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Jordan Alpert received his PhD in Communication from George Mason University and shortly thereafter completed his postdoctoral training in behavioral and health services cancer control research in the National Cancer Institute R25 training program at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Advertising, College of Journalism and Communications.
Paula K. Baldwin is an associate professor of Communication at Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Oregon. Her current research focuses on the interpersonal challenges in a variety of communication contexts including nonverbal communication and disabilities, and end of life communication. At Western, she facilitates Death Cafes for students, staff, and faculty to further discussion around end of life issues. Paula is the new Managing Editor for Western’s undergraduate journal, PURE Insights as well as being a founding board member for Western’s student and community food pantry. At Western, she teaches courses in interpersonal, health, nonverbal, family, relational, small group, end of life, and dark side communication. Paula has authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications and presented over 40 conference papers.
Shannon A. Bowen is an elected member of the Board of Trustees of the Arthur W. Page Society, and sits on the Board of Directors of the International Public Relations Research Conference. Until 2012, Shannon Bowen was tenured in the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, but was happy to return home to South Carolina. Her PhD is from the University of Maryland; her dissertation on Kantian ethics won the Robert Heath Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her master’s degree is from the University of South Carolina (so she is a double Gamecock), and her bachelor’s degree is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Michael D. Bruce is an associate professor teaching sports broadcasting in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media. His scholarship is a mix of creative activity and research. Bruce’s research focuses on risk and crisis communication with an emphasis on terrorism, conflict and violence, health, and natural disasters. Prior to coming to UA, he taught courses in communication, advertising, broadcasting, and sports media for 13 years at his alma mater, Oklahoma Baptist University. His professional experience includes various video/television production positions at television stations, corporate communications, and in sports media.
Katheryn Christy is a postdoctoral research associate, University of Utah.
Chandra Clark is an assistant professor at the University of Alabama in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media. She teaches electronic news and new media marketing classes. Chandra started in a television station when she was 16 years old as a volunteer and her passion for broadcast journalism has developed following a career as a senior producer at the ABC affiliate in Birmingham, a freelance producer, and a broadcast media marketing specialist for the University of Alabama. Chandra has produced a series of award-winning videos relating to how broadcast television and radio played a role in the deadly April and May 2011 tornadoes in Tuscaloosa and Joplin plus Hurricane Sandy’s devastation along the East Coast. Chandra believes in learning in action and enjoys working with nonprofits, companies, cities, and community leaders in Central Alabama. She and her students have helped more than 40 clients learn to take control of their message and use traditional and social media to help brand themselves better to the community.
Ligia Cohen received her MA in Communication degree from George Mason University in 2012. After serving in the U.S. Navy as a Public Affairs Officer in a variety of assignments around the world for 20 years, she retired and founded VetSPARK Energy, a minority and veteran-owned company dedicated to solving our nation’s energy security challenges by expanding access to clean solar energy. Cohen also holds an MA early education from Old Dominion University and BS in Mass Communication from the University Externate of Bogota, Colombia. She is an active advocate for veterans and the environment. She can be reached at [email protected]
Kaylee Crossley has experience in public health and health promotion, with a particular interest in oral health education. She has partnered with the Oral Health Program at the Utah Department of Health on several projects to better meet the oral health needs of residents in Utah. She will be pursuing her doctorate degree in the communication program at the University of Utah in the fall of 2017.
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Laura Crosswell is an assistant professor of health communication at the University of Nevada, Reno. She holds a joint appointment with the Reynolds School of Journalism and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine. Crosswell also serves as the assistant director of the Center for Advanced Media Studies at the Reynolds School. Her research focuses on the cultural implications of consumerism and persuasive texts, as well as the physiological and psychosocial influences of media content. Specifically, she concentrates on the politicized and commercialized mechanisms of public health messaging. Much of her work highlights the shifting nature of health communication and new messaging models in the digital age. Crosswell earned her doctorate in media and public affairs from the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. She has a master’s degree in communication from the College of Charleston and a bachelor’s degree in communication and media studies from Clemson University.
