2025 Interest Group Award Winners

• Satarupa Dasgupta

• Samuel Ajala

• Raisa Alvarado

• Shannon Burth, Srividya Ramasubramanian, Alexandra Scrivner, and Fuhaid Alajmi

How Student Journalists Shape Global Social Movements: Analyzing Gaza Solidarity Encampments Across 14 Campus Newspapers

• Juliet Letteney

Donning the Den of Degeneracy: Détournement in T-Shirt Rhetoric as Solidarity in Academic Freedom

• Sherri Williams

Black Social Television: How Black Twitter Changed Television

• Jasmine Austin & Tianna Cobb

Critical Race Theory and Intersectional Approaches to Qualitative Organizational Communication Research, published in Dis/organization and Communication: Reimagining Institutions in Practice (SAGE, 2024)

• Travis Bell & Jaime Shamado Robb

(Re)coding the "Black quarterback": A 20-year critical quantitative analysis of racial stacking and the mediated dichotomy between "pro-style" and "dual-threat"

• Travis Dixon, Marisa A. Smith, Om Sai Krishna Madhav Lella, Deja Dena Rollins

#ConferenceSoWhite: A Computational Content Analysis of National Communication Association Conference Presentation Titles

• Shelby Crow

Navigating A White Habitus: Black Resistance, Memory, and Temporality at the Whitney Plantation

• Max Dosser

If It Ain't Woke, Don't Fix It: The Revanchism of Bad Object (Anti-) Fans

• Allegro Wang

Time-Space Compression: Drone Surveillance on the US-Mexico Border

• Stephanie Fox, Kirstie McAllum, and Leena Mikkola

Interprofessional Communication in Health and Social Care: Theoretical Perspectives on Practical Realities

• Jessica Ford, Rebecca Rice, Ryan Bisel, Ryan Bisel, Trevor Howard, William Howe, Kirstie McAllum, Arden Roeder, Amber Lynn Scott, and Elizabeth Williams

Navigating Complexity: A Forum on Communication Research in High Reliability Organizations

• Shelby Cefaratti-Bertin & Ashley Barrett

Exploring Resilience and Meaningful Work in Rape Crisis Advocacy

• Mohamed Zayani & Joe F. Khalil

The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East

• DaJung Woo

When resource dependency discourse dominates interorganizational collaboration: A case study of a statewide effort to end homelessness

• Clarissa Bowers

Restoring Voice: A Narrative-Responsive Framework for the Trauma-Informed Care of Persons with Birth Trauma

• Terrell Jake Dionne

Subordinating Plains Indians through Conservation Law: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Bison Protection Debate

• Ryan Neville-Shepard

• Robert Hinck, Edward Hinck, and Shelly Schaefer Hinck

(In)civility and Presidential Image Making: Politeness Strategies of the 2024 Presidential Debates

• Molly Martin

All over Any: Definitional History and Argument in Constructing Autism Spectrum Disorder

• Amy Whiteside

Victims of Stage and Screen: Parasocial Savior Rhetoric and Coded Social Critique at the Convergence of Celebrity & Conspiracy Cultures

• Anjana Mudambi & Haridhra Radhakrishnan

Communicating Caste-Blindness through Frames of Colorblind Racism: Elevating the Role of American-Born Desis

• Hsuan-I Huang & Zhi Luo

Defining Border: Stoppage and Mobility in Discourses of Leaving China

• David C. Oh

• Yea-Wen Chen

• Anirban Baishya

Viral Nationalism: Right wing Media and the Aesthetics of Distributed Participation

• Darshana Sreedhar Mini

Rated A: Soft-porn cinema and Mediations of Desire in India (University of California Press, 2024)

• Megu Itoh

Tracing Transcolonial Intimacies: Relational Resistance Through the Occupation of Japan (1945-1952)

• Mark Ward Sr.

Ward Sr., M. (2022). Introduction to Public Speaking: An Inductive Approach. FlatWorld.

