Sage Communication & Media Studies

Author Anne Haas Dyson discusses her article for the October 2013 issue, "The Case of the Missing Childhoods: Methodological Notes for Composing Children in Writing Studies."

New media historian Fred Turner interviewed Microsoft Research Senior Researcher danah boyd to discuss her current work.

Toby Miller interviews an all-star cast of TVNM contributors, including Rick Maxwell, Vicki Mayer, Doug Thomas, Sarah Banet-Weiser and Larry Gross.

TVNM Editor Vicki Mayer interviews Wade Rathke about his article, which contrasts the caricature of HBO's "Treme" with the unique culture and people of New Orleans.

TVNM Editor Vicki Mayer interviews special guest editors Ramon Lobato and Julian Thomas about their special issue focused on Informal Media Economies.

Gordon Lafer discusses his article from the Jan/Feb 2013 issue, "Election 2012: Is a Second Term a Second Chance for Labor?"

JBC media manager Daylanne Markwardt talks with Jennifer Mize Smith of Western Kentucky University about her paper on work identity and charitable giving, published in the April 2013 issue.

An introduction to the January JBC Special Issue: "Crossing Boundaries: Working and Communicating in East Asia."

Authors Lisa Smith and Jeffrey Smith discuss their article, "Aesthetics and Astronomy: Studying the Public's Perception and Understanding of Imagery From Space," from the June 2011 issue of Science Communication.

Vernon D. Miller kicks off the Thought Leadership podcast series with MCQ editor James Barker.

John C. Lammers discusses Institutional Theory with MCQ editor James Barker in this third installment of the Thought Leadership podcast series.

Timothy Kuhn discusses Organizational Communication with MCQ editor James Barker in this sixth installment of the Thought Leadership podcast series.

MCQ editor James Barker reflects on his six-year term as editor and the future direction of MCQ for the journal's 25th anniversary.

Author Maxine Gesualdi discusses her article from the October 2013 issue, "Man Tears and Masculinities: News Coverage of John Boehner’s Tearful Episodes."

IJPP Editor Silvio Waisbord talks to Gadi Wolfsfeld about his article, co-authored with Elad Segev and Tamir Sheafer, 'Social Media and the Arab Spring: Politics Comes First', published in the April 2013 issue of the journal.

Produced by Dr. Terry Likes, Ph.D. This audio commentary explores the article, "The Future of TV News: Is Technology Outpacing Journalistic Standards?," which appears in the December 2010 issue of Electronic News.

Produced by Dr. Terry Likes, Ph.D. This audio commentary explores the article, "Walter Cronkite: History, Wisdom, and Guidance for the Future of Journalism," which appears in the June 2011 issue of Electronic News.

Dave Cupp sits down with Tom Linden, M.D. to discuss his article "Reporting by TV Docs in Haiti Raises Ethical Issues," in the June 2010 issue of Electronic News.

Dave Cupp sits down with Charlie Tuggle to discuss his article "Hey NBC, You Need to Use MPC In Your Olymipic Coverage," in the June 2010 issue of Electronic News.

This video commentary explores the article, “The Uneasy Intersection of Politics and Journalism,” which appears in the March 2011 issue of Electronic News.

Author Cheryl Cooky discusses her co-authored article from the September 2015 issue, "Women, Sports, and Journalism: Examining the Limited Role of Women in Student Newspaper Sports Reporting."

Author Elizabeth Stoycheff discusses her article "Under Surveillance: Examining Facebook's Spiral of Silence Effects in the Wake of NSA Internet Monitoring." Stoycheff elaborates on her findings of perceptions and justification of surveillance practices and the effects on the expression of minority political views. 

Author Gholnecsar Muhammad speaks with editorial assistant Kira Dreher about her article, "Iqra: African American Muslim Girls Reading and Writing for Social Change," which is published in the July 2015 issue of Written Communication. 

Author Chaim Noy talks with editorial assistant Kira Dreher about his article, "Writing in Museums: Toward a Rhetoric of Participation," which is published in the April 2015 issue of Written Communication.  

Guest editor Craig Scott talks with MCQ Editor-in-Chief, Ling Chen, about the special issue on Hidden Organizations that is published in the November 2015 issue of Management Communication Quarterly. 

Special issue editors Srirupa Roy and Paula Chakravartty discuss their special issue, entitled, "Modi and the Media: Indian Politics and the Electroral Aftermath."

Abstract: While elections across the globe today are mediated in the sense of being pervaded by the ambient presence and explicit deployments of varied media, the Indian national elections of 2014 showcase a specific logic of mediated populism that has become globally influential of late. To understand this logic, we examine the contexts and lineages of the present moment of mediated populism, i.e. the wider political-economic dynamics and contexts that shape and embed the Modi phenomenon. We focus on the changing relationship between privatized media across platforms, political elites and conceptions/productions of “the people” that these particular political historical dynamics have effected and enabled.