Thomas R. Cunningham is a behavioral scientist and the Chief of the NIOSH Training Research and Evaluation Branch in the Education and Information Division. He also coordinates the NIOSH Small Business Assistance Program and Translation Research Program. His research addresses intervention development and research translation for safety and health applications in construction, health care, and several small business sectors. He received his MS and PhD in clinical psychology from Virginia Tech.
Lifeng Deng is an associate professor of communication with the School of Communication and Design at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. His research interests include science communication, risk governance, and communication in China. He has published several research papers on nuclear science communication, trust and distrust in risk communication, and a book, Competing Voices? Deconstructing the Mechanism of Corporate Public Relations’ Impacts on News Production (Communication University of China Press, 2014).
Lindsay L. Dillingham (PhD, University of Kentucky, 2014) is an assistant professor of marketing in the College of Business at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. Her research foci include social influence, resistance to persuasion, and risk and crisis communication.
Laura C. Farrell, PhD, is president and founder of Unbridled Communication Research Inc., a 501(c)3 that studies human communication through interaction with horses. She also currently works as a special service associate at Home Depot. Farrell previously served as an Assistant Professor at Longwood University where she directed the undergraduate senior theses, taught a variety of public relations, media, theory, and research courses, and helped mold citizen leaders. She served under Robert Littlefield as Assistant Editor for the regional journal, Communication Studies, an opportunity that emerged during her graduate career at North Dakota State University. It was at NDSU that Farrell developed her strong passion and research foundation in media, interpersonal/relational communication, health communication, and crisis/risk communication, which she complimented with professional experience in broadcast, journalism, public relations, marketing, finance, and equine science.
Christy L. Forrester is a health scientist in the NIOSH Research to Practice Office (r2p). She leads the NIOSH r2p team in developing and adapting innovative strategies and solutions to bridge gaps in the translation of research findings into practical use to improve the safety and health of workers. Her research interests include organizational and risk communication, as well as the role partnerships play in the successful transfer of research into effective workplace safety and health policy and practice. She received her BA in psychology and MS in epidemiology from the University of Cincinnati, and is currently completing her doctorate in communication at George Mason University.
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Morgan Getchell, PhD, is an assistant professor of strategic communication and convergent media at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky. Getchell recently completed her PhD at the University of Kentucky where she focused her scholarship on the areas of risk and crisis communication. Her dissertation, which examined emergent organizations in the 2014 West Virginia water contamination crisis, was funded by a grant from the National Center for Food Protection and Defense, a Department of Homeland Security center of excellence. She has also worked on funded projects through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States Department of Agriculture. Her research is published in several refereed journals and has been presented at regional, national, and international conferences.
Michel M. Haigh, Texas State University (PhD, University of Oklahoma) is a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University. She spent 11 years working in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State before joining the faculty at Texas State. Haigh has taught public relations writing, campaign, and research methods courses. Haigh has more than six years as a public relations writer, editor, and designer. She has co-authored more than 40 conference presentations, seven of which have been recognized with a “Top Paper” award. She has published more than 35 articles in journals such as Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Communication Monographs, Communication Research, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Newspaper Research Journal, Corporate Communications: An International Journal, and Communication Quarterly. The author would like to thank Kaylen Chung, Yiling Feng, Sarah Kim, Brooke Koller, and Melissa Payne, undergraduates in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State when this study was conducted, for their assistance in coding. Coders were compensated thanks to an Undergraduate Research Fund grant. Thanks to the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication for funding the travel to the 2016 Broadcast Education Association’s annual conference to present the study.
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Michael Hecht is interested in the theory and practice of health, intercultural, and interpersonal communication. His work has produced new theoretical approaches, such as the Communication Theory of Identity and the Principal of Cultural Grounding. He has also been involved in many different community-based research programs and collaborations on drug abuse intervention, crime prevention, and mental health support. Michael Hecht has taught courses on interpersonal communication, interpersonal communication theory, and nonverbal communication. He has won numerous awards, including the Gerald R. Philips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship, two Distinguished Scholarship Awards for the International and Intercultural Division of the National Communication Association, and the Article of the Year Award for SIETAR.
