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.
The first event of its kind held by SC&I, it provided an insightful and productive forum where faculty and students spent time together sharing their ideas, strategies, and perspectives as teachers and learners.
After examining resilience behaviors people might adopt to reduce uncertainty in their romantic relationships during Covid-19 lockdowns, new Rutgers research found that two, creating new routines and maintaining a positive outlook, had the greatest impact.
The award “recognizes outstanding collaborations that have demonstrated extraordinary achievement and sustained commitment to promoting and practicing diversity, inclusion, equity, and access within the university and in partnership with the community.”
The book “Argumentation in Complex Communication,” co-authored by SC&I Associate Dean for Research Mark Aakhus, explores the ways argumentation has changed due to the “the massive spread of new media in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.”
“Many of us may think of book reading as something we do for fun, or leisure, or for required reading. But we also need to realize that books are lifelines, particularly for young people searching for answers,” said SC&I Teaching Professor Nancy Kranich.
The National Communication Association has awarded SC&I Assistant Professor of Communication Dajung (DJ) Woo for her paper that explores communication between emergency physicians and nurses.
The NCA’s Family Communication Division awarded Scharp and her colleagues a top paper award and the Interpersonal Communication Division awarded her a distinguished article award in 2023. In addition, two of her doctoral advisees have also been named recipients of Top Student Paper awards.
By SC&I Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, Melissa Aronczyk, and Maria I. Espinoza, the book critically examines public relations as a social and political force that shapes both our understanding of the environmental crises we now face and our responses to them.
For the third time in the conference’s long-standing history, the Rutgers School of Communication and Information will host the Organizational Communication Mini-Conference. It will be held from Friday, October 6 to Sunday, October 8, 2023 on the College Avenue campus in New Brunswick.
The Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) Conference will be held in Philadelphia from October 12-15, 2023. The conference is hosted by the Media, Inequality, and Change (MIC) Center, a collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information (SC&I); the conference theme is “Left Undone.”
