Accomplishments: Greenspun College of Urban Affairs
Aya Shata (Journalism and Media Studies) at 性视界传媒 and co-author Michelle Seelig from the University of Miami published an article titled, "Making the Environment Like A Cool Thing:鈥 Exploring generation Z and Millennials鈥 reception of climate change videos on YouTube," in the Atlantic Journal of Communication.
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Associate professor Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) co-curated and exhibited work in "At the Heart of Basin and Range." This exhibit, sponsored by Nevada Humanities, an independent state humanities council affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and exhibited at its downtown program gallery, celebrates鈥
An-Pyng Sun (Social Work) and Stephanie Diez (PennWest) published 鈥淯nderstanding the Gaming Disorder鈥揇epression Co-Occurrence: A Narrative Literature Review鈥 in the Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. Adolescents, young adults, and their families are increasingly seeking professional help for digital- or video-gaming disorder (GD), which often鈥
Tara McManus (Communication Studies) and her co-author Jackson Scott (MA, Communication Studies, now a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) published a paper in Communication Reports titled, "The effects of support providers' sex on the association between friendship standards and support provision."
The study examines how鈥
Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute), Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies), and Mark Johnson from the University of Sydney have published an article titled, "A New History of Poker Spectatorship: Table Chat, Online Forums, Television Piracy, and Twitch" in the journal International Gambling Studies. Histories of poker鈥
Emma Frances Bloomfield (Communication Studies) has a chapter in the recently published volume: Scientists, Politics, and the Rhetoric of Public Controversy (edited by Pamela Pietrucci and Leah Ceccarelli). Her chapter is titled, "The Bro as Disingenuous Scientist Citizen," and explores how online "bros," namely Elon Musk, Jordan鈥
Jeffrey T. Child (Communication Studies) and his co-author recently published a new study in the journal of Human-Machine Communication. The citation is: Craig, M. J. A., & Child, J. T. (2025). "Creepy, invasive, and exploitative algorithms: A CPM analysis of users' privacy breakdowns and recalibration practices with social media algorithms."鈥
Nicolas Barr (Social Work), Steven Pace (Criminal Justice), and Alexandra Slemaker (Criminal Justice) published an article, 鈥淟aten Profiles of Psychosocial Risk and Associations with Suicidality in U.S. Military Veterans.鈥 This article appears in Traumatology. Military veterans are at increased risk for suicide compared to civilians. Suicide鈥
Steven Pace (Criminal Justice), a former FBI supervisory special agent and current 性视界传媒 faculty member, will be featured in a forthcoming true-crime documentary detailing one of the largest global takedowns of a transnational criminal enterprise in FBI history. Pace served as the lead FBI case agent on 鈥淥peration Money Maker,鈥 a six-year鈥
Steven Pace (Criminal Justice), assistant professor-in-residence and former FBI supervisory special agent, was recently interviewed on Nevada Public Radio (KNPR) as an expert commentator concerning the health challenges faced by first responders. In the broadcast, he outlined how chronic occupational stress can degrade cardiovascular, immune, and鈥
Craig Hennigan (Communication Studies) published a chapter in the new book, From a Whisper to a Movement: Investigating the Shared Rhetorical Spaces of Whistleblowing and Social Protest, edited by Joshua Guitar and Alan Chu. The chapter, titled "Tragic Responses to Whistleblowing a Tragedy: A Burkean Analysis of the Flint Water鈥
The Office of the Associate Vice Provost for Student Success is excited to announce the 2024-2025 award winners of the academic advising awards through 性视界传媒 and NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising. Learn more about our accomplished colleagues and how they have contributed to the 性视界传媒 and academic advising community in this鈥