Academic Publications

Planned Risk Information Avoidance: A Proposed Theoretical Model
Communication Theory, 29, 360-382

Portrayal and Impacts of Climate Change in Advertising and Consumer Campaigns
In M. C. Nisbet (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication. Oxford University Press

A comparison between scientists’ and communication scholars’ views about scientists’ public engagement activities
Public Understanding of Science. 28(1): 101-118

The consequences of forced versus selected political media exposure
Human Communication Research, 45(1), 27–51

Using controlled and field experiments to create and test digital news quizzes
SAGE Research Methods Cases

(Re)Claiming our expertise: Parsing large text corpora with manually validated and organic dictionaries
Political Communication, 36(2), 214-226

Understanding scientists’ willingness to engage
Science Communication, 40(5), 559-590

Enduring Extremes? Polar Vortex, Drought, and Climate Change Beliefs
Environmental Communication, 12(7), 876-894

Twitter versus Facebook: Comparing incivility, impoliteness, and deliberative attributes
New Media & Society, 20(9), 3400–3419

Risky Politics: Applying the Planned Risk Information Seeking Model to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Mass Communication and Society, 21, 697-719

Intensifying the burden: The implications of individual responsibility messages in black female-targeted HIV/AIDS public service announcements
Sex Education, 18 (5), 571-586

Scientists’ views about communication objectives
Public Understanding of Science, 27(6), 708-730

“Hashtag feminism”: Activism or slacktivism?
In: Harp D., Loke J., Bachmann I. (eds) Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research

Never easy to say “sorry”: Exploring the interplay of crisis involvement, brand image, and message appeal in developing effective corporate apologies
Public Relations Review

Microbiologists’ public engagement views and behaviors
Journal of microbiology & biology education, 19(1)

Visual assertions: Effects of photo manipulation and dual processing for food advertisements
Visual Communication Quarterly, 25(1), 16-30

Explaining media choice: The role of issue-specific engagement in predicting interest-based and partisan selectivity
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 62(1), 109-130

#NastyWomen: Reclaiming the twitterverse from misogyny
In: Vickery J., Everbach T. (eds) Mediating Misogyny

Like, recommend, or respect? Altering political behavior in news comment sections
New Media & Society, 19(11)

Entertainment Film and TV Portrayals of Climate Change and Their Societal Impacts
In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science

News values, cognitive biases, and partisan incivility in comment sections
Journal of Communication, 67(4), 586‐609

Attention as a valuable resource
Political Communication, 34(3), 479-489

Two-way communication between scientists and the public: A view from science communication trainers in North America
International Journal of Science Education, Part B, 7(4), 341-355

Scientists’ views about public engagement and science communication in the context of climate change
In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science

Digital divisions: Organizational gatekeeping practices in the context of online news
#ISOJ, The Official Research Journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism, 5(1), 106‐123

The influence of online quizzes on the acquisition of public affairs knowledge
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 13(4), 311-325

The presence and use of interactive features on news websites
Digital Journalism, 4(3), 339-358

Partisan news and political participation: Exploring mediated relationships
Political Communication, 33(2), 241-260

Changing deliberative norms on news organizations’ Facebook sites
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 20 (2), 188–203

Seeing media as out‐group members: An evaluation of bias perceptions
Journal of Communication, 64(5), 874‐894