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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

Monica Cornejo:

  • Mellon Foundation, Cross-Border Movements: Racism, Dispossession, and Migration

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.:

  • eXtension Foundation, NY CU Vaccination Confidence Project
  • eXtension Foundation, EXCITE Bridge Funding Project
  • Field and Food Network, Double Up Food Bucks New York State: Innovating Solutions to Improve Food Access

Drew Margolin:

  • Cornell Center for Social Sciences, In the Midst of Crisis: Assessing Impacts of COVID-19 on College Students’ Lives through Reddit University Communities
  • National Science Foundation, HCC: Medium: Deterring Objectionable Behavior and Fostering Emergent Norms in Social Media Conversations

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
  • Knight Foundation, Citizens and Technology Lab: Research and Engineering Growth
  • Templeton Foundation, Scaling Citizen Behavioral Science for Effective Online Dialogue and Knowledge Creation
  • New Venture Fund, Ethics of Internet-Related Research
  • Rita Allen Foundation, Civic Science Fellowship

Katherine McComas:

  • Cornell Center for Social Sciences, Advancing Trans-Atlantic Research on Renewable Energy Transitions

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

Jeff Niederdeppe:

  • National Institutes of Health, Evaluation of Cigarette Package Inserts for Enhanced Communication with Smokers
  • National Institutes of Health, Disparities in the Diffusion of Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis C among Baby Boomers: A Mixed-Methods Study
  • National Institutes of Health, Using Natural Language Processing and Crowdsourcing to Monitor and Evaluate Public Information and Communication Disparities about Colon Cancer Screening
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Supporting the Collaborative on Media and Messaging for Health and Social Policy

Jonathan Schuldt:

  • National Science Foundation, American Election Study: The 2022 Collaborative Midterm Study

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