Journalism Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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International migrants and coronavirus disease 2019 vaccinations: Social Media, motivated information management, and vaccination willingness
(SAGE Publications, 2022-09-22)Objective This study examines how those who were born outside the United States and migrated to the country in the past decade used social media and other online sites to deal with uncertainties around the coronavirus ... -
Knowledge overconfidence is associated with anti-consensus views on controversial scientific issues
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2022-07-20)Public attitudes that are in opposition to scientific consensus can be disastrous and include rejection of vaccines and opposition to climate change mitigation policies. Five studies examine the interrelationships between ... -
‘Outdated and Anachronistic, but That’s Part of the Fun’: Faculty Attitudes and Beliefs Regarding Academic Dress at a Second Land-Grant University
(New Prairie Press, 2020-10-21)This research sought to understand attitudes and behaviours of faculty at Kansas State University and used a previous research study, at Michigan State University, to validate the instrumentation developed while comparing ... -
A health/media literacy intervention improves adults’ interpretations of sugar-sweetened beverage advertising
(National Association for Media Literacy Education, 2020-04-28)Although excessive sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) intake is linked to numerous adverse health consequences, media literacy interventions rarely address the influences of food and beverage marketing with a specific focus ... -
A Little Bit of That from One of Your Grandparents: Interpreting Others’ Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Ancestry Results
(MDPI, 2020-04-30)With more than 25 million tests sold by early 2019, direct-to-consumer genetic ancestry tests expose the public to critical issues of genetics, ancestry, and identity. This study examines how individuals understand the ... -
Digital divide and marginalized women during COVID-19: a study of women recently released from prison
(2021)ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the urgency to bridge the digital divide, as those without reliable internet, adequate devices, and digital literacy skills were severely disadvantaged when most essential ... -
Informal Technology Education for Women Transitioning from Incarceration
(ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2021)As society increasingly relies on digital technologies in many different aspects, those who lack relevant access and skills are lagging increasingly behind. Among the underserved groups disproportionately affected by the ... -
Returning to the Digital World: Digital Technology Use and Privacy Management of Women Transitioning from Incarceration
(New Media and Society, 2022)Based on interviews with 75 women transitioning from incarceration, our research identifies technology access and skills barriers facing this population and their underlying concerns and motivations in navigating privacy ... -
Use of a Smartphone App Versus Motivational Interviewing to Increase Walking Distance and Weight Loss in Overweight/Obese Adults With Peripheral Artery Disease: Pilot Randomized Trial
(JMIR Publications, 2022-03-02)Background: Walking therapy improves functional outcomes in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD). Less is known about the additive benefit of a dietary intervention. Objective: Our objectives were to develop ... -
Social Facilitation in Fear Appeals Creates Positive Affect but Inhibits Healthy Eating Intentions
(Frontiers Media, 2022-03-03)The social facilitation of eating plays a significant role in influencing individuals’ eating decisions. However, how social eating cues are processed in health promotion messages is unclear. This study examined individuals’ ... -
Walking the party line: The growing role of political ideology in shaping health behavior in the United States
(Elsevier, 2021-12-16)Objective To assess the extent to which political ideology affects COVID-19 preventive behaviors and related beliefs and attitudes in the U.S. Methods Two surveys, one using a convenience sample and another using a ... -
#Scamdemic, #Plandemic, or #Scaredemic: What Parler Social Media Platform Tells Us about COVID-19 Vaccine
(MDPI, 2021-04-22)This study aims to understand public discussions regarding COVID-19 vaccine on Parler, a newer social media platform that recently gained in popularity. Through analyzing a random sample (n = 400) of Parler posts using the ... -
Evidence-based Digital Literacy Class for Low-income African-American Older Adults
(Journal of Applied Communication Research, 2019)Based on our community engagement project involving 47 low-income African-American older adults from a senior community center, this study analyzes how an underserved population acquires knowledge and skills related to ... -
Country Characteristics, Internet Connectivity and Combating Misinformation: A Network Analysis of Global North-South
(Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2021)Analyzing data on 152 countries using network and regression analyses, this study examined how countries’ positions in the global Internet network are associated with their political, economic, and technological characteristics, ... -
Special Section on Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation: Introduction
(International Journal of Communication, 2021)From misleading news articles around elections in Brazil and the United States to mob lynchings fueled by false social media messages in India to made-up stories about COVID-19 vaccination, a deluge of disinformation and ... -
Computable Approaches to Rational Choice and Decision-Making
(Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2021)The capacity of agents to act rationally, that is to make choices that positively reflect their interests, is a core assumption underlying democratic governance systems, microeconomics, decision science, market driven ... -
''Does Pakistan still have polio cases?": Exploring discussions on polio and polio vaccine in online news comments in Pakistan
(Elsevier, 2021-01-15)Introduction: Polio, which is caused by poliovirus, is a contagious, potentially crippling, and deadly disease. Pakistan is one of the countries in which polio is still endemic in the 21st century. In 2019, 146 polio cases ... -
The Role of Structural Factors in Antibiotic Use Among European Union Citizens: A Multilevel Analysis
(Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, 2019)Using the 2016 European Commission’s Eurobarometer survey, this study analyzed how a multitude of factors are associated with identification and intention of following proper antibiotic treatment. Multilevel analyses showed ... -
Supporting maintenance of sugar-sweetened beverage reduction using automated versus live telephone support: Findings from a randomized control trial
(BMC, 2018-10-04)Background Although reducing sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) intake is an important behavioral strategy to improve health, no known SSB-focused behavioral trial has examined maintenance of SSB behaviors after an initial ... -
Development, acceptability, appropriateness and appeal of a cancer clinical trials implementation intervention for rural- and minority-serving urology practices
(BMC, 2019-10-07)Background Few community urologists offer cancer patients the opportunity to participate in cancer clinical trials, despite national guidelines that recommend it, depriving an estimated 260,000 urological cancer patients ...
