Achievements

Armeda Reitzel

Communication

Armeda Reitzel is one of the co-authors of an article titled "Setting an agenda for stakeholder research to field test the NCA learning outcomes in communication" that was published in Communication Education in August 2016. This article featured work done as part of the National Communication Association's multiyear Learning Outcomes in Communication grant project.

Joshua Frye

Communication

Joshua Frye recently published a book chapter called "Hugo Chávez, Iconic Associationism, and the Bolívarian Revolution" in the edited collection, Imprints of Revolution: Visual Representations of Resistance. The peer-reviewed volume is published by Roman & Littlefield International and edited by Lisa B. Y. Calvente and Guadalupe Garcia.

Michael S. Bruner, Karissa Valine, Berenice Ceja

Communication

Michael S. Bruner, Karissa Valine, and Berenice Ceja, Department of Communication, "Women Can't Win: Gender Irony and the E-Politics of 'The Biggest Loser'," was published in the International Journal of E-Politics,
Vol. 16, Issue 2 (2016): 16-36.
DOI: 10.4018/IJEP.2016040102.

See : http://www.igi-global.com/article/women-cant-win/152821

Brittany Stuckey, Anna Barker, Karissa Valine

Communication

Brittany Stuckey, Communications and Art double major, won a Tom Knight Award in the Art Graduates 2016 exhibition for her digital print, "The Mythos of Memory: Tracy." Ms. Stuckey also designed the ideaFest 2016 posters for December Comm. graduates, Anna Malia G. Barker ("A Preliminary Network Analysis...Food Issues") and Karissa Valine ("The Feminist Pedestal: Ronda Rousey and the Representation of Female Athletes").

Armeda Reitzel

Communication

Armeda Reitzel has been selected as the subject area chair for Midwestern Culture for the Midwest Popular Culture Association. She will serve as subject area chair from 2016 through 2018.

Joshua Frye and Craig Engstrom

Communication

Dr. Joshua Frye, Associate Professor of Communication, and his co-author Dr. Craig Engstrom, Assistant Professor of Communication at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, have published a textbook, entitled "Qualitative Communication Consulting: Stories and Lessons from the Field." The book includes 15 original narrative essays with each telling a story that captures the rewards and challenges of consulting through qualitative lenses. The book offers eclectic perspectives from communication faculty working in various regions of the country and with diverse types of clients and organizations.

Joseph Chatham, Rory Eschenbach, Tania Meijia, and Dr. Armeda Reitzel

Communication

Dr. Armeda Reitzel and three Communication majors - Joseph Chatham, Rory Eschenbach, and Tania Meijia - presented their academic papers at the Popular Culture Association Conference in Seattle, WA March 22-25, 2016. The papers were:
Joseph Chatham: A global village complete with global gamers; Rory Eschenbach: Riot Boys: Gendering space in League of Legends;
Tania Mejia: Yoga marketing; Dr. Armeda Reitzel: Power, privilege, and popularity all tied up--in the necktie!

Joshua Frye

Communication

Joshua Frye, Associate Professor of Communication, recently published a peer-reviewed academic journal article in the "Journal of Social Justice." The article, entitled, “Re-conceptualizing the Global Fair Trade Movement” examines the fair trade movement using structuration theory and inductive rhetorical analysis. The essay argues that the global fair trade movement is unique in the pursuit of sustainability and social justice within the food system. As such, it reveals communication reflexivity as potentially a collective process of transformation and is reshaping the values and conditions for labor equity and environmental sustainability through a new market paradigm of partnership.

Michael S. Bruner

Communication

Michael S. Bruner, Professor, Department of Communication, had his book review of "WORD OF MOUTH: What We Talk About When We Talk About Food," by sociologist Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, published in "Food, Culture, and Society," online 18 February 2016.

Hunter Fine

Communication

Published a chapter in a book titled “Postmodern Theory and Hip-Hop Cultural Discourse.” Ed. Kathleen Roberts. Communication Theory and Millennial Popular Culture: Essays and Applications. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2016.