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.
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.
Groups, organizations and networks
Study ways that communication processes and systems influence social structures and behaviors in a variety of settings.
Media studies
Study the practices, industries, meanings, mental processing and influences of media.
Policy and public engagement
Examine the communication challenge of designing and implementing policy, and the study of communication policy itself.
Science, health, risk and environment
Gain new theoretical insights and more robust communication practice across the areas of science, health, risk and environmental sustainability.
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.
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.
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)
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Political Economy of A.I.
Monica Cornejo:
- Cornell Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures, A Longitudinal Survey Exploring Formerly Detained Migrants' Stressors, Risk, and Resilience
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
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Structural Racism, Healthcare, and Financialization: A Strategic Action Framework.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Supporting State Equity in State Health Policy (Princeton University)
- US Department of Health and Human Services, Evaluating New York State Early Childhood Programs and Policies
Drew Margolin
- National Science Foundation, Deterring Objectionable Behavior and Fostering Emergent Norms in Social Media Conversation
J. Nathan Matias:
- Ford Foundation, Core Support for CAT Lab
- National Science Foundation, SaTC: CORE: Large: Privacy-Preserving Abuse Prevention for Encrypted Communications Platforms
- Templeton World Charity Foundation, Monitoring, Forecasting, and Intervening on Feedback Loops in Human-Algorithm Behavior
- Heising-Simons Foundation, Flexible Support for Translating Community Voices to Rigorous Social Science Research and Policy
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
- Einaudi Center, Feminism at the Margins: Redefining Global Gender Activism from the Perspective of African Women
- 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
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Advancing a Vision for Antiracist Health Policy
Danny Parker:
- Science-Based Solutions to Grand Challenges in Equity and Inclusions
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
- Federal Capacity Funds (Smith-Lever), New York State Farmer Needs
Andrea Stevenson Won:
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Collaborative Co-Embodiment for Hybrid Attendance
- 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
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