DEI Research and Engagement

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are addressed across the research of the school. Sample scholarly and public outputs are presented below in alphabetical order of our faculty names within each category type. They cover topics such as race, gender, health disparities, migration, social justice, marginalized groups, alternative media, and much more.

Bettering NJ Together
With the people and communities of New Jersey, SC&I scholars focus on some of the most pressing issues of our time that impact the people of New Jersey in every area of our state, whether we live in urban, suburban, or rural communities.

Books

Park, J. & Lemish, D. (2019). KakaoTalk and Facebook: Korean American youth constructing hybrid identities. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

L.S. Clark and Marchi, R. (2017). Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism. Cambridge University Press.

Yu, S., & Matsaganis, M. D. (Eds.) (2019). Ethnic media in the digital age. New York, NY: Routledge.

Petraki, M., & Matsaganis, M. D. (2018). Experiences of and factors contributing to discrimination in Greek hospitals, from the perspective of healthcare users, physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators. In D. Balourdos & N. Sarris (Eds.), Tackling multiple discrimination in Greece: delivering equality through active participation and enabling policy interventions. Athens, Greece: National Center for Social Research

White, K. (2018). Branding right-wing activism: The news media and the Tea Party, Oxford University Press.

Wolfson, Todd. Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left, University of Illinois Press, History of Communication series, (2014), 248 pages.

Journal Articles

Borum Chattoo, C., Feldman, L., & Riley, A. H. (2020). The role of different TV storytelling approaches in engaging Hispanic parents and caregivers around early childhood development. International Journal of Communication, 14, 24-45.

Wagner, T.L., Kitize, V., & Floegel, D. (2020). Gender issues SIG: Seeking information between and beyond binaries: Exploring how queer theory can inform LIS theories. Submitted to the Association for Library and Information Science Education 2020 Conference, Virtual conference, October 20-23, 2020.

Floegel, D. (2020). Labor, classification, and productions of culture on Netflix. Journal of Documentation.

Floegel, D., & Jackson, L. (2019). Recasting an inclusive narrative: Exploring intersectional theory. Proceedings of the Association for College and Research Libraries 2019 Conference, Cleveland, OH, April 10-13, 2019

Floegel, D., Barriage, S., Kitzie, V., & Otlmann, S. (2020). Values, risks, and power influencing librarians’ decisions to host drag queen storytime. Proceedings of the 83rd Annual Meeting of ASIS&T, Virtual conference, October 23-28, 2020.

Floegel, D. (2019). “A good intention gone awry”: Queering makerspaces to support queer creators. Proceedings of the 82nd Annual Meeting of ASIS&T, Melbourne, Australia, October 19-23, 2019.

Book Chapters

Greene, K., Banerjee, S. C., Ray, A. E., & Hecht, M. L. (2017). Active involvement interventions in health and risk messaging. In R. L. Parrott (Ed.), Oxford encyclopedia of health and risk message design and processing (pp. 1-36). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.527

Goulbourne, T., Senteio, C., Greene, K., & Yanovitzky, I. (accepted with revisions). Community-based health interventions. In T. L. Thompson & N. G. Harrington (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of health communication (3rd ed.). Routledge.

Elias, N., Sulkin, I., & Lemish, D. (2017). Gender segregation on BabyTV: Old-time stereotypes for the very young. In D. Lemish & M. Götz (Eds.), Beyond the stereotypes? Boys, girls, and their images (pp. 95-104). University of Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordicom.

Lemish, D. (2017). Innovations in gender representation in children’s television: The PRIX JEUNESSE 2016 gender prize competition.  In D. Lemish & M. Götz (Eds.), Beyond the stereotypes? Boys, girls, and their images (pp. 21-32). University of Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordicom.

Lemish, D. & Elias, N. (2019). Perpetuating gender stereotypes from birth: Analysis of TV programs for viewers in diapers. In C. Hermansoon & J. Zepernick (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Children’s film and Television (pp. 487-505). New York, NY: Palgrave

Marchi, R. 2018. "Media and Social Movements," in P. Napoli (Ed.) The Handbook of Mediated Communication, pp. 609-625. Boston, MA: De Gruyter Mouton. (I can provide a PDF of the chapter)

Conference Proceedings

Singh, V. K., & Hofenbitzer, C. (2019, August). Fairness across network positions in cyberbullying detection algorithms. In 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) (pp. 557-559). IEEE.

Alasadi, J., Al Hilli, A., & Singh, V. K. (2019, October). Toward Fairness in Face Matching Algorithms. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in MultiMedia (pp. 19-25).

Media

Kumanyika, C. Can We Talk About Whiteness?

Kumanyika, C. (April 2018). George Foster Peabody Award finalist for Season 2 of “Seeing White,” a podcast I co-created and on which I appeared on 11 of 14 episodes, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University.

Kumanyika, C. (2020, June 3) Getting Real About the Job of the Police. A Letter to Barack Obama. The Intercept,

Kumanyika, C. (2016, July 22) Hoodie, “Invisibilia,” National Public Radio Reported and co- produced the “Hoodie” segment of “Secret Emotional Life of Clothes,” episode.

Kumanyika C. (Editor) Louder than a Riot, National Public Radio. 2020

Kumanyika, C. Making Sense of Charlottesville