Publications of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Department of Communication Studies Faculty.
Submissions from 2022
Topical Analysis of Nuclear Experts' Perceptions of Publics, Nuclear Energy, and Sustainable Futures, Hannah K. Patenaude and Emma Frances Bloomfield
The Toll of Technology While Working From Home During COVID-19, Natalie Pennington, Amanda J. Holmstrom, and Jeffrey A. Hall
Submissions from 2021
The Rhetorical Impact of the Scopes Trial's Interconnected Public Memory Places, Emma F. Bloomfield
Climate Communication and Storytelling, Emma F. Bloomfield and Chris Manktelow
Where Women Scientists Belong: Placing Feminist Memory in Biography Collections for Children, Emma Frances Bloomfield and Sara C. VanderHaagen
Testing the Applicability of the Instructional Beliefs Model across Three Countries: The Role of Culture as a Theoretical Parameter, Brandi Frisby, Nicholas Tatum, Flora Galy-Badenas, and Elif Bengu
Thriving or Struggling? Social Energy Expenditure and Patterns of Interaction During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Amanda J. Holmstrom, Jeffrey A. Hall, and Natalie Pennington
Conditional Effects Received Parental Support on Emerging Adults’ Relational Satisfaction, Tara G. McManus
“Okay Twitter… trend this, sucka! #Supernatural”: A content analysis of the Supernatural fandom’s use of live-tweeting, Guadalupe Negrete and Tara G. McManus
Communication outside of the Home through Social Media during COVID-19, Natalie Pennington
The Maintenance of Dormant and Commemorative Ties by Young Adults through Social Media, Natalie Pennington
Questions of Professional Practice and Reporting on State Secrets: Glenn Greenwald and the NSA Leaks, Rebecca Rice
Feminist Theory and Interorganizational Collaboration: An Ethnographic Study of Gendered Tension Management, Rebecca M. Rice
Communicating Authority in Interorganizational Collaboration, Rebecca M. Rice
High Reliability Collaborations: Theorizing Interorganizational Reliability as Constituted through Translation, Rebecca M. Rice
Revisiting Ethnography in Organizational Communication Studies, Bryan C. Taylor, William C. Barley, Boris H.J. Brummans, Laura L. Ellingson, Shiv Ganesh, Andrew F. Hermann, Rebecca M. Rice, and Sarah J. Tracy
Fostering Climate Change Consensus: The Role of Intimacy in Group Discussions, Lyn M. van Swol, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Chen Ting Chang, and Stephanie Willes
Submissions from 2020
Rhetorical Imaginings and Multimodal Arguments at the European Green Belt, Marcia Allison and Emma Frances Bloomfield
The Reworking of Evangelical Christian Ecocultural Identity in the Creation Care Movement, Emma F. Bloomfield
Mother! And the Horror of Environmental Abuse, Emma Frances Bloomfield
Transcorporeal Identification and Strategic Essentialism in Eco-Horror: Mother!'s Ecofeminist Rhetorical Strategies, Emma Frances Bloomfield
The Effects of Establishing Intimacy and Consubstantiality on Group Discussions About Climate Change Solutions, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Lyn M. Van Swol, Chen-Ting Chang, Stephanie Willes, and Paul Hangsan Ahn
Deliverance, Donovan Conley
More than a Membrane, Donovan Conley
Bandersnatched: Infrastructure and Acquiescence in Black Mirror, Donovan Conley and Benjamin Burroughs
Bandersnatched: Infrastructure and Acquiescence in Black Mirror, Donovan Conley and Benjamin Burroughs
Pained Publics, Donovan Conley and Benjamin Burroughs
Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production, Donovan Conley and Justin Eckstein
Introduction: Soiled, Donovan Conley and Justin Eckstein
Communication Modes During Romantic Dissolution: The Impact of Attachment and Intimacy on Initiator Breakup Strategies, William Hoffman
