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.
“Takeover,” a documentary chronicling the day in 1970 when the New York Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx, explains how the protest and takeover ultimately led to a new understanding that health care is a basic right for all Americans, as well as a national Patient Bill of Rights.
New research by Liesl Broadbridge, a board-certified genetic counselor and SC&I Ph.D. student, underscores the resiliency of Newborn Screening Programs (NBS) in the U.S., which continued their vital work during the COVID-19 pandemic despite many challenges including shortages of funding and staff.
Audiovisual manipulation created for false personation primarily harms people in minoritized groups and serves to benefit those who are already powerful.
Mandelbaum, who has served on the SC&I faculty for 35 years, uses the methods of Conversation Analysis to examine everyday talk-in-interaction, and is also a co-director of the Rutgers University Conversation Analysis Lab (RUCAL).
A new study examines factors that may make people more vulnerable to false information.
Carol Ann Farino was murdered in Maplewood, N.J. in 1966 and her killer has still not been caught. In his new book about the case, Joe Strupp, a reporter for the Asbury Park Press and SC&I part time lecturer, explores the murder and its aftermath, and describes the challenges involved in reporting on true crime.
In his newest book, “Four Streets and a Square,” Marc Aronson explores 400 years of Manhattan’s history, with a focus on what he has coined “The New York City Idea”: the value of mixture, of people, of ideas, and of cultures found in New York City.”
The newly published “Excellence in Higher Education-Renewal (EHE-R) Framework,” specifically designed to assist U.S. colleges and universities recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, was written by Distinguished Professor of Communication Brent Ruben with input from colleagues from Rutgers.
Professor John Pavlik and doctoral student Shravan Regret Iyer, experts in experiential media, said presenting research for the first time in the Metaverse at the Sixth World Summit for Tourism and Hospitality Conference “was unique and surprisingly effective.”
Rutgers Today spoke with some of the university’s experts in health care, environmental science and engineering, education, labor and business to discuss what we have learned since the onset of COVID-19 and what we might expect in the future.