Erin Hester provides health communication expertise for the Obesity Prevention Program with the Kentucky Department for Public Health. She specializes in developing meaningful communication strategies for behavior change, interpreting complex health information and reframing messages that promote health equity in the areas of obesity and chronic disease prevention. Her background in public health communication campaigns has been applied to numerous statewide nutrition and physical activity efforts, including 5-2-1-0 Healthy Numbers for Kentucky Families and Step It Up, Kentucky! Hester holds a master’s degree in communication from the University of Kentucky and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Wittenberg University.
Douglas Blanks Hindman is Chair of the Journalism and Media Production Department in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. He teaches News and Society, New Communication Technologies, and Media, Social Control, and Social Change. Hindman conducts research on social structural impacts on news content, news organizations, news distribution, and news production. Recent work focuses on belief gaps, which are widening differences in beliefs about verifiable knowledge among groups with different political or social identities that result primarily from misinformation propagated by political elites.
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Scott Hodgson is a professor at the University of Oklahoma at the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is a producer/director and also began teaching after being invited to teach for one semester. He says, “Creating media with a message is my passion. Making a difference is my mission. Working with students is my joy. For over 30 years I served dual roles as both a producer/director and an educator. Since 2006 I have been at the University of Oklahoma where I teach video production and run a contract unit called Gaylord Hall Productions.”
Bobi Ivanov (PhD, University of Oklahoma) is Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in Communication and Professor of Integrated Strategic Communication in the Department of Integrated Strategic Communication at the University of Kentucky. He studies strategic message design, consumer behavior, and strategic communications. He has primarily taught marketing, communication, research, and strategic communication related courses in a number of different departments/units. His main research interests concern social influence (persuasion and resistance) and message design, processing, and retention. Ivanov’s theoretical work focuses on the study of inoculation theory, images, and attitudes and their composition, hierarchical structure, and function as applied in various contexts including commercial, health, intercultural, instructional/educational, interpersonal, political, and risk/crisis management. His scholarship has appeared in numerous presentations (five top paper awards), books, book chapters, and journal publications such as Communication Monographs, Communication Research, Human Communication Research, the International Journal of the Image, Communication Reports, Journal of Communication, Iowa Journal of Communication, The Global Studies Journal, Health Communication, Journal of Public Relations Research, Western Journal of Communication, Communication Yearbook, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Central Business Review, Communication Research Reports, and Atlantic Marketing Journal, among others.
Jakob D. Jensen is an expert in health communication. His research focuses on the strategic communication of health information to the public, with a special focus on cancer. He routinely works with public health departments to design and evaluate their campaigns, interventions, and programs. Most recently, he has worked with the Utah Department of Health on the design and evaluation of colorectal and breast cancer screening campaigns.
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Barry A. Klinger is an associate professor in the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences Department at George Mason University. He studies large-scale ocean circulation and its impact on climate, and is interested in science communication and the global warming debate.
John Kotcher is a research assistant professor in the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. His research explores ways to reduce political polarization and increase public engagement with climate change.
Melinda Krakow is a public health communication researcher currently serving as a postdoctoral cancer prevention fellow at the National Cancer Institute, investigating social and behavioral aspects of population-based cancer prevention. She completed her doctorate in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah (PhD, May 2015), where she worked on a variety of projects with the Health Communication and Technology (HCAT) research lab led by Jakob D. Jensen.
Gary L. Kreps is a University Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication in the Department of Communication at George Mason University. His research examines dissemination of relevant health information in society, especially to vulnerable populations. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in communication research, health communication, risk communication, communication campaigns, and e-health communication. He received his BA and his MA in Communication from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his PhD from the University of Southern California. Prior to joining the faculty at GMU he served as Chief of the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute, where he introduced major national health communication research initiatives, such as the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) and the Centers of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research. He recently launched the HINTS-China research program and is working to establish HINTS-Germany. His work is reported in more than 400 widely cited books, articles, and chapters.
