Academic Publications

Avoiding trouble: Exploring environmental risk information avoidance intentions
2020
Environment and Behavior, 52, 187-218

Enacted journalism takes the stage: How audiences respond to reporting-based theater
2020
Journalism Studies, 21(6), 713-730

The effects of mobile push notifications on news consumption and learning
2020
Digital Journalism, 8(1), 32-48

Exploring how online political quizzes boost interest in politics, political news, and political engagement
2020
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 17(1), 33-47

Shut down or turn off? The interplay between news overload and consumption
2020
Atlantic Journal of Communication, 28(2), 125-137

Can we talk about race? Exploring online comments about race-related shootings
2020
Howard Journal of Communications, 31(1), 35-49

Who Will Win the Reality Game? A propaganda expert’s lessons from the 2016 presidential campaign.
January 5, 2020
Slate

The demand for deceit: How the way we think drives disinformation
January 5, 2020
National Endowment for Democracy

We are fighting fake news AI bots with more AI: That’s a mistake
January 5, 2020
MIT Technology Review
Environmental Risk (and Benefit) Information Seeking Intentions: The Case of Carbon Capture and Storage in Southeast Texas
2019
Environmental Communication, 1-18

Strategic science communication as planned behavior: Understanding scientists’ willingness to choose specific tactics
2019
PloS one, 14(10)

Public perceptions of who counts as a scientist for controversial science
2019
Public Understanding of Science, 28(7), 797–811

Social media engagement with strategy- and issue-framed political news
2019
Journal of Communication, 69(5), 443-466

Fearful Conservatives, Angry Liberals: Information Processing Related to the 2016 Presidential Election and Climate Change
2019
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 96, 742-766

Research Shows How to Advance Public Understanding of Science
2019
Rita Allen Foundation

Scientists, trainers, and the strategic communication of science
2019
In T. Newman (Ed.), Theory and best practices in science communication training (pp. 9-31). Routledge

Effects of message objectivity and focus on green CSR communication: The strategy development for a hotel’s green CSR message
2019
Journal of Marketing Communications, 1-21

The gender gap in online news comment sections
2019
Social Science Computer Review. 2021;39(2):181-196

Survey examines scientists’ attitudes toward public engagement
2019
Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University

No regrets when it comes to health: Anticipated regret, informational subjective norms, information insufficiency and intent to seek information from multiple sources
2019
Health Communication, 1-8

The deliberative influence of comment section structure
2019
Journalism, 20(6), 752–771

Public Perceptions and Information Seeking Intentions Related to Seismicity in Five Texas Communities
2019
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 37, 101147

Breakdown of democratic norms? Understanding the 2016 US presidential election through online comments
2019
Social Media + Society, 5 (2)

The president is in: Public opinion and the presidential use of Twitter
2019
Social Media + Society, 5(2)

We should not get rid of incivility online
2019
Social Media + Society, 5(2)

The ethics of nanotechnology: Pilot testing an evidence-based training module
2019
Nano Ethics, 13, 37-52

‘A chance for me to do good, make a real difference’: how citizen journalists in India view their role in social transformation
2019
Media Practice and Education, 20(4), 334-349

Scientific societies’ support for public engagement: an interview study
2019
International Journal of Science Education, Part B, 9(2), 140-153

Planned Risk Information Avoidance: A Proposed Theoretical Model
2019
Communication Theory, 29, 360-382

Portrayal and Impacts of Climate Change in Advertising and Consumer Campaigns
2019
In M. C. Nisbet (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication. Oxford University Press