Accomplishments: Greenspun College of Urban Affairs
Alexa Bejinariu (Criminal Justice) published an article titled, “NGO–Government Relations in States With Weak Institutions: Avoiding the State While Supplementing Resource Gaps” in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Drawing on interviews with Romanian NGOs supporting migrants in the early months following the Russian invasion of Ukraine,…
Amber Krushas (Soluri) (Criminal Justice) published a book titled, "A Review of Personal Recurrent Victimization: Examining the Literature on Recurrent, Repeat, Multiple, Poly, and Revictimization" under SpringerBriefs in Criminology. The book outlines over 550 studies that assess five different forms of recurrent victimization over the last four…
Gregory Borchard and Denitsa Yotova (both Journalism and Media Studies) have co-authored Pressing Matters: A Chronicle of American Media (New York: Peter Lang), 2025; 332 pages, ISBN-13: 9781636675381.
They write: "Given the highly globalized and converged sets of communication technologies in the contemporary media landscape,…
Amber Krushas (Soluri) (Criminal Justice) published an article titled, "Why Does This Keep Happening? Assessing Theoretical Correlates Among Recurrent Victims Compared to Single and Non-Victims," in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. The article explores multiple victimological perspectives collectively to advance current theoretical…
Bo ra Jung and Seong-min Park (both Criminal Justice), along with Sinyong Choi from Kennesaw State University, recently published a peer-reviewed article, "Public Attitudes and Justifications on Illegal Streaming Sites in South Korea: A Content Analysis," in the International Journal of Information Security and Cybercrime. Through analyzing a…
Aya Shata (Journalism and Media Studies) at UNLV and co-author Michelle Seelig from the University of Miami published an article titled, "Making the Environment Like A Cool Thing:” Exploring generation Z and Millennials’ reception of climate change videos on YouTube," in the Atlantic Journal of Communication.
Guided by literature on…
Associate professor Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) co-curated and exhibited work in "At the Heart of Basin and Range." This exhibit, sponsored by Nevada Humanities, an independent state humanities council affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and exhibited at its downtown program gallery, celebrates…
An-Pyng Sun (Social Work) and Stephanie Diez (PennWest) published “Understanding the Gaming Disorder–Depression Co-Occurrence: A Narrative Literature Review” in the Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. Adolescents, young adults, and their families are increasingly seeking professional help for digital- or video-gaming disorder (GD), which often…
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…
Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute), Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies), and Mark Johnson from the University of Sydney have published an article titled, "A New History of Poker Spectatorship: Table Chat, Online Forums, Television Piracy, and Twitch" in the journal International Gambling Studies. Histories of poker…
Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) has a chapter in the recently published volume: Scientists, Politics, and the Rhetoric of Public Controversy (edited by Pamela Pietrucci and Leah Ceccarelli). Her chapter is titled, "The Bro as Disingenuous Scientist Citizen," and explores how online "bros," namely Elon Musk, Jordan…
Jeffrey T. Child (Communication Studies) and his co-author recently published a new study in the journal of Human-Machine Communication. The citation is: Craig, M. J. A., & Child, J. T. (2025). "Creepy, invasive, and exploitative algorithms: A CPM analysis of users' privacy breakdowns and recalibration practices with social media algorithms."…