• Jill Underhill, Victoria Ledford, and Hillary Adams

Autism Stigma in Communication Classrooms: Exploring Peer Attitudes and Motivations Toward Interacting with Atypical Students

• Michael Rapp

• Bradley University

• Sergio Fernando Juarez

Transgressing Linguistic Hegemony: Reimagining Public Speaking Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy

• Franklin Kimmell

From Public Speaking to Public Playing: Envisioning Drag Pedagogy in Introductory Communication Courses

• Rhunette Diggs

• Sean Upshaw

• Kyle Chitwood

Sights and Sound Systems: Communicating Reggae Sound System Knowledge Through Visual Media Representations

• Yujun Lin

Latent gaze: The gaze of gay college students toward heterosexual men on social media

• Suzy Prentiss

• Chia-Fang (Sandy) Hsu

THAT’S NOT MY JOB: How Communication Apprehension, Communication Competence, and Communication Attitudes Influence Career Satisfaction among Engineers

• Heyun Zhang

Against Algorithm: The Struggle for Power in Labor Relations Under Platform Data Sharing

• Miranda N. Rouse, Laura Stengrim, & Elizabeth Reeves O'Conner

Valuing Collaboration Between Foundational Communication Courses and Communication Centers to Support Inclusivity And Diversity

• Michael R. Kearney

A Communication Ethic of Dialogic Reformation: Nicholas of Cusa on Care for Communities in Crisis

• Alexander W. Morales

Skepticism as Ethos: David Hume's Response to the Epistemological Revolution

• Terrell Jake Dionne

• R. Amanda Cooper, Alexandra McNamara, and Heather Gahler

Examining the Effects of Viewing Positive Aging TikTok Videos on Aging Outcomes and Attitudes Among Young, Middle-Aged and Older Women

• Qinyue Yu

Augmented Reality Reminiscence Therapy to Enhance Cognitive Function and Well-Being in Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Kevin Johnson & Craig Smith

Fear and the First Amendment: Controversial Cases of the Roberts Court

• Susan Sarapin

Etched, not Set, in Stone: Communicating Religion in Public Schools May Elevate Morality, But Leave This Stone Un(over)turned

• Mir Hasib

AI Policy and Ethics: A Comparative Study of the U.S., EU, and UN Approaches

• Kayla Rhidenour

Mediating Medical Marijuana: Exploring How Veterans Discuss their Stigmatized use on Reddit

• Kelly Rossetto & Jennifer Owlett

Social Media as an (Un)Supportive Resource for Military Partners Coping with Military Lifestyle Challenges

• Jonathan Baker

Cover of Military Policies on Trans Service Members and Veterans: A CCA Analysis

• Michael Mason

A Reflection on a Decade of Seeking Assistance: Military Mental Health

• David Keating

Persuasive message effects via activated and modified belief clusters: toward a general theory

• Dan Totzkay

• Sovannie Len & Kyungin Kim

Who Matters in Asian American Movies? A Content Analysis of Subgroup Representation and Intergroup Dynamics

• Rebecca Baumler

Using gender-inclusive restrooms promotes positive attitudes toward trans and non-binary people: Explanations from gender salience and intergroup contact

• Patrick Gentile

• Lillian B. Feder

Collegiate Athletes' and Coaches' Communicative Constitution of Resilience: A Case Study

• Logan Breidenbach

One Nation Under Bra: Mediating Gendered Citizenship Through Iconic Photography

• Aolin Lin, Feiyang Li, Zijun Liu, Bingcan Li, Xiaoying Su, Jiaheng Li, Danqing Feng

Who Initiates the Next Dialogue? How a Novel AI Shopping Assistant Shapes Consumers' Behavioral Intentions

• Juven Nino Villacastin & Chaerin Song

Does AI Consider the User’s Face?: Conceptual and Empirical Notes on AI Facework in Human-AI Interpersonal Communication

• Trevor Kauer

Restructuring Rurality: Adopting a Socially Constructed Identity-Based and Community-Engaged Approach to Defining Rural Cancer Disparities

• Yiran Wang

Written in Stone, Told in Media: How Latvian Media Construct National Identity through the Freedom Monument?

