Publications from 2024
Eudaimonic Media for Social Good: the Influence of Meaningful Media Experiences on Connectedness and Health Persuasion, Hue Trong Duong
Communicating Non-violence Messages: Effects of Racial Cues and Message Format, Hue Trong Duong, Akansha Sirohi, Lucy Popova, and Kathleen M. Baggett
Meaningful Media Experiences and Vaccination Message Communication: An Experimental Study with Vaccine-Hesitant Individuals, Mor Yachin and Hue Trong Duong
The Partisan Pandemic: Applying the Reasoned Action Approach to Understand the Effects of Politicizing a Public Health Crisis, Shay Xuejing Yao, Dustin Carnahan, and Nancy Rhodes
Underrepresented Rather than Misrepresented? A Content Analysis of Female Characters’ (non)Sexualization in Virtual Reality (VR) Games, Shay Xuejing Yao, Joomi Lee, and Reed M. Reynolds
Publications from 2023
Where Do Perceived Norms Supporting Child Corporal Punishment Come From? A Study of Low-Income Parents, Hue Trong Duong and Akansha Sirohi
Predicting Black Parents’ Attitudes Toward Corporal Punishment: A Moderated-Mediation Model of Frequency and Valence of Childhood Experiences, Hue Trong Duong, Akansha Sirohi, and Kathleen M. Baggett
Before Omicron’s Arrival: Effects of Negative Emotions and Comparative Optimism on COVID-19 Protection and Detection Behaviors, Hue Trong Duong, Yixin Sun, Long Thang Van Nguyen, Khai The Nguyen, and Lucy Popova
Feeling Inspired and Nostalgic: Associations between Media Context-Induced Positive Emotions and Behavioral Change among Vaccine-hesitant Individuals in the Late Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Hue Trong Duong, Mor Yachin, and Zachary Massey
I help you, you help me: Interracial reciprocity in situation comedies influences racial attitudes, Morgan Ellithorpe, David Ewoldsen, Shay Xuejing Yao, and Lanier F. Holt
Tidying Up Attitudes, Queer Eye Style: Parasocial Contact with Asian Women and Gay Men, Shay Xuejing Yao, Morgan Ellithorpe, Liam Cuddy, Aysha Siddika, Hira Nadeem, and Mackenzie Myer
Development and Validation of the Female Gamer Stereotypes Scale (FGSS), Shay Xuejing Yao, Morgan Ellithorpe, David Ewoldsen, and Franklin J. Boster
Cultivating Adulthood Prejudice toward Black Americans and Low-Income Individuals through Childhood Social Media Use: A Retrospective Approach, Shay Xuejing Yao, Nikki McClaran, Morgan Ellithorpe, David Ewoldsen, and Fashina Alade
Lifetime Television Use Influences Racial Prejudice Through Cultivating Implicit Norms: Differed Effects Across Three Life Stages, Shay Xuejing Yao, Nikki McClaran, Morgan Ellithorpe, David Ewoldsen, and Fashina Alade
Publications from 2022
When Vaccine Uncertainty Prevails: Association Between Online Social Influence and COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions, Hue Trong Duong, Tham Thi Nguyen, and Le Thanh Trieu
Trust and Coping Beliefs Contribute to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination Intention, Nikki McClaran, Nancy Rhodes, and Shay Xuejing Yao
Gamer Girl vs. Girl Gamer: Stereotypical Gamer Traits Increase Men’s Play Intention, Shay Xuejing Yao, David Ewoldsen, Morgan Ellithorpe, Brandon Van Der Heide, and Nancy Rhodes
Protecting a Positive View of the Self: Strategic Self-Attribution of Stereotypes Among Women Video Game Players, Shay Xuejing Yao and Nancy Rhodes
Publications from 2021
Applying the Integrative Model to Predict Intention to Use Corporal Punishment Among Low-income Parents, Hue Trong Duong
‘It Brings Light to What You Really Put into Your Body’: A Focus Group Study of Reactions to Messages about Nicotine Reduction in Cigarettes, Hue Trong Duong, Emily E. Loud, James F. Thrasher, Katherine C. Henderson, David L. Ashley, and Lucy Popova
Are smokers scared by COVID-19 risk? How fear and comparative optimism influence smokers’ intentions to take measures to quit smoking, Hue Trong Duong, Zachary Massey, Victoria Churchill, and Lucy Popova
Examining Sources of Social Norms Supporting Child Corporal Punishment Among Low-Income Black, Latino, and White Parents, Hue Trong Duong, Jennifer L. Monahan, Laura M. Mercer Kollar, and Joanne Klevens
Identifying Knowledge, Self-efficacy and Response Efficacy of Alternative Discipline Strategies among Low-income Black, Latino and White Parents, Hue Trong Duong, Jennifer L. Monahan, Laura M. Mercer Kollar, and Joanne Klevens
