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

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.

Wolfson, Todd, The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and the Contemporary Social Movements. Edited volume, co-edited with Peter Funke and Andy Lamas, Temple University Press, 2017.

Wolfson, T., The Gig Economy, Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence, Routledge University Press. Co-edited with Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Brian Dolber and Chenjerai Kumanyika (under review)

Journal Articles

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.

Floegel, D. (2020). “Write the story you want to read”: World-queering through slash fanfiction creation. Journal of Documentation, 76(4), 785-805.

Hochstatter, K. R., Hull, S. J., Stockman, L. J., Stephens, L. K., Olson-Streed, H. K., Ehlenbach, W. J., ... & Westergaard, R. P. (2017). Using database linkages to monitor the continuum of care for hepatitis C virus among syringe exchange clients: Experience from a pilot intervention. International Journal of Drug Policy, 42, 22-25. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.12.006

 

Tekeste, M., Hull, S., Dovidio, J. F., Safon, C. B., Blackstock, O., Taggart, T., ... & Calabrese, S. K. (2018). Differences in Medical Mistrust Between Black and White Women: Implications for Patient–Provider Communication About PrEP. AIDS and behavior, 1-12 . doi: 10.1007/s10461-018-2283-2

Hull, S. J., *Davis, C., Hollander, G., Gasiorowicz, M., Jeffries, IV, W. L., Gray, S., Bertolli, J., & Mohr, A., (2017). Evaluation of the Acceptance Journeys Social Marketing Campaign to Reduce Homophobia in Wisconsin. American Journal of Public Health. 107(1), 173-179. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303528

Namkoong, K., Shah, D. V., McLaughlin, B., Chih, M. Y., Moon, T. J., Hull, S., & Gustafson, D. H. (2017). Expression and Reception: An Analytic Method for Assessing Message Production and Consumption in CMC. Communication Methods and Measures, 11(3), 153-172. doi:10.1080/19312458.2017.1313396

Brant A, *Dhillon, P., Hull, S.J., Coleman, M., Ye, P. Lotke, P., Folan, J., Alintah, P., Scott, R. (2020). Integrating HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) services with family planning services: an evaluation using the RE-AIM Framework. AIDS Patient Care & STDs 35(6), 259-266. doi: 10.1089/apc.2020.0004.

Book Chapters

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)

Marchi, R. (2019, Feb. 4) How Mexican Immigrants Changed the Way Americans Grieve, Zócalo. http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2019/02/04/mexican-immigrants-changed-way-americans-grieve/ideas/essay/

Clark, LS and Marchi, R. 2019. "Storytelling the Self into Citizenship: How social media practices facilitate adolescent and emerging adult political life," in Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), A Networked Self: Birth, Life, Death, pp. 69-89. New York: Routledge

Matsaganis, M. D., & Katz, V. S. (2016). Ethnic media and the social incorporation of new Americans. In L. Friedland & M. Lloyd (Eds.), The communication crisis in America and how to fix it (pp. 77-89). Palgrave Macmillan. doi.10.1057/978-1-349-94925-0

Stanfill, M., White, K., Korn, J., Martin, J., & Gurrie, C. (2018). Climate on campus: Intersectional interventions in contemporary struggles. In D. T. Scott & A. Shaw (Eds.), Interventions: Communication theory and practice (pp. 229-244). Peter Lang.

 

Christian, A. J., & White, K. (2016). One-man Hollywood: The decline of black creative production in post-network television. In T. M. Russworm, S. N. Sheppard, & K. M. Bowdre (Eds.), From Madea to Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry (pp. 138-158). University of Mississippi Press.

White, K. & Renninger, B. (May 17, 2016). Representation of the Black Family in Mainstream News MediaA Report for Family Story and Color of Change.

 

Conference Proceedings

Media

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

Kumanyika, C. (2020) “Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition,” Intercepted Podcast. Hosted, Co-produced, Co- wrote,

Kumanyika, C. (2017, November 7) Scholar response: The Philly Red Umbrella Alliance. In Stephen Hartnett (Ed.), Communication’s Civic Callings: The Social Justice Exchange and Community Engagement (pp. 41-42).

Biewen J., Kumanyika, C. (2017) “Seeing White,” series on “Scene on Radio Podcast,” Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University. Co-created and appeared on 12 of the 14 episodes, offering critical commentary on contemporary racial discourses in popular culture. The podcast has been downloaded over 1.5 million times as of January 1, 2019 and was nominated for a George Foster Peabody Award.

Biewen J., Kumanyika, C. (2017) “The Land the Never Has Been Yet series on “Scene on Radio Podcast,” Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University. Co-created and appeared on 12 of the episodes, offering critical commentary on the history of American Democracy.

Kumanyika, C., Hitt, J. (2017, October 4) “Uncivil,” Gimlet Media. Co-created, co-executive produced, co-hosted 12 episodes (approximately 30 minutes each) of an internationally distributed podcast about the enduring effects of the U.S. Civil War, which was downloaded over 3.6 million times as of January 1, 2019. Episode 1,“The Raid,” won a George Foster Peabody Award. Cited in New York Times and The New Yorker twice each, as well as in The Sunday Times, The FinancialTimes of the UK, Columbia Journalism Review, and Newsweek.

Kumanyika, C. (May 2018). Winner of George Foster Peabody Award for “The Raid,” an episode of the podcast “Uncivil,” for which I was co-creator, co-executive producer, co- producer, and co-host.