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

Journal Articles

Reynolds, R. & M. M. Chiu. (2015). Reducing digital divide effects through student engagement in coordinated game design, online resource uses, and social computing activities in school. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. DOI: 10.1002/asi.23504

Reynolds, R. (2016). Defining, designing for, and measuring “digital literacy” development in learners: A proposed framework. Educational Technology Research & Development. 64(1), p735-762

Rivera, Y. M. (2018). Reducing Cancer Health Disparities among U.S. Latinos: A Freireian Approach. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, 11(5), 368-379. DIO: 10.1108/IJHRH-02-2018-0021; PMID: 31032065, PMCID: PMC6485949

Singh, V., Chayko, M., Inamdar, R., Floegel, D. (2020). Female librarians and male computer programmers? Gender bias in occupational images on digital media platforms. The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST).

Singh, V. K., André, E., Boll, S., Hildebrandt, M., & Shamma, D. A. (2020). Legal and ethical challenges in multimedia research. IEEE MultiMedia, 27(2), 46-54.

Venetis, M. K., Meyerson, B. E., *Friley, L. B., Gilespie, A., Ohmit, A., & Shields, C. (2017). Characterizing sexual orientation disclosure to health care providers: Lesbian, gay, and bisexual perspectives. Health Communication, 32, 578-586. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2016.1144147

White, K. (2020). #CommunicationSoWhite – Interview with Oscar Gandy and Herman Gray. Communication, Culture, and Critique. 13(2), 242-248.

Ng, E., White, K., & Saha, A. (co-editors). (2020). #CommunicationSoWhite – Special issue of Communication, Ctulture, and Critique.

Ng. E., White, K., & Saha, A. (2020). #CommunicationSoWhite: Race and power in the academy and Beyond. Communication, Culture, and Critique. 13(2), 143-151.

White, K. (2015). Belongingness and the Harlem drummers. Urban Geography, 36(3), 340-358.

White, K. (2016). Black lives on campuses matter: Reflecting on the rise of the new Black student movement. Soundings: Journal of Politics and Culture, 63, 86-97.

White, K. (2018). Herman in theory and practice: Race and power. Media Theory, 2 (2) 117-126.

White K. (Accepted). Oceanic Negroes: Communicating Pacific Blackness down, out, and under. International Journal of Communications.

Christian, A., & White, K. (Forthcoming September 2020). Organic representation as cultural reparations. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.

Wolfson, T. (2020) “Class Struggle Before Class,” South Atlantic Quarterly.

Wolfson, T. (2017) Emancipatory Adoption: Towards a Critical Theory of the Digital Divide,” Communication, Culture and Critique, co-authored with Jessica Crowell, Camille Reyes, Amy Bach.

Wolfson, T, From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism. Special Issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique. Co-edited with Paolo Gerbaudo, Peter Funke and Emiliano Trere. (2017)

Wolfson, T. (2017) “Movements Begin with the Telling of Untold Stories: The Role of Media in Building a Movement for the City,” French Review of American Studies, co-authored with Peter Funke.

Wolfson, T., (2018) “Poverty, Inequality and the Social and Political Effects of the Digital Divide,” Journal of Media Literacy Education, co-authored with Amy Bach and Jessica Crowell.

Wolfson, T. (2018) “Radical Interventions: Ed Herman’s intellectual Roots and Activism within the political Economic Tradition,” Media Theory, co-authored with Victor Pickard.

Wolfson, T, The Rise of Precarious Workers. Editor, Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (2020)

Wolfson, T. (2018). “The History of all Hitherto Existing Society:” Class Struggle and the Current Wave of Resistance, tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, Vol 16 No 2 (2018), co-authored with Peter Funke.

Book Chapters

Conference Proceedings