Academic Publications

Housing-based Inequities in Microbial Exposure and Respiratory Infection Risk
The Bridge

Strategic Science Communication: A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for More Effective Public Engagement
Johns Hopkins University Press

Strategic communication as planned behavior for science and risk communication: A theory-based approach to studying communicator choice
Risk Analysis

Psychological distance, risk perception, and affect: Texas residents’ support for carbon capture and storage
Journal of Risk Research

Framing climate change mitigation technology: The impact of risk versus benefit messaging on support for carbon capture and storage
International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America
Newspaper Research Journal

Extending the Spiral of Silence: Theorizing a Typology of Political Self-Silencing
Communication Studies

Indexing theory during an emerging health crisis: how U.S. TV news indexed elite perspectives and amplified COVID-19 misinformation
Annals of the International Communication Association

El periodismo prioritiza la necesidad básica de sobrevivir
Journalism Research Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University

Science communication fellowship programs as gatekeepers
Public Understanding of Science

Facebook reactions as heuristics: Exploring relationships between reactions and commenting frequency on news about COVID-19
First Monday

Network Amplification of Politicized Information and Misinformation about COVID-19 by Conservative Media and Partisan Influencers on Twitter
Political Communication

Avoiding Covid-19 risk information in the United States: The role of attitudes, norms, affect, social dominance orientations, and perceived trustworthiness of scientists
Risk Analysis

Who Do You Think Wrote It?: Stakeholder Tensions in a Case of Anonymous Organizational Whistleblowing
Western Journal of Communication

Passive learning and incidental exposure to news
Journal of Communication

Audio misinformation on WhatsApp: A case Study from Lebanon
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review

Digital Propaganda: The Power of Influencers
Journal of Democracy

Exploring low-income African American and Latinx caregiver perspectives on asthma control in their children and reactions to messaging materials
Journal of Asthma

Electoral Confusion: Contending with Structural Disinformation in Communities of Color
Protect Democracy

Understanding high-achieving publicly engaged scientists’ commitment to engage: push, pull, and drag forces
JCOM 21

US American Scholars Are Finding Paths to Engagement through their Research Institutes and Centers
Public Communication of Research Universities

Perceived Successfulness of Public Engagement at Research Institutes
Public Communication of Research Universities

Chat Apps and Cascade Logic: A Multi-Platform Perspective on India, Mexico, and the United States
Social Media + Society

Nanoscientists’ perceptions of serving as ethical leaders within their organization: Implications from ethical leadership for responsible innovation
Journal of Responsible Innovation

Conservative News Audiences A Lack of Media Trust and How They Think Journalism Can Improve
The Future of the Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy: After Trump

Platformed antisemitism on Twitter: Anti-Jewish rhetoric in political discourse surrounding the 2018 US midterm election
New Media & Society

Effect of Context on Scientists’ Normative Beliefs
Science Communication, 44(1), 86–107

Risk perception, affect, and information avoidance during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election
Journal of Risk Research

Effects of a high-person-centered response to commenters who disagree on readers’ positive attitudes toward a news outlet’s Facebook page
Digital Journalism