Revise & Resubmit: Recent Episodes
Kim Bissell
If you have ever wondered what a communications professor actually does, this podcast is for you. In this series, we talk to communication and mass communication professors about how the research they do can affect your everyday life. We will interview sports communication professors about fanship and how this global pandemic is changing the face of sports viewership, and we'll talk with media effects researchers about the ways media can affect mental health in a negative way. If you have ever had a question for a communication professor, this podcast is for you.
ICYMI: Today's episode is a great one as we catch up with Dr. Mary Meares, an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. Have you ever traveled outside of the country, especially to a place where your native language wasn't being spoken? How did it make you feel? Were you challenged by the experience in a good one or did you find yourself looking for something familiar? In addition to having lived and worked abroad, her research dives into the effects of culture. When you think about how we learn what the world is and how we learn about other people, that learning comes from so many different places--personal experiences, what you might learn in the classroom and even from the media. Mary's research looks at all of these things as a mechanism of understanding intercultural competence and ways it can be taught to others. Fun fact: she is reading a book--Gullah Geechee--Lessons from the Matriach--by Emily Meggett from Edisto Island and that's where Mary's ancestors are from! This is such a fun conversation and it really is going to push you to think about how we learn about others the next time you travel. Don't miss it!
Falling Backwards Into Things–The Path to Research in Identity, Stigma and Organizing
I say this about every episode but I definitely have to say it about this one---YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS TODAY'S EPISODE.
Wow. We cover a lot of territory with Dr. Peter Jensen, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Communication & Information Sciences. But first, fun fact: Peter is the first guest we have ever had who said he actually dreamed of being a professor as a young child, and this inspiration came from watching Indiana Jones films where Indiana Jones was in a classroom teaching!!
But, on to the real stuff. Dr. Jensen studies organizational communication, but what he really looks at it why we organize the way we do, and the communicativeness of the process. What does that really mean? It means he studies things like stigma within an organization and how underlying stigma about topics such as incarceration carry over into decisions that are made, the ways individuals are interacted with and treated, and ultimately the structural issues related to stigma. Peter has worked with and studied individuals who have been incarcerated and who then are trying to re-engage with the world and return to the identity they might have had prior to serving time in prison. Peter is an ethnographer, which means he works in the field and he works directly with the population he is studying as well as the organizations working to help them (or not).
We cover so much territory in today's conversation, and it certainly sheds light on the breadth and depth of the work being done in the broad area of communication research.
To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
ICYMI: Don't miss episode #7 of Season 6 of Revise and Resubmit as we catch up with Dr. Kaitlin Miller, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. Learn more about how 6th grade Kaitlin had a big dream of working in broadcast journalism and how that dream became a reality for her after finishing her master's degree in broadcast journalism. Kaitlin tells us about her time working as a broadcast journalist in Bozeman, Montana where she essentially was a one-stop shop for all of the stories she worked on--setting up the camera, the lights, the audio, doing the reporting, doing the editing and packaging it all together. But, then she tells us about how the workplace for her and other women in the felt was challenging, isolating, and at times, filled with harassment. Her professional experiences tie directly into what she does now as a professor of journalism and guide much of the research she does on journalistic practices, the intersectionality of oppression and identity specific to gender and race, but how she firmly believes that journalism matters. We talk about her approach to teaching her own journalism students and how she inspires them (our words not hers) to follow their dreams and passions as storytellers. And, throughout today's conversation we hear so many funny stories about her professional work in broadcast journalism. Let's just say a bear enters this conversation! You don't want to miss today's episode as we catch up with Dr. Kaitlin Miller!
We've got another ICYMI episode on deck for you today because well, let's be honest, everyone is busy and deadlines are upon us and it's hard to schedule guests during this very busy time. But, today's episode is a great one to catch if you haven't already and if you have, it's a great one to listen to a second time. Join us today for Episode 6 of Season 6 of Revise and Resubmit where we get to chat with Dr.Natalie Devlin, now an associate professor in the Stan Richards School ofAdvertising and Public Relations. Natalie Brown Devlin researches crisiscommunication and digital media in the context of sport. Her work examines howsocial media empowers organizational stakeholders during sports-related crises.She previously worked in digital advertising as a senior analyst of strategicaccount analytics, where she provided custom analyses and consumer insights toclient marketing executives. This fall, Devlin teaches a course on digitalmetrics in the Texas Media Program.
This is such a fun conversationwith Dr. Devlin because we get to hear not only about her time as a Ph.D.student in C&IS at the University of Alabama but also how the stars alignedin a chance meeting with Dr. Jennings Bryant and how that meeting led her tohave the family she has now.
Dr. Devlin is a prolific scholarin sports communication, and for someone who has only been doing it a fewyears, she's making quite a mark! More importantly. Dr. Devlin is sodown-to-earth and fun and just truly likeable. You just won't want to miss thisone.
Follow her on Twitter@NatalieBDevlin.
You can follow us on Twitter@ICIRAlabama or on Instagram @ICIRUA.
Here are a few links to just SOMEof her publications:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/jicrcr/vol3/iss1/3/
https://journals.humankinetics.com/configurable/content/journals$002fijsc$002f10$002f3$002farticle-p371.xml?t:ac=journals%24002fijsc%24002f10%24002f3%24002farticle-p371.xml
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077699015574484?casa_token=WV3DupwpFVIAAAAA%3ARYhY9L9iYVI65GcxyaHJaBJ-AK6jR-PlU1vi9vpI8WaaCnO3c3DVz64frQ6f3CLVZVBaa8eQ_bHf
In today’s episode, we are catching up with another former guest in our What’s New With series, and I say this every time, but again, today’s episode is SO MUCH FUN!!! Dr. Kenon Brown, an associate professor in the Department of Advertising and Public relations actually gave us an answer to one question that we had never heard before–what he wanted to be when he grew up. But, I’m not going to spoil it now! You’ll just have to tune in!
When we last caught up with Dr. Brown, we were in the height of the pandemic and lock down and he was doing a lot of research on athletes and image repair because there’s always one or two who isn’t making the best decisions, but today, he tells us how his research has shifted a little to focus on the WHY AND HOW of audience perceptions about athletes. What traits are most important in helping us identify more and resonate more with specific athletes? He breaks it all down for us!
To follow Kenon on Twitter: @KenonABrown
To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
In the third of our of "What's New With..." series, we have the great opportunity to catch up with Dr. Cynthia Peacock, now an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies within C&IS. When we last spoke with Cynthia, she was telling us about the time she took her students to attend the Iowa Caucuses, and about all of her work in political communication. She's been busy these last two years, and in today's episode, we get to hear all about it. She is currently working on a study about relational communication when individuals do not share the same political ideology--can you imagine the potential drama? But, she's also looking into issues such as the changes in the online environment, including social media, and how these changes will affect political engagement and opinion exchange. I don't want to give away too much here, but I will just say, this is another really fun one!! As a fun fact about Cynthia, she wanted to be a criminal psychologist or a National Geographic photographer when she was growing up, and her pathway to academia is an interesting (but cool) one!
To follow Cynthia on Twitter: @CynPeacock
To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
You might read this title and think, what? What in the world are they talking about? What we are talking about are things that many of us will be using in our daily lives? Do you use Siri or Alexa? Do you have apps on your phone that are tailored to you and can help you out in a virtual way? If you use any of these things, you use virtual assistants. But what you might not have thought about is how they actually work and how they do (or do not) respond to more subjective things like feelings or an inability to quickly process questions being asked by the virtual assistant. Our next guest in our "What's New With" series studies all of these things and is making a significant impact on the way AI technologies are merging with user experiences. Dr. Miriam Sweeney is an associate professor in the School of Library and Information Studies, part of the College of Communication and Information Sciences. She is a renowned scholar in this area and is taking intentional steps to look beyond the service and better understand how user experiences can be improved. This is a fun one! Don't miss it!
You don't want to miss the 5th in our series of "What's New With..." where we get an opportunity to catch up with previous guests and learn all about the research they have done since we last talked to them. When we last spoke with Dr. Shaheen Kanthawala, an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media, we talked about her research very broadly in the area of media effects through the lens of health communication. Shaheen has been very busy these last two years developing new projects and studies that dive more into the functions and features of health apps and how they can be helpful (or not). We talk a lot about individual differences (demographic factors, cognitive functioning) and how those factors influence not only our use of health apps but how much the health app can influence us. We also dive into a conversation about TikTok and discuss how much, if at all, TikTok can be used in helpful and positive ways specific to our own health. How do we know if the information we are getting from TikTok is correct or not? And do we care? We dive into all of this in today's conversation, and you don't want to miss it!! Tune in to catch some of Shaheen's recommendations for viewing and reading--we aren't going to spoil it here!
To follow Shaheen on Twitter: @ItsShaheenK
To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
Have you ever experienced a natural disaster like a tornado or a hurricane or a house fire? Have you ever found yourself in a situation where maybe you were not fully prepared but didn't know that until the disaster hit? Today's guest tells us about experiencing 9/11 from the lens of a viewer watching it unfold on global television changed the trajectory of her career and how watching the crisis with communication on that day led her to not only gain incredible experience working as a volunteer for the Red Cross and other humanitarian companies but also led to her path as a graduate student and now a scholar in the area of crisis communication. Dr. Suzanne Horsley is an associate professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Alabama and has studied crisis communication from a variety of angles. She tells us today that one of the most interesting things in her work is learning about those who actually want to step in and help out. She said that so many factors motivate people to want to volunteer and help, but without proper training in all kinds of areas, sometimes that help isn't as useful as one would hope. We talk about the disaster that struck our own city of Tuscaloosa--the tornado of 2011--that took lives all over the state and literally brought our city to a screeching halt. Suzanne was here for that and she was able to apply all that she knew from her personal experiences as well as her research that helped her teach others about effective ways to contribute. If you tune in, you'll also learn more about the reality show she thinks she'd be great at--but we aren't going to spoil it! We cover so much ground in today's episode, and we learn so much. Don't miss today's conversation with Dr. Suzanne Horsley!
