Jihyun Kang (Communication Studies) and co-authors Joris Van Ouytsel and Steve Corman published a paper titled “Communicating Evolving Vision in Early-Stage Startups: From Founder Intent to Employee Engagement” in the Journal of the International Council for Small Business. The article examines how founders of early-stage startups communicate…

Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) published an article titled, "Tensions of In/fertility and Identity: A Rhetorical Autoethnography of Environmentalism, Motherhood, and Womanhood" in the Quarterly Journal of Speech. The article examines the author's personal experiences with infertility as a vehicle to reflect on rhetorical…

Donovan Conley (Communication Studies) and Justin Eckstein (PLU; former UNLV MA graduate) published a co-authored paper titled "Phronimos / Taster" in Rhetoric Society Quarterly. The essay theorizes "venatic taste," the hunter-like attentiveness to foraging, as a mode of rhetorical invention rooted in phronesis, or practical wisdom. The authors…

David R. Gruber and Donovan Conley (both Communication Studies) published a co-authored paper titled, "The architecture of anomaly: agential errancy in human-AI relations" in Critical Studies in Communication. The article examines errors arising amid human and AI interaction, theorizing them as “agential errors,” namely, as generative…

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…