Collaboration is central to SJMC's research mission. Faculty collaborate with and mentor graduate students on research projects that lead to peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference presentations.

The Easton Collaborative Research Award provides graduate student and faculty research teams with awards of up to $5,000 to conduct a collaborative research project led by the student.

The School also supports collaboration through a summer Research Assistant program open to all SJMC faculty and students and through additional funding for research-related expenses.

Below is a list of recent publications that have resulted from collaborations with SJMC faculty, students, and recent alumni.

2025

Mudavadi, K. C., Tully, M., & Lomoywara, D. B. (2025). Exploring Kenyans’ interactions with misinformation on WhatsApp. Mobile Media & Communication, 13(1), 69-87.

2024

Ssozi, J., Dowling, D., (2024). "Defying Uganda’s morality police: the grammar of social media protest images." Communication, Culture and Critique.

Biddle, K., Ekdale, B., High, A. C., Stoldt, R., Maragh-Lloyd, R. (2024). Beyond ‘Lulz’ and ‘Keyboard warriors’: exploring the relationship between trolling and radicalization. Information, Communication & Society, 1–17.

Johnson, P., Tully, M., Foster, B., Mihailidis, P., Ramasubramanian, S., Burth, S., Riewestahl, E., (2024) Developing a framework for equitable media literacy practice: Voices from the field, Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 17, Issue 4, December 2024, Pages 318–325.

Matanji, F., Tully, M., Mudavadi, K. C., Diop, L., & Madrid-Morales, D. (2024). Media Literacy and Fact-Checking as Proactive and Reactive Responses to Misinformation in Kenya and Senegal. African Journalism Studies, 1–18.

Burth, S., Riewestahl, E., Ramasubramanian, S., Foster, B., Johnson, P. R., Mihailidis, P., & Tully, M. (2024). "Mapping media literacy impact in the U.S.: a review of literature and call for equity." Annals of the International Communication Association, 48(4), 336–357.

Asuman, M., Ibrahim, A., Cohen, M. S. and Ekdale, B. (2024). "Geographic tokenism on editorial boards: a content analysis of highly ranked communication journals." Online Media and Global Communication.

Witmer S, and Dowling, DO. (2024) "True Crime Podcasting as Participatory Journalism: A Digital Ethnography of Collaborative Case Solving." Journalism and Media. 2024; 5(4):1702-1722. 

Ekdale, B and Aidoo, E. "Navigating platform work through solidarity and hustling: the case of ride-hailing drivers in Nairobi, Kenya." Online Media and Global Communication, vol. 3, no. 3, 2024, pp. 395-417.

Mudavadi, K. C., Matanji, F., Diop, L., Tully, M., & Madrid-Morales, D. (2024). "Stakeholder perceptions of regulatory responses to misinformation in Kenya and Senegal." Journalism.

2023

Stoldt, R., Maragh-Lloyd, R., Havens, T., Ekdale, B., High, A. (2023). Using racial discourse communities to audit personalization algorithms. Communication, Culture & Critique. Online First.

Young, R., Kananovich, V., & Johnson, B. G. (2023). Young adults’ folk theories of how social media harms its users. Mass Communication and Society, 26(1), 23-46.

2022

 

Peterson, A., High, A., Maragh-Lloyd, R., Stoldt, R., & Ekdale, B. (2022). Trust in online search results during uncertain times. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 66(5), 751-771.

Dowling, D., Johnson, P., & Ekdale, B. (2022). Hijacking journalism: Legitimacy and metajournalistic discourse in right-wing podcasts. Media and Communication, 10(3).

 

Dowling, D., & Paul, S. (2022). Indie visionaries: Advancing the digital frontier of literary journalism in India. In J.S. Bak & B. Reynolds (eds.) The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism. Routledge.