To follow her department on Twitter: @BamaAPR
To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
Join us today as we catch up with new assistant professor Dr. Jaclyn Shetterly in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Alabama. Her work is squarely situation in the area of interpersonal communication where she examines the communication between individuals who are the victims of sexual assault and their romantic partners. As you learn throughout the episode, this type of work can be taxing and emotionally draining...on the subjects and the researcher...but it also sheds light on what is often considered stigma and shame for those victims. She also tells us how we can use what we have learned in context and apply it to so many areas of general human interaction when the topics are sensitive or challenging. Jaclyn shares with us some of her recommendations for viewing--How I Met Your Mother--and shares with us her guilty pleasure--Love Is Blind. Of course, both relate directly to interpersonal communication.
As you've learned if you are a regular listener of this podcast, we hear from communication scholars of all types, and this is one of many fun conversations diving a little more into who people are, what they do and the value of it all.
To follow us on Twitter: @IcirAlabama
Dr. Alyxandra Vesey is an assistant professor in Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. Her research focuses on the intersection between gender, music culture, labor, and media industries. She is currently finishing a book (that she tells us all about) related to the identity politics surrounding musicians’ labor in the television industry during the post-network era. She also does research on the ideologies of gender that circulate within merchandising and endorsement work in the recording industry. Her work has been published in Television and New Media, Feminist Media Studies, Popular Music and Society, Cinema Journal, Saturday Night Live and American TV and Emergent Feminisms and the Challenge to Postfeminist Media Culture. She is also a long-time contributor to Bitch Media and the founder of the blog Feminist Music Geek. This episode is so much fun as we dive a little deeper into the music industry and learn more about the interplay between gender, the politics of gender, and commodification.
To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
Join us as we put a wrap on Season 5 of Revise & Resubmit! We talk about some of the highlights of the season including discussing several of the guests we have heard from PLUS we take questions that we have been asked by listeners--that's the fun part.
Tune is as we answer some of the funny questions we get on the daily from those of you who listen!
To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
In today's episode, we revisit our conversation with Dr. Miriam Sweeney, associate professor in the School of Library and Information Studies. This episode is old enough that we used the original name for this podcast--no stupid questions! So, if you haven't been following along for the last two and a half years, you can catch up with this one!!
Join us today as we talk with Dr. Miriam Sweeney in the School of Library and Information Sciences as she talks about her research in artificial intelligence and the way AI technology functions as an extension of power systems. If you have ever used Siri or Alexa--and who hasn't?--this episode is for you. For more info about Dr. Sweeney's work, check out her website: http://mesweeney.people.ua.edu.
In the third of our of "What's New With..." series, we have the great opportunity to catch up with Dr. Cynthia Peacock, now an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies within C&IS. When we last spoke with Cynthia, she was telling us about the time she took her students to attend the Iowa Caucuses, and about all of her work in political communication. She's been busy these last two years, and in today's episode, we get to hear all about it. She is currently working on a study about relational communication when individuals do not share the same political ideology--can you imagine the potential drama? But, she's also looking into issues such as the changes in the online environment, including social media, and how these changes will affect political engagement and opinion exchange. I don't want to give away too much here, but I will just say, this is another really fun one!! As a fun fact about Cynthia, she wanted to be a criminal psychologist or a National Geographic photographer when she was growing up, and her pathway to academia is an interesting (but cool) one!
To follow Cynthia on Twitter: @CynPeacock
To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
If you think advertising is similar to the way it is portrayed on Mad Men, you'll definitely need to tune into today's episode.
As a child, our next guest's aspirations were to land it big as a country music superstar. While she toyed around with that idea for a while, her parents finally convinced her she needed to find another pathway, albeit a creative one, so she could have a backup plan. That landed Dr. Teresa Tackett, an assistant professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations, in college exploring all there was to learn about advertising, ad agencies and the different types of creative work that was out. After graduation, Teresa was given the opportunity to work professionally in advertising on the creative side, where she said that side of the industry was largely male-dominated, by 95% or more. Teresa said it was her professional experiences that led her to shift gears slightly and head back to graduate school so she could learn more about the ways social justice issues, including diverse representation, could be studied, examined and then even potentially corrected. Teresa got her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and just this fall joined the College of Communication and Information Research's faculty in advertising. She says women spend a lot of time trying to understand gender in male spaces, and her research is really taking this issue on directly via the studies she has conducted with other professional women in the industry.
We don't want to give it all away, but this is an episode you don't want to miss.
To follow Teresa on Twitter: @teresatackett
To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
We are less than 24 hours away from Election Day 2022, and in today's episode, we get the good fortune of talking with one of C&IS' many political communication scholars--Dr. Josh Bramlett, an assistant professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations. It seems like during any election year, we are faced with political ads, negative attack ads, and everything in between from about August until Election Day, and as we learn from Josh, as annoying as it may be for some, others actually believe they are effective. You'll have to tune in to find out if research supports that notion! What Josh studies are the outcomes of political advertising and and the influences of political advertising, and keep in mind, the way we all get our news and information is from a variety of platforms--actual newspapers (but maybe digital versions), radio, television news, social media and platforms like TikTok, so if you were to be a politician, how would you know where to direct your messaging? This is a part of what Josh studies and he tells us all about it, along with things like the normative outcomes of political advertising--things like a lack of trust in the government. But, today's conversation isn't all about politics! We won't have too much of a spoiler here, but Josh did say that Jurassic Park inspired what he wanted to be as a young child. Can you guess? Even better--his recommendations are what to watch, what to read, and the reality program he'd like to be on may just surprise you. Today's conversation is SO MUCH FUN, and you definitely don't want to miss it!
To check out one of his recent publications, click on this link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01463373.2021.1944889?casa_token=Yz_vM-eo8joAAAAA%3AmuhdRWc1I2ZfjbIhXI68sTAB1TAMoHYlhZlIeApBKeMQGj2JkHoYfQLsusohWwBv1x1je7XL4NdN
To follow Josh on Twitter: @SonofConway
To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
In today's episode, we catch up with Dr. Jess Maddox, an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media, about the book project and other research projects she was working on when we talked to her TWO YEARS AGO. Spoiler alert: not only do we learn that her book is done and on the bookshelves (but technically Amazon and other online booksellers), we get the chance to hear about all of the projects she is working on now, including a second book project. When you think about the ways the Internet but especially social media have evolved over the last several years, one prevailing theme is that of pets--we all like to see pet photos and videos, now on TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and other social media platforms. But, why is that and what is it that drives us to these platforms? Do you feel calmer when you see pet photos and videos? Happier? We dive into all of that in our conversation with Dr. Maddox, and just for fun we throw in talk about rivalry football.
You can check out Dr. Maddox's latest book several ways:
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-internet-is-for-cats/9781978827912
https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Cats-Animal-Images-Digital/dp/1978827911
To follow Dr. Maddox on Twitter: @drjessmaddox
To follow us on Twitter: @ ICIRAlabama
And, if you want to check out OUR pet photos, especially Halloween pet photos, check us out: @kbissell42 and @slightlyabsent on Instagram.
In the first episode of the "What's New With" series, we catch up with our first podcast guest ever--Dr. Scott Parrott, an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media. When we talked to him over TWO YEARS AGO, he was working on several projects related to mental health--mental health and veterans, the stigma associated with mental health, and the representation of mental health in an entertainment context. In today's episode, we learn more about how those projects turned out plus we learn about his upcoming book with fellow Revise & Resubmit guest, Dr. Andy Billings. Their upcoming book: Head Game: Mental Health and Sport--will be released in the fall of 2022. In this book, we hear from 30 different Olympic and professional athletes who have all come forward with their mental health struggles and challenges, and they discuss the different pressures they face trying to remain at the competitive level in their respective sport. Scott has so much to say, and you certainly don't want to miss it!!
To find the latest book he's published, check out think link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62798212-head-game
To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
I say this with _every_ episode, but truly this is one not to miss! We take a bit of a turn in our conversation with today's guest because we are talking to a scholar who's research and scholarship is in the creative area--documentary film to be exact. If you thought all professors did was boring stuff, today's guest--John Haley--will break that notion. John tells us about how he grew up watching films with his family, and how those early experiences started him down a path of discovery with film and documentary storytelling. John worked with Americorps immediately after graduation, and it was his experiences there that led him to identify some of the first stories he began to tell in film. John tells character-driven stories that center on the intersection of personal identity and societal structures. As he explains in today's episode, his films grapple with contentious issues such as the death penalty and electoral politics through the lens of specific characters, contextualizing these social structures through distinct perspectives in pursuit of nuance and a more truthful, holistic understanding of reality. His award-winning films have screened at Wisconsin Film Festival, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, Tallgrass, Reeling, Sidewalk, CUFF.Docs, Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, Nevada City, and EarthxFilm, among others.
You can follow John on Twitter @johnhaley_
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I say this about every episode but I definitely have to say it about this one---YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS TODAY'S EPISODE.
Wow. We cover a lot of territory with Dr. Peter Jensen, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Communication & Information Sciences. But first, fun fact: Peter is the first guest we have ever had who said he actually dreamed of being a professor as a young child, and this inspiration came from watching Indiana Jones films where Indiana Jones was in a classroom teaching!!
But, on to the real stuff. Dr. Jensen studies organizational communication, but what he really looks at it why we organize the way we do, and the communicativeness of the process. What does that really mean? It means he studies things like stigma within an organization and how underlying stigma about topics such as incarceration carry over into decisions that are made, the ways individuals are interacted with and treated, and ultimately the structural issues related to stigma. Peter has worked with and studied individuals who have been incarcerated and who then are trying to re-engage with the world and return to the identity they might have had prior to serving time in prison. Peter is an ethnographer, which means he works in the field and he works directly with the population he is studying as well as the organizations working to help them (or not).
