Research

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Motivation with misinformation: Conceptualizing lacuna individuals and publics as knowledge-deficient, issue-negative…

This study demonstrates how people who have accepted misinformation about vaccines and have extremely negative attitudes toward them tend to…
September 11, 2017

Poison or Prevention? Understanding the Linkages between Vaccine-Negative Individuals’ Knowledge Deficiency,…

The last few decades have seen growing concerns among parents regarding the safety of childhood vaccines, arguably leading to the…
June 21, 2017

Inspirational reality TV

The prosocial effects of lifestyle transforming reality programs on elevation and altruism: In light of recent theories of meaningful media…
November 18, 2016

The Power of Positive Action in Predicting Media Enjoyment

Exploring the Role of Participatory Behaviors Through the Lens of the Tripartite Model of Media Enjoyment: Offering an initial test…
April 28, 2015

Me versus them: Third-person effects among Facebook users

The immense popularity of Facebook with more than 1 billion active users continues to spark the attention of communication scholars. While…
February 24, 2015

Selfies and Photo Messaging as Visual Conversation

Though mindful of how media often equates selfie production with narcissistic “me generation” behavior, we are interested in exploring the…
January 2, 2015

The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film, Vols. 1-4

Comprising over 90 essays and richly illustrated with over 200 images, the Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film provides a chronological portrait of…
December 1, 2011

A Companion to Michael Haneke

A Companion to Michael Haneke is a definitive collection of newly-commissioned work that covers Haneke’s body of work in its entirety,…
February 2, 2010

Andy Warhol’s Blow Job

This work contends that Andy Warhol’s notorious 1964 underground film, Blow Job, serves as rich allegory as well as suggestive…
February 1, 2003
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