• Charles Athanasopoulos

Black Iconoclasm: Public Symbols, Racial Progress, and Post/Ferguson America

• Srividya Ramasubramanian

• Diana Leon-Boys

• Michael Lechuga & Noor Ghazal Aswad

“Decolonization” as metaphor, not movement, in communication studies: A critical thematic meta-analysis of the discipline

• Kundai Chirindo & Eddah Mutua

Toward an African Critical Orientation

• Reed Van Schenck

The Reactionary Web: Digital Media and the Reconstitution of White Supremacist Networks after the Alt-Right

• Satarupa Dasgupta

• Samantha Gillespie

The Church of TikTok: Rhetoric, Labor, and Psychopolitics

• Nathaniel Lubanga

Visualizing Resistance: A Textual Analysis of Philippines’ War on Drugs Photography and its Role in Civil Sphere Democracy

• Elaine Wittenberg & Joy V. Goldsmith

• Christian Seiter

Death Walks into a Bar: Humor and Profanity in Advance Care Planning Messages

• Christian Seiter

“My Uterus is a Fetal Graveyard”: Using the Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement to Examine Infertility Grief

• Allison D. Brenneise

• Chuck Kaminski & Lynn Harter

The Socio-Material and Narrative Nature of Inclusive Place-Making

• Kendal Catherine Lyssy, Evan Kirksey

Participant observation and academic disablement: A duoethnograpic exploration of the experiences of disabled scholars

• Win (Gaurav) Aung

Gucci Advertisements and the Dissemination of Neoliberal Ideology

• Eddie Gamboa

Border Productions of Loss: Naturalized Violence and Sensorial Solidarities from the Paso del Norte

• Noor Ghazal Aswad & Michael Lechuga

Led by the land: Recovering land agency and interconnectedness in social movement scholarship

• Shiv Ganesh

• Kundai Chirindo & Phaedra Pezzullo

Soy Porque Somos: Touring and Planting Trees as Convivial Rhetoric on a Precarious Planet

• Lynda Olman & Birgit Schneider

Global Forest Visualization: From Green Marbles to Storyworlds

•  Pavithra Prasad, Angela Labador, Ana Isabel Terminel Iberri, Drew Finney, Marco Dehnert & Lore/tta LeMaster

Phantasms in the Halls: A Future University is Possible (or) … a performative response to la paperson, Stefano Harney, Fred Moten, and Julietta Singh

• Richie Neil Hao

(Trans)national Tsina/oys: Hybrid Performances of Chinese and Filipina/o Identities

• Lore/tta LeMaster

“After Inclusion: A Trans Relational Meditation on (Un)Belonging”—published in Neal Lester’s (ed.) Social Justice in Action: Voices of Campus and Community

• Hsin-I Sydney Yueh & Renu Pariyadath

Speaking “Broken” English: Linguistic Minorities Building Cross-Cultural Alliances in US Higher Education

• Mike Alvarez

A Slow but Inevitable Submersion:' Performing Suicidality and Recovery through Autoethnographic Poetry

• Courtney Kleppinger

Holler in My Blood: An Autoethnographic Examination of Appalachian Identity

• Kathi Groenendyk

Top SPARK Award: Communication Skill Development with Virtual Reality Role-Playing

• Jordan Soliz & Colleen Warner

Navigating Relationships in the Modern Family: Communication, Identity and Difference

• Denise Solomon, Leanne Knobloch, Jennifer Theiss, and Rachel McLaren

Relational turbulence theory: Explaining variation in subjective experiences and communication within romantic relationships

• Paul Schrodt

• R. Amanda Cooper

• Hannah Jones

Communal Coping and Relational Turbulence Between Emerging Adult Children and their Surviving Parent After the Experience of Parental/Partner Death

• Paul Schrodt

Interparental Conflict and Parent-Child Triangulation: A Meta-Analytical Review of Children Feeling Caught between Parents

• Abigail Olajire

“I’m here, but at the same time I am not from here”: First-Generation African Migrants' Memorable Messages and Absences about Migration from Family Members

• Sherri Williams

Black Social Television: How Black Twitter Changed Television

• Lore/tta LeMaster & Michael Tristano Jr.