 

Ekdale, B., Biddle, K., Tully, M., Kofi, M., & Rinaldi, A. (2022). Global disparities in knowledge production within journalism studies: Are special issues the answer? Journalism Studies. 23(15), 1942-1961

 

Ekdale, B., Rinaldi, A., Ashfaquzzaman, M., Khanjani, M., Matanji, F., Stoldt, R., & Tully, M. (2022). Geographic disparities in knowledge production: A big data analysis of peer-reviewed Communication publications from 1990 to 2019. International Journal of Communication, 12, 2498–2525.

 

Henderson, C., & Oates, T.P. (2022). This means more: Branded socialism at Liverpool’s soccer clubs. Communication and Sport. Online First.

 

Miller, K., Fox, K., & Dowling, D. (2022). From Black Lives Matter to COVID-19: Daily news podcasts and the reinvention of audio reporting. Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media, 20(2), 1-20.

 

Young, R., & Tully, M. (2022). Autonomy vs. control: associations among parenting practices, perceived parenting styles, and U.S. adolescents’ risky online experiences. Cyberpsychology, 16(2).

Johnson, P. R., & Tully, M. (2022). Can we rebuild broken relationships? Examining journalism, social media, and trust in a fractured media environment. In The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation. Springer.

 

 

 

2021

 

Madrid-Morales, D., Wasserman, H., Gondwe, G., Ndlovu, K., Sikanku, E., Tully, M., Umejei, E. L., & Uzuegbunam, C. (2021). Motivations for sharing misinformation: A comparative study in six Sub-Saharan African countries. International Journal of Communication, 15, 1200¬1219.

 

Mihailidis, P., Ramasubramanian, S., Tully, M., Foster, B., Riewestahl, E., Johnson, P., & Angove, S. (2021). Do media literacies approach equity and justice? Journal of Media Literacy Education, 13(2), 1-14.

 

Thompson, H., Carr, L., Whitaker, K., & Young, R. (2021). University stakeholders largely unaware and unsupportive of university pouring rights contracts with companies supplying sugar-sweetened beverages. Journal of American College Health. Online First.

 

Tuwei, D., & Tully, M. (2021). The role of change agents in the adaptation and use of mobile money services in Kenya. Journal of African Media Studies, 13(1), 89–102.

 

Young, R., Chen, L., Zhu, G., & Subramanian, R. (2021). Cautionary tales: social representation of risk in U.S. newspaper coverage of cyberbullying exemplars. Journalism Studies, 22(13), 1832-1852.

 

Young, R., Kananovich, K., & Johnson, B.G. (2021). Young adults’ folk theories of how social media harms its users. Mass Communication & Society. Online First.

 

 

 

2020

 

Bolenbaugh, M., Foley-Nicpon, M., Young, R., Tully, M., Ramirez, M., & Grunewald, N. (2020). Parental perceptions of gender differences in child technology use and cyberbullying. Psychology in the Schools, 57, 1657–1679.

 

Chen, L., Zhang, Y., Young, R., Wu, X., & Zhu, G. (2020). Effects of vaccine-related conspiracy theories on Chinese young adults’ perceptions of the HPV vaccine: an experimental study. Health Communication, 36(11), 1343-1353.

 

Fox, K., Dowling, D., & Miller, K. (2020). A curriculum for blackness: Podcasts as discursive cultural guides, 2010-2020. Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 27(2), 298-318.

Henry, T., & Oates, T.P. (2020). “Sport is argument”: Polarization, racial tension, and the. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 44(2), 154-174.televised sport debate format

 

Paul, S., & Dowling, D. (2020). Gandhi's newspaperman: T.G. Narayanan and the quest for an independent India, 1938-1946. Modern Asian Studies, 54(2), 471-501. 

 

Paul, S. & Sosale, S. (2020). Witnessing a Disaster: Public Use of Digital Technologies in the 2015 South Indian Floods. Digital Journalism, 8(1), 15-31.

 

Wellman, M., Tully, M., Stoldt, R., & Ekdale, B. (2020). Ethics of authenticity: Influencers and the production of sponsored content. Journal of Media Ethics, 35(2), 68–82.