Risk Perception and COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors: Application of the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction, Hue Trong Duong, Hoa Thanh Nguyen, Soroya J. McFarlane, and Long Nguyen
Preventing the COVID-19 Outbreak in Vietnam: Social Media Campaign Exposure and the Role of Interpersonal Communication, Hue Trong Duong, Long Nguyen, Soroya J. McFarlane, Hoa Thanh Nguyen, and Khai The Nguyen
Publications from 2020
Common Ingroup Identity Model, Shay Xuejing Yao
Self-Categorization Theory, Shay Xuejing Yao
Publications from 2019
Activists’ Strategic Communication in an Authoritarian Setting: Integrating Social Movement Framing into Issues Management, Hue Trong Duong, Hong Tien Vu, and Nhung Nguyen
Publications from 2018
Vaping in the News: The Influence of News Exposure on Perceived e-Cigarette Use Norms, Hue Trong Duong and Jiaying Liu
Publications from 2015
The World as the American Frontier: Racialized Presidential War Rhetoric, Zoë Hess Carney and Mary Stuckey
Encountering the Rebellion: Liquid Blackness Reflects on the Expansive Possibilities of the L.A. Rebellion Films, Alessandra Raengo
Publications from 2014
Global Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Gangnam Style, Sookeung Jung and Hongmei Li
Inspire Magazine: A Critical Analysis of its Significance and Potential Impact Through the Lens of the Information, Motivation, and Behavioral Skills Model, Tony Lemieux, Jarret Brachman, Jason Levitt, and Jay Wood
Out of the Literary Comfort Zone: Adaptation, Embodiment, Assimilation, Alessandra Raengo
Civility, Democracy, and National Politics, Mary Stuckey and Sean Patrick O'Rourke
Publications from 2013
Destabilized Artistry in the Rhetorical Presidency, Samuel McCormick and Mary Stuckey
Getting Your Bloke On: Gender Issues in the Reality Competition 'I Will Survive', Frank Miller
In the Shadow, Alessandra Raengo
Introduction to "On the Sleeve of the Visual: Race as Face Value", Alessandra Raengo
Publications from 2012
Fishing For Animal Rights In The Cove: A Holistic Approach to Animal Advocacy Documentaries, Carrie Packwood Freeman
Reification, Reanimation, and the Money of the Real, Alessandra Raengo
FDR, the Rhetoric of Vision, and the Creation of a National Synoptic State, Mary Stuckey
Publications from 2011
Anonymous Sources: A Utilitarian Exploration of Their Justification and Guidelines for Limited Use, Matt J. Duffy and Carrie Packwood Freeman
Giving Voice to the "Voiceless:" Incorporating Nonhuman Animal Perspectives as Journalistic Sources, Carrie Packwood Freeman, Marc Bekoff, and Sarah M. Bexell
The Donner Party and the Rhetoric of Western Expansion, Mary Stuckey
Publications from 2010
Embracing Humanimality: Deconstructing the Human/Animal Dichotomy, Carrie Packwood Freeman
Framing Animal Rights in the "Go Veg" Campaigns of U.S. Animal Rights Organizations, Carrie Packwood Freeman
Meat's Place on the Campaign Menu: How U.S. Environmental Discourse Negotiates Vegetarianism, Carrie Packwood Freeman
NGO Politics and Insurgency: Examining Institutional Structures and Change Processes of NGO Influence, Harry T. Hall, James E. Mattingly, and Hue Trong Duong
"The Joshua Generation": Rethinking the Rhetorical Presidency and Presidential Rhetoric, Mary Stuckey
“If it’s a woman’s issue, I pay attention to it”: Gendered and Intersectional Complications in The Heart Truth Media Campaign, Natalie Tindall
Publications from 2009
A Greater Means to the Greater Good: Ethical Guidelines to Meet Social Movement Organization Advocacy Challenges, Carrie Packwood Freeman
This Little Piggy Went to Press: The American News Media's Construction of Animals in Agriculture, Carrie Packwood Freeman
Publications from 2008
Branding Chinese Products: Between Nationalism and Transnationalism, Hongmei Li
A Necessary Signifier: The Adaptation of Robinson's Body-Image in "The Jackie Robinson Story", Alessandra Raengo
Publications from 2004
A Big Fat Indie Success Story? Press Discourses Surrounding the Making and Marketing of a "Hollywood" Movie, Alisa Perren
Hollywood, Alisa Perren and Thomas Schatz
Publications from 2003
The Rhetorical Phronimos: Political Wisdom in Postmodernity, Michael Bruner
Publications from 2001
Sex, Lies and Marketing: Miramax and the Development of the 'Quality Indie' Blockbuster, Alisa Perren