We cover so much territory in today's conversation, and it certainly sheds light on the breadth and depth of the work being done in the broad area of communication research.
To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
Today we catch up with Dr. Eyun Jung Ki, a professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations. Young Eyun Jung thought she wanted to be a teacher, like a K-12 teacher, but after taking just one class in public relations in college, she knew she had found her calling. She's been at the University of Alabama for over 15 years teaching courses in public relations and studying the way new and emerging media technologies can be used to improve communication, especially during times of crisis. She tells us more about how social media has really changed the way businesses, companies and people have had to react in times of crisis because the window of opportunity to get information out there is much shorter. She tells us how in public relations, the way a company or individual communicates about crisis can ultimately make or break public perceptions about everything moving forward. Join us for this very fun and enlightening conversation with Dr. Eyun Jung Ki!
To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
Today's episode is a great one as we catch up with Dr. Mary Meares, an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. Have you ever traveled outside of the country, especially to a place where your native language wasn't being spoken? How did it make you feel? Were you challenged by the experience in a good one or did you find yourself looking for something familiar? In addition to having lived and worked abroad, her research dives into the effects of culture. When you think about how we learn what the world is and how we learn about other people, that learning comes from so many different places--personal experiences, what you might learn in the classroom and even from the media. Mary's research looks at all of these things as a mechanism of understanding intercultural competence and ways it can be taught to others. Fun fact: she is reading a book--Gullah Geechee--Lessons from the Matriach--by Emily Meggett from Edisto Island and that's where Mary's ancestors are from! This is such a fun conversation and it really is going to push you to think about how we learn about others the next time you travel. Don't miss it!
In today's episode, we catch up with Dr. Josh Pederson, an Associate Professor of Communication Studies within the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. Like most kids, young Josh had early aspirations to be a professional baseball player or a police officer--he knew that he liked working with people, and like many young kids, he realized that making it as a pro in baseball might not pan out. As an undergrad, he found himself seeking out programs and colleges that offered courses in communication because he had been on his high school's competitive speech team and he loved that environment. This all led to finding his way to graduate school and finding his way into the position he has now where he studies interpersonal and relational communication. But, what Josh really studies is the ways we communicate with one another in interpersonal settings when there may be a conflict or stressor--whether it be a parent/child relationship, a partner relationship, or a friendship. He tries to better understand how we overcome things through interpersonal communication and relationships when we are sad, angry, or dealing with a stressor. He highly recommends The Office for the best thing to watch on television, and as you'll hear, he's already got the reality television show he'd like to be on picked out--you'll have to turn in to hear his answer!
To learn more about Dr. Pederson's research, https://jrpederson.people.ua.edu/.
To follow him on Twitter: @jrpeders
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When this podcast launched over TWO YEARS AGO, we said the goal was to shed light on all of the types of research and scholarship that go on throughout the communication and information sciences discipline. And over these two years, we have learned so much about media effects, the role of sports in our lives, how research can actually help answer big public health problems, and how social media can influence interpersonal communication. Today's guest is going to shake that up a bit but in a tremendous way. Today, we catch up with Dr. Dmitrios Latsis, an assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Studies in the College of Communication and Information Sciences. Dmitrios hails from Greece, and he tells us stories about what his family thinks he does compared to what he actually does, and what he actually does is pretty amazing. Dmitrios had big dreams of being a news broadcaster and actually wrote out scripts and recorded them (but they have gotten lost in the netherworld in Greece), and then he came to the United States for college and got hooked on finding digital and audio presentations that needed to be archived for historical and cultural reasons. Can you imagine how many recordings might be out there that we'd never know about if it weren't for scholars like Dmitrios to track it down and archive it. When you think about radio broadcasts for decades ago or speeches that politicians gave decades ago, we have access to all of that because of people like Dmitrios. As he describes it in today's episode, there is a next frontier of discoverability and an ocean of content.
Don't miss today's episode as we learn more about Dr. Dmitrios Latsis.
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If you are listening to this on Labor Day, Happy Labor Day. If it is any other day, we hope you had a great Labor Day long weekend.
If you have listened to any of our previous episodes, you'll know that Dr. Bolland and I always do a good bit of chattering and talking as we are introducing our guests. Fun fact--our offices are less than 15 feet apart--but we are always chattering--via text, email, DM'ing, you name it. So, this episode is going to be one of those episodes, but it's short!
We ask our guests to go through what we call Rapid Fire questions--short, easy, fun questions and today, we bring that to you, but in a way that allows you to figure out what you may have missed from previous episodes.
This podcast started as as "No Stupid Questions" and it started when we were in the heart of COVID lockdown--everyone was working from home and no interacting was going on at all. So, many of our first episodes are really talking to researchers and scholars about their research and about how they were managing and navigating all of the challenges thrown their way.
In season 2, we shift to what is now "Revise and Resubmit," and we continue the conversations with C&IS faculty, but we focus more on research and less on navigation because things were starting to open up, at least a little.
Seasons 3 and 4 bring you conversations with former Ph.D. alum who tell us all about what they have been doing since they left UA. In some cases, it's been very recent and in other cases, it has been decades. But, hearing about the work they are doing now is so fun!
And this season--Season 5--we are back at it with conversations with our own faculty in the College of Communication and Information Sciences.
Tune in and hear what you may have missed from our four previous seasons and you'll even get a little teaser on what's to come!
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Don't miss episode #2 of Season 5 of Revise and Resubmit as we catch up with Dr. Kaitlin Miller, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. Learn more about how 6th grade Kaitlin had a big dream of working in broadcast journalism and how that dream became a reality for her after finishing her master's degree in broadcast journalism. Kaitlin tells us about her time working as a broadcast journalist in Bozeman, Montana where she essentially was a one-stop shop for all of the stories she worked on--setting up the camera, the lights, the audio, doing the reporting, doing the editing and packaging it all together. But, then she tells us about how the workplace for her and other women in the felt was challenging, isolating, and at times, filled with harassment. Her professional experiences tie directly into what she does now as a professor of journalism and guide much of the research she does on journalistic practices, the intersectionality of oppression and identity specific to gender and race, but how she firmly believes that journalism matters. We talk about her approach to teaching her own journalism students and how she inspires them (our words not hers) to follow their dreams and passions as storytellers. And, throughout today's conversation we hear so many funny stories about her professional work in broadcast journalism. Let's just say a bear enters this conversation! You don't want to miss today's episode as we catch up with Dr. Kaitlin Miller!
To follow Kaitlin on Twitter: @KCMillerPhD
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Today, we kick off Episode 1 of Season 5 with the fabulous Dr. A.J. Bauer, an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media in the College of Communication and Information Sciences. AJ comes to us with a really fascinating background as his degrees are in American Studies but he worked professionally in journalism. He tells us about his own journey shifting from the right to the left and how that inspired much of the current work he is doing, including his book in progress--Making the Liberal Media: Conservative Press Criticisms and the Rise of the New Right. We cover all kinds of territory as we discuss the criticism that is inherently embedded within media and how that takes root in identity. AJ also tells us more about the nature of the work that he does--mostly archival research--and how that type of research is a little like playing a detective game.
This kick-off episode is so much fun, and you may learn a little (or a lot) about the intricacies woven into narratives about liberal media bias.
For more information about AJ, check out his curriculum vitae: https://alabama.academia.edu/AJBauer/CurriculumVita
To follow AJ on Twitter: @ajbauer
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Join us today as we catch up with Ph.D. alum Dr. Richard Rush, who now serves as the Executive Director of Strategic Communication for the City of Tuscaloosa. In today's conversation, we learn all about his path to the Ph.D., along with two other siblings who have the same degree from the same college (Roll Tide!) as well as how his path has shifted from the professional world to academia and back to the professional world. Richard tells us how his mass communication theory class, of all his classes, really prepped him for much of what he is doing right now working in crisis and risk management. Have you ever thought about the people who have to spring into action when a severe storm is heading toward your city? Or if a bomb threat is called in at the courthouse? These are just some of the many things Richard has to deal with on the fly, but he tells us all how his research in sports and risk management helped prepare him for all of it.
To follow the City of Tuscaloosa on Twitter: @tuscaloosacity
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Dr. Amy Tilley Rask, COO of MediaScience, joins us in today's conversation about her work doing industry research. She tells us all about the consumer neuro-marketing research that is done at MediaScience and how a chance conversation with a faculty member at UA led to her meeting the person who is now her CEO. Amy did a post-doctoral fellowship at Murdock University in Perth, Australia, and that work led her to helping to launch the company she's with today based out of Austin, TX. In this conversation, we learn more about just some of the big clients she and her company have done research for--Fox, ESPN, Disney--and we learn more about the ways those doing industry research can have an immediate and direct impact on consumers's lives. She's also the recipient of our own College's Outstanding Alumni Award from the Department of Advertising and Public Relations, where she got her MA degree.
In addition to helping to run a major media research company, Amy and her family also operate a small "farm" as she calls it with seven dogs and 32 chickens--you may even hear one a time or two in the background.
This has been one of our favorite catch-up episodes yet, and you certainly do not want to miss it!
To learn more about MediaScience, you can check out their website: https://www.mediascience.com/
To follow Amy on Twitter: @AmyRask1
To follow MediaScience on Twitter: @MediaScienceLab
And to follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
We had a lot of rescheduling of our guests this past week, so we are re-airing one of our favorites from Season 3!!! Tune in as we catch up with Dr. Mike Devlin, an assistant professor at Texas State University.
