Jeffrey T. Child (Communication Studies) co-authored a chapter examining how families manage privacy, disclosure, and communication boundaries. Published in the third edition of Engaging Theories in Family Communication, the chapter applies communication privacy management theory to family relationships and highlights how individuals negotiate…

Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies) and Tēvita O. Ka'ili (Brigham Young University-Hawaii). published a paper titled "Indigenous Rhythm" in the journal Culture, Theory and Critique. The article reads the Kū Kiaʻi Kahuku movement's sonic, educational, and digital rhythms (live streaming as a form of Indigenous rhythm) as…

Craig Hennigan (Communication) has published his first textbook intended to provide an accessible text for those instructing argumentation in the classroom. The text focuses on more informal styles of debate and innovates as it surveys newer debate styles that are seen on platforms such as Twitch and YouTube. This preliminary edition will be…

Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) published an article with co-author Leah Ceccarelli (University of Washington) titled, "Bad Arguments, Bad Science, and Bad Consequences: A Response to an Anti-Trans Keynote" in Argumentation. In response to an anti-trans keynote address given at the International Society for the Study of…

Jeffrey T. Child (Communication Studies) and a colleague recently published an article, "Communication privacy management theory: History of development, research trends, and future applications," in the Journal of Family Communication. The article examines the state of research utilizing the theory in advancing a deeper understanding of…

Craig Hennigan and Dillon Brouwer (both Communication Studies) published "Creating an open-source novel dataset to analyze side bias in NFA-LD" in The Forensic of Pi Kappa Delta. This article documents the assembly of a large dataset recording collegiate debate rounds. A statistical analysis is included to determine if National Forensics…

Rebecca Rice (Communication Studies) published "High Reliability Organizations" in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication.

Hannah Novak and Tara McManus (both Communication Studies) published their article "'But What About Me?': How Memorable Messages Received During Catholic Sex Education Contribute to the Development of Identity Gaps." The study involved in-depth interviews with 15 participants to explore how memorable messages received in Catholic sex education…

Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) published an Element in the Cambridge University Press series "Public Engagement with Science," titled, "Mothers as Science Storytellers." In the book, she considers the ways that mothers serve as gatekeepers of scientific knowledge and as powerful science communicators across the controversies of…

David R. Gruber (Communication Studies) published an article titled, "There is No Language for AI to Speak: A Meditation on Language, Faith, and our Dogmatic AI". This five-part essay appeared in the journal Rhizomes. The essay explores the fundamental instability of language and its implications for artificial intelligence. Gruber argues that…

Rebecca Rice (Communication Studies) and co-authors were awarded the Distinguished Special Issue of the Year Award from the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association. The award honors their forum, “Communication Research on High Reliability Organizing: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities for the Future…

Tara McManus (Communication Studies) and her co-author Jackson Scott (MA, Communication Studies, now a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) published a paper in Communication Reports titled, "The effects of support providers' sex on the association between friendship standards and support provision."  The study examines how…