Falling Backwards Into Things–The Path to Research in Identity, Stigma and Organizing I say this about every episode but I definitely have to say it about this one---YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS TODAY'S EPISODE. Wow. We cover a lot of territory with Dr. Peter Jensen, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Communication & Information Sciences. But first, fun fact: Peter is the first guest we have ever had who said he actually dreamed of being a professo...
Apr 10, 2023•32 min•Season 6Ep. 12
In today’s episode, we are catching up with another former guest in our What’s New With series, and I say this every time, but again, today’s episode is SO MUCH FUN!!! Dr. Kenon Brown, an associate professor in the Department of Advertising and Public relations actually gave us an answer to one question that we had never heard before–what he wanted to be when he grew up. But, I’m not going to spoil it now! You’ll just have to tune in! When we last caught up with Dr. Brown, we were in the height ...
Mar 20, 2023•36 min
You might read this title and think, what? What in the world are they talking about? What we are talking about are things that many of us will be using in our daily lives? Do you use Siri or Alexa? Do you have apps on your phone that are tailored to you and can help you out in a virtual way? If you use any of these things, you use virtual assistants. But what you might not have thought about is how they actually work and how they do (or do not) respond to more subjective things like feelings or ...
Mar 06, 2023•35 min•Season 6Ep. 7
You don't want to miss the 5th in our series of "What's New With..." where we get an opportunity to catch up with previous guests and learn all about the research they have done since we last talked to them. When we last spoke with Dr. Shaheen Kanthawala, an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media, we talked about her research very broadly in the area of media effects through the lens of health communication. Shaheen has been very busy these last two years developi...
Feb 27, 2023•38 min
Have you ever experienced a natural disaster like a tornado or a hurricane or a house fire? Have you ever found yourself in a situation where maybe you were not fully prepared but didn't know that until the disaster hit? Today's guest tells us about experiencing 9/11 from the lens of a viewer watching it unfold on global television changed the trajectory of her career and how watching the crisis with communication on that day led her to not only gain incredible experience working as a volunteer ...
Feb 20, 2023•41 min
Join us today as we catch up with new assistant professor Dr. Jaclyn Shetterly in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Alabama. Her work is squarely situation in the area of interpersonal communication where she examines the communication between individuals who are the victims of sexual assault and their romantic partners. As you learn throughout the episode, this type of work can be taxing and emotionally draining...on the subjects and the researcher...but it also sheds...
Feb 13, 2023•32 min
Have you ever considered the role of social media in democracy or the way political conversations occur based on what may be trending on social media? Whether you are an avid Twitter user or not, these conversations are happening on a national and a global level. Sometimes for good but sometimes not. Today's guest--Dr. Matt Barnidge, an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama--studies these types of things. More specifically, his resear...
Feb 06, 2023•40 min
Dr. Alyxandra Vesey is an assistant professor in Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. Her research focuses on the intersection between gender, music culture, labor, and media industries. She is currently finishing a book (that she tells us all about) related to the identity politics surrounding musicians’ labor in the television industry during the post-network era. She also does research on the ideologies of gender that circulate within merchandising and endorsement work ...
Jan 30, 2023•45 min
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Jan 16, 2023•34 min
Join us as we put a wrap on Season 5 of Revise & Resubmit! We talk about some of the highlights of the season including discussing several of the guests we have heard from PLUS we take questions that we have been asked by listeners--that's the fun part. Tune is as we answer some of the funny questions we get on the daily from those of you who listen! To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
Dec 05, 2022•19 min
In the third of our of "What's New With..." series, we have the great opportunity to catch up with Dr. Cynthia Peacock, now an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies within C&IS. When we last spoke with Cynthia, she was telling us about the time she took her students to attend the Iowa Caucuses, and about all of her work in political communication. She's been busy these last two years, and in today's episode, we get to hear all about it. She is currently working on a ...
