Faculty members, graduate students and alumni from the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications shared expert insights and received multiple awards at the Association for Education in Journalism...

This study aims to investigate how an influencer’s response to a crisis impacts reputation of and behaviors supporting the influencer. The mediating r…

The Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association welcomes you to submit your paper or panel to the 2023 Annual Conference!

The U.S. fell seven places to 64 out of 180 countries for press freedom according to the World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders.

Social media foster a News-Finds-Me perception (NFM), whereby individuals believe important news will “find them” without actively seeking it. Although the nega...

While benefit-based advertising appeals hold promise in encouraging charitable donations, there is no consensus on which beneficiary focus (self vs. other) is more persuasive. Through a meta-analyt...

In the early years of the Cold War, American journalism helped construct a world defined by enemies, uncertainty, and invisible threats. That framework didn’t disappear; it became embedded in how news...

NEW EPISODE IN YOUR FEED!! Here at Unruly Subjects you know we’re celebrating May Day ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 So this week, we’re featuring two interviews that help us think through this critical question: What does...

When Subu Vedam was seized by ICE last October, he thought he’d be released in a matter of weeks, if not days.  After all, his murder conviction had been

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This event through the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making will bring together several scholars in the social sciences and humanities to talk about different disciplinary approaches to the study of “f...

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Local newspapers have long played a central role in how communities understand themselves, but that role is becoming harder to sustain. In this episode of News

Meet my pal Foley. Foley and I met two weeks ago and we immediately became attached to each other. In fact, we became inseparable.  Though I did not

Apart from the Series, the most prestigious speakers in Life Sciences are invited to give a lecture within Mendel Lectures, which are held in the Refectory of Augustinian Abbey at Mendel square.

Join us for the 2026 MPCA/ACA annual conference in Muncie, Indiana, on October 9-11, 2026.

BMC Geriatrics - There is growing interest in using digital health technologies to deliver Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) for people with dementia, given the potential to improve access and...

With the growing number of brands entering the metaverse, the influence of consumer interactions on brand-related attitudes and behaviors remains understudied. To address this gap, we conducted an ...

Crises affecting one organization can spill over and damage the reputation of uninvolved others. This study investigates how the similarity and temporal distance of an organization's crisis history, ...

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My academic home at Penn State is the College of Communications, but at heart, I’m a humanities guy.  My bachelor’s degree was in Creative Writing,

This study analyzes doctoral education trends in journalism and mass communications. Dissertation (N = 643) from ACEJMC-accredited schools from 2019 to 2024 wer...

Penn State Center for Social Data Analytics and the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making, in collaboration with the Social Science Research Institute, has announced the recipients of their most recent ...

Discover the world's top universities for Communication & Media Studies 2026. Explore the QS World University Rankings by Subject in various disciplines.

Longtime Penn State faculty member John Sanchez, who earned awards for his teaching and impact, served as an expert on media ethics, and created the popular Penn State Traditional American Indian Poww...

"Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" brings you everything you need to know to get ahead as the trading day begins in Asia. Bloomberg TV is live from Tokyo and Sydney with Shery Ahn and Paul Allen, getting ins...

faculty.westacademic.com: Carter, Franklin, Sanders, and Wright’s The First Amendment and the Fourth Estate: The Law of Mass Media, 14th: This casebook provides a thorough examination of the law of ma...

The AEJMC Southeast Colloquium holds the distinction of being the oldest and most established regional gathering within AEJMC. First convened in 1976, the colloquium was created as an intimate, access...

SJMC's own Dr. Bingbing Zhang was awarded the 2026-27 Distinguished Mentor Award from the University of Iowa Office of Undergraduate Research! This student-nominated award is granted to faculty who d...

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Background As recovery stories about eating disorders proliferate on social media, many individuals with lived experience are emerging as informal health influencers. While these online spaces can off...