Communication Studies Department faculty research focuses on the theory and practice of human communication in a variety of contexts: interpersonal, intercultural, instructional, organizational, political, in dyads, in small groups, and in the mass media.
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Submissions from 2013
Accommodating Climate Change Science: James Hansen and the Rhetorical/Political Emergence of Global Warming, Richard Besel
Submissions from 2012
Prolepsis and the Environmental Rhetoric of Congressional Politics: Defeating the Climate Stewardship Act of 2003, Richard Besel
Watt, James, Richard Besel
Michael Crichton, Narrative Critique, and the Boundary-Work of Scientific Expertise, Richard D. Besel, Reneé Smith Besel, and Bernard K. Duffy
Beware the Whine of the Privileged, Jnan A. Blau and John T. Warren
Submissions from 2011
Subjective Posture and Subjective Affluence: Chicago Field Theories in the U.S. Media and Political Systems, Kevin G. Barnhurst, Richard Besel, and Christopher Bodmann
An Inconvenient Truth, Richard D. Besel
Earth Day, Richard D. Besel
Opening the "Black Box" of Climate Change Science: Actor-Network Theory and Rhetorical Practice in Scientific Controversies, Richard D. Besel
Recollection, Regret, and Foreboding in Frederick Douglass’s Fourth of July Orations of 1852 and 1875, Bernard K. Duffy and Richard D. Besel
Submissions from 2010
The Multidimensional Role of Trust in Enabling Creativity within Virtual Communities of Practice: A Theoretical Model Integrating Swift, Knowledgebased, Institution-based, and Organizational Trust, David Askay and April J. Spivack
Whale Wars and the Public Screen: Mediating Animal Ethics in Violent Times, Richard D. Besel and Renee S. Besel
Sense of Community in Professional Virtual Communities, Anita Blanchard, David A. Askay, and Katherine Frear
A Phan on Phish: Live Improvised Music in Five Performative Commitments, Jnan A. Blau
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” and the Politics of Cultural Memory: An Apostil, Bernard K. Duffy and Richard D. Besel
Alterations in mGluR5 Expression and Signaling in Lewy Body Disease and in Transgenic Models of Alpha- Synucleinopathy – Implications for Excitotoxicity, Diana L. Price, Edward Rockenstein, Kiran Ubhi, Van Phung, Natalie MacLean-Lewis, David A. Askay, Anna Cartier, Brian Spencer, Christina Patrick, Paula Desplats, Mark H. Ellisman, and Eliezer Masliah
Submissions from 2009
Crafting a Successful Manuscript: Lessons from 131 Reviews, Steven G. Rogelberg, Marisa Adelman, and David Askay
Submissions from 2008
Book Review: Deliberative Environmental Politics: Democracy and Ecological Rationality by Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett, Richard Besel
Submissions from 2007
From Awareness to Action: The Rhetorical Limits of Visualizing the Irreparable Nature of Global Climate Change, Richard D. Besel
Submissions from 2005
Book Review: Making Truth: The Role of Metaphor in Science by Theodore L. Brown, Richard D. Besel