Kent State University – Partner News, Spring 2020
The School of Communication Studies at Kent State University shared the following updates with OCA in March of 2020. Congratulations on all the wonderful faculty, staff, and departmental accomplishments!
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Publications
D’Enbeau, S. Communicating policy-practice orientations: the case of sexual violence response among college students. Journal of Applied Communication. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00909882.2019.1654123
Hollenbaugh, E. E. (2019). Privacy management among social media natives: An exploratory study of Facebook and Snapchat. Social Media and Society, 5(3), 1-14. doi:10.1177/2056305119855144
Hutchens, M.J., Hmielowski, J.D., & Beam, M.A. (2019). Reinforcing spirals of political discussion and affective polarization. Communication Monographs. 86(3)3, 357-376.
Paul Haridakis and Tewodros Workneh recently received a contract from Lexington Books for a book they are editing tentatively titled “Counter-terrorism Laws and Freedom of Expression: Global Perspectives”.
Dr. Elizabeth Graham’s co-edited book titled Communication Research Measures III: A Sourcebook was recently published. The following faculty wrote chapters and profiled measures for the volume: Dr. Catherine Goodall, Dr. Nichole Egbert, Dr. Jeff Child and JMC’s Dr. Tang Tang. Several former Ph.D. students contributed as well including Dr. Shawn Starcher and Dr. Andrea Meluch.
Grants and Awards
Cristin Compton was recently notified that her article titled, “Communicatively navigating identities, silence, and social protest” published in Communication Studies, was selected as the 2019 Central States Communication Association Outstanding Article of the Year Award. Cristin’s article was chosen from the entire set of issues in volume 70.
Paul Haridakis. 2019 Co-Investigator on grant from the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by IREX. Program entitled “Fulbright TEA 21st Century Classroom Media Literacy Program.” (approx. $205,000).
Rekha Sharma and Gargi Bhaduri, (Fashion School) collaborated on a creative work being featured in Wearing Justice, an exhibition of original designs by faculty and students related to issues of social activism that is currently on display at the Kent State University Fashion Museum.
Elizabeth Graham, Yesim Kaptan, Sharma, Rekha and Ikram Toumi delivered a panel presentation, “Latinos in the Media: The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads,” as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series of the Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education. The presentation was part of the 2019 Ohio Latino Education Summit at Kent State University.
York, C., & Haridakis, P. (2019, August). Exploring genetic contributions to motives for news use: A study of identical and fraternal twins. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Toronto, Canada. **Top paper Communication Theory & Methodology Division.
Lisa Waite, in partnership with Kent State University at Stark’s Corporate University and The Aultman College, facilitated nine professional development sessions in 2019 to Aultman Hospital’s senior leaders, mid-level managers and workplace professionals. Topics included decision making, team performance and leadership to maintain a healthy organizational culture. Additionally, I facilitated three development sessions in 2019 to audience members representing a variety of local industries. Topics included leadership, people-centric culture / interpersonal communication, conflict resolution, listening, and building world-class teams.
Lisa Waite facilitated a pre-conference course at The National Communication Association to help conference presenters refine their conference presentation skills. She is also a founding member of the new NCA Blue Ribbon Task Force for Effective Conference Presentations. The BRTF is an independent interdivisional task force spearheaded by the Training and Development Division and the National States Advisory Council. Our mission is to identify, inspire, and encourage best practices for designing and delivering effective conference presentations that communicate the story of research, promote maximum audience engagement, facilitate learning, and further scholarly advancement.
Lisa Waite was accepted into the Brene Brown Institute “Dare to Lead, Daring Classrooms” certification course October 2019. From Brown, “This is powerful work that transforms and challenges people and systems. Creating safe and brave spaces for people to show up and be seen means both skill building around vulnerability, courage, shame, and empathy, and working to dismantle the systems that devalue and dehumanize people.” It is my fondest hope to be a good steward and catalyst of this work.
