Conferences
Assistant Professor Wunpini Mohammed presented “Building Liberatory Futures in Ghanaian Feminist Movements” at the Decolonizing Gender & Sexualities Conference at University of California, Berkeley. This project presents current discourses on feminist activism and praxis in Ghana. Through decolonial approaches, she presents organizing and theorizing strategies focusing on Ghana's socio-historical reality. She argues that to build liberatory futures in African feminist movements, we need to understand and contextualize gender and sexualities within indigenous African frameworks.
Events
REMINDER: Please join us for COMMColloquium Monday, March 17, 3:00 pm, in 102 Mann Library Building. Associate Professor Neil Lewis, Jr., will present “Publicly Engaged Research in the 21st Century.” The colloquium is followed by a reception, located in The Hub of the Department of Communication.
Publications
E. Fowler & Associate Professor Neil Lewis, Jr., “How ‘DEI’ Replaced ‘Structural Racism’ in the National Conversation,” February 2025, ABC News/FiveThirtyEight.
Public discourse about racial equity has changed a lot over the past five years. The Collaborative on Media and Messaging for Health and Social Policy has been monitoring those changes and their consequences. In this new article, the authors share what they have been seeing in the data and why it matters.
Graduate Student Roxana Muenster, February 2025, book review, Cultural Studies.
Roxana Muenster published a book review of Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America by Kate Wright, Martin Scott, and Mel Bunce. The book examines the capture of the Voice of America (VOA) under Michael Pack as well as resistance strategies employed by journalists and staff at the time. In her review, Roxana relates the book’s examination of the VOA under the first Trump administration to the current, second administration and the plans laid out for the US Agency for Global Media in Project 2025.
Lecturer Jamal Uddin, C. Feng, J. Xu, March 2025, “Health Communication on the Internet: Promoting Public Health and Exploring Disparities in the Generative AI Era,” Journal of Medical Internet Research.
In this article, the authors provide an updated overview of health communication mediums and their role in understanding health promotion and disparities in the GenAI era. Additionally, health promotion and health disparities associated with GenAI are briefly discussed through the lens of the Technology Acceptance Model 2, the uses and gratifications theory, and the knowledge gap hypothesis.