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Jo-Yun Li is a doctoral student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina. She is also currently enrolled in the Certificate of Graduate Study in Health Communication. She is a former journalist for an ethnic news media, covering politics and health news in New York City. It was her prior professional experience in one of the most diverse places in the world that inspired her research. Li’s primary research interest is health communication in diverse populations. One aspect of her research focus is about how mass communication can be used to promote beneficial changes in behavior among members of different populations.
Robert Littlefield is Professor and Director of the Nicholson School of Communication. Formerly a professor of communication at North Dakota State University, Littlefield is the author or co-author of over 85 refereed publications and several books, receiving recognition from state, regional, and national organizations for his scholarly activity. His recent co-edited book, Risk and Crisis Communication: Navigating the Tensions Between Organizations and the Public, reflects his current focus on identifying the micro-processes at work when decision-makers are faced with a risk or crisis situation and must determine how best to develop and respond to prevent or mitigate the situation.
Kevin J. Macy-Ayotte received his PhD in rhetoric and communication from the University of Pittsburgh in 2003 and is currently a professor of communication at California State University, Fresno. Although his research interests range from classical Greek rhetoric to post-structuralist rhetorical criticism, Macy-Ayotte’s primary area of inquiry involves the examination of language and power in public argumentation concerning international security threats and foreign policy intended to address those threats. His recent work explores the ways in which government and media discourses about terrorism and weapons of mass destruction shape public understanding of these problems and support for various counter-terrorism and counter-proliferation policies. He has published articles in journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Argumentation and Advocacy; he is a co-editor of the book, Terrorism: Communication and Rhetorical Perspectives.
Edward W. Maibach is a university professor at George Mason University, and director of Mason’s Center for Climate Change Communication. Ed’s research—funded by NSF, NASA, and private foundations—focuses on public engagement in climate change. Ed co-chaired the Engagement & Communication Working Group for the third National Climate Assessment. He earned his PhD in communication science at Stanford University and his MPH at San Diego State University, and has previously served as associate director of the National Cancer Institute, worldwide director of social marketing at Porter Novelli, and board chairman for Kidsave International.
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Michelle Miller-Day (PhD, Arizona State University) is a professor of communication studies at Chapman University in Orange, California. Prior to joining Chapman in the fall of 2012, Miller-Day occupied a faculty position at Penn State University at University Park as an associate professor of communication arts and sciences and biobehavioral health and faculty affiliate with the Penn State Center for Health Care and Policy Research.
H. Dan O’Hair is Dean of the College of Communication and Information and Professor of Communication at the University of Kentucky. In 2006, he served as the president of the National Communication Association. He has published over 90 research articles and scholarly chapters in risk and health communication journals and volumes, and has authored and edited 18 books in the areas of communication, risk management, health, and terrorism. O’Hair has served on the editorial boards of over 30 research journals and is a past editor of the Journal of Applied Communication Research. In 2013, he was honored by the Broadcast Education Association with their Lifetime Achievement Award for Scholarship.
Kimberly A. Parker (PhD, 2004, University of Oklahoma) is an associate professor in the College of Communication and Information. Parker has over 20 years’ experience working with nonprofits in the area of social change campaigns. Kimberly’s research has appeared in Communication Monographs, Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, Journal of Public Relations Research, Communication Quarterly, Communication Research Reports, and Health Communication.
Lance Porter, with more than 19 years of marketing experience, has focused on digital media since 1995, when he built his first commercial website. Before coming to LSU, Porter spent four years as executive director of Internet marketing for Disney. There he oversaw the creative and media strategies for more than 80 films and won a Clio Award for excellence in advertising. He currently teaches advertising creative strategy and campaigns. His research focuses on digital media effects. He holds a joint appointment with the Center for Computation and Technology (CCT). He won the 2009 LSU Alumni Faculty Excellence Award and was the 2010 American Advertising Federation Donald G. Hileman Memorial Educator of the Year in the seventh district.