Michael Beam participated in an international workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl, a computer research institute that sponsors competitive international forums on topics that bridge academia and industry. The workshop focused on Diversity, Fairness, and Data-Driven Personalization in (News) Recommender Systems. One of the goals of the conference was to develop a vision on the role of AI and data analytics for the democratic role of the media. For more information See https://www.dagstuhl.de/19482
Jeff Child has been selected to serve on the NCA Publications Council during the period of January 2020 – December 2022. This is quite an honor and with his editorial expertise and background, Jeff will serve this committee well. The Publications Council oversees the Association’s publications program, including recommending editors to the Legislative Assembly for the Association’s journals and filling journal editor vacancies as necessary.
First-Year Faculty Members:
Mina Choi, Ph.D, joined the faculty in Communication Studies and Digital Sciences in Fall 2019. Mina’s research centers around interpersonal relationship research in technology-mediated contexts.
David Silva, Ph.D, also joined the faculty in Communication Studies and Digital Sciences in Fall 2019. David’s research focuses on the potential of new technology to foster civic norms while recognizing the problems technological change has brought about and exacerbated.
Events
The 53rd Annual Hyde Park Forum will be held on April 16th, 2020. The competition pits Introduction to Human Communication Students against one another using persuasive public discourse with clear calls to action.
The spring Communication in Action showcase will be held on April 17th, 2020. The event provides opportunities for Communication Studies students to showcase classroom projects consisting of photos, blogs, campaigns, and portfolios in a race to win scholarship awards for the best projects.
Conference presentations:
International Communication Association 2020, Gold Coast, Australia.
“Sensing authenticity, seeing aura: Turkish audiences’ reception of aura and authenticity in Danish Dramas.” Kaptan, Y. Division of Global Communication and Social Change.
“We, the President: The people, authoritarian populism and the Turkish media discourse.” Kaptan, Y. Division of Mass Communication.
“The moderating role of self-construal on culturally reflected fear appeals.” Division of Health Communication. Lee, S., Goodall, C., and Egbert, N. Top four papers, Division of Health Communication.
“Global education in the 21st century: The intercultural communication transnational classroom.” Toumi, I, Kooli, A., and Zamit, F. Top faculty paper panel, Division of Instructional and Developmental Communication.
More news:
Wayne State College will be hosting the Flat Water States Undergraduate Communication Conference, which is sponsored by Lambda Pi Eta. The keynote speaker this year is Dr. Jeff Child.
Dr. Yesim Kaptan continues her consumer culture research and published an article in Markets, Globalization & Development Review titled: “At the Nexus between the National and the Global: The Discursive Construction of the Turkish Halal Market in the Neoliberal Age” In this study, Dr. Kaptan investigate the conceptualization of “halal” (permissible, lawful) in the websites of national halal regulatory bodies and problematizes contested discursive strategies of these Islamic agents in an emerging Islamic market in Turkey. For more information see:https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/mgdr/vol4/iss1/5/
Dr. Suzy D’Enbeau’s research on sexual violence responses among college students has been published in Communication Currents, an NCA publication that translates new communication scholarship for lay audiences and students. This piece is based on Dr. D’Enbeau’s article titled, “Communicating policy-practice orientations: The case of sexual violence response among college students” published in The Journal of Applied Communication Research. For more information see:https://www.natcom.org/communication
-currents/communicating-about-policy-and-practice-related-sexual-violence-university
Dr. Mei-Chen Lin will begin serving as an associate editor for the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships beginning January 2020. This journal is an international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that publishes research on social and personal relationships and has a 5-year impact factor of 2.235, higher than most communication journals.
Dr. Jenny McCullough and Dr. James D. Ponder have been competitively chosen to be members of the spring 2020 Inclusive Teaching Faculty Learning Community (ITFLC). Dr. McCullough will be working on a revision of Introduction to Human Communication course (COMM 15000) and Dr. Ponder will be working on a revision of the Communication and Influence course (COMM 45902).