Nov 21, 2022•32 min
If you think advertising is similar to the way it is portrayed on Mad Men, you'll definitely need to tune into today's episode. As a child, our next guest's aspirations were to land it big as a country music superstar. While she toyed around with that idea for a while, her parents finally convinced her she needed to find another pathway, albeit a creative one, so she could have a backup plan. That landed Dr. Teresa Tackett, an assistant professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relat...
Nov 14, 2022•30 min•Season 5Ep. 13
We are less than 24 hours away from Election Day 2022, and in today's episode, we get the good fortune of talking with one of C&IS' many political communication scholars--Dr. Josh Bramlett, an assistant professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations. It seems like during any election year, we are faced with political ads, negative attack ads, and everything in between from about August until Election Day, and as we learn from Josh, as annoying as it may be for some, others a...
Nov 07, 2022•37 min
In today's episode, we catch up with Dr. Jess Maddox, an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media, about the book project and other research projects she was working on when we talked to her TWO YEARS AGO. Spoiler alert: not only do we learn that her book is done and on the bookshelves (but technically Amazon and other online booksellers), we get the chance to hear about all of the projects she is working on now, including a second book project. When you think about...
Oct 31, 2022•31 min
In the first episode of the "What's New With" series, we catch up with our first podcast guest ever--Dr. Scott Parrott, an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media. When we talked to him over TWO YEARS AGO, he was working on several projects related to mental health--mental health and veterans, the stigma associated with mental health, and the representation of mental health in an entertainment context. In today's episode, we learn more about how those projects turn...
Oct 24, 2022•40 min
I say this with _every_ episode, but truly this is one not to miss! We take a bit of a turn in our conversation with today's guest because we are talking to a scholar who's research and scholarship is in the creative area--documentary film to be exact. If you thought all professors did was boring stuff, today's guest--John Haley--will break that notion. John tells us about how he grew up watching films with his family, and how those early experiences started him down a path of discovery with fil...
Oct 17, 2022•42 min•Season 5Ep. 9
I say this about every episode but I definitely have to say it about this one---YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS TODAY'S EPISODE. Wow. We cover a lot of territory with Dr. Peter Jensen, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Communication & Information Sciences. But first, fun fact: Peter is the first guest we have ever had who said he actually dreamed of being a professor as a young child, and this inspiration came from watching Indiana Jones films where ...
Oct 10, 2022•32 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Today we catch up with Dr. Eyun Jung Ki, a professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations. Young Eyun Jung thought she wanted to be a teacher, like a K-12 teacher, but after taking just one class in public relations in college, she knew she had found her calling. She's been at the University of Alabama for over 15 years teaching courses in public relations and studying the way new and emerging media technologies can be used to improve communication, especially during times of cr...
Oct 03, 2022•30 min
Today's episode is a great one as we catch up with Dr. Mary Meares, an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. Have you ever traveled outside of the country, especially to a place where your native language wasn't being spoken? How did it make you feel? Were you challenged by the experience in a good one or did you find yourself looking for something familiar? In addition to having lived...
Sep 26, 2022•27 min•Season 5Ep. 6
In today's episode, we catch up with Dr. Josh Pederson, an Associate Professor of Communication Studies within the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. Like most kids, young Josh had early aspirations to be a professional baseball player or a police officer--he knew that he liked working with people, and like many young kids, he realized that making it as a pro in baseball might not pan out. As an undergrad, he found himself seeking out programs and col...
Sep 19, 2022•36 min•Season 5Ep. 5
When this podcast launched over TWO YEARS AGO, we said the goal was to shed light on all of the types of research and scholarship that go on throughout the communication and information sciences discipline. And over these two years, we have learned so much about media effects, the role of sports in our lives, how research can actually help answer big public health problems, and how social media can influence interpersonal communication. Today's guest is going to shake that up a bit but in a trem...
