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 2008

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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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Free Flow of Information, Emile G. McAnany

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Rural Development, Emile G. McAnany

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Schramm, Wilbur, Emile G. McAnany

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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

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Orality and Literacy 25 Years Later, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 2006

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Embodied Knowledge: Writing Researchers’ Bodies Into Qualitative Health Research, Laura L. Ellingson

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Exploring young adults' perspectives on communication with aunts, Laura L. Ellingson and Patricia J. Sotirin

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Portrayals of information and communication technology on World Wide Web sites for girls, Chad Raphael, Christine Bachen, Kathleen-M. Lynn, Jessica Baldwin-Philippi, and Kristen A. McKee

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Importing extended producer responsibility for electronic equipment into the United States, Chad Raphael and Ted Smith

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Contexts of Faith: The Religious Foundation of Walter Ong's Literacy and Orality, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 2005

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

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Vatican Opinion on Modern Communication, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 2004

Being Ill in A Foreign Land: International Students' Perceptions of and Experiences with University Health Services, Hsin-I Cheng

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Who is the real target? Media response to controversial investigative reporting on corporations, Chad Raphael, Lori Tokunaga, and Christina Wai

Transforming the Sacred: The American Bible Society New MediaTranslation Project, Paul A. Soukup

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Walter J. Ong, S.J.: A retrospective, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 2003

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Mentor Reviewing: A retrospective on an experiment, Mike Allen, Hsin-I Cheng, Mariko Izumi, Shana Kopaczewski, Stacy Tye‐Williams, and Kristi Wilkum

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Interdisciplinary Health Care Teamwork in the Clinic Backstage, Laura L. Ellingson

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Bridging the gender gap in computing: An integrative approach to content design for girls, Kathleen-M. Lynn, Chad Raphael, Karin Olefsky, and Christine M. Bachen

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The Structure of Communication as a Challenge for Theology, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 2002

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The roles of companions in geriatric patient–interdisciplinary oncology team interactions, Laura L. Ellingson

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Globalization and Localization: New Dilemma for National Culture, Emile G. McAnany

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Globalization and the Media: The Debate Continues, Emile G. McAnany

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'Citizen Jane': Rethinking design principles for closing the gender gap in computing, Chad Raphael

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Media and religion, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 2001

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Theories and Evidence: Mass Media Effects and Fertility Change, Robert Hornik and Emile G. McAnany

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Theories and Evidence: Mass Media Effects and Fertility Change, Robert Hornik and Emile G. McAnany

Educational Technology in the Service of Global Learners, Emile G. McAnany, Pedro Hernandez, and Paul Soukup

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The FCC's broadcast news distortion rules: Regulation by drooping eyelid, Chad Raphael

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The web, Chad Raphael

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The influence of information technologies on theology, Paul A. Soukup, Francis J. Buckley, and David C. Robinson

Submissions from 2000

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Style, Substance, and Standpoint: A Feminist Critique of Bernie Siegel’s Rhetoric of Self-Healing, Laura L. Ellingson

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Rethinking media and movements, Chad Raphael

Submissions from 1999

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Listening to Women's Narratives of Breast Cancer Treatment: A Feminist Approach to Patient Satisfaction With Physician-Patient Communication, Laura L. Ellingson and Patrice M. Buzzanell

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Utopia out of place: Studs' Place, Popular Front culture and the blacklist in early Chicago television, Chad Raphael

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Communication models, translation, and fidelity, Paul A. Soukup

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On-Line religion: A new context for religious practice, Paul A. Soukup

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Service learning in communication: Why?, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 1998

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Then You Know How I Feel”: Empathy, Identification, and Reflexivity in Fieldwork, Laura L. Ellingson

Submissions from 1997

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The political economy of Reali-TV, Chad Raphael

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Ethics @ email: Do new media require new ethics?, Paul A. Soukup

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Understanding audience understanding, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 1996

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Communicative form and theological style, Paul A. Soukup

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Invisible, Inevitable, Paradoxical Technology, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 1995

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A dialogue on communication and theology: Theological reflection andcommunication, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 1994

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Telenovela Audiences: A Review and Methodological Critique of Latin America Research, Emile G. McAnany and Antonio C. La Pastina

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The Church as a moral communicator, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 1993

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Introduction to Communicating Christ to the world, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 1992

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From Cultural Imperialists to Takeover Victims: Questions on Hollywood's Buyouts From the Critical Tradition, Emile G. McAnany and Kenton T. Wilkinson

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Communication and media, Paul A. Soukup

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Interpersonal communication, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 1990

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Fire for a weekend: An experience of the SpiritualExercises, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 1989

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Brazil's satellite system: The politics of applications planning, Greta S. Nettleton and Emile G. McAnany

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Jesuit pray-ers, Paul A. Soukup

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Jesuit response to the communication revolution, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 1988

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Wilbur Schramm, 1907-1987: Roots of the past, Seeds of the Present, Emile G. McAnany

Submissions from 1987

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Le satellite breselien (The Brazilian satellite), Emile G. McAnany and Greta S. Nettleton

Submissions from 1986

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News of Latin America on network television, 1972–1981: A northern perspective on the Southern Hemisphere, James F. Larson, Emile G. McAnany, and J. Douglas Storey

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Cultural Industries in International Perspective: Convergence or Conflict?, Emile G. McAnany

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Communication, cultural form and theology, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 1985

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Theology and communication: A review essay, Paul A. Soukup

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The right to communicate, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 1984

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The Diffusion of Innovations. Why Does It Endure?, Emile G. McAnany

Submissions from 1983

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Television and crisis: ten years of network news coverage of Central America, 1972-1981, Emile G. McAnany

Submissions from 1982

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Tecnología y cambio social, Emile G. McAnany

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Distance Education: Evaluating New Approaches in Education for Developing Countries, Emile G. McAnany, Oliveira Joao Batista, Orivel Francois, and John Stone

Submissions from 1981

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Rhetoric as epistemic: A classroom-centered view, Paul A. Soukup

Submissions from 1980

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Pueden ser util para los paises de tercer mundo las nuevas tecnologias de ensenanza?, Emile G. McAnany and François Orivel

Submissions from 1979

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Recent Experiences in Evaluation Research in the US with Implications for Latin America, Thomas D. Cook, Emile G. McAnany, and Robinson G. Hollister

Submissions from 1978

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Does Information Really Work?, Emile G. McAnany

Submissions from 1975

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Instructional Television in El Salvador’s Educational Reform, John K. Mayo, Robert C. Hornik, and Emile G. McAnany

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Aspiraciones academicos y profesionales de los estudiantes en El Salvador, John K. Mayo, Robert C. Hornik, Emile G. McAnany, and Henry T. Ingle

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The Mexican Telesecundaria: A Cost-effectiveness Analysis, John K. Mayo, Emile G. McAnany, and Steven J. Klees

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Impacto de las escuelas radiofonicas de America Latina en la educacion, Emile G. McAnany

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Television: Mass Communication and Elite Control, Emile G. McAnany