The Communication Department is a community of scholars, staff and students engaged in studying and producing communication for the common good.
Together, we seek to model leadership and foster collaboration by encouraging:
- critical understanding of the human communication process and contemporary media
- applied skills in interpersonal and mediated communication
- social engagement and ethical reasoning about all forms of communication
- commitment to service to our university, the discipline, our communities and global society
- integration of theory and practice in our teaching, learning, research, creative work and service
We value the development of the whole person: the mind, the voice, the heart, the spirit. We are committed to understanding and advancing social justice. For us, this involves embracing the diversity of cultures, beliefs and experiences in our increasingly interconnected world. It also includes exploring inequities of communicative power and resources, addressing their causes, and imagining their remedies.
Submissions from 2022
A safer SCU: Report of a student forum on bystander intervention to prevent sexual assault, Chad Raphael
Diversity, equity, and inclusion in Being a Bronco: Report of a student forum, Chad Raphael
How should SCU conserve water? Report of student forums, Chad Raphael
Submissions from 2021
Injured privilege: Beyond “model minority", Hsin-I Cheng
Introduction - Multiculturalism, Communication, and Critical Citizenship Studies, Hsin-I Cheng
Moving from Dialogue to Deliberation about Campus Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Chad Raphael
Submissions from 2019
Experiencing Poverty in an Online Simulation: Effects on Players’ Beliefs, Attitudes and Behaviors about Poverty, Pedro Hernandez-Ramos, Christine M. Bachen, Chad Raphael, John Ifcher, and Michael Broghammer
Democratic Innovations in North America, Christopher F. Karpowitz and Chad Raphael
Engaged Communication Scholarship for Environmental Justice: A Research Agenda, Chad Raphael
Engaged scholarship for environmental justice: A guide, Chad Raphael
Submissions from 2018
Relational citizenship: Examining Taiwanese membership development through immigrant framing in public discourses, Hsin-I Cheng
Engaged scholarship for environmental justice, Chad Raphael
Strengthening engaged scholarship for environmental and social justice (Part 1), Chad Raphael, Christopher M. Bacon, and Iris Stewart-Frey
Strengthening engaged scholarship for environmental and social justice (Part 2), Chad Raphael, Christopher M. Bacon, and Iris Stewart-Frey
Facebook: Changing the face of communication research, Paul A. Soukup
La «Net Neutrality.», Paul A. Soukup
Soap Opera», Molto Più che Intrattenimento: Storia e sviluppo di ungenere di culto, Paul A. Soukup
Submissions from 2017
Authoring: Telling a research story, Laura L. Ellingson
Realistically ever after: Disrupting dominant cancer narratives within cancer advocacy organizations, Laura L. Ellingson
L’Autorità, i nuovi media e la Chiesa, Paul A. Soukup
Submissions from 2016
A Conversation with Jane J. Mansbridge and Martha McCoy, Carolyne Abdullah, Christopher F. Karpowitz, and Chad Raphael
Affinity Groups, Enclave Deliberation, and Equity, Carolyne Abdullah, Christopher F. Karpowitz, and Chad Raphael
Equality and Equity in Deliberation: Introduction to the Special Issue, Carolyne Abdullah, Christopher F. Karpowitz, and Chad Raphael
Equity and Inclusion in Online Community Forums: An Interview with Steven Clift, Carolyne Abdullah, Christopher F. Karpowitz, and Chad Raphael
Equity in School Forums: An Interview with John Landesman, Carolyne Abdullah, Christopher F. Karpowitz, and Chad Raphael
How do presence, flow, and character identification affect players’ empathy and interest in learning from a serious computer game?, Christine Bachen, Pedro F. Hernández-Ramos, Chad Raphael, and Amanda Waldron
On Migrant Workers’ Social Status in Taiwan: A Critical Analysis of Mainstream News Discourse, Hsin-I Cheng
