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.

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Submissions from 2022

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A safer SCU: Report of a student forum on bystander intervention to prevent sexual assault, Chad Raphael

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Diversity, equity, and inclusion in Being a Bronco: Report of a student forum, Chad Raphael

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How should SCU conserve water? Report of student forums, Chad Raphael

Submissions from 2021

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Injured privilege: Beyond “model minority", Hsin-I Cheng

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Introduction - Multiculturalism, Communication, and Critical Citizenship Studies, Hsin-I Cheng

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Moving from Dialogue to Deliberation about Campus Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Chad Raphael

Submissions from 2019

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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

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Democratic Innovations in North America, Christopher F. Karpowitz and Chad Raphael

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Engaged Communication Scholarship for Environmental Justice: A Research Agenda, Chad Raphael

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Engaged scholarship for environmental justice: A guide, Chad Raphael

Submissions from 2018

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Relational citizenship: Examining Taiwanese membership development through immigrant framing in public discourses, Hsin-I Cheng

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Book award interview: Chad Raphael, Investigated reporting: Muckrakers, regulators, and the struggle over television documentary, Chad Raphael

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Engaged scholarship for environmental justice, Chad Raphael

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Strengthening engaged scholarship for environmental and social justice (Part 1), Chad Raphael, Christopher M. Bacon, and Iris Stewart-Frey

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Strengthening engaged scholarship for environmental and social justice (Part 2), Chad Raphael, Christopher M. Bacon, and Iris Stewart-Frey

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Facebook: Changing the face of communication research, Paul A. Soukup

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La «Net Neutrality.», Paul A. Soukup

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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

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Realistically ever after: Disrupting dominant cancer narratives within cancer advocacy organizations, Laura L. Ellingson

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L’Autorità, i nuovi media e la Chiesa, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 2016

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A Conversation with Jane J. Mansbridge and Martha McCoy, Carolyne Abdullah, Christopher F. Karpowitz, and Chad Raphael

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Affinity Groups, Enclave Deliberation, and Equity, Carolyne Abdullah, Christopher F. Karpowitz, and Chad Raphael

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Equality and Equity in Deliberation: Introduction to the Special Issue, Carolyne Abdullah, Christopher F. Karpowitz, and Chad Raphael

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Equity and Inclusion in Online Community Forums: An Interview with Steven Clift, Carolyne Abdullah, Christopher F. Karpowitz, and Chad Raphael

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Equity in School Forums: An Interview with John Landesman, Carolyne Abdullah, Christopher F. Karpowitz, and Chad Raphael

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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

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On Migrant Workers’ Social Status in Taiwan: A Critical Analysis of Mainstream News Discourse, Hsin-I Cheng

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Pictures, patience, and practicalities: Lessons learned from using photovoice in applied communication contexts, Laura L. Ellingson

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Ideals of Inclusion in Deliberation, Christopher F. Karpowitz and Chad Raphael

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Beyond the “Digital Divide:” The Computer Girls of Seelampur, Sreela Sarkar

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Passionate Producers: Corporate Interventions in Expanding the Promise of the Information Society, Sreela Sarkar

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Studying soap operas, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 2015

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Civic play and civic gaps: Can life simulation games advance educational equity?, Christine Bachen, Pedro F. Hernández-Ramos, Chad Raphael, and Amanda Waldron

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“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

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Smartphones, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 2014

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The Relationships between Co-Rumination, Social Support, Stress, and Burnout among Working Adults, Justin P. Boren

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Communicatively Restricted Organizational Stress (CROS) I: Conceptualization and Overview, Justin P. Boren and Alice E. Veksler

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In the eyes of the Chinese: Affective construction of cultural identity, Hsin-I Cheng

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“The truth must dazzle gradually”: Enriching relationship research using a crystallization framework, Laura L. Ellingson

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Grounded Theory, Laura L. Ellingson and Kristian G.E. Borofka

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Introduction to Deliberation, democracy, and civic forums: Improving equality and publicity, Chad Raphael and Christopher F. Karpowitz

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Remaking the “World-Class City”: The Commonwealth Games as media Event in ‘Emerging India.’, Sreela Sarkar

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The “Other” Women in Family Life: Recognizing the Significance of Aunt/Niece/Nephew Communication, Patricia J. Sotirin and Laura L. Ellingson

