Research

Collaborative IRB

Mari Castaneda is the Human Subjects Review Chair for the upcoming 2009-2010 academic year. Click Here to read about the Institutional Review Board Procedures

Lectures Sponsored by the Department of Communication and the Center for the Study of Communication

Each semester, the Department of Communication and the Center for the Study of Communication host or sponsor a series of lectures on the field of communication.

• Select list of lectures and abstracts

Lecture dates can be found on the News & Events page.

Journals Edited by Our Faculty

• Telematics and Informatics: An Interdisciplinary Journal on the Social Impacts of New Technologies, published by Elsevier, edited by Jan Servaes and S.Y. Chin

   

  Telematics and Informatics is an interdisciplinary journal examining the social, economic, political and cultural impacts and challenges of information and communication technologies. Current technologies and issues of interest include – but are not limited to – e-commerce and e-governance, the WWW, the 2.0 paradigm, regulation of digital technologies, social networking, special user groups, mobile and wireless communications, peer-to-peer learning, green computing, alternative community networks, ICT for sustainable development, globalization and security, management and policymaking, advertising and the internet, use of ICT in healthcare and education. In addition to full Research Papers, the journal publishes Topic Discussion papers, Ongoing Research papers, dealing with work in progress, and Review essays.

Select List of Recent Books Authored by Our Faculty and Graduate Students

• Constructing America's War Culture: Iraq, Media, and Images at Home (2008), by Thomas Conroy and Jarice Hanson
• Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Mass Media and Society, 10th Edition (2008), by Alison Alexander and Jarice Hanson
• Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance: Dis/placing Race (2008), by Leda M. Cooks and Jennifer S. Simpson
• Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy (2008), by Paula Chakravartty and Yuezhi Zhao
• Dawson's Creek: A Critical Understanding (2007), by Lori Bindig
• The Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television (2007), by Martin Norden
• Moving Targets: Mapping the Paths between Communication, Technology and Social Change in Communities (2007), by Jan Servaes and Shuang Liu
• Communication for Development and Social Change (2007), by Jan Servaes
• 24/7: How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Live, Work, and Play (2007), by Jarice Hanson
• Media and the American Child (2007), by George Comstock and Erica Scharrer
• Media Policy and Globalization: History, Culture and Politics (2006), by Paula Chakravartty and Katharine Sarikakis
• Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame (2006), by Anne Ciecko
• The Spectacle of Accumulation: Essays in Media, Culture, & Politics (2006), by Sut Jhally
• Cultures in Conversation (2005), by Donal Carbaugh
• The Psychology of Media and Politics (2005), by George Comstock and Erica Scharrer

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Select Institutions and Centers that Our Faculty are Affiliated with for Research

• Center for Communication for Sustainable Social Change (CSSC) responses to an urgent need for close study of society and culture in formulating communication and media strategies in order to ensure that target audiences are reached in an appropriate manner that most effectively enhances knowledge transfer and brings about sustainable social change. This is particularly so in developing countries where access to understandable information about health care (particularly HIV/AIDS), security, agriculture, literacy and other issues is vital. However, social change is not limited to developing countries, and the Center’s activities encompass global and local activities worldwide. The Center is envisioned as an international resource base and focal point for broad interdisciplinary studies into the theory and practice of sustainable social change communication. CSSC will do this together with researchers and scholars around the globe.
• Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies (CLACLS) promotes research, training, and public engagement on the histories, cultures, and politics of Latin American and Caribbean peoples across the Americas and throughout the world. Bridging the divide that historically has separated Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies as institutionalized knowledge formations with distinctive intellectual genealogies, political trajectories, and bureaucratic moorings at U.S. universities is central to our mission. The Center seeks to be a hemispheric, crossborder space for critical reflection, exchange, and intellectual production. CLACLS is committed to sustaining links with Latin American and Caribbean communities in the U.S. and across the Americas, as well as to bringing the alternative knowledge produced in those communities to bear on our teaching and research.
• Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA) is committed to improving public policy and governance by educating leaders for public service and conducting and applying interdisciplinary research.
• Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA) is a center dedicated to new teaching and scholarship on the Americas. Founded in 1997, CISA brings together faculty from Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst who work together to explore relational aspects of identity in the Americas. Instead of adopting a North-South approach, CISA has developed a triangular model for its work, where the three sides are formed by the Old World (Africa, Asia, Europe), the polities of the New World, and the indigenous peoples of the Americas. This conception of the Americas as a crossroads seeks to promote an awareness of the historical and material inter-relationality of citizenship, migration, diaspora, and nationhood.
• National Center for Digital Government (NCDG)'s mission is to build global research capacity, to advance practice, and to strengthen the network of researchers and practitioners engaged in building and using technology and government. The goal of NCDG is to apply and extend the social sciences for research at the intersection of governance, institutions and information technologies.
• Science, Technology, and Society Initiative promotes multidisciplinary collaboration among the natural, physical and social sciences, engineering and public policy. It provides a catalyst for innovative research as well as an interdisciplinary forum to discuss issues in science and technology. It encourages linkages of social science faculty with science and technology projects, and the group provides a single point of contact for campus-wide faculty collaborations, enabling effective teaming on new proposals and initiatives.