Pictures, patience, and practicalities: Lessons learned from using photovoice in applied communication contexts, Laura L. Ellingson
Ideals of Inclusion in Deliberation, Christopher F. Karpowitz and Chad Raphael
Beyond the “Digital Divide:” The Computer Girls of Seelampur, Sreela Sarkar
Passionate Producers: Corporate Interventions in Expanding the Promise of the Information Society, Sreela Sarkar
Studying soap operas, Paul A. Soukup
Submissions from 2015
Civic play and civic gaps: Can life simulation games advance educational equity?, Christine Bachen, Pedro F. Hernández-Ramos, Chad Raphael, and Amanda Waldron
“Kind, sensitive, and above all honest”: Long-term cancer survivors’ quality of life and self-advocacy, Kristian G.E. Borofka, Justin P. Boren, and Laura L. Ellingson
The future of activism for electronics workers, Chad Raphael and Ted Smith
Health and safety policies for electronics workers, Ted Smith and Chad Raphael
Smartphones, Paul A. Soukup
Submissions from 2014
The Relationships between Co-Rumination, Social Support, Stress, and Burnout among Working Adults, Justin P. Boren
Communicatively Restricted Organizational Stress (CROS) I: Conceptualization and Overview, Justin P. Boren and Alice E. Veksler
In the eyes of the Chinese: Affective construction of cultural identity, Hsin-I Cheng
“The truth must dazzle gradually”: Enriching relationship research using a crystallization framework, Laura L. Ellingson
Grounded Theory, Laura L. Ellingson and Kristian G.E. Borofka
Introduction to Deliberation, democracy, and civic forums: Improving equality and publicity, Chad Raphael and Christopher F. Karpowitz
Remaking the “World-Class City”: The Commonwealth Games as media Event in ‘Emerging India.’, Sreela Sarkar
The “Other” Women in Family Life: Recognizing the Significance of Aunt/Niece/Nephew Communication, Patricia J. Sotirin and Laura L. Ellingson
Looking at, through, and with YouTube, Paul A. Soukup
Political communication, Paul A. Soukup
Submissions from 2013
Co-rumination Partially Mediates the Relationship between Social Support and Emotional Exhaustion among Graduate Students, Justin P. Boren
Examining the Relationships among Peer Resentment Messages Overheard, State Guilt, and Employees' Perceived Ability to Use Work/Family Policies, Justin P. Boren and Shannon L. Johnson
Entrepreneurial Justice: The New Spirit of Capitalism in Emerging India, Paula Chakravartty and Sreela Sarkar
“A wobbly bed still stands on three legs”: On Chinese immigrant women’sexperiences with ethnic community, Hsin-I Cheng
Good publicity: The legitimacy of public communication of deliberation, Chad Raphael and Christopher F. Karpowitz
Information management and delivery of the Bible, Paul A. Soukup
Teologia e Comunicazione. Il Pensiero Di W. J. Ong, Paul A. Soukup
Submissions from 2012
Simulating REAL LIVES: Promoting global empathy and interest in learning through simulation games, Christine Bachen, Pedro F. Hernández-Ramos, and Chad Raphael
An Exploratory Study of Communicatively-Restricted Organizational Stress (CROS) II: Associations with Organizational Stress and Elevated Cholesterol, Justin P. Boren and Alice E. Veksler
Cultural matter as political matter: A preliminary exploration from aChinese perspective, Hsin-I Cheng
Interviewing as embodied communication, Laura L. Ellingson
Beyond the research/service dichotomy: Claiming ALL research products for hiring, evaluation, tenure, and promotion., Laura L. Ellingson and Margaret M. Quinlan
Flow and cooperative learning in civic game play, Chad Raphael, Christine Bachen, and Pedro F. Hernández-Ramos
In commemoration: Walter Ong and the state of theology, Paul A. Soukup
L’insegnamento Islamico in Internet, Paul A. Soukup
Submissions from 2011
Social flow and learning in digital games: A conceptual model and research agenda, Christine Bachen and Chad Raphael