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Looking at, through, and with YouTube, Paul A. Soukup

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Political communication, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 2013

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Co-rumination Partially Mediates the Relationship between Social Support and Emotional Exhaustion among Graduate Students, Justin P. Boren

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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

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Entrepreneurial Justice: The New Spirit of Capitalism in Emerging India, Paula Chakravartty and Sreela Sarkar

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“A wobbly bed still stands on three legs”: On Chinese immigrant women’sexperiences with ethnic community, Hsin-I Cheng

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Good publicity: The legitimacy of public communication of deliberation, Chad Raphael and Christopher F. Karpowitz

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Information management and delivery of the Bible, Paul A. Soukup

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Teologia e Comunicazione. Il Pensiero Di W. J. Ong, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 2012

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Simulating REAL LIVES: Promoting global empathy and interest in learning through simulation games, Christine Bachen, Pedro F. Hernández-Ramos, and Chad Raphael

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An Exploratory Study of Communicatively-Restricted Organizational Stress (CROS) II: Associations with Organizational Stress and Elevated Cholesterol, Justin P. Boren and Alice E. Veksler

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Cultural matter as political matter: A preliminary exploration from aChinese perspective, Hsin-I Cheng

Interviewing as embodied communication, Laura L. Ellingson

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Beyond the research/service dichotomy: Claiming ALL research products for hiring, evaluation, tenure, and promotion., Laura L. Ellingson and Margaret M. Quinlan

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Flow and cooperative learning in civic game play, Chad Raphael, Christine Bachen, and Pedro F. Hernández-Ramos

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In commemoration: Walter Ong and the state of theology, Paul A. Soukup

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L’insegnamento Islamico in Internet, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 2011

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Social flow and learning in digital games: A conceptual model and research agenda, Christine Bachen and Chad Raphael

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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

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A Decade of Research Exploring Biology and Communication, Justin P. Boren and Alice E. Veksler

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Some Things are Better Left Not Unsaid: An Exploratory Study of the Communicatively-Restricted Organizational Stressor, Justin P. Boren and Alice E. Veksler

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Temporally legal: My traveling across borders of im/migration, Hsin-I Cheng

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The Poetics of Professionalism Among Dialysis Technicians, Laura L. Ellingson

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Communication technology and education, Paul A. Soukup

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McLuhan, Religion, Ground, and Cause, Paul A. Soukup

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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

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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

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Women at Work and Home: New Technologies and Labor among Minority Women in Seelampur, Sreela Sarkar

Submissions from 2009

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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

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The Influence of Being "Out" on Perceptions of Managerial Credibility and Positive Affect, Justin P. Boren and Mary B. McPherson

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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

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Salvaging, Surrendering, and Saying Goodbye to My Leg, Laura L. Ellingson

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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

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The poetic is political….and other notes on engaged scholarship, Lynn M. Harter, Laura L. Ellingson, Mohan J. Dutta, and S. Norander

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Deliberative democracy and inequality: Two cheers for enclave deliberation among the disempowered, Christopher F. Karpowitz, Chad Raphael, and Allen S. Hammond IV

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Broadcast Network Documentaries, Chad Raphael

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Libel, Chad Raphael

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The political-economic origins of Reali-TV, Chad Raphael

Submissions from 2008

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Civic engagement, pedagogy, and information technology on Web sites for youth, Christine Bachen, Chad Raphael, Kathleen-M. Lynn, Kristen A. McKee, and Jessica Philippi

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Social Exchange Orientation and Conflict Communication in Romantic Relationships, Justin P. Boren, Amy M. Bippus, and Sabrina Worsham

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Space Making: Chinese Transnationalism on the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, Hsin-I Cheng

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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

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Communication within the comprehensive geriatric assessment, Laura L. Ellingson

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Autoethnography as Constructionist Project, Laura L. Ellingson and Carolyn Ellis

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The New Middle-Class, Technology and Modernity in Seelampur, Sreela Sarkar

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Considering a Catholic View of Evangelical Media, Paul A. Soukup

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Technology, Theology, Thinking, and the Church, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 2007

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The Performance of Dialysis Care: Routinization and Adaptation on the Floor, Laura L. Ellingson

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Greenpeace Greenspeak: A Transcultural Discourse Analysis, Bettina Heinz, Hsin-I Cheng, and Ako Inuzuka

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The digital divide, Chad Raphael