Join us today as we check in with recent C&IS Ph.D. alum, Dr. Stephen Rush. So many fun facts to share with you including all kinds of great information about his research, but fun fact #1: he is 1 of 3 siblings to have gotten his Ph.D. from the College of Communication & Information Sciences at UA (he has 6 siblings and another with a Ph.D. in a neighboring college). Stephen has a fascinating background that started in music and led him on a pretty amazing journey to LA and then to coun...
Mar 01, 2022•40 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Sarita Stewart, an Associate Professor of Creative and Entertainment Industries, at Belmont University. We cover so much territory in this industry, including how a young girl from a very small town in Oregon wound up making it big in Los Angeles and then Nashville. She tells us all about the dreams she had as a young child working in the music industry (behind the scenes and not behind the mic) and how that all evolved into working with some of the biggest ...
Feb 21, 2022•31 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Tune in today as we catch up with Dr. Andrea Wagner, a Bama Ph.D alum who has had an amazing career in some many areas: as a communications specialist, as a adjunct instructor, as an elite professional runner and now as the Head Track Coach and Communication Specialist for Cornerstone Christian School where she trains more than 120 middle and high school students across different distances. Andrea's path to the Ph.D. involved a stop in Clemson and Georgetown before she served as a Communication ...
Feb 14, 2022•39 min•Season 4Ep. 5
In today's conversation, we catch up with Dr. Elina Erzikova, now a professor of public relations at Central Michigan University. Fun fact: she used to be an editor of a regional magazine in Russia as well as a communication specialist for several non-profits trying to address AIDS/HIV in smaller Russian villages. She explains how this work led to her graduate career at the University of Alabama (MA & Ph.D) and how it lead her into academia where she teaches so many courses in public relatio...
Feb 07, 2022•37 min•Season 4Ep. 4
In today's episode, we catch up with Dr. Jessy Ohl, a MA alum from the College of Communication and Information Sciences, who is now an associate professor of communication in the Department of Communication Studies. We cover so much amazing ground in this conversation and you definitely don't want to miss any of it. Jessy breaks down some of his more recent research involve visuals and what they communicate to viewers about issues, our views of history, narratives about war, and public memory. ...
Jan 31, 2022•41 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Dylan McLemore, an assistant professor of public relations at the University of Central Arkansas. As you heard with our last guest, Dylan's path into academia wasn't linear at all and he surely thought I'd be working for ESPN as a baseball analysis and commentator. As Dylan notes, he never envisioned himself going to graduate school, getting a Ph.D. or certainly working as a professor because he was a 1st generation college student (Yay, Dylan!!). But, now a...
Jan 24, 2022•38 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Kim Baker, an Associate Professor of Journalism at Alabama State University. As you'll hear in today's conversation, her path to graduate school and academia wasn't linear at all. She always thought she'd be working with and saving animals, but sometimes, it's takes just one little thing to change your direction and she'll tell us all about it. Kim has taught an array of journalism courses at Alabama State University, which is a HBCU, and she loves getting t...
Jan 18, 2022•41 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Join us as we wrap-up all that we covered across the episodes of Season 3! And we won't be gone for long--check out our newest season with the greatest guests in January!!
Dec 13, 2021•3 min•Season 3Ep. 16
As the title to this episode indicates, we'll be talking a lot about sports fandom with Dr. Mike Devlin, an assistant professor of Advertising in the School of Journalism and Communication at Texas State University. He holds a PhD in Mass Communication from the University of Alabama, and an MA in Mass Communication and BA in Electronic Media Communications from Texas Tech University. Prior to earning his PhD, Mike worked as media designer and multimedia specialist in Austin, Texas. He currently ...
Nov 29, 2021•35 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Today's episode is SO MUCH FUN! We say that every week, and it's true! Today we catch up with recent Ph.D. grad and now alum Dr. Sam Hakim who is currently an instructor of sports communication in the College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences at Clemson University. We break it all down as it relates to fan identity, sports fandom, and the way our own identity can be shaped by the athletes we have positive (and negative) interactions with...you'll hear a lot more on that in today's episod...
