SC&I Communication Department faculty members Mark Beal and Nick Linardopoulos, who contribute to SC&I through their impactful teaching, industry expertise, and leadership in communication education, have been promoted.
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Our research mission is to produce field-defining scholarship about communication, information, and media that expands knowledge, advances practice, promotes social justice, and improves lives.
Our researchers are nationally and internationally renowned for their excellence, community impact, and publicly engaged scholarship.
Research News
Scharp, a Rutgers communication scholar being honored for sustained excellence in research, teaching, and service, will be recognized at the July 2026 IARR Conference in Glasgow.
Rivera’s work centers on community-led, culturally responsive, multilingual health communication for Latino/a/x communities and examines how social media supports health messaging among community leaders in Puerto Rico.
Research and Scholarship
Research Groups
Our research explores the evolving complexities of communication, information, and media, examining how these changes shape today’s social and professional worlds. To do so, we draw upon the diverse expertise within the School of Communication and Information and Rutgers, fostering collaboration across disciplines to address these challenges.
Active Funding
Faculty are actively engaged in innovative, funded projects through SC&I, Rutgers, state and federal agencies, and leading foundations, driving impactful research across multiple levels.
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Scholars partner with New Jersey’s diverse communities—urban, suburban, and rural—to tackle the state’s most pressing challenges. Through collaborative research and innovative solutions, our faculty work to improve the lives of people across New Jersey.
Scholarship Incubators
Each year, the Scholarly Incubator brings together faculty for dynamic conversations centered on their latest research in media, information, and communication. These events offer a platform for scholars to share fresh insights, spark new ideas, and foster meaningful collaborations across the university community.
2026 Publications
Our faculty and researchers continue to advance the field through a wide range of publications and scholarly work. Recent articles, book chapters, conference papers, and emerging research highlight innovative approaches across communication, information science, technology, public health, and related areas.
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BOOK CHAPTERS
Pavlik, J. V. (2025). Algorithmic innovations in journalism. In A. Sarısakaloğlu & M. Löffelholz (Eds.), The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Journalism. Wiley-Blackwell.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Bettivia, R., Cheng, Y., & Gryk, M. R. (2026). Usage of the term provenance in LIS literature: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 77(1), 92–107. https://doi-org.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/10.1002/asi.25015
Garimella, K. (2026). Political manipulation of the Israel-Hamas conflict on WhatsApp in India. International Journal of Communication, 20, 22. https://doi.org/10.65476/h48ex552
Kohler, R. E., Wagner, R. B., Greene, K., Btoush, R., Kantor, L., & Jimenez, M. E. (2026). Developing an mHealth intervention to increase HPV vaccine confidence among Black families. Behavioral Medicine, 52(1), 28-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/08964289.2025.2513322
Mosallaei, A., Wang, L., & Ognyanova, K. (2025). From politics to entertainment: Exploring “news finds me” perceptions across news topics [Article]. Social Media and Society, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251382442
Perlis, R. H., Gunning, F. M., Usla, A., Santillana, M., Baum, M. A., Druckman, J. N., Ognyanova, K., & Lazer, D. (2026). Generative AI use and depressive symptoms among US adults. JAMA Network Open, 9(1), e2554820-e2554820. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.54820
Perlis, R. H., Ramachandiran, A. K., Verhaak, P. F., Santillana, M., Baum, M. A., Druckman, J. N., Ognyanova, K., & Lazer, D. (2026). Antidepressant use among American adults in a 50-state survey. BMJ Mental Health, 29(1), e302287. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2025-302287
Petre, C. (2025). Data-driven editorial? Considerations for working with audience metrics. In The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards A Critical Data Practice (pp. 299-303). https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462989511_CH42
ACCEPTED / IN-PRESS CITATIONS (NOT YET PUBLISHED)
Salmi-Niklander, K., Rantanen, S., & Saramo, S. (Eds.). (2026). Writing and reading European Migrant Belonging in Early 20th century North America. Migration Institute of Finland. [including a chapter by Dalbello, M.] https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/publications/writing-and-reading-european-migrant-belonging-in-early-20th-cent/
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JOURNAL ARTICLES
Hart, P. S., Feldman, L., Choi, S., & Zhang, A. L. (2026). Unequal risks, unequal responses: Differential effects of emphasizing race versus class disparities in news stories about climate impacts. Science Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10755470251397919
Krahn, S., Weber, M., Harkema, M., Acosta, R., Greenberg, M., Mayer, H., & Kosson, D. (2026). Developing a process for collaboration-based siting of a federal consolidated interim storage facility in the United States: Learning from communities living with legacy waste [Article]. Nuclear Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2025.2561198
Lemish, D., Elias, N., & Nimrod, G. (2026). Antecedent and intervening factors challenging mediation of children’s media use: A case study of grandmothers in Israel. Journal of Children and Media. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2026.2624804
Seo, J., & Ammari, T. (2026). Governance, technology, and the limits of digital solidarity economies: A South Korean case study. Internet Policy Review, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.14763/2026.1.2068
Xue, L., Rahman, A. M. M., Senteio, C. R., & Singh, V. K. (2026). Automated detection of stigmatizing language in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) using a multi-stage transfer learning approach [Article]. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 33(2), 283-294. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaf193
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Akter, I., Singh, V. K., & Atrey, P. K. (2025). Forecasting “neg storms”: Time-aware modeling of toxic situations in social media. 2025 International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM).
