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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.”

March 4, 2026 Events Join us for COMMColloquium Monday, March 23, 2026, 3:00 pm, in 102 Mann Library Building with graduate student Bya Rodrigues (title TBD). The colloquium is followed by a reception located in The Hub of the Department of...

January 28, 2026 In Memoriam: Dawn Schrader

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Events Join us for COMMColloqium. The event takes place on Friday, December 1, at 1:00 pm in 102 Mann Library Building. Associate Professor Brooke Duffy will present “ Visibility in the Creator Economy: Navigating the Promises and Precarities of...