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Research

Research

The Department of Communication engages in research at the cutting edge of communication and related disciplines, conducting studies in many areas.

We encourage undergraduates and graduate students to explore faculty research areas and contact individual faculty members if interested in getting involved with research.

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Culture and identity

Examine a culture’s language, symbols, meanings, activities and practices in everyday life from a variety of perspectives: global, national, community, group and individual.

Culture and identity

Groups, organizations and networks

Study ways that communication processes and systems influence social structures and behaviors in a variety of settings.

Groups, organizations and networks

Media studies

Study the practices, industries, meanings, mental processing and influences of media.

Media studies

Policy and public engagement

Examine the communication challenge of designing and implementing policy, and the study of communication policy itself.

Policy and public engagement

Science, health, risk and environment

Gain new theoretical insights and more robust communication practice across the areas of science, health, risk and environmental sustainability.

Science, health, risk and environment

Social inequality

Examine how communication research, theory, practice, engagement and design explain and address social, economic, health and political disparities and outcomes that affect people, communities and society.

Social inequality

Technology and social media

Study the design, usage and implications of a range of communication technologies and examine how these technologies shape and are shaped by communication processes, social relationships, individual and collective behavior, online communities, and society.

Technology and social media

Grants and Sponsored Research

Natalie Bazarova:

  • National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: Social Media Co-Pilot: Enhancing Teens Digital Literacy and Cyber Safety Education with AI-Based Conversational Intervention
  • National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: HCC: Medium: Collaborative Understanding: Leveraging Conversational AI to Cultivate Constructive Upstanders Among Teens

danah boyd:

  • National Science Foundation, Enabling Participatory Privacy Protections for AI Training Data.  (Columbia University and Georgetown)

Monica Cornejo:

  • Cornell Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures, A Longitudinal Survey Exploring Formerly Detained Migrants' Stressors, Risk, and Resilience

Lee Humphreys:

  • National Science Foundation, Toward a Statewide Public Internet of Things (IoT) Network

Bruce Lewenstein:

  • National Science Foundation, CROPPS: Assessing the Quality of Public Engagement Activities in Digital Biology

Neil Lewis, Jr.:

  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Studying how Communities Name Themselves and Communicate about Social Groups to Inform Messaging on Health Equity and Social Policy
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Reducing Obesity Rates among Children by Addressing the Interplay of Early Life Adversity, Racist Systems, and Economic and Environmental Hardships
  • US Department of Health and Human Services, Evaluating New York State Early Childhood Programs and Policies

J. Nathan Matias:

  • Ford Foundation, Core Support for CAT Lab
  • National Science Foundation, SaTC: CORE: Large: Privacy-Preserving Abuse Prevention for Encrypted Communications Platforms
  • MacArthur Foundation, Growing and Protecting Civic Participation Online through Citizen Science
  • Templeton World Charity Foundation, Scaling Citizen Behavioral Science for Effective Online Dialogue and Knowledge Creation
  • Heising-Simons Foundation, Flexible Support for Translating Community Voices to Rigorous Social Science Research and Policy
  • Rita Allen Foundation, Civic Science Fellowship

Katherine McComas:

  • Cornell Center for Social Sciences, Advancing Trans-Atlantic Research on Renewable Energy Transitions
  • US Geological Survey, How Institutional Context and Emotions Shape Manager Decisions to Resist, Accept, or Direct Change in Transforming Ecosystems

Poppy McLeod:

  • Federal Formula Funds, The Value of Conversation for Conserving Habitat for Agriculturally Important Wildlife and Increasing Sustainability
  • Office of Naval Research, Identifying and Predicting Inflection Points in Human-Agent Teams Using Relational Event Modeling

Wunpini Mohammed

  • Cornell Center for Social Sciences, Indigenous African Feminisms
  • Science-Based Solutions to Grand Challenges in Equity and Inclusions

Jeff Niederdeppe:

  • National Institutes of Health, Disparities in the Diffusion of Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis C among Baby Boomers: A Mixed-Methods Study
  • National Science Foundation, Effects on Social Support on Persuasive Messaging for Preventive Medical Practices
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Supporting the Collaborative on Media and Messaging for Health and Social Policy
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Advancing a Vision for Antiracist Health Policy

Danny Parker:

  • Science-Based Solutions to Grand Challenges in Equity and Inclusions
  • Cornell Center for Social Sciences, How Poverty and Criminal Justice System Entanglement Shape Political Agency

Claire Wardle

  • Cornell Center for Social Sciences, Parents are Not Alright:  Understanding Off and Online Contributions to Parents Informational Needs
  • Federal Capacity Funds (Smith-Lever), Enhancing Communication with New York Farmers:  Addressing Information

Andrea Stevenson Won:

  • National Institutes of Health, Social Virtual Reality Experiences for Hospitalized Older Adult Trauma Patients to Reduce Pain
  • Office of Naval Research, Identifying and Predicting Inflection Points in Human-Agent Teams Using Relational Event Modeling
  • Office of Naval Research, Close-Range Collaboration in Diver-Agent Teams Using Diver Nonverbal Behavior and Physiological Signals
  • National Science Foundation, HCC: Medium: Improving Collaboration in Remote Teams through Tools to Promote Mutual Understanding of Nonverbal Behavior
  • National Institutes of Health, Virtual Reality at the Point of Care to Increase Uptake of MOUD in the ED

Contact Us

450 Mann Library Building
phone: (607) 254-6278
email: communication [at] cornell.edu (communication[at]cornell[dot]edu)
We are located on the 4th floor of Mann Library, accessible only by the stairs/elevators within the library, which are just past the circulation desk.

Department Hours:
Monday - Thursday, 8am to 4:30pm
Friday, 8am to 3:30pm