Departments/Site Areas: Communication

MS in Media Science: Marketing Communication Research

Put data, and yourself to work. We are in the midst of an information explosion. Not just in amount of data, but advances in how to collect, analyze, and apply that data within the consumer insights industry. We try to figure out what’s going on in people’s heads – from consumers’ media consumption and purchasing… Read More

H. Denis Wu

Denis Wu focuses his research on international communication and political communication. He has won numerous research prizes, grants, and published widely in respected journals, including Journal of Communication and Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Additionally, he has co-authored three books — Media, Politics, and Asian Americans (2009), The Media are Ill: The Symptoms and Solutions… Read More

Joyce Walsh

With academic and professional backgrounds in both the arts and technology, Joyce develops innovative courses that integrate design with creative technology skills. Her professional work includes consulting, writing and speaking about design strategies for non-designers. Joyce’s design work is featured in publications, exhibitions and corporate art collections internationally. Her book, Graphic Design Essentials: Skills, Software… Read More

Tammy R. Vigil

Tammy R. Vigil is an Associate Professor of Communication at Boston University. She earned her doctorate in communication studies from the University of Kansas with an emphasis on rhetoric and political communication. Her research interests include political campaigns, persuasion, and women as political communicators. Dr. Vigil’s books include Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of Republican… Read More

Mina Tsay-Vogel

Dr. Tsay-Vogel holds a Ph.D. in Mass Communications from Penn State University and a B.A. High Honors in Communication Studies from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the psychological and social effects of mass media with an emphasis on entertainment and new media. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as… Read More

Patrice Oppliger

Dr. Oppliger teaches mass communication theory and research methods. She is particularly interested in persuasion and mass media effects theories. Oppliger’s research focuses on the influence of the media and popular culture on adolescents’ development, using a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods. She has published two books: Wrestling and Hypermasculinity (2004) and Girls… Read More

Michael G. Elasmar

Dr. Elasmar is a social-science-trained researcher who is fascinated by the role that communication plays in the formation and modification of a wide array of human belief systems (e.g. product brand beliefs, country images, intergroup perceptions, etc.).  His scholarly work has focused on finding ways to conceptualize, capture and visualize these belief systems in order… Read More

Anne Danehy

A protégé of two legends in the market research field, Professor Danehy has conducted quantitative and qualitative research studies for client organizations, both nationally and internationally, for more than 20 years. She excels at managing large, multi-layered research projects, taking them from design to analysis for strategic application. She conducts public opinion research with diverse… Read More

Dorothy S. Clark

Clark’s background is in communication writing. For more than a decade, she owned Media Wise, a promotional writing service, where she wrote video treatments and scripts, multi-image shows, features, press kits, brochures and newsletters, as well as print and broadcast ads. Her courses now  include a variety of multimedia, social media and web content writing…. Read More

T. Barton Carter

T. Barton Carter is a professor of communication who specializes in communication law and new communication technologies. He is the former head of the law division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication as well as of the law and policy division of the Broadcast Education Association. He also coordinates the JD/MS… Read More

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