In today's episode with catch with with Ph.D alum Dr. Melissa Shubert Smith, a professor of communications and the Gibbons Chair of Journalism at the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, MS. Dr. Smith wears many hats at her university but still finds time to devote much attention to publishing books, including her latest book, Third Parties, Outsiders, and Renegades: Modern Challenges to the Two-Party System in Presidential Elections (https://www.amazon.com/Third-Parties-Outsiders-Renegades-Communication/dp/1793620725). Much of her work has focused on outsider candidates and the influence they can have on shaping the agendas and narratives for those who follow. In addition to the tremendous research she has done, she teaches anywhere from four to six classes a semester (that is a lot for those of us in academia) plus finds time to train for and run half marathons. She ran her first half marathon in 2013 and used it as an opportunity to raise money for schools damaged by the EF4 tornado that devastated the Tuscaloosa area in 2011. We had so much fun in this conversation and you don't want to miss it.
For more information on Dr. Smith: https://www.muw.edu/as/com/faculty/70-dr-melissa-m-smith
To follow Mississippi University for Women on Twitter: @MUWedu
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Dr. Joshua Dickhaus earned a B.A. in Mass Communication from Miami University in 2004 and a Master’s in Speech Communication in 2006, also from Miami University. From 2006-2008, Dr. Dickhaus was a lecturer in the department of communication at Penn State University, leaving to enter the mass communication Ph.D. program at the University of Alabama. In August 2011, Dr. Dickhaus graduated with his Ph.D. Dr. Dickhaus teaches in the Sports Communication major and the Charley Steiner School of Sports Communication. Today's conversation touches some very important topics in the sports world whether we are participating as consumers or sports or participants in sports. Josh has studied the role of identity in the context of sports consumer and has done several studies looking at how race factors into all of that. Do we tend to gravitate toward athletes and/or their respective teams if we feel we identify more with them? And, are we affected more by their words and behaviors on and off the court/field when that racial identification is stronger? We also dive into a very timely topic of what he calls trophy culture. We have so much fun in today's conversation because we are finally back to times when live sporting events are taking place. Definitely tune into this one!
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Over the last two seasons, we have had the great opportunity to catch up with sports communication scholars. It may seem like we have gone a little overboard. Maybe. But, since many of us are consumers of sports media and many of us watching huge sporting events, these conversations about representations of athletes in a sports media context help us shape our perspective the next time we engage in sports viewing. Today's conversation is not too different. Today, we catch up with Dr. Amy Head Jones, who is the Director of Integrated Marketing Communication and an Associate Professor of Digital Communications at the University of West Alabama. Amy Head Jones grew up in Shelbyville, Kentucky in a family of sports enthusiasts. She began playing golf at the age of three, competitive golf at the age of eight, and concluded her amateur athletic career on an athletic scholarship at the University of New Orleans. During this time, Amy gained experience in the media and sport industries while working in public relations for the New Orleans Superdome and New Orleans Arena. This experience led her to pursue additional graduate education in these areas. She continued to work in the sport and media industries, serving as a graphic designer for bby Publications and as a golf teaching professional at Big Spring Country Club. In the spring of 2007, she was hired as a journalism and speech professor at UWA, a position she still holds today. Amy enjoys spending time with her husband Michael and son Rock, while supporting UWA athletics, exercising, playing golf, and attending University concerts, plays and pageants.
You can check out some of her publications here:
- Jones, A. & Cooley, S. (2015). Beyond beauty and brawn: Winter Olympic athletes tackle gender stereotypes. Women, Identities and Culture, 1(1), 1-6.
- Jones, A. & Cooley, S. (2013). Athletes who sparkle: Stereotypes in the televised coverage of the 2010 Olympic Figure Skating Events. Journalism and Mass Communication, 3(5), 292-303.
- Cooley, S. & Jones, A. (2013). A forgotten tweet: Somalia and social media. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 34(1), 68-82.
- Greer, J. & Jones, A. (2012). Beyond figure skating and hockey: How U.S. audiences gender-type winter Olympic sports. The International Journal of Sport and Society, 3(4), 129-14 0.
Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Lauren Reichart Smith, an associate professor in the Media School at Indiana University. We cover so much territory in this conversation, but it kicks off with Lauren telling us about what she does when she isn't conducting research and teaching courses--she's an Ironman! That means she swims 2.4 miles, bikes 112 miles, and runs 26.2 miles all in the same day, and she's done it several times. But, after we move on from that super fun conversation, we learn more about how Lauren got her start in academia, including working in television on the production side before figuring out graduate school might be the right place for her. Much of her research looks at the way athletes are portrayed in the media and how we as viewers then respond to those representations. Her work broadly fits into the psychological effects of media content and the different ways we as viewers engage with that content. This is such a fun conversation, and it was really exciting to learn more about what she does inside and outside of the research lab and classroom.
To learn more about Dr. Smith, check out this link: https://mediaschool.indiana.edu/people/profile.html?p=ls35
To learn more about her upcoming Ironman, check out this link: https://www.ironman.com/im-indiana
To follow her on Twitter, follow her @LaurnSmith
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Today's episode!! Wow!! So much to say here but YOU HAVE TO LISTEN! Tune in today as we catch up with Dr. Skye Cooley, an Assistant Professor of Mass Communication and Strategic Communication at Oklahoma State University. Skye hails from neighboring Louisiana and made his way over to the University of Alabama between 2008-2011 when he got his Ph.D. in the College of Communication & Information Sciences. He had a fascinating experience getting to work with media during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. He is the co-founder of the MESA Group and has research partnerships with several government agencies and the Air Force. We take a really deep dive into narratives, our own narratives, and the way we can individually shape what we do in the future via the narratives we construct of our past. Seriously, you don't want to miss this one!!
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Join us today as we check in with recent C&IS Ph.D. alum, Dr. Stephen Rush. So many fun facts to share with you including all kinds of great information about his research, but fun fact #1: he is 1 of 3 siblings to have gotten his Ph.D. from the College of Communication & Information Sciences at UA (he has 6 siblings and another with a Ph.D. in a neighboring college). Stephen has a fascinating background that started in music and led him on a pretty amazing journey to LA and then to countries like Austria and Slovenia where he taught others music. After finishing his Ph.D., he joined the faculty at Belmont University, where recent podcast guest Dr. Sarita Stewart is also a professor. Stephen is an Assistant Professor of Creative and Entertainment Industries in the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business. He teaches a variety of courses including some very interesting ones in crisis communication and brand management. As he said during this recording, there will always be athletes or entertainers making poor decisions (he actually said dumb decisions), and it is the PR reps and brand managers that have to know how to clean it up. His recent research has focused on how social identity may (or may not) align with an individual's likelihood to more forgiving or less accepting of athletes or entertainers after poor decision-making. We have a lot of fun in this conversation so you need to check it out!
Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Sarita Stewart, an Associate Professor of Creative and Entertainment Industries, at Belmont University. We cover so much territory in this industry, including how a young girl from a very small town in Oregon wound up making it big in Los Angeles and then Nashville. She tells us all about the dreams she had as a young child working in the music industry (behind the scenes and not behind the mic) and how that all evolved into working with some of the biggest names in the music industry while in LA and then how, after earning her MBA, she was drawn to Nashville where she had even greater involvement with some of the biggest country stars. She's paid it all forward teaching her students at Belmont about music production, music publicity and how to the in-front-of-camera stars maintain their relevance. But, that's only a part of what Sarita does. As an entertainment researcher, Dr. Stewart continues to focus upon varied research interests, including music consumption, video games, artist fandom, and mood management. She has several published book chapters, including an essay on LeAnn Rimes’ album Blue in Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself: Essays on Debut Albums(Ashgate). Her most recent book chapter, “TV, Radio, and Music Research,” written in collaboration with Dr. Louisa Ha of Bowling Green University and Jeff Green of Stone Door Media Lab, was published in Research Methods in Communication (Third Edition) (Vision Press).
To follow her on Twitter: @DrSaritaStewart
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Tune in today as we catch up with Dr. Andrea Wagner, a Bama Ph.D alum who has had an amazing career in some many areas: as a communications specialist, as a adjunct instructor, as an elite professional runner and now as the Head Track Coach and Communication Specialist for Cornerstone Christian School where she trains more than 120 middle and high school students across different distances. Andrea's path to the Ph.D. involved a stop in Clemson and Georgetown before she served as a Communication Specialist for the Pentagon right after the 9/11 attacks. While at Alabama, she studied sports communication, sports management, and entertainment, and in much of her research, she really examined the effects of different mediated content on others. She has a strong interest in the representation of gender in sports and has even been able to use her platform as an elite professional runner to speak out on the topic.
To read more about Andrea (truly fascinating), check out the following stories: https://the-cauldron.com/race-against-time-b06831e25dfa#:~:text=She%20finished%20at%202%3A41,for%20the%20U.S.%20Olympic%20Trials.
https://www.oiselle.com/blogs/oiselle-blog/andrea-duke-returns-to-boston-marathon-as-elite
Today's conversation is a fascinating one, and since you are (probably) hearing this on Valentine's Day, it is certainly appropriate to hear Andrea's story about finding what you love to do, keep learning and have fun.
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In today's conversation, we catch up with Dr. Elina Erzikova, now a professor of public relations at Central Michigan University. Fun fact: she used to be an editor of a regional magazine in Russia as well as a communication specialist for several non-profits trying to address AIDS/HIV in smaller Russian villages. She explains how this work led to her graduate career at the University of Alabama (MA & Ph.D) and how it lead her into academia where she teaches so many courses in public relations. Another fun fact: She is a HUGE Bama fan, and you'll hear "Roll Tide" more than once during this episode. As a matter of fact, she's such a huge fan of the Crimson Tide that none of her friends were willing to attend games with her because she created quite a stir cheering for her team in Russian and English. She is a Fellow in the Plank Center for Public Relations and has won several grants to support her research efforts including an Emerging Scholars Grant through the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. You'll hear all about the research she has done, including a book with a current UA professor, on understanding journalistic practices in Russia.