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Chelsea L. Ratcliff is a graduate student in the Department of Communication at University of Utah. Her research interests include cancer communication, message effects, news coverage of health/medical research, and ethical issues in health and risk communication. Ratcliff worked as a health journalist prior to graduate school and was a contributor to major national health news outlets.
Deborah Sellnow-Richmond is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Columbus State University where she teaches courses in the public relations track. She researches the efficacy and unforeseen effects of public relations messages in health and organizational crisis context, and the emerging role of social media in creating and resolving organizational crises. Her research appears in a number of communication journals including the Journal of Applied Communication, the Journal of Risk Research, and Communication Studies. Debbie holds a PhD in communication from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, a master’s degree in public service from the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota. She has conducted community-centered campaigns at the state, national, and international levels.
Katherine E. Rowan is a professor of communication at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Her research concerns the challenges of earning trust and explaining complexities in risk and crisis communication contexts. At Mason, she teaches courses in public relations, science communication, risk communication, and crisis communication. She has authored or edited over 70 scholarly and governmental publications. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Virginia Sea Grant. She directs Mason’s graduate certificate program in science communication.
Meghan Sanders is an associate professor in the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. Her research focuses on the psychological effects of mass media, as they pertain to psychological and subjective well-being, and enjoyment and appreciation of entertainment. Her work has been published in journals such as Communication Theory, Mass Communication and Society, and Psychology of Popular Media Culture, and she has presented at national and international conferences including the National Communication Association, the Broadcast Education Association, and the International Communication Association. Sanders also serves as director of the Media Effects Lab where she educates and trains undergraduate and graduate students and faculty on the theory and technology behind some of the most cutting-edge media effects measures (i.e. reaction time, skin conductance, eye tracking, etc.). From 2008 to 2012, she served as the associate dean for research and strategic planning for the Manship School. In this position, she promoted, fostered, and assisted with extramural funding for faculty research and teaching while providing oversight to the school’s research professorship program. Sanders managed the unit’s role in the university’s SACSCOC reaccreditation process and the reaccreditation of the unit by the Accrediting Council of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Sanders continues to direct the Scripps Howard Academic Leadership Academy—a program aimed at mentoring new and would-be administrators by providing four days of leadership training and professional networking. She earned her undergraduate degree in mass communication at Dillard University, her master’s degree in media studies from the Pennsylvania State University, and her doctorate in mass communication from the Pennsylvania State University.
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Juliann C. Scholl is Health Communication Fellow and Co-Director of the National Center for Productive Aging and Work (NCPAW) within NIOSH. In addition to co-directing NCPAW, Scholl conducts translation research with an emphasis on the reduction of musculoskeletal disorders among workers of different age groups. She also examines workplace intergenerational tensions and does survey research in assessing stakeholder satisfaction and impact. She received her MA (University of Alabama) and PhD (University of Oklahoma) in Communication Studies.
Matthew Seeger (PhD, 1982, Indiana University) is Dean of the College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts and a professor of communication. Seeger’s research interests concern crisis and risk communication, crisis response and agency coordination, health communication, the role of media in crisis, crisis and communication ethics, failure of complex systems, and post-crisis renewal. He has worked closely with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on communication and anthrax attack and on pandemic influenza preparedness. He is also an affiliate of the World Health Organization. Seeger has also worked with issues of food and water safety, including with the Flint, Michigan water crisis. His recent book is Narratives of Crisis: Telling Stories of Ruin and Renewal (Stanford University Press, 2016).
Timothy Sellnow joined the University of Central Florida in 2015 as professor at the Nicholson School of Communication. Sellnow’s research focuses on bioterrorism, pre-crisis planning, and strategic communication for risk management and mitigation in organizational and health settings. He has conducted funded research for the Department of Homeland Security, the United States Department of Agriculture, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the United States Geological Survey. He has also served in an advisory role for the National Academy of Sciences and the World Health Organization. He has published numerous refereed journal articles on risk and crisis communication and has co-authored five books on risk and crisis communication. Sellnow’s most recent book is entitled Theorizing Crisis Communication.
