Scholars at the School of Communication and Information take an interdisciplinary approach to research that spans the fields of information science, library studies, communication, journalism and media studies.
A core faculty member of Rutgers Global Health Institute as well as SC&I, Rivera investigates how social media platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp may influence Latinos’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and, ultimately, their health.
The conference explores methods to articulate critical interconnections between crises and forms of resistance.
These new findings “will exclusively benefit a diverse range of audiences, who are typically underserved by the mainstream media,” wrote study co-author SC&I Assistant Professor Kiran Garimella and his colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin.
SC&I faculty members Britt Paris, Rebecca Reynolds, and Gina Marcello Ph.D.’08, MCM’95, COM’93 have developed a new cutting-edge curriculum for teaching about dis- and misinformation and developing cultural literacy among Rutgers undergraduates.
SC&I faculty members Kristina Scharp and Dajung (DJ) Woo have been recognized by the journal Communication Education.
Their study, Scharp said, suggests that helping the public better understand the complex ways that opioid addiction is environmental, relational, and situational – that it is not simply a personal choice – would be useful, and communicating this idea might be accomplished through the media or other forms of public education.
Rutgers experts provide insight on ways to save money while focusing on holiday cheer.
Assistant Professor Gretchen Stahlman will join Mission Patagonia to pursue a two-pronged research agenda. She will assist AUI in evaluating the program, while pursuing her own research questions focused on how science is conducted in remote locations and how to ensure equitable practices for collecting and managing valuable place-based data.
Posters on Black Twitter are interpolating themselves into the lives of Korean “Squid Game” characters to critique and imagine themselves as fellow players within the “Squid Game” universe, and thereby imagining a different alternative world where Black audiences and Korean characters in the game have an advantage.
Donald Trump continues to dominate the news cycle whether he is in office or not. But if he continues to make headlines with the same outlandish statements, when does it stop being news?