Former Written Communication editorial assistant Abigail Bakke interviews Dr. Elizabeth Angeli, author of "Three Types of Memory in Emergency Medical Services Communication," featured in the January 2015 issue of the journal.

ABSTRACT:

This article examines memory and distributed cognition involved in the writing practices of emergency medical services (EMS) professionals. Results from a 16-month study indicate that EMS professionals rely on distributed cognition and three kinds of memory: individual, collaborative, and professional. Distributed cognition and the three types of memory reduce cognitive workload during a 911 response, and they help evoke information as an EMS professional composes the legally binding patient care report. In addition to presenting results, the article details the author’s interaction with two institutional review boards, which influenced the study’s methods. The article argues that scholars should conduct more research on the collaborative and distributed nature of memory as it relates to workplace writing practices. Furthermore, the article calls for developing writing research methods that involve participant recollection.

A roundtable discussion on the future of scholarly publishing in a digital age, chaired by Steve Jones. Read the associated issue here.

Journal of Language and Social Psychology special issue editors Drs. Steven McCornack and Timothy Levine discuss research featured in their issue, "Advances in Deception Theory." The issue focuses on two new theories of deception: Information Manipulation Theory 2 (IMT2; McCornack, Morrison, Paik, Wisner, & Zhu, 2014) and Truth Default Theory (TDT; Levine, 2014). These focal works are followed by peer reviewed, expert commentaries by Cole (2014), Greene (2014), Harwood (2014), Walczyk (2014), Van Swol (2014), and Verschuere and Shalvi (2014), and a look at the future of deception theory. 

Christian Vaccarcari from University of Bologna talks to Maurice Vergeer, about his paper, From echo chamber to persuasive device? Rethinking the role of the Internet in campaigns. Read the associated articlehere.

Christine Williams from Bentley University talks to Maurice Vergeer, about her paper, Social networks in political campaigns: Facebook and the congressional elections of 2006 and 2008. Read the associated articlehere.

Podcast 1: Maurice Vergeer  from Radboud University Nijmegen, talks about web campaigning in the 2009 European Parliamentary elections. Read the associated articlehere.

Author Nick Dragojlovic discusses his article for the October 2013 issue, "Framing Synthetic Biology: Evolutionary Distance, Conceptions of Nature, and the Unnaturalness Objection."

Author Chance York discusses his article from the September 2013 issue, "Cultivating Political Incivility: Cable News, Network News, and Public Perceptions."

Author Hans Schmidt discusses his article from the September 2013 issue, "Women, Sports, and Journalism: Examining the Limited Role of Women in Student Newspaper Sports Reporting."

Author Debora Wenger discusses her article from the March 2013 issue, "An Examination of Job Skills Required by Top U.S. Broadcast News Companies and Potential Impact on Journalism Curricula."

Author Richard Mocarski discusses his article from the July 2013 issue, "A Different Kind of Man: Mediated Transgendered Subjectivity, Chaz Bono on Dancing with the Stars."

TVNM Editor Vicki Mayer talks to Guest Editor Miyase Christensen about the special issue on New Media Geographies and the Middle East.

Written Communication Editor Christina Haas talks to John Oddo about his article from the July 2013 special issue, 'Discourse-Based Methods Across Texts and Semiotic Modes: Three Tools for Micro-Rhetorical Analysis.'

Author Janet Yang discusses her article, co-authored with LeeAnn Kahlor, "What, Me Worry? The Role of Affect in Information Seeking and Avoidance" from the April 2013 issue of Science Communication.

IJPP Editor Silvio Waisbord talks to Gadi Wolfsfeld about his article, co-authored with Elad Segev and Tamir Sheafer, 'Social Media and the Arab Spring: Politics Comes First', published in the April 2013 issue of the journal.

Joseph Bartolotta, Editorial Assistant for Written Communication, interviews John R. Hayes, Carnegie Mellon University, about his article "Modeling and Remodeling Writing" published in the July 2012 special issue in his honor.

Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik discusses Workplace Bullying with MCQ editor James Barker in this seventh installment of the Thought Leadership podcast series.

Robert R. Ulmer discusses Crisis Communication with MCQ editor James Barker in this fifth installment of the Thought Leadership podcast series.

Special editors, Miriam Williams and Octavio Pimentel, discuss the July 2012 special issue of JBTC focused on race, ethnicity, and technical communication.

Professor Robert Heath talks with MCQ Editor-in-Chief James Barker about the special MCQ issue on External Organizational Rhetoric

Author Kate Vieira discusses her article, "Undocumented in a Documentary Society: Textual Borders and Transnational Religious Literacies," WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, Vol. 28, No. 4, 436-461 (2011).

Lars Thoger Christensen discusses Organizational Communication with MCQ editor James Barker in the fourth Thought Leadership podcast.

Author Ellen Cushman discusses her article, "The Cherokee Syllabary: A Writing System in Its Own Right," WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, Vol. 28, No. 3, 255-281 (2011).

Peter Monge discusses his work in this second installment of the Thought Leadership podcast series with MCQ editor James Barker.