Don't miss this one!
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In today's episode, we catch up with Dr. Jessy Ohl, a MA alum from the College of Communication and Information Sciences, who is now an associate professor of communication in the Department of Communication Studies. We cover so much amazing ground in this conversation and you definitely don't want to miss any of it. Jessy breaks down some of his more recent research involve visuals and what they communicate to viewers about issues, our views of history, narratives about war, and public memory. Jessy tells us about a study he did that looked at images of drones and how in and of itself, the drone is often used in acts of war, but the image of it, depending on the way you see, may not convey all of the death and destruction it created. We talk about ants in offices and how he may now be secretly deemed not the best suite mate by his colleagues because of a whole ant situation, and we talk about his path into academia. We cover a lot of ground here, and you should stay along for the whole ride!
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Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Dylan McLemore, an assistant professor of public relations at the University of Central Arkansas. As you heard with our last guest, Dylan's path into academia wasn't linear at all and he surely thought I'd be working for ESPN as a baseball analysis and commentator. As Dylan notes, he never envisioned himself going to graduate school, getting a Ph.D. or certainly working as a professor because he was a 1st generation college student (Yay, Dylan!!). But, now as a professor, he has been able to turn those tables and work with so many other students who were just like him not too many years ago. Dylan has a keen interest in sports and politics, and he has also found himself utilizing Twitter as a mechanism to engage in meaningful (and fun) conversations about sports, athletes, politics and politicians (see his handle below). But, Dylan has really made a name for himself studying identity and the way identity is shaped, formed and reinforced in a variety of areas--in religion, in politics and even in sports. When you think about your own role model/s, who comes to mind? When you think about the individuals who influence your own thinking the most about religion or politics, who comes to mind? Dylan breaks this all down for us as he walks us through several studies where he has looked at just that. Also, fun fact, Daily Dot has called him a "rare, self-aware dude." You have to tune into today's episode to hear how all of that came about.
Today's conversation is so much fun, and you don't want to miss out on catching up with Dr. Dylan McLemore.
To follow Dylan on Twitter: @voiceofD
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Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Kim Baker, an Associate Professor of Journalism at Alabama State University. As you'll hear in today's conversation, her path to graduate school and academia wasn't linear at all. She always thought she'd be working with and saving animals, but sometimes, it's takes just one little thing to change your direction and she'll tell us all about it. Kim has taught an array of journalism courses at Alabama State University, which is a HBCU, and she loves getting the opportunity to work with first generation college students and the students who come to her with no real understanding of what college is like. She trains them in writing, photography, and videography, but in doing so, she gives them a skill set that is marketable. As she notes, her research has literally run the gamut from studying the Apocalypse in The Walking Dead to learning how fitness trackers motivate us (or don't). Kim considers herself a non-traditional student because she didn't wind up in graduate school in her 20s but that hasn't stopped her from making the most of every single opportunity, including partnering with some of her colleagues while at UA in a research work group. That research work group landed her in Japan to present several research papers at an academic conference and also helped teach her what she considers to be the most important lesson--surround yourself with the best and smartest people, and those people will teach you the most about yourself and the world around you. In today's conversation, she tells us about a visual literacy project she worked on about what it means to be an American. We aren't going to spoil it all here, but what she tells us is fascinating about generational differences and how one easy question can be answered in so many ways.
Definitely tune into Episode 1 of Season 4 of Revise and Resubmit! We have a fantastic lineup for you and you won't want to miss it!!
Dr. Baker is not on Twitter, but you can find her on Facebook: Kim Baker
You can follow the ICIR on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
Join us as we wrap-up all that we covered across the episodes of Season 3! And we won't be gone for long--check out our newest season with the greatest guests in January!!
Join us this week as we talk with Dr. Scott Parrott, an associate professor of journalism and creative media, about his research examining the way media cover mental health and mental issues and how those representations affect the way we see ourselves and others. Dr. Parrott is one of the most prolific scholars in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media in the College of Communication and Information Sciences. He is a former journalist turned academic, but he stills keeps a toe in the journalism world by teaching the new generation of journalists in classes that are producing digital media content. Dr. Parrott has be recognized for his research across the discipline, and he is an active grant recipient and submitter. This conversation is fun! Don't miss it!
To follow Dr. Parrott on Twitter: @@UAParrott
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As the title to this episode indicates, we'll be talking a lot about sports fandom with Dr. Mike Devlin, an assistant professor of Advertising in the School of Journalism and Communication at Texas State University. He holds a PhD in Mass Communication from the University of Alabama, and an MA in Mass Communication and BA in Electronic Media Communications from Texas Tech University. Prior to earning his PhD, Mike worked as media designer and multimedia specialist in Austin, Texas. He currently teaches Advertising Copywriting and Layout at Texas State University.
Dr. Devlin’s interests lie at intersection of advertising, sport communication, and media effects - focusing on how fan identification impacts sponsorships, endorsements, branding, and advertising campaigns. Previous work included the integration of psychophysiology to further understand a fan’s cognitive capacity during sporting events.
He is the author of over 10 peer-reviewed publications, 40 national and international conference proceedings, and several book chapters examining the intersection between sports communication and advertising. His research has been published in Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Communication and Sport, International Journal of Sport Management & Marketing, Journal of Sports Media, and International Journal of Sport Communication.
But let's go back to that fandom piece--we talk all about it in a research and real-world context, and talk about the role the media play in increasing (or decreasing) our fandom and helping us even become SuperFans.
We have so much fun in today's conversation, and as a spoiler alert, Dr. Mike Devlin is going to the bookend for Season 3 as we already had an amazing conversation with his fabulous wife, Dr. Natalie Brown Devlin during Episode 1. Can you imagine how smart and sports fan crazy their twins are?
To follow Mike on Twitter: @DrMikeDevlin
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Today's episode is SO MUCH FUN! We say that every week, and it's true! Today we catch up with recent Ph.D. grad and now alum Dr. Sam Hakim who is currently an instructor of sports communication in the College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences at Clemson University. We break it all down as it relates to fan identity, sports fandom, and the way our own identity can be shaped by the athletes we have positive (and negative) interactions with...you'll hear a lot more on that in today's episode. Sam tells us the story about his very non-linear path into academia, but also breaks down how certain individuals, more specifically a professor, really helped shape Sam's decision to come to UA to get a Ph.D. But, more importantly, it was his work with current faculty within the College of Communication and Information Sciences like Dr. Andy Billings and Dr. Darrin Griffin, who really helped him bring shape to his outstanding research program. If you like sports, you'll love today's episode. Even if you don't like sports, you'll like today's episode because Sam has so much to say about the intersection between who we are as individuals, the way we interact with athletes and teams in a mediated context or in person and how and why those interactions matter. You'll even hear a pretty funny story about Dan Marino. You have to tune in to hear it.
To follow Sam on Twitter: @samyhak
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Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Lindsey Conlin Maxwell, and Associate Professor in the School of Communication at the University of Southern Mississippi. Have you ever found yourself sitting in front of the TV or other device and watching back-to-back-to-back episodes of a show? Have you ever found yourself feeling as if you might be missing out on something (FOMO) after looking at content on social media? Today's guest breaks all of that down for us. So many researchers study the whys and the how of media content, but Dr. Maxwell studies the enjoyment audience members get from consuming the content, including what benefits we as audience members get from binge-watching. Today's conversation is SO MUCH FUN because it's so relatable to our own media consumption. We also talk about spoilers for TV shows and who likes them and who doesn't. You'll have to tune in to figure out who likes them! Her latest publication is all about spoilers! You can check it out here:
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-85866-001
If you want to learn more about her research on FOMO, you can check out one of her many publications here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15456870.2021.1979977
To follow her on Twitter: @LindseyConlin
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Today's conversation with Dr. Dianne Bragg, an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media, is enlightening, fun, and relevant. Dr. Bragg has such an interesting path to the research she does, and she tells us all about resistance to learning instead of listening to sound bytes in the context of history, journalism and conflict. Not only do we break down her process in conducting this type of research, we learn more about where the best BBQ can be found and we learn about her major role in teaching undergraduate and graduate students in media law and history. Dr. Bragg DID get her Ph.D. from the University of Alabama and because the need was there and she was a fantastic candidate, she moved into a faculty position in the Department of Journalism (old name). We also learn about her interactions with Dr. Jennings Bryant and how through his Entertainment Media course, she started down a research path that she maintains today.
Today's conversation is SO.MUCH.FUN, and you don't want to miss it.
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Today we catch up with Dr. Juan Meng, and associate professor of public relations at the University of Georgia and the founder of UGA's Choose China Study Abroad Program. In today's conversation, we take a deeper look at research in the area of public relations and leadership, specifically the challenges that women and people of color face when in leadership roles and when trying to get into leadership roles in the field of public relations. Dr. Meng’s current research focuses on leadership in public relations, talent management and leadership development, trust in reputation management, and organizational culture and employee engagement. Dr. Meng has received more than $220,000 in funding grants to support her research in the past seven years. She has published more than 35 referred journal articles in leading scholarly journals in public relations and communication management and contributed to different book chapters.
Meng is the co-editor of the scholarly book, “Public Relations Leaders as Sensemakers: A Global Study of Leadership in Public Relations and Communication Management,” published by Routledge in 2014. Meng is currently working on her new original book project, “PR Women with Influence: Breaking through the Ethical and Leadership Challenges,” selected as part of the AEJMC-Peter Lang Scholarsourcing Series.
She tells us more about her time at the University of Alabama, how she started out as a masters student not even thinking about a Ph.D. program and then found herself face to face with Dr. Jennings Bryant, welcoming her into the program. This is such a fun conversation and it covers a topic we haven't discussed too much in this show, so you definitely don't want to miss it.
