Submissions from 2024
Highlighting heroes and ignoring villains: Visual framing of polio and polio vaccine in newspapers, Muhammad Ittefaq, Taufiq Ahmad, Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh, Sayyed Fawad Ali Shah, and Hyunjin Seo
Cross-Border Journalism in South Asia, Muhammad Ittefaq, Waqas Ejaz, and Mohammad Waqas Jan
Polio vaccine misinformation on social media: challenges, efforts, and recommendations, Muhammad Ittefaq, Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh, Carina M. Zelaya, and Rauf Arif
Climate Activism in the Global South: A Call for Clear Agendas, Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh and Muhammad Ittefaq
Submissions from 2023
''Beating Your Head Against the Wall'': Burnout on the Rise Among Local Health Department Communication Officials, Muhammad Ittefaq
"It Frustrates Me Beyond Words That I Can't Fix that": Health Misinformation Correction on Facebook During COVID-19, Muhammad Ittefaq
A Systematic Literature Review of Research From 2010 to 2020 Addressing User-Generated Online Comments Related to Health Issues and Recommendations for Future Research, Muhammad Ittefaq, Mauryne Abwao, Ioana A. Coman, and Waqas Ejaz
Communities of Care for Air Pollution Policies in Pakistan: An Integrated Approach to Public Engagement and Policy Implementation, Muhammad Ittefaq and Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh
Climate Change Journalism in Pakistan: Ethical Deliberations, Muhammad Ittefaq, Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh, and Ayesha Ashfaq
A Coalition for Science Journalism as a Multi-Stakeholder Community of Practice: A Proposal from South Asia, Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh and Muhammad Ittefaq
Ethnic newspaper industry in Pakistan and impacts of corporate ownership, Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh, Muhammad Ittefaq, and Awais Hamed
Ethical Dimensions of Climate and Environmental Issues in Pakistani Media, Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh, Muhammad Ittefaq, Sadia Jamil, and Busha Hameedur Rahman
Crisis communication for public organizations: Examining Pakistan Railways' use of information technology and social media for image repair, Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh, Muhammad Ittefaq, and Yan Jin
The COVID-19 pandemic and international students: A mixed-methods approach to relationships between social media use, social support, and mental health, Hyunjin Seo, Yuchen Liu, Husain Ebrahim, Muhammad Ittefaq, and Donghwa Chung
Submissions from 2022
Advocacy journalism and climate justice in a Global Southern country, Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh and Muhammad Ittefaq
Editorial Journalism and Environmental Issues in the Majority World, Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh, Muhammad Ittefaq, and Muhammad Yousaf
International migrants and coronavirus disease 2019 vaccinations: Social Media, motivated information management, and vaccination willingness, Hyunjin Seo, Yuchen Liu, Muhammad Ittefaq, Fatemeh Shayesteh, Ursula Kamanga, and Annalise Baines
Examining the Factors Influencing Tourists’ Destination: A Case of Nanhai Movie Theme Park in China, Liting Zhou, Fei Ouyang, Yang Li, Jieling Zhan, Nadeem Akhtar, and Muhammad Ittefaq
Submissions from 2020
Program Health & Longevity: Using Assessment to Tell Your Program’s Story, Paul E. Mabrey III
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Rhetoric and ethics: A Burkean analysis of modern cult (and anti-cult) tactics, Lydia Erickson
Analyzing discourse surrounding the George Morris Ban: An ideological critique of sexual assault culture in sports, Megan McLoughlin
The visual presidency of Donald Trump's first hundred days: Political image making and digital media, Ryan T. Strand
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
“We Make Death Look Pretty”: A qualitative study analyzing reported effects of compassion fatigue on hospice nurse-patient communication, Katherine Harville
Between beeps: An autoethnographic study on Type 1 Diabetes, intersectionality and the body in chaos, Cristal Llave
“Taking the Power Away”: An autoethnographic exploration of intimate partner violence, social support, and survivorship, Darrian Pickett
Effects of mental health campaigns, Susan Schott
(In)visibility and meaning in food labor: A Feminist autoethnography, Kathryn Shedden
The confirmation of Betsy DeVos: Polarization, populism, and moral foundations in U.S. political rhetoric, Jacob William Wrasse
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Media framing and the cancellation of NASA's space shuttle program, Nicholas J. Lepp
This is herpes: A qualitative investigation of the disclosure patterns of HSV2 individuals, Katrina Miles
No stigma, no shame: Reducing the stigma of mental illness in college freshmen dorms, Ashley R. Reynolds
#Zika #Olympics: The use of dialogue in tweets regarding the Zika virus and the 2016 Rio Olympics, Daniel W. Vieth
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
My body, our illness: Negotiating relational and identity tensions of living with mental illness, Erin E. Casey
(Re)positioning black: Negotiating racial subjectivities in white discursively constructed spaces, Elisa Davidson
The relationship between conflict resolution styles in cross-gender sibling relationships and romantic relationships, Kristen M. Friel
Achoo! Three major US newspapers reporting on the flu before and after H1N1, Philip A. Harris
Too much television?: Does watching political ads influence if and how people vote?, Andrew Haveles
“Knee high to a grasshopper”: An exploration of Appalachian youth, family communication patterns, and depression, Cori Howard
Student awareness of the Daily News-Record, Molly Margaret Jacob
Padded assumptions: A critical discourse analysis of patriarchal menstruation discourse, Kathryn M. Lese
Contesting “obligation”: Memory, morality, and the (re)Construction of divestment narratives, Christina Quint
A tank full of wishful thinking: Crystallizing the rhythms of the road, Leanna K. Smithberger
No soy de aquí, ni soy de allá: How stateless individuals in the Dominican Republic construct national identity, Lindsay Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
"All the world's a stage:" A social media project for the American Shakespeare Center, Lauren D. Ambrose
Policing Charities: A genealogy of the American nonprofit in the context of neoliberalism, Jaclyn Carroll
Place, space, and family: A rhetorical analysis of the resistance rhetoric of Judy Bonds, Alex K. Davenport
Vanguardia mujerista haciendo escuela: An oral history of Cuban feminism, Marie Eszenyi
To expel, or to not expel? An analysis of James Madison University's crisis communication and response to sexual assault, Julie M. Hirschhorn
Identity disclosure in lesbian, gay, and bisexual patient-provider communication, Nicole Hudak
Creating supplements to an anti-bullying program in a Harrisonburg City public school, Jessica G. Hunt
Public relations promotion to advance child reading and literacy, Rosemarie McGinty
Let’s chat: Willingness to communicate and the development of a destigmatizing campaign, Ethan D. Smith
Google Glass and public relations: The use of optical head-mounted displays in building dialogue, Daniel W. Vieth
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The relationship between food bloggers and public relations professionals, Hannah Michelle Cox
Communication coping strategies of victims of crime, Katherine Nicole Leeds
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Exploring connections between competition and dialectical tensions in female friendships: A qualitative study, Heather Ashley Aadahl
