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COMM Updates - 10/22/2026
Conferences Graduate student Nishat Tasnim presented “The Condolence Clause: The Boundaries of Accountability after the San Diego Mosque Shooting” at the conference Confronting the Rising Tide: Islamophobia, White Nationalism, and the Global...
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COMM Updates - 9/9/2026
September 9, 2026 Awards Graduate student Nishat Tasnim received a Media Scholarship award from the Islamic Scholarship Fund. The organization funds scholars studying and working in fields with the greatest impact on public opinion and policy...
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What social media creators can’t say about their job

Online content creator burnout is, in part, “unspeakable” – a product of a confluence of factors, including the informal nature of platform labor and the privileged status of creative work, seen by many as a “dream job.”

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COMM Updates - 1/28/2026
January 28, 2026 In Memoriam: Dawn Schrader
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COMM Updates - 1/21/2026
January 21, 2026 Awards & Grants Professor danah boyd has been awarded a Research Seed Grant on “The Political Economy of AI,” receiving $5,000 from Cornell Global Hubs. This grant supports a collaboration with researchers at the University of...

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COMM Updates - 12/3/2025

December 3, 2025 Awards Assistant Professor Monica Cornejo et al., received the Top Paper Award in the Interpersonal Communication Division from the National Communication Association. Their paper, titled “Exploring the Effects and Content of...

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COMM Updates - 5/7/2025

Awards Graduate student Ria Gualano received a Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. The program supports 45 doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences pursuing innovative approaches to...

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COMM Updates - 3/26/2025
Conferences & Symposia Associate Professor Brooke Duffy delivered a lecture entitled “The Creator Economy's Labor Revolution” at SXSW 2025 in Austin, Texas. Despite the astonishing growth of the creator economy, social media creators remain...
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COMM Updates - 2/13/2025
Conferences Graduate student Julia Goolsby et al. presented “Cross-Park RAD Project: Insights for Responding to Ecological Transformation in the National Park Service” at the National Park Service North Coast & Cascades Science Days. This...
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COMM Updates - 12/18/2024
Conference Presentations Graduate student Emma Cox presented “Effects of Cohesion with Teammates on Division-I Student-Athletes’ Mental Health: An Application of the Human Need to Belong and Transactional Stress Frameworks” at the National...
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COMM Updates - 12/11/2024
Awards The annual Woodford Persuasive Speech Contest took place on November 20, 2024. The contest is the culmination of the undergraduate course Oral Communication, taught by Senior Lecturer Michelle LaVigne. The event features students...
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COMM Updates - 11/13/2024
Briefings, Conference Presentations, Panels & Workshops Associate Professor Brooke Duffy delivered two panel talks at the Association of Internet Researchers annual conference. In “From CareerTok to #Quietquitting: Social Media Communication...
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COMM Updates - 10/30/2024
Conference Presentations Research Associate Sarah Gilbert will co-deliver the paper “Whose Knowledge is Valued?: Epistemic Injustice in CSCW Applications” at the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing conference. While policies...
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COMM Updates - 10/23/2024
Conference Presentations Graduate student Ria Gualano is presenting two papers at the International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, which takes place October 30, in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador: “’I Try to...
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COMM Updates - 8/29/2024
Welcome back to the new semester and COMM Updates! Honors Continuing in the tradition of appointing our faculty members in high-level leadership positions, the university announced Professor Natalie Bazarova was appointed Associate Vice Provost...
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COMM Updates - 4/16/2024
Events Join us for COMMColloquium Friday, April 19, at 1:00 pm in 160 Mann Library Building. Visiting Associate Professor Bolin Cao (Shenzhen University) will present “ Understanding Human-Chatbot Interaction: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and...
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COMM Updates - 3/26/2024
Lectures On March 15, 2024, Professor Bruce Lewenstein delivered the inaugural lecture for Northeastern University’s Public Engagement with Science Hub, entitled “The Past, Present, and Future of Public Engagement with Science.” Bruce provided a...
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COMM Updates - 3/5/2023
Events Join us for COMMColloquium Friday, March 8, at 1:00 pm in 102 Mann Library Building. Associate Professor Andrea Stevenson Won will present “Embodiment Now.” The colloquium is followed by a reception, located in The Hub of the Department...
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COMM Updates - 1/23/2023
Happy New Year from the Department of Communication! Awards Several faculty, staff, and graduate students received prestigious awards. Professor Natalie Bazarova received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative...
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Influencers’ vulnerabilities are a double-edged sword

Influencers are encouraged to reveal their innermost selves to their followers – to “put themselves out there” – but doing so can result in identity-based harassment, according to research by Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor of...

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