Dr. Meng is not on Twitter but you can follow us @ICIRAlabama!
Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Rhonda Gibson, the James H. Shumaker Professor in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina. We learn so much about Rhonda's path into academia as well as some of the professional work she did in journalism, which may have inspired her to develop and teach the courses she teaches. Her research focuses on the effects of exemplification in journalism on issue perception and the effects of images of sexual minorities in the media. We dive into both of these topics in great detail, but just to tease it a little, we learn more about how the sources journalists select to interview for their stories shape the narrative of that story. Rhonda has taught a range of courses in journalism and mass communication at the graduate and undergraduate level, and she has even spent some time as an administrator while at UNC, but in her words, "seeing her graduate students go on and do wonderful things" makes her job all the more meaningful.
You can find the link to her book, Same Sex Marriage and Social Media, here: https://www.amazon.com/Same-Sex-Marriage-Social-Rhonda-Gibson/dp/1138894850.
And, you can find out more about Rhonda's research using this link: http://hussman.unc.edu/directory/faculty/rhonda-gibson#biography
Like all of our previous guests, Rhonda shares a wonderful story about her interactions with Dr. Jennings Bryant during her time at UA. You don't want to miss today's conversation with Dr. Rhonda Gibson!
Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Ignatius Fosu, the chair of the Department of Communication and Media at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. Iggy has had many cool jobs in his life including but not limited to being a DJ and radio host for a radio station in Accra, Ghana. When he came to the United States to start a masters degree program in Marketing, he discovered the world of advertising, and after a chance meeting with the College of Communication and Information Sciences Dean, Dr. Mark Nelson, he wound up in the C&IS Ph.D. program, and as they say, from there, it's history. Iggy's research focuses on two main threads related to advertising: the risk information that gets communicated to consumers about drug products and the advertising of food to children--both incredibly important and practical topics. After spending many years as a professor at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, Iggy was encouraged to apply for the position he currently has as an administrator at Samford University.
To learn more about Iggy and the work he has done, check out this link: https://www.samford.edu/arts-and-sciences/directory/Fosu-Ignatius
To follow Iggy on social media: find him on Facebook @Ignatius Fosu
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Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Lauren Reichart Smith, an associate professor in the Media School at Indiana University. We cover so much territory in this conversation, but it kicks off with Lauren telling us about what she does when she isn't conducting research and teaching courses--she's an Ironman! That means she swims 2.4 miles, bikes 112 miles, and runs 26.2 miles all in the same day, and she's done it several times. But, after we move on from that super fun conversation, we learn more about how Lauren got her start in academia, including working in television on the production side before figuring out graduate school might be the right place for her. Much of her research looks at the way athletes are portrayed in the media and how we as viewers then respond to those representations. Her work broadly fits into the psychological effects of media content and the different ways we as viewers engage with that content. This is such a fun conversation, and it was really exciting to learn more about what she does inside and outside of the research lab and classroom.
To learn more about Dr. Smith, check out this link: https://mediaschool.indiana.edu/people/profile.html?p=ls35
To learn more about her upcoming Ironman, check out this link: https://www.ironman.com/im-indiana
To follow her on Twitter, follow her @LaurnSmith
To follow us on Twitter, follow us at @ICIRAlabama
In today's conversation, we catch up with Dr. Glenn Cummins, a professor of Journalism and Creative Media Industries in the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. We learn all about Glenn's path to academia, including a few stops to work professionally in the broadcast industry, and we learn about how very basic things like the way we watch sports drive many of his research questions. Glenn is a prolific scholar in the area of media effects and broadly in mass communication, and much of his recent research has focused on biometric research, which truly provides insight into a consumer's viewing experience. Much of his research examines how the structural and content features interact with audience characteristics to shape processing and response to media messages. Glenn has been a leader in the academic world in research involving eye-tracking, and he looks at things like how viewers may (or may not) pay attention to ads while watching a sporting event. To learn more about his research, click this link:
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/comc/faculty/faculty/gcummins.php
To see examples of his work, click this link:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Glenn-Cummins
And, to follow him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robert.g.cummins
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Dr. Amy Tilley Rask, COO of MediaScience, joins us in today's conversation about her work doing industry research. She tells us all about the consumer neuro-marketing research that is done at MediaScience and how a chance conversation with a faculty member at UA led to her meeting the person who is now her CEO. Amy did a post-doctoral fellowship at Murdock University in Perth, Australia, and that work led her to helping to launch the company she's with today based out of Austin, TX. In this conversation, we learn more about just some of the big clients she and her company have done research for--Fox, ESPN, Disney--and we learn more about the ways those doing industry research can have an immediate and direct impact on consumers's lives. She's also the recipient of our own College's Outstanding Alumni Award from the Department of Advertising and Public Relations, where she got her MA degree.
In addition to helping to run a major media research company, Amy and her family also operate a small "farm" as she calls it with seven dogs and 32 chickens--you may even hear one a time or two in the background.
This has been one of our favorite catch-up episodes yet, and you certainly do not want to miss it!
To learn more about MediaScience, you can check out their website: https://www.mediascience.com/
To follow Amy on Twitter: @AmyRask1
To follow MediaScience on Twitter: @MediaScienceLab
And to follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
Join us for this fantastic conversation with recent Ph.D. grad and alum Dr. Eric Cooks, who currently has a post-doctoral fellowship with the College of Journalism and Communication at the University of Florida. Eric will be the most recent C&IS alum (August 2020) for this season, but that doesn't mean he hasn't gone on to do very exciting things with his work with Dr. Janice Kreiger at the STEM Center. Eric tells us the story of how he thought he might be a pro basketball player and then had to come up with a new plan when that didn't work out (this isn't the first time we have heard "pro athlete" in the what you thought you'd be question!) Eric also tells us a little more about why he wasn't even sure he'd go on to get a Ph.D. and how his uncertainties are experiences many of us can relate to. We learn more about what health disparities means in this conversation, and we learn that doing research in clinical trials doesn't require an MD! Join us for this very fun conversation with Dr. Eric Cooks!
Follow him on Twitter @EricCooks2, and you can follow UF's College of Journalism and Communication @UFJSchool.
You can follow us on Twitter @ICIRAlabama or on Instagram @ICIRUA.
Today we catch up with Dr. Courtney Carpenter Childers, an associate professor of advertising in the School of Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Tennessee. We cover so much territory in today's episode including (but not limited to) Tennessee Hate Week, the Adam Brown Social Media Command Center, and the research she does related to digital influence and social media. Her research interests deal with societal issues and advertising. Specifically, she has conducted research in the areas of food/beverage marketing to children, sexual imagery, and gender role portrayals in advertising. More recent research projects and publications focus on how emerging media are impacting the advertising and public relations fields. Dr. Childers (@courtchilders) is the Executive Director of the Adam Brown Social Media Command Center (@utccismcc on Twitter & Instagram) housed in the College of Communication & Information at UT. The Adam Brown Social Media Command Center provides CCI faculty, staff and students access to the same leading technology that Fortune 100 companies worldwide use to publish, engage and analyze their social media marketing activities. The Adam Brown Social Media Command Center is the only university facility in the world powered by Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio technology. CCI faculty, staff and students use the Adam Brown Social Media Command Center to collaborate, prepare and present social listening findings. She has taught just about every possible advertising course there is out there, but loves the courses where she gets an opportunity to work with students just like her--first generation college students.
To learn more about Dr. Childers research, you can go to this link: https://faculty.utk.edu/Courtney.Childers/publications
To follow her on Twitter: @courtchilders
To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
And to follow the Adam Brown Social Media Command Center: @utccismcc
Join us today as we chat with Dr. Andrew Dunn, an associate professor and chair of the East Tennessee State University Media and Communication Department. Andrew is an Alabama native, hailing from the Peanut Capital of the World (who knew there was such a thing)? Andrew got his professional career started working as a reporter at a newspaper in Tallahassee, and it was that decision that helped him see his future path into graduate school and academia. One of the things Andrew studies is identity, and the way media can play a role in shaping our identity. One of Andrew's earliest studies was with Avatars and he examined the decision making process of creating an avatar and then understanding what that avatar might say about its creator! This conversations gave us so much to think about as we continue our conversations about the role media can play in our lives!
Follow him on Twitter @docdunn.
You can follow us on Twitter @ICIRAlabama or on Instagram @ICIRUA.
We are so excited about Episode 2 of Season 3, but we have to let you know we had a few technical issues with this recording...so please hang in there. You don't want to miss this conversation.
Dr. Art Raney is the James E. Kirk Professor of Communication in the School of Communication at Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida, USA). His research primarily examines how and why we enjoy various media entertainment content, with specific attention to the role morality plays in those processes.
Dr. Raney has a really interesting, non-linear pathway to his current role in academia, and this is one story you won't want to miss out on. Also, learn more about his time at UA through several degrees and more about how he found his niche in communication research.
In August 2015, Raney was a principal investigator on a three-year grant project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Raney and his team examined how self-transcendent emotions—awe, elevation, and admiration—were elicited by and experienced with inspirational media content, such as meaningful and touching films, “good news,” and viral videos; they also explored how these experiences might promote character building, an “others-praising” perspective, prosocial behavior, and increased exposure to and sharing of the content. This gets very validating for all of us who feel the need to justify the time we spend with media!
He has written and published more academic journal articles and books than seems humanly possible, but if you'd like a complete list, check out his CV here: https://directory.cci.fsu.edu/files/2020/10/vita-raney-10-20.pdf
To see some of the groundbreaking books he has co-edited (ones that are considered essential in the discipline), check out these links:
https://www.amazon.com/Media-Effects-Routledge-Communication-Oliver/dp/1138590223/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=art+raney+media+effects&qid=1630334905&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Sports-Media-Leas-Communication/dp/0805851895/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=art+raney+sports&qid=1630334995&sr=8-2
To follow him on social media: Twitter: @artraney
You can follow us on Twitter @ICIRAlabama or on Instagram @ICIRUA.