Nov 22, 2021•47 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Lindsey Conlin Maxwell, and Associate Professor in the School of Communication at the University of Southern Mississippi. Have you ever found yourself sitting in front of the TV or other device and watching back-to-back-to-back episodes of a show? Have you ever found yourself feeling as if you might be missing out on something (FOMO) after looking at content on social media? Today's guest breaks all of that down for us. So many researchers study the whys and...
Nov 15, 2021•31 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Today's conversation with Dr. Dianne Bragg, an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media, is enlightening, fun, and relevant. Dr. Bragg has such an interesting path to the research she does, and she tells us all about resistance to learning instead of listening to sound bytes in the context of history, journalism and conflict. Not only do we break down her process in conducting this type of research, we learn more about where the best BBQ can be found and we learn ab...
Nov 08, 2021•33 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Today we catch up with Dr. Juan Meng, and associate professor of public relations at the University of Georgia and the founder of UGA's Choose China Study Abroad Program. In today's conversation, we take a deeper look at research in the area of public relations and leadership, specifically the challenges that women and people of color face when in leadership roles and when trying to get into leadership roles in the field of public relations. Dr. Meng’s current research focuses on leadership in p...
Nov 01, 2021•33 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Rhonda Gibson, the James H. Shumaker Professor in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina. We learn so much about Rhonda's path into academia as well as some of the professional work she did in journalism, which may have inspired her to develop and teach the courses she teaches. Her research focuses on the effects of exemplification in journalism on issue perception and the effects of images of sexual minorities in the ...
Oct 25, 2021•40 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Ignatius Fosu, the chair of the Department of Communication and Media at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. Iggy has had many cool jobs in his life including but not limited to being a DJ and radio host for a radio station in Accra, Ghana. When he came to the United States to start a masters degree program in Marketing, he discovered the world of advertising, and after a chance meeting with the College of Communication and Information Sciences Dean, Dr. ...
Oct 18, 2021•32 min•Season 3Ep. 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...
Oct 11, 2021•36 min•Season 3Ep. 7
In today's conversation, we catch up with Dr. Glenn Cummins, a professor of Journalism and Creative Media Industries in the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. We learn all about Glenn's path to academia, including a few stops to work professionally in the broadcast industry, and we learn about how very basic things like the way we watch sports drive many of his research questions. Glenn is a prolific scholar in the area of media effects and broadly in mass communication...
Oct 04, 2021•38 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Dr. Amy Tilley Rask, COO of MediaScience, joins us in today's conversation about her work doing industry research. She tells us all about the consumer neuro-marketing research that is done at MediaScience and how a chance conversation with a faculty member at UA led to her meeting the person who is now her CEO. Amy did a post-doctoral fellowship at Murdock University in Perth, Australia, and that work led her to helping to launch the company she's with today based out of Austin, TX. In this conv...
Sep 27, 2021•42 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Join us for this fantastic conversation with recent Ph.D. grad and alum Dr. Eric Cooks, who currently has a post-doctoral fellowship with the College of Journalism and Communication at the University of Florida. Eric will be the most recent C&IS alum (August 2020) for this season, but that doesn't mean he hasn't gone on to do very exciting things with his work with Dr. Janice Kreiger at the STEM Center. Eric tells us the story of how he thought he might be a pro basketball player and then ha...
Sep 20, 2021•35 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Today we catch up with Dr. Courtney Carpenter Childers, an associate professor of advertising in the School of Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Tennessee. We cover so much territory in today's episode including (but not limited to) Tennessee Hate Week, the Adam Brown Social Media Command Center, and the research she does related to digital influence and social media. Her research interests deal with societal issues and advertising. Specifically, she has conducted research in...