Performing (Asian American Trans) Femme on RuPaul’s Drag Race: Dis/orienting Racialized Gender, or, Performing Trans Femme of Color, Regardless

• Raisa Fernanda Alvarado

• Guan Wang & Shaheen Kanthawala

“Douyin is taming us”: Visibility, governance, and feminist discourses on Douyin

• Sumeyya Akdilek

Standing Together or Standing Apart? Feminist Identity and Relational Negotiation

• Pranaav Jadhav & Jared Schroeder

Playing the Long Game: Considering the Roberts Court’s Online Speech Decisions Through the Game Theory Lens

• Ashley Jones

Playing Through Glitch and Ephemerality: Exploring Femnist and Queer Play as Sites of Disruption in Walking Simulators

• Jiahang Xu, Kunyue Xu, Zhuang Rui, Xin Zou, Bowen Shi

A Gender Storm in Chinese Gaming: Investigating Online Polarization in the Black Myth: Wukong Controversy

• Patrick McKelvey

Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation

• Ben Brandley

A Communication Approach to Asexual People of Color’s Experiences with Allonormativity

• Zhiqiu Zhou

Performing lowbrowness: How Chinese queer people negotiate visibility on short-video platforms

• Satarupa Dasgupta

Examination of Identity Negotiation, Sexual Health Behavior, and Healthcare-Seeking Behavior of Transgender Sex Workers in India

• Ben Brandley & Shinsuke Eguchi

A Found Poetry Analysis of Queer and Trans Mormon Healing

• Edwin Ramirez

Cruising the Ga(y)ze: A Critical Textual Analysis of The Tearoom

• Paul Hangsan Ahn, Hyelin Park

(How) can organizations guarantee breakthroughs? Osborn’s hybrid brainstorming—where exhaustive individual effort was a prerequisite—and a systems model of ideation

• Leona Yinglang Pang

AI or Human? Group Reactions to Expert Disagreement in Decision-Making

• Kimberly Parker

• Elaine Wittenberg, Joy Goldsmith, Sandra Ragan, and Terri Parnell

Communication in Palliative Nursing: The COMFORT Model (2nd Edition)

• Aurora Occa

• Elizabeth Hintz

• Ambar Basu

• Stephanie Tong & Brandon Van Der Heide

Up to Date: Communication and Technology in Romantic Relationships

• America Edwards

Maintaining Ties in the Digital Age: How Self-Disclosure and Co-Rumination Shape Mother-Daughter Communication Amidst the College Transition

• Yang Chen, Zhuolun Ren, Lihua Du, & XING LYU

Will I be manipulated by algorithmic gaslight? Dual ghost of algorithmic censorship, users’ self-censorship, and daily algorithmic auditing on social media

• Yichu Yang

Navigating Relational Uncertainty through Songsan Guanxi: Chinese Youth’s Construction of Expandable Loose Ties on Dating Apps

• Tiffany R. Wang

Understanding the Memorable Messages First-Generation College Students Receive from On-Campus Mentors

• Alan K. Goodboy

• Jordan Atkinson

• Cassidy Taladay, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and colleagues

The Graduate Classroom as a Site for Critical Reflexivity in (Un)Learning Culture in Health Communication: A Collaborative Autoethnography

• Han Zhang, Zinyi Cheng, Zhihao Meng

Exploring the Role of Faculty-Student Relationships in Preventing Social Media Addiction through Propensity Score Matching

• Hsin-I Sydney Yueh & Renu Pariyadath

Speaking “Broken” English: Linguistic Minorities Building Cross-Cultural Alliances in US Higher Education

• Srividya Ramasubramanian

The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice

• Bilge Yesil

Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order

• Dacheng Zhang

A Critical Qualitative Study of Community-Driven Artmaking and its Praxis in Cultural Resistance

• Rheyna Bui

Hyphenated Journeys: Identity Negotiations of Multiethnic Vietnamese Americans Through the Lens of Hybridity

• Michael Tristano Jr.