Sep 12, 2022•39 min•Season 5Ep. 3
If you are listening to this on Labor Day, Happy Labor Day. If it is any other day, we hope you had a great Labor Day long weekend. If you have listened to any of our previous episodes, you'll know that Dr. Bolland and I always do a good bit of chattering and talking as we are introducing our guests. Fun fact--our offices are less than 15 feet apart--but we are always chattering--via text, email, DM'ing, you name it. So, this episode is going to be one of those episodes, but it's short! We ask o...
Sep 05, 2022•8 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Don't miss episode #2 of Season 5 of Revise and Resubmit as we catch up with Dr. Kaitlin Miller, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. Learn more about how 6th grade Kaitlin had a big dream of working in broadcast journalism and how that dream became a reality for her after finishing her master's degree in broadcast journalism. Kaitlin tells us about her time working as a br...
Aug 29, 2022•32 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Today, we kick off Episode 1 of Season 5 with the fabulous Dr. A.J. Bauer, an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media in the College of Communication and Information Sciences. AJ comes to us with a really fascinating background as his degrees are in American Studies but he worked professionally in journalism. He tells us about his own journey shifting from the right to the left and how that inspired much of the current work he is doing, including his book in prog...
Aug 22, 2022•38 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Join us today as we catch up with Ph.D. alum Dr. Richard Rush, who now serves as the Executive Director of Strategic Communication for the City of Tuscaloosa. In today's conversation, we learn all about his path to the Ph.D., along with two other siblings who have the same degree from the same college (Roll Tide!) as well as how his path has shifted from the professional world to academia and back to the professional world. Richard tells us how his mass communication theory class, of all his cla...
Apr 25, 2022•30 min•Season 4Ep. 14
In today's episode with catch with with Ph.D alum Dr. Melissa Shubert Smith, a professor of communications and the Gibbons Chair of Journalism at the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, MS. Dr. Smith wears many hats at her university but still finds time to devote much attention to publishing books, including her latest book, Third Parties, Outsiders, and Renegades: Modern Challenges to the Two-Party System in Presidential Elections (https://www.amazon.com/Third-Parties-Outsiders-Reneg...
Apr 04, 2022•30 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Dr. Joshua Dickhaus earned a B.A. in Mass Communication from Miami University in 2004 and a Master’s in Speech Communication in 2006, also from Miami University. From 2006-2008, Dr. Dickhaus was a lecturer in the department of communication at Penn State University, leaving to enter the mass communication Ph.D. program at the University of Alabama. In August 2011, Dr. Dickhaus graduated with his Ph.D. Dr. Dickhaus teaches in the Sports Communication major and the Charley Steiner School of Sports...
Mar 28, 2022•34 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Over the last two seasons, we have had the great opportunity to catch up with sports communication scholars. It may seem like we have gone a little overboard. Maybe. But, since many of us are consumers of sports media and many of us watching huge sporting events, these conversations about representations of athletes in a sports media context help us shape our perspective the next time we engage in sports viewing. Today's conversation is not too different. Today, we catch up with Dr. Amy Head Jon...
Mar 21, 2022•35 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Lauren Reichart Smith, an associate professor in the Media School at Indiana University. We cover so much territory in this conversation, but it kicks off with Lauren telling us about what she does when she isn't conducting research and teaching courses--she's an Ironman! That means she swims 2.4 miles, bikes 112 miles, and runs 26.2 miles all in the same day, and she's done it several times. But, after we move on from that super fun conversation, we learn m...
Mar 14, 2022•33 min
Today's episode!! Wow!! So much to say here but YOU HAVE TO LISTEN! Tune in today as we catch up with Dr. Skye Cooley, an Assistant Professor of Mass Communication and Strategic Communication at Oklahoma State University. Skye hails from neighboring Louisiana and made his way over to the University of Alabama between 2008-2011 when he got his Ph.D. in the College of Communication & Information Sciences. He had a fascinating experience getting to work with media during the Sochi 2014 Winter O...
Mar 07, 2022•40 min•Season 4Ep. 8