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YoungJu Shin is an assistant professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. In 2012, she received her PhD in Health Communication from Pennsylvania State University. Some of her academic interests are health communication, youth substance use prevention, intervention, and family communication.
Zixue Tai is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Kentucky. His primary area of research pertains to the social, political, and cultural ramifications of the new media sector in China.
Jagadish Thaker is a senior lecturer at the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing at Massey University, New Zealand. His research examines ways to understand and enhance vulnerable communities’ adaptive capacity to climate change impacts, and he specializes in the fields of science and climate change communication, health communication, and strategic communication campaigns.
Candice Tresch has been a public affairs officer with the US Navy since 2007, and a military officer since 2002. Her passion is centered in helping people find their voice to stimulate positive change in their lives and organizations. Grounded in military and government communication, she is experienced in sharing how the few can connect with the many. Candice holds an MA in Communication from George Mason University.
Janey Trowbridge received her PhD in Communication from George Mason University where she was a presidential research fellow, instructor, and postgraduate research associate. Her research, reflected in published articles and book chapters and conference presentations, focuses on the application of strategic communication in environmental conflict management and public health. Recently she was a lecturer in the McCoy College of Business and Communication Studies Department at Texas State University in San Marcos.
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Donna M. Van Bogaert is a researcher and consultant in the field of cognitive styles, health communication, and organizational communication and behavior. Her business, Van Bogaert & Associates, Inc., specializes in cognitive-based coaching, management consulting, and leadership development. She leads the Information Resources and Dissemination Branch of the Education Information Dissemination Division at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Jenell Walsh-Thomas holds an MS in earth systems science and a PhD in environmental science and public policy, both from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. She graduated with her PhD in 2016, and was selected for a 2017 Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and assigned to work with the Board on Environmental Change and Society. During her doctoral studies, Jenell coordinated the Center for Climate Change Communication and the National Park Service Partnership where she mentored undergraduates as well as graduate student interns in developing a variety of informative climate change communication materials for park staff and visitors.
Ruoxu Wang is an assistant professor at the University of Memphis. Her research focuses on the intersection of media effects and persuasion under the context of communication technology and strategic communication. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Interactive Advertising, Computers in Human Behavior, Telematics and Informatics, Social Media + Society, Mass Communication and Society, and American Behavioral Scientist. Wang holds a PhD from Penn State University (2017) and an MS from North Dakota State University (2013).
Greg Williams (MA, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) is currently a data coordinator in the Department of Surgery at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include clinical outcomes, patient education, and health communication. His work has appeared in Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Health Communication, and Communication Studies. Mr. Williams forthcoming work focuses on improving outcomes among patients with hepatobiliary and pancreatic cancer.
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H. Joe Witte is an outreach specialist (Climate Science) at Aquent/JPL-NASA, Pasadena, California. After 4 decades as a network and local TV meteorologist (MS, University of Washington), Joe switched careers, acquired an MA from George Mason University in communication, emphasizing science communication, and now works on climate science outreach to the 2,000 TV meteorologists in the United States. He produces short visual science stories for use on television and in social media.
Chelsea Woods (PhD, University of Kentucky) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Virginia Tech where she teaches public relations. Her research interests include strategic crisis management, post-crisis discourse, issues management, and anti-corporate activism. She has assisted on projects funded by the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) and the National Science Foundation. Her research has presented at national and international conferences and published in several journals.
Nan Yu is an associate professor at University of Central Florida. Her research focuses on health communication and communication technology with an emphasis on health promotion using digital technologies. Yu currently serves as the associate editor of Asian Journal of Communication. Her research has been published in premier peer-reviewed journals such as Health Communication, Information Sciences, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, and Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Yu holds a PhD from Penn State University (2009) and an MS from Ohio University (2005).
Zhian Zhang is a professor and Dean of the School of Communication and Design, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Research on National Governance, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Hong Kong and Macau Studies, at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. He also serves on the advisory board on China’s State Council Information Office. His main area of expertise is sociology of news.