Sep 13, 2021•35 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Join us today as we chat with Dr. Andrew Dunn, an associate professor and chair of the East Tennessee State University Media and Communication Department. Andrew is an Alabama native, hailing from the Peanut Capital of the World (who knew there was such a thing)? Andrew got his professional career started working as a reporter at a newspaper in Tallahassee, and it was that decision that helped him see his future path into graduate school and academia. One of the things Andrew studies is identity...
Sep 06, 2021•44 min•Season 3Ep. 2
We are so excited about Episode 2 of Season 3, but we have to let you know we had a few technical issues with this recording...so please hang in there. You don't want to miss this conversation. Dr. Art Raney is the James E. Kirk Professor of Communication in the School of Communication at Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida, USA). His research primarily examines how and why we enjoy various media entertainment content, with specific attention to the role morality plays in those proces...
Aug 30, 2021•41 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Join us today for Episode 1 of Season 3 of Revise and Resubmit where we get to chat with Dr. Natalie Devlin, an assistant professor in the Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations. Natalie Brown Devlin researches crisis communication and digital media in the context of sport. Her work examines how social media empowers organizational stakeholders during sports-related crises. She previously worked in digital advertising as a senior analyst of strategic account analytics, where sh...
Aug 23, 2021•39 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Tune in to this very short intro and welcome to Season 3 of our podcast. We are going to give you a few hints about what we'll be doing across the season, even give you a few spoiler alerts, and let you know how we are trying to do more to help you connect with others. This is going to be an outstanding season and we hope you'll join us on this great ride! Thank you for being our dedicated listeners! We so appreciate you! You can follow us on Twitter @ICIRAlabama or on Instagram at @ICIRUA! We w...
Aug 20, 2021•6 min
We’ve had two full seasons of Revise & Resubmit but haven’t taken the time to tell you more about who we are and what we do in research and teaching. So today, we break it all down and let you hear more about us! Plus, we give you a great teaser for what’s to come with Season 3!
Apr 19, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Dr. Darrin Griffin, associate professor, in the Department of Communication Studies talks about a class he talk about bar-b-que (who knew?) and then discusses the very important research he does as it relates to communication with deaf communities. If you think about it, when you hear a tornado siren go off or a fire alarm go off, not all of those mechanisms are designed in a way to help individuals with hearing loss. Dr. Griffin has done research, much of it funded, to help us better understand...
Apr 12, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Ever wonder about the myriad of conversations that happen on Reddit? Do you know what a sub-reddit is? There are so many conversations going on all the time about every single topic you could ever think of, and each topic has its own sub-reddit. Who knew? Today's guest knows all about it as his research focuses on those nuances conversations happening on various sub-reddits and what meaning we can take away from these conversations. Dr. Elliot Panek is an associate professor in the Department of...
Apr 05, 2021•36 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Join us for our conversation with Dr. Chris Roberts, an associate professor in the Department of Journalism & Creative Media. We'll talk about the credibility of journalists and the battles they sometimes face in the climate of so much mistrust, and we'll dive into his work on moral codes of conduct with journalists. And, here's a fun fact: Chris has probably attended more ZZ Top concerts than any other person you know. We'll break it all down in today's conversation! For more information ab...
Mar 29, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Have we got a fun one for you today! Have you heard of the term "ghosting"? If so, do you know what it means? (I had to Google it). You might be surprised to learn there is a whole line of scholarship related to the communication that happens--and doesn't--on platforms like online dating apps and social media. How do these platforms, where we can remain a little hidden, change the way we communicate with others? Our next guest is going to tell us all about it. Dr. Leah LeFebvre is an assistant p...
Mar 22, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 9
In today's conversation, we are going to hear all about information sciences, and while you may think, is there a reason for me to care about this? The short answer is, yes, in fact because we are all dealing with information on a variety of levels. Dr. Laurie Bonnici, an associate professor in the School of Library and Information Studies, tells us more about why the human element of information is essential. We learn about her non-linear path to get to graduate school, the very cool class she ...
Mar 15, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 8