Join us today for Episode 1 of Season 3 of Revise and Resubmit where we get to chat with Dr. Natalie Devlin, an assistant professor in the Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations. Natalie Brown Devlin researches crisis communication and digital media in the context of sport. Her work examines how social media empowers organizational stakeholders during sports-related crises. She previously worked in digital advertising as a senior analyst of strategic account analytics, where she provided custom analyses and consumer insights to client marketing executives. This fall, Devlin teaches a course on digital metrics in the Texas Media Program.
This is such a fun conversation with Dr. Devlin because we get to hear not only about her time as a Ph.D. student in C&IS at the University of Alabama but also how the stars aligned in a chance meeting with Dr. Jennings Bryant and how that meeting led her to have the family she has now.
Dr. Devlin is a prolific scholar in sports communication, and for someone who has only been doing it a few years, she's making quite a mark! More importantly. Dr. Devlin is so down-to-earth and fun and just truly likeable. You just won't want to miss this one.
Follow her on Twitter @NatalieBDevlin.
You can follow us on Twitter @ICIRAlabama or on Instagram @ICIRUA.
Here are a few links to just SOME of her publications:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/jicrcr/vol3/iss1/3/
https://journals.humankinetics.com/configurable/content/journals$002fijsc$002f10$002f3$002farticle-p371.xml?t:ac=journals%24002fijsc%24002f10%24002f3%24002farticle-p371.xml
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077699015574484?casa_token=WV3DupwpFVIAAAAA%3ARYhY9L9iYVI65GcxyaHJaBJ-AK6jR-PlU1vi9vpI8WaaCnO3c3DVz64frQ6f3CLVZVBaa8eQ_bHf
Tune in to this very short intro and welcome to Season 3 of our podcast. We are going to give you a few hints about what we'll be doing across the season, even give you a few spoiler alerts, and let you know how we are trying to do more to help you connect with others.
This is going to be an outstanding season and we hope you'll join us on this great ride!
Thank you for being our dedicated listeners! We so appreciate you!
You can follow us on Twitter @ICIRAlabama or on Instagram at @ICIRUA!
We will also be putting all of these recordings on our YouTube Channel with captioning so you can also check us out that way!!
New episode drops on Monday!!!
Have we got a fun one for you today! Have you heard of the term "ghosting"? If so, do you know what it means? (I had to Google it). You might be surprised to learn there is a whole line of scholarship related to the communication that happens--and doesn't--on platforms like online dating apps and social media. How do these platforms, where we can remain a little hidden, change the way we communicate with others? Our next guest is going to tell us all about it. Dr. Leah LeFebvre is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies and studies the role of media technologies in romantic relationships, and really, so much more. For more information about who she is and what she does, check out her website: http://lelefebvre.people.ua.edu/.
Join us today as we revisit our conversation with Dr. Kristen Warner, an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media. Kristen has so many amazing and interesting stories to tell about her research in colorblinding in the film and entertainment industry. If you don't know what that is, you definitely have to listen to this episode. Kristen is the author of the book, The Cultural Politics of Colorblind TV Casting, and has studied the representation of race on and off the camera. Because of her expertise in this area of the entertainment industry, she is often called upon to be a guest on panels where every other guest is a celebrity--she breaks it all down for us in this episode. To get more information about here book, check Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Politics-Colorblind-Routledge-Transformations/dp/1138018309/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Cultural+Politics+of+Colorblind+TV+Casting&qid=1613089216&sr=8-1.
But, more importantly, tune in today, because today's conversation is a great one!
Dr. Steve Holiday is an assistant professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations. His primary research focus relates to children and media, with an emphasis on the way children respond to advertisements. To see more about his recent work, check out these links:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15405702.2020.1744610
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10641734.2020.1782790?scroll=top&needAccess=true
In this episode, we revisit our conversation with Dr. Robin Boylorn, now a full professor in the Department of Communication Studies. Her work spans topics related to Crunk Culture to the way we tell our own stories via auto-ethnography. Dr. Boylorn has been given the distinction of being selected to give a Last Lecture (see the link below), and has published several books and articles. For more about Dr. Boylorn, check out all of our links below.
https://www.robinboylorn.com/
Dr. Boylorn's Last Lecture: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overcoming-in-difference-reflections/id383700505?i=1000313463538
For more information (and praise) for Dr. Boylorn's book: https://www.robinboylorn.com/sweetwater
Join us today as we revisit our conversation with Dr. Shaheen Kanthawala, an assistant professor in Journalism & Creative Media, about our use of health apps and online health communities. With a background in biochemistry and biology, this conversation about the role of new media technologies in the management of our own health is a great one! To learn more about Dr. Kanthawala's research, check out her website here: https://skanthawala.people.ua.edu/.
To follow us on Twitter: @iciralabama
Or on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=matqQ7a21n0
Tune in as we revisit our conversation with Dr. Andy Billings, a professor in Journalism and Creative Media and the Reagan Endowed Chair in Public Broadcasting, a role he took over after Dr. Jennings Bryant retired. Andy has published 18 books, and it may be 19 since we recorded this originally, and more than 130 academic journal articles, but more importantly, his research covers topics like the way women are represented on camera and behind the camera in sports coverage, the way non-White athletes are represented, the effects that content has on viewers, mascots and even fantasy sports. We cover a lot of territory in this episode. If you want to learn more about Dr. Billings' research, you can check out this website: https://sportscom.ua.edu/ Or, you can follow him on Twitter @andrewcbillings.
To follow us on Twitter: @iciralabama
Or on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=matqQ7a21n0
Join us today as we revisit our conversation with Dr. Jess Maddox. Jess has published extensively on social media and even has a new book in the works--she references it in today's conversation. Jess is also a huge dog lover and we even talk pets of Instagram. This is a really fun conversation but beyond the fun, we talk about how social media can really shape the way we see the world--and with all that has been going on around us, it is really important to better understand how influential this one media platform COULD be. To see more about who she is and see more of her two fabulous dogs, you can follow her on Twitter @drjessmaddox or check out her website: https://www.jessmaddox.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0LO6C4EEQbSGSHg_AGv1LA On Youtube
This week, we’ll be revisiting our conversation with Dr. Kenon Brown, an associate professor in Advertising and Public Relations, and he’ll be telling us more about the research he does in sports communication. This is a really fun conversation we had during a time when the sports world had come to a halt, we were witnessing social unrest and injustice all over the country, and at the time of this conversation, many athletes were speaking out about it all. This is one of the areas Kenon studies, and we learn more about the research he does in sports communication. You can check out a few of his publications here:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077699015574484?casa_token=GYRMgTwWjL4AAAAA%3AJt7U-y2v39eXuNCDtyychyGZXudv2FDy97D1qRlUX9ats0H-cFq5-i5BW6NoYyYTxFfPL5Hij7HG
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2167479517727286?casa_token=TUbhwgaXWDsAAAAA%3AJuII7Uq_PRh_DSK5xm0zeftU6kr5lJRhEMG6YnIRd4ksZOfOrqZne4IR6sHjCyyWQkDBn2gCR8cl
Or, better yet, follow him on Twitter: @KenonABrown
Join us today as we revisit our conversation with Dr. Jiyoung Lee, an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media. Jiyoung will talk all about her research related to health misinformation and social media campaigns that are being developed to combat misinformation, specifically misinformation related to COVID-19 and vaccinations. To learn more about Dr. Lee's work, check out her website:
https://sites.google.com/view/jiyounglee/
In this episode, we revisit our conversation with Dr. Scott Parrott, an associate professor in Journalism & Creative Media. This was our very first episode of the podcast, formerly known as No Stupid Questions. In this episode, we had a great conversation with Dr. Parrott about all of the work he has done in studying the way the media cover mental health in a news and entertainment context, and he tells us more about how these representations affect those with mental illness. For more about the work Dr. Parrott does, check out his website: http://msparrott.people.ua.edu/.
We’ve had two full seasons of Revise & Resubmit but haven’t taken the time to tell you more about who we are and what we do in research and teaching. So today, we break it all down and let you hear more about us! Plus, we give you a great teaser for what’s to come with Season 3!
Dr. Darrin Griffin, associate professor, in the Department of Communication Studies talks about a class he talk about bar-b-que (who knew?) and then discusses the very important research he does as it relates to communication with deaf communities. If you think about it, when you hear a tornado siren go off or a fire alarm go off, not all of those mechanisms are designed in a way to help individuals with hearing loss. Dr. Griffin has done research, much of it funded, to help us better understand the challenges and potential solutions to this real-world problem.
As a quick note, we did have a small issue with this recording, so about halfway through, you may hear a slight disconnect with our conversation, but we have edited it so it flows as smoothly as possible.
https://www.pbs.org/video/alabama-public-television-presents-q-alabama-bbq-legends/
Ever wonder about the myriad of conversations that happen on Reddit? Do you know what a sub-reddit is? There are so many conversations going on all the time about every single topic you could ever think of, and each topic has its own sub-reddit. Who knew? Today's guest knows all about it as his research focuses on those nuances conversations happening on various sub-reddits and what meaning we can take away from these conversations. Dr. Elliot Panek is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media and is going to tell us about one of his favorite and hidden gem places to go in Alabama along with telling us much more about his research. To learn more about his research, check out his website: http://www.elliotpanek.com/.
Join us for our conversation with Dr. Chris Roberts, an associate professor in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media. We'll talk about the credibility of journalists and the battles they sometimes face in the climate of so much mistrust, and we'll dive into his work on moral codes of conduct with journalists. And, here's a fun fact: Chris has probably attended more ZZ Top concerts than any other person you know. We'll break it all down in today's conversation! For more information about Dr. Robert's work, check out his website: http://chrisrob.com/wp/.