Providing Support to Friends Experiencing a Sexual Health Uncertainty, Tara G. McManus
A Content Analysis of Identity Expressions from Female Cast Members on the Reality Television Series WAGs (Wives and Girlfriends of Sports Stars): A Case Study, Kaitlyn M. Millican and Tara M. Emmers-Sommer
Quitting Social Media: A Qualitative Exploration of Communication Outcomes, Natalie Pennington
Does Facebook-Enabled Communication Influence Weak-Tie Relationships Over Time? a Longitudinal Investigation Into Mediated Relationship Maintenance, Natalie Pennington and Jeffrey A. Hall
Framing the Anthropocene as Influence or Impact: The Importance of Interdisciplinary Contributions to Stratigraphic Classification, Philip Tschirhart and Emma Frances Bloomfield
Submissions from 2019
Organizational Communication and Security, Hamilton Bean and Rebecca Rice
Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics: Religion and the Environment, Emma Frances Bloomfield
Rhetorical Constellations and the Inventional/Intersectional Possibilities of #MeToo, Emma Frances Bloomfield
The Rhetoric of Energy Darwinism: Neoliberal Piety and Market Autonomy in Economic Discourse, Emma Frances Bloomfield
Piedmont the Jazz Rat of Cunningham Park, Michael Lane Bruner
Rhetorical Unconsciousness and Political Psychoanalysis, M. Lane Bruner
Black Mirror, Mediated Affect and the Political, Donovan S. Conley and Benjamin Burroughs
Sex Differences in Emotion, Tara Emmers-Sommer
The “Angelina Effect” and Audience Response to Celebrity vs. Medical Expert Health Messages: an Examination of Source Credibility, Message Elaboration, and Behavioral Intentions, Tara M. Emmers-Sommer and Larissa Teran
Extending Discourse of Renewal to Preparedness: Construct and Scale Development of Readiness for Renewal, Ryan P. Fuller, Robert R. Ulmer, Ashley McNatt, and Jeanette B. Ruiz
Explaining How College-Aged Individuals Provide Information to Friends Experiencing Romantic Relational Uncertainty, Tara G. McManus, Yuliya Yurashevich, and Courtney McDaniel
Maintenance and Dissolution Through Social Networking Sites, Natalierose Pennington
Disaster Resilience as Communication Practice: Remembering and Forgetting Lessons from Past Disasters Through Practices that Prepare for the Next One, Rebecca M. Rice and Jody L. S. Jahn
Adults’ Identities, Attitudes, and Orientations Concerning Consensual Non-Monogamy, Amber K. Stephens and Tara M. Emmers-Sommer
Submissions from 2018
Impact of Population‐specific Dental Development on Age Estimation using Dental Atlases, Donovan M. Adams, Claira E. Ralston, Rachel A. Sussman, Kelly Heim, and Jonathan D. Bethard
Argumentation in the Identity Politics of the Trans Selfie, Recovering Greek Mythology to Analyze Contemporary Gender Arguments, Emma Frances Bloomfield
The Circulation of Climate Change Denial Online: Rhetorical and Networking Strategies on Facebook, Emma Frances Bloomfield and Denise Tillery
Analyzing Warrants and Worldviews in the Rhetoric of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: Burke and Argumentation in the 2016 Presidential Election, Emma Frances Bloomfield and Gabriela Tscholl
Recuperating the Real: New Materialism, Object-Oriented Ontology, and Neo-Lacanian Ontical Cartography, Caleb Cates, Michael Lane Bruner, and Joseph T. Moss
Is Civility Contagious? Examining the Impact of Modeling in Online Political Discussions, Soo-Hye Han, LeAnn Brazeal, and Natalie Pennington
Received Support from Friends about Sex-Related Concerns: A Multiple Goals Perspective, Tara G. McManus and Alysa A. Lucas
Social support from friends for sex-related issues: A Multiple Goals Perspective, Tara G. Mcmanus and Alysa A. Lucas