• Mamunor Rashid and Jae-Hwa Shin

Romancing Black Internationalist Solidarities: Everyday Intimacies as Collective Liberation in Occupied Japan (1945-1952)

• Kellie Brisini

• Amnee Elkhalid, Ethan Morrow, and Trisha Leong

“Do you need a green card or something?” Romantic relationships, citizenship, and stigmatizing communication

• Arielle Leonard Hodges

Investigating the Experiences of Evangelical Couples Coping with Painful Intercourse During Early Marriage

• Kyungin Kim

Undocumented College Students’ Career-Related Communication with Their Parents and the Ecological Vocational Anticipatory Socialization Model

• Heather Davenport

“Panicked Responsibility”: Confidant perspectives of disclosure and information-management in university student affairs

• Kyungin Kim, Jennifer Kam, Ricardo Delgado Solis, Karla Vazquez, Roselia Mendez Murillo, Monica Cornejo, Andrew High

Exploring the Effects and Content of Gratitude Expressions in Latina/o/x/e Couples Experiencing Migration-Based Family Separation: A Mixed-Methods Study

• Rachel McKenzie, Lisa Hwang

Linguistic Agency and Causality in Support Seeking: Effects on Politeness in Online Support Messages

• Jungyoon Koh

Interaction With and About Conversational User Interfaces: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Approach

• Thomas Martine, Boris Brummans, and Francois Cooren

• Todd Sandel

Shared Eating with Chopsticks: Coordinated Action and Turn Design

• Michael Guarino

Socializing Self-Management and Survivorhood: Patient-Doctor Positioning and Personal Responsibility in Rare Disease Patient Narratives

• Zazil Reyes Garcia AND Leandra Hernandez, Marissa Medina, and Gabrielle Y Garzz

Marginalized Narratives in True Crime AND Violence, Trauma, and Grievability at the U.S. Mexico Border

• Javier Rivera

No Sabo Kids and the Cringeworthiness of Insufficiency

• Leandra Hinojosa Hernández

• Sarah De Los Santos Upton

• Jose Izaguirre

Becoming La Raza: Negotiating Race in the Chican@ Movement(s)

• Luis M. Andrade

“‘Diez Tacos y Una Diet Coke Pa’ La Dieta’ (Ten Tacos and a Diet Coke for the Diet): A Cookbook to Reveal Colonial/Modern Impulses to Over/Not/Undereat”

• José Maldonado

México Pésimo: Colosio’s Metanoic and Magnicidal Leadership

• Rebecca Frazer, Matthew Grizzard, C. Joseph Francemone, Kaitlin Fitzgerald, and Christina Henry

Character Individuation and Disposition Formation: An Experimental Exploration

• David Rhea

• Nancy Jennings

• Jennifer Nvene

Hype, Fear, or Innovation? A 90-Day Post-Launch Comparative Analysis of ChatGPT and DeepSeek in Chinese and U.S. Print Media Headlines

• Quan Nguyen

The News Framing on Generative AI: Media Narrative Patterns and News Framing Strategies of Major News Publishers in the United States

• John Baldwin

• Breanna De Leeuw

Motives for and Consequences of Deception in Romantic Relationships

• Madison McBride

#Girls Gone Viral: Girlification Trends and the Digital Postfeminist Sensibility

• Breck Gillespie

Gender Bias and the Long Shot Launch Advertisement

• Sean Bloemetjie & Joanna Nian Chang

Justice Is Not For Us: Online Discourse of the State-Sanctioned Execution of Marcellus Williams//////// International Master students’ Classroom Learning Experience: A Comparison of Chinese and English Language Instruction

• Ellen Alley

• Karissa Hernandez

• TBA

• TBA

• Vernon Miller & Marshall Poole

Organizational Communication Theory and Research

• Gail Fairhurst & Guowei Jian

Phronetic pivoting between compliance and care: Engaging paradoxes and disequilibrium in organizing risk

• Kevin Barge

• Timothy Kuhn

What Do Corporations Want?: Communicative Capitalism, Corporate Purpose, and a New Theory of the Firm

• Erika Dakin Kirby

• Rebecca Leach

• Anna Wolfe

• Dani Soibelman

• Marianne LeGreco, Eric Eisenberg, and Angela Trethewey

Organizational Communication: Balancing Creativity and Constraint (9th Edition)

• Meina Liu

Bridging Hearts and Minds: Compassion, Holistic Thinking, and Shared Mental Models in Cross-Cultural Dispute Resolutions