Have we got a fun one for you today! Have you heard of the term "ghosting"? If so, do you know what it means? (I had to Google it). You might be surprised to learn there is a whole line of scholarship related to the communication that happens--and doesn't--on platforms like online dating apps and social media. How do these platforms, where we can remain a little hidden, change the way we communicate with others? Our next guest is going to tell us all about it. Dr. Leah LeFebvre is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies and studies the role of media technologies in romantic relationships, and really, so much more. For more information about who she is and what she does, check out her website: http://lelefebvre.people.ua.edu/.
In today's conversation, we are going to hear all about information sciences, and while you may think, is there a reason for me to care about this? The short answer is, yes, in fact because we are all dealing with information on a variety of levels. Dr. Laurie Bonnici, an associate professor in the School of Library and Information Studies, tells us more about why the human element of information is essential. We learn about her non-linear path to get to graduate school, the very cool class she teaches during Maymester, and theory building. To learn more about who she is and what she does, check out her website: https://cis.ua.edu/cis-theme-staff/dr-laurie-bonnici/
Join us today as we talk with Dr. Lance Kinney, an associate professor in the department of advertising and public relations, about his work in the area of crisis communication and public relations. In addition to be a professor who teaches courses in advertising and doing research in the area of crisis communication, Lance was a long-running host of a radio show. We break it all down for you in this episode. Lance has studied everything from the Olympic Games to Nascar and even Dolly Parton, and we have a really great conversation about one of his recent studies about Dolly Parton, and we hope you will tune in to what was a very surprising and fun conversation with Lance Kinney!
Join us today as we talk with Dr. Wilson Lowrey, a professor in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media, about his work professionally in the news industry and how that work experience as a creative storyteller helped shape the research he does now. He has studied everything from the journalism--blogging relationship, the ecology of news production, and how to effectively use communication during times of crisis. His book is called Russian Regional Journalism, and if you just want to check out one of his articles, you can find a lengthy list on ResearchGate or Google Scholar. This is a fun conversation, and we hope you'll tune in!
Join us today as we talk with Dr. Kristen Warner, an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media. Kristen has so many amazing and interesting stories to tell about her research in colorblinding in the film and entertainment industry. If you don't know what that is, you definitely have to listen to this episode. Kristen is the author of the book, The Cultural Politics of Colorblind TV Casting, and has studied the representation of race on and off the camera. Because of her expertise in this area of the entertainment industry, she is often called upon to be a guest on panels where every other guest is a celebrity--she breaks it all down for us in this episode. To get more information about here book, check Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Politics-Colorblind-Routledge-Transformations/dp/1138018309/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Cultural+Politics+of+Colorblind+TV+Casting&qid=1613089216&sr=8-1.
But, more importantly, tune in today, because today's conversation is a great one!
In today's episode, we talk with Dr. Becky Britt, an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media and a health communication scholar for the College of Communication & Information Sciences. Dr. Britt's research spans topics related to health campaigns to the use of social media and those who influence, or don't, influence our decisions! To learn more about her recent work and external awards, check out her website:
https://rebeccakbritt.com/presentations/
http://rebeccakbritt.com/
Also, if you want to see more pictures of her adorable cat, you can follow her on Twitter @Rebeccakbritt
There's so much to learn about Dr. Robin Boylorn, an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies. Her work spans topics related to Krunk Culture to the way we tell our own stories via auto-ethnography. Dr. Boylorn has been given the distinction of being selected to give a Last Lecture (see the link below), and has published several books and articles. For more about Dr. Boylorn, check out all of our links below.
https://www.robinboylorn.com/
Dr. Boylorn's Last Lecture: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overcoming-in-difference-reflections/id383700505?i=1000313463538
For more information (and praise) for Dr. Boylorn's book: https://www.robinboylorn.com/sweetwater
In today's episode, we talk with Dr. Laura Lemon, an assistant professor in advertising and public relations, about her professional work in the non-profit sector and how that work propelled her to get a Ph.D. and then study the communication that goes on in these workplace settings. We'll learn more about how our own communication can be improved as she tells us about her intriguing findings.
To see more of Dr. Lemon's work, check out these links:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0363811117302655?casa_token=NR-MuiOwvmoAAAAA:GeyNLyaivyhyCzHwL1zk07OxxQg538MkrEqZuR_T7aqvnLDg8Bry3exU6AD4NWTptf189M7qtA
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10641734.2018.1521113
Dr. Steve Holiday is an assistant professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations. His primary research focus relates to children and media, with an emphasis on the way children respond to advertisements. To see more about his recent work, check out these links:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15405702.2020.1744610
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10641734.2020.1782790?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Welcome to Season 2 of No Stupid Questions, which has been re-branded to become Revise and Resubmit! In Season 2, we talk with very interesting people who do amazing things in their research, and we have even better stories to tell you about what communication researchers do. We are so excited about this upcoming season, and we hope you'll tune in each Monday at 11am when each new episode airs.
We wanted to take a moment to thank you for being a fan and listening along with us as we chat with different communication researchers about who they are and what they do.
Join us today as we talk with Dr. Shaheen Kanthawala, an assistant professor in Journalism & Creative Media, about our use of health apps and online health communities. With a background in biochemistry and biology, this conversation about the role of new media technologies in the management of our own health is a great one! To learn more about Dr. Kanthawala's research, check out her website here: https://skanthawala.people.ua.edu/.
Join us today as we talk to Dr. Jiyoung Lee about the ways we look to and trust sources in the media while in the middle of a global health crisis. Dr. Lee studies media effects and online media platforms, and we have a great conversation about the here and now as it relates to all of the information we are getting from a variety of trustworthy and less trustworthy sources. For more information about Dr. Lee and her research, check out her website: https://jleecomm.wixsite.com/jiyoung.
It's almost ELECTION DAY!!Have you ever thought about the way you communicate with others about political candidates and politics, and have you thought about the ways those conversations COULD affect how we think about those candidates or issues? Join us today as we talk with Dr. Cynthia Peacock, a scholar in political communication, about the way we all navigate our conversations related to politics, democracy, and social media. We'll hear more about the ways we all communicate about topics that are sometimes controversial. Dr. Peacock conducted research at the Iowa caucuses with her graduate students earlier this year, and we'll hear more about that experience and how research can be conducted in that type of environment. To learn more about her work, check out her website: http://cpeacock.people.ua.edu/.
Join us today as we speak with Sarah Bryant, a professor in the School of Library and Information Sciences. Today you'll learn more about everything that goes into the creative process of making a book from scratch and how culture, social issues and politics can all be woven into the creation of a book.
Join us today as we talk with Dr. Jess Maddox, a professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media. We'll talk more about memes, GIFs, tik toks, and how dimensions of power are shared on digital platforms.
If you have ever watched a sporting event on TV and yelled at one of the commentators to stop talking or have listened to a news broadcast and wondered about the reporter's credentials, today's conversation is for you! Join us as we talk with Dr. Sean Sadri, an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media, about his research related to sports, news credibility and the intersection of gender and race in the sports arena. For more about Dr. Sadri's work, check out his page:
https://cis.ua.edu/cis-theme-staff/sean-sadri/
Join us today as we talk with Dr. Jennifer Becker and Dr. Coral Bender about their research and strategies for navigating online education and research from virtual spaces.
Join us today as we talk with Dr. Miriam Sweeney in the School of Library and Information Sciences as she talks about her research in artificial intelligence and the way AI technology functions as an extension of power systems. If you have ever used Siri or Alexa--and who hasn't?--this episode is for you. For more info about Dr. Sweeney's work, check out her website: http://mesweeney.people.ua.edu.
Join us today as we talk with Dr. Kenon Brown, a renowned scholar in the area of branding and image repair in the sports world. Listen to Dr. Brown tell us more about what he knows about athletes, why athletes may be the most influential people out there and what happens when they make mistakes. This is a fun conversation about sports communication and we hope you'll listen in! For more information about Dr. Brown and the Alabama Program in Sports Communication, click here: https://sportscom.ua.edu/people/kenon-a-brown/.
Join us today as we talk with Dr. Matt Van Dyke, a researcher who studies environmental communication and strategic messaging about environmental issues. He'll tell us more about the communication barriers that exist when communicating information about science and the environment and how even communication professors can talk about science.
Join us as we talk with Dr. Andy Billings, one of the preeminent scholars in the area of sports and mass communication. We'll talk about the Olympics, sports in the age of a global pandemic, and fantasy sports. To see more about Dr. Billings' work and the Alabama Program in Sports Communication, click here: https://sportscom.ua.edu/people/andrew-billings-3/.
Join us today as we talk with Dr. Heather Carmack, an associate professor of communication and an expert in the health communication field. Our conversation today will focus on medical mistakes and the communication and conversation around those errors. We'll also touch on the importance of communication in medicine and health practice.
Join us this week as we talk with Dr. Scott Parrott, an associate professor of journalism and creative media, about his research examining the way media cover mental health and mental issues and how those representations affect the way we see ourselves and others.
Join us as we welcome Dr. Mark Nelson, Dean of the College of Communication & Information Sciences, as he helps us kick off this new podcast showcasing and highlighting the excellent research and creative work going on by faculty members in the College. The best thing is that so many of our guests do incredibly innovative, creative, and timely research that is so applicable to our everyday lives. Tune in to hear more about what's ahead this season.
In this podcast, we'll talk to communication professors who will talk about their research and how it applies to every day life. We'll talk about sports, health, advertising, diversity, and the role of media in our every day lives. We'll ask the questions that others don't want to ask and find out more about what communication research looks like and why it matters.
In this podcast, we'll talk to communication professors who will talk about their research and how it applies to every day life. We'll talk about sports, health, advertising, diversity, and the role of media in our every day lives. We'll ask the questions that others don't want to ask and find out more about what communication research looks like and why it matters.