Mother Goose and Mother Nature: Designing Stories to Communicate Information About Climate Change, Angeline Sangalang and Emma Frances Bloomfield
Submissions from 2017
Ark Encounter as Material Apocalyptic Rhetoric: Contemporary Creationist Strategies on Board Noah's Ark, Emma Frances Bloomfield
China's Fraught Food System: Imagining Ecological Civilization in the Face of Paradoxical Modernity, Donovan Conley
“She Stopped Me From Killing Myself”: Bullied Bloggers’ Coping Behaviors and Support Sources, Carly M. Danielson and Tara M. Emmers-Sommer
College Student Perceptions of Hypothetical Rape Disclosures: Do Relational and Demographic Variables Pose a Risk on Disclosure Believability?, Tara M. Emmers-Sommer
Implications of Sex Guilt: A Meta-Analysis, Tara M. Emmers-Sommer, Mike Allen, Kelsea Vadona Schoenbauer, and Nancy Burrell
Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC's "Parks and Recreation", Erika J. Engstrom
“That just proves he wants me back”: Pure victimhood, agency, and intimate partner violence in Gotham City Sirens, K. Scarlett Harrington and Jennifer A. Guthrie
Imagining China: Rhetorics of Nationalism in an Age of Globalization, Stephen J. Hartnett, Lisa B. Keränen, and Donovan Conley
"A “Gathering Storm” or “A New Chapter”? China, the United States, and the Rhetorical Work of National Imaginaries", Stephen J. Hartnett, Lisa B. Keranen, and Donovan S. Conley
When Do Friends Prevent Friends from Hooking Up Intoxicated? An Examination of Sex Differences and Hypothetical Intoxication in Peer Interventions, Mattew W. Savage, Lisa Menegatos, and Anthony J. Roberto
Submissions from 2016
"It Was My Fault": Bullied Students Causal and Controllable Attributions in Bullying Blogs, C. M. Danielson and Tara M. Emmers-Sommer
Communicating Energy in a Climate (of) Crisis, Danielle Endres, Brian A. Cozen, Joshua Trey Barnett, Megan O'Byrne, and Tarla Rai Peterson
Performances of an International Professional Community: CCS/CCUS and its National Contexts, Danielle Endres, Brian A. Cozen, Megan O'Byrne, and Andrea Feldpausch-Parker
Putting the U in Carbon Capture and Storage: Rhetorical Boundary Negotiation Within the CCS/CCUS Scientific Community, D. Endres, Brian Cozen, M. O’Byrne, A. M. Feldpausch-Parker, and T. R. Peterson
Religion and the Representative Anecdote: Replacement and Revenge in AMC’s The Walking Dead, Erika Engstrom and J M. Valenzano III
“No More Trapping Me!”: Communication Scholarship in the Service of Women Experiencing Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse, Jennifer Guthrie and A Kunkel
Southern Nevada Aerospace History, David Henry and S I. Russi
Survivor: Women's Stories of Navigation and Tensions in a Domestic Violence Shelter, A. Kunkel and Jennifer Guthrie
‘The Suitcase’ and ‘The Strategy’: The Pro-family Feminist B bond Between Mad Men Protagonists Don Draper and Peggy Olson, Jane Marcellus and Erika J. Engstrom
Las Vegas Debate: Lesson in Democracy, Jacob D. Thompson
Submissions from 2015
Audio and Video Journalism, Erika J. Engstrom and Gary W. Larson
Does Movie Viewing Cultivate Young People's Unrealistic Expectations About Love and Marriage?, Lauren Galloway, Erika J. Engstrom, and Tara M. Emmers-Sommer
Communication in Support Groups, Jennifer A. Guthrie and Adrianne Kunkel
Problematizing the Uniform Application of the Formula Story: Advocacy for Survivors in a Domestic Violence Support Group, Jennifer A. Guthrie and Adrianne Kunkel
Survivor: Women’s Stories of Navigation and Tensions in a Domestic Violence Shelter, Adrianne Kunkel and Jennifer A. Guthrie
Newlywed Reports of Social Support During Engagement: What Worked and What Failed, Amber Messersmith, Adrianne Kunkel, and Jennifer A. Guthrie
Submissions from 2007
Selling with Sex in Sin City: The Case of the Hard Rock Hotel Casino, Erika Engstrom