christian University, had their faith-based research published online at postmormon.org and exmormon.org. The study investigated 50 exit narratives written by former members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Complete study titled “The long road out: Stories of member exit from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” also was accepted into the journal Communication Studies.