The Impact of an Enacted Social Support Training Intervention on Worklife Interaction and Stress in a Sample of Working Adults, Justin P. Boren and Jess K. Alberts
A Decade of Research Exploring Biology and Communication, Justin P. Boren and Alice E. Veksler
Some Things are Better Left Not Unsaid: An Exploratory Study of the Communicatively-Restricted Organizational Stressor, Justin P. Boren and Alice E. Veksler
Temporally legal: My traveling across borders of im/migration, Hsin-I Cheng
The Poetics of Professionalism Among Dialysis Technicians, Laura L. Ellingson
Communication technology and education, Paul A. Soukup
McLuhan, Religion, Ground, and Cause, Paul A. Soukup
Performing Mythic Identity:An Analysis and Critiqueof “The Ethnogs”, Nick Trujillo, Bob Krizek, Patty Sotirin, Laura L. Ellingson, Melanie Bailey Mills, Shirley Drew, and Chris Poulos
Submissions from 2010
Games for civic learning: A conceptual framework and agenda for research and design, Chad Raphael, Christine Bachen, Kathleen-M. Lynn, Jessica Baldwin-Philippi, and Kristen A. McKee
Women at Work and Home: New Technologies and Labor among Minority Women in Seelampur, Sreela Sarkar
Submissions from 2009
Kissing in Marital and Cohabiting Relationships: Effects on Blood Lipids, Stress, and Relationship Satisfaction, Justin P. Boren, Kory Floyd, Annegret F. Hannawa, Colin Hesse, Breanna McEwan, and Alice E. Veksler
The Influence of Being "Out" on Perceptions of Managerial Credibility and Positive Affect, Justin P. Boren and Mary B. McPherson
Leadership in alternative organizing processes: Invitational and dramaturgical leadership, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Laura L. Ellingson, Christina Silvio, Vicki Pasch, Brenna Dale, Greg Mauro, Erin Smith, Neil Weir, and Couna Martin
“Do we need to make it look good?”: Form, function, and femininity for women with disabilities, Laura L. Ellingson
Ethnography in applied communication research, Laura L. Ellingson
Salvaging, Surrendering, and Saying Goodbye to My Leg, Laura L. Ellingson
Spirituality within the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Process, Laura L. Ellingson
Mentoring relationships: Creating a future for qualitative inquiry, C. Ellis, T. Adams, Laura L. Ellingson, A. Bochner, N. Denzin, A. Durham, D. S. Madison, R. Alexander, R. Pelias, N. Defenbaugh, and L. Richardson
The poetic is political….and other notes on engaged scholarship, Lynn M. Harter, Laura L. Ellingson, Mohan J. Dutta, and S. Norander
Deliberative democracy and inequality: Two cheers for enclave deliberation among the disempowered, Christopher F. Karpowitz, Chad Raphael, and Allen S. Hammond IV
Broadcast Network Documentaries, Chad Raphael
Libel, Chad Raphael
The political-economic origins of Reali-TV, Chad Raphael
Submissions from 2008
Civic engagement, pedagogy, and information technology on Web sites for youth, Christine Bachen, Chad Raphael, Kathleen-M. Lynn, Kristen A. McKee, and Jessica Philippi
Social Exchange Orientation and Conflict Communication in Romantic Relationships, Justin P. Boren, Amy M. Bippus, and Sabrina Worsham
Space Making: Chinese Transnationalism on the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, Hsin-I Cheng
When (Post)coloniality Meets Transnationalism, Hsin-I Cheng
Changing realities and entrenched norms in dialysis: A case study of power, knowledge, and communication in health care delivery, Laura L. Ellingson
Communication within the comprehensive geriatric assessment, Laura L. Ellingson
Autoethnography as Constructionist Project, Laura L. Ellingson and Carolyn Ellis
The New Middle-Class, Technology and Modernity in Seelampur, Sreela Sarkar
Considering a Catholic View of Evangelical Media, Paul A. Soukup
Technology, Theology, Thinking, and the Church, Paul A. Soukup
Submissions from 2007
The Performance of Dialysis Care: Routinization and Adaptation on the Floor, Laura L. Ellingson
Greenpeace Greenspeak: A Transcultural Discourse Analysis, Bettina Heinz, Hsin-I Cheng, and Ako Inuzuka
The digital divide, Chad Raphael
