Recent Updates

2025

  • [Apr-2024] Our manuscript titled “This Really Happened: Investigating Emotional Responses to Nonfictional Eudaimonic Narratives of Opioid Use Disorder” has been accepted to present at International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL) 2025 in Austin, Texas.
  • [Feb-2025] New Publication Alert on Frontier In Communication “Is it safe? The Effect of Narrative vs. Non-narrative Messages on Story-Related Knowledge of Medicated Abortion”
  • [Feb-2025] New Publication Alert on International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction “Consumers’ Emotional Responses to AI-Generated Versus Human-Generated Content: The Role of Perceived Agency, Affect and Gaze in Health Marketing”

2024

  • [Sep. 2024] Our manuscript titled “Is it safe?: The Effect of Narrative vs. Non-narrative Messages on Story-Related Knowledge of Medicated Abortion” co-authored with Judy Watts and Austin Hubner, has been accepted to present at NCA 110th Annual Convention in New Orleans.
  • [Mar. 2024] New Publication Alert on Vaccine “Pandemic antecedents – Exploring predictivity and relationships between COVID-19 vaccine uptake and influenza, shingles, and HPV vaccination”
  • [Jan. 2024] New Publication Alert “on Journal of Health Communication “A Friendly Conversation.” Developing an eHealth Intervention to Increase COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination Literacy Among Women with Criminal and Legal System Involvement“

2023

  • [May. 2023] Two abstract panels have been accepted to present at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference (AEJMC). Washinton DC. The first one titled “An Investigation of Information Use Among Pro-Life Kansas Republicans During Political Campaigns” and the second titled “Body Image and Food Content on TikTok: Exploring the Influence of TikTok Videos on Users’ Body Image” (co-organized with Ding Hecheng and Lisovskaia Ekaterina).
  • [Jan. 2023] Our paper titled “Hoax, Fraud, Scam, or Lie: A Corpus Analysis of Strategies Used by Fox News to Dismiss Climate Change in the Last Two Decades” has been accepted to present at the 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference (ICA) in Toronto, Canada (co-authored with Hong Tien Vu, Manzur Maswood, Yiwen Wu).