• Chandi Raj Dahal

"Peace has given us a chance": Nepali women's accounts of a decade long civil war

• Shauna M. MacDonald

• Eddie Gamboa

Border Productions of Loss: Naturalized Violence and Sensorial Solidarities from the Paso del Norte

• Mariam Da'Mes

Windows to our Homeland: Poetic Dialogues of Palestinian Granddaughter and Grandmother in the Diaspora

• Hunter Fine

Spatial Performativity and Indigeneity: Unpacking Logo- and Land-Centricity in Traditional Austronesian Seafaring

• Caitlin Bruce

Voices in Aerosol: Youth Culture, Institutional Attunement, and Graffiti in Urban Mexico

• Matt Lindia

ON THE DECONSTRUCTION OF NOTHINGNESS IN DIGITAL COMMUNICATION

• Joshua Barnett

Ecological Feelings: A Rhetorical Compendium

• Terrell Jake Dionne

“Regret,” published in Ecological Feelings: A Rhetorical Compendium (Michigan State University Press, 2025)

• Zane Willard

Ambivalent Surveillance: Teaching in the Times of Anti-Woke

• Qin Li

In People We Trust: How Trust and Network Closure Impact Factual Beliefs and Misinformation Sharing

• Sangwon Lee, Edson C. Tandoc, Jr., & Trevor Diehl

Uninformed and Misinformed: Advancing a Theoretical Model for Social Media News Use and Political Knowledge

• Luke Winslow

Oligarchy in America: Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few

• Gregory Griffin

Only You Can Prevent the Apocalypse: Donald Trump, American Carnage, and Egotism at the Brink

• Wonjeong Jo and Magdalena Wojcieszak

Rejection of Cross-cutting News Depends on News Sources, Content, and Cultural Contexts: Evidence from Online Trace Data

• Tatenda Mashanda

Rhetoric and Resistance: Zimbabwean Nationalists, U.S. Diplomacy, and Cold War Struggles for Zimbabwe’s Independence (1976–1979)

• Pamela VanHaitsma

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power

• Andre E. Johnson

• Sam Shear

Therapeutic Suffering: Health and Fitness in the Manosphere

• Julia Simoes

Fostering Voice, Inviting Dialogic Transformation: Exploring Emergent Communication Practices in Community Collaboration Efforts

• Wangari (Anne) Njathi & Brandi Watkins

Digital Public Relations and Marketing Communication Trends in Africa

• Brigitta Brunner

• Jeannette Iannacone

Mapping social networks: A qualitative approach to networked public relations scholarship

• Enzhu Dong, Yeunjae Lee & Dalee Yoon

Promoting Environmental Sustainability through Employee Green Voice: The Role of Senior Green Leadership

• Amin Makkawy & Shane Moreman

Wellbeing for the blind and visually impaired: An arts-based cripistemological ethnography of Alexandria, Egypt’s Taha Hussein Library

• Sahar Khamis

• Walid Afifi

• Khori Cranford

“My Grandmother’s Hands:” A Reflective Essay on Armenian Diasporan Identity and Survivance

• Fariba Pajooh

Traditional Symbolism and Symbolic Interactionism in Contemporary Iran: The Poetry of Hafez and Kheradmandan’s Thursday Appointment

• Moumita Roy

• Yidi Wang

• Nicholas Lacy

• Veronica Wilson

• Matthew E. Martin

• Nadia Johnson

He Wrote So They Could Repeat: A Rhetorical Critique of Spike Lee's Exposé of Darker-skinned Black Girls' Hair Experiences in School Daze to Comprehend Texturism in Contemporary Film and Television

• Michelle Miller-Day

All the World's a Stage: The Use of Participatory Theatre in Communication Research

• Phillip Cicero

Re-Mythologizing AI in the Loneliness Epidemic: Plantonic AI Companions & Communicative Labor

• Pavitra Kavya

• Steven Mortenson & Kami Silk

Meeting the Challenges of Executing and Assessing Implicity Bias Training: A Triangulated Qualitative Approach

• Communication, Media, and Screen Studies Department at Southern Connecticut State University

• Raquel Moreira