REPOSITORIES
Ammari, T., Chen, M., Zaman, S. M. M., & Garimella, K. (2026). Learning to live with AI: How students develop AI literacy through naturalistic ChatGPT interaction. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20749
Nemani, H. & Garimella, K. (2026). Large-scale multimodal content analysis and annotation with vision-language models. https://gvrkiran.github.io/content/WhatsApp_Multimodal_Analysis.pdf
Vaidya, A. & Garimella, K. (2026). Quantifying the illicit ecosystem of betting apps in India. https://gvrkiran.github.io/content/Betting_apps_India.pdf
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JOURNAL ARTICLES
Jung, W., Benotsmane, R., Stoeffler, Q., Kim, A. H., Ghadimi, S., Hosseini, M., Ntarlagiannis, D., Ammari, T., Lu, Y., & Steiner, J. (2025). Contextualized poverty targeting with multimodal spatial data and machine learning in Brazzaville, Congo. Cities, 170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106429
Ramachandiran, A. K., Gunning, F., Santillana, M., Baum, M. A., Verhaak, P. F., Druckman, J. N., Ognyanova, K., Lazer, D., & Perlis, R. H. (2026). Sociodemographic disparities, healthcare system trust, and social support in mental health treatment among U.S. adults with depressive or anxiety symptoms. Journal of Mood & Anxiety Disorders, 13, 100166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjmad.2026.100166
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BOOK CHAPTERS & ENCYLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Bolden, G. B., & Shirokov, A. (2026). CA and intercultural communication. The Routledge handbook of conversation analysis. Routledge.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Apers, S., Beullens, K., Greene, K., Vranken, S., & Geusens, F. (2026). Beyond smoke and mirrors: Investigating the effectiveness of a media literacy intervention on adolescents’ media literacy and smoking and vaping behaviors. 76th Annual ICA Conference, Location: Cape Town, ZA.
Chen, Y., Singh, V. K., Ma, J., & Tang, R. (2026). CounterBench: Evaluating and improving counterfactual reasoning in large language models. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40(36) 30350–30358. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i36.40287
Sudhamshu, H., Sharma, K., Goyal, T., Offer-Westort, M., & Garimella, K. (2026). Evaluating peer fact-checking on WhatsApp. CHI '26: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791861
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Fadem, S. J., Hudson, S. V., Crabtree, B. F., Howard, J., Hemler, J. R., Ferrante, J., Mikesell, L., April-Sanders, A. K., Bator, A., & O’Malley, D. M. (2026). Using co-design to develop actionable strategies to identify and follow-up on breast cancer survivors in primary care. BMC Health Services Research. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-026-14538-7
Fu, J. S. (2026). A blessing in disguise: Logic (in)compatibility, centrality, and social innovation in hybrid social ventures. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587261435951
Gupta, M., Williams, A. M., Mikesell, L., Crabtree, B. F., & Nguyen, A. M. (2026). How they are making it work: Behavioral health consultant perspectives on the integration of behavioral health into primary care. Families, Systems, & Health, 44(1), 50–66. https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0001034
Heinert, S. W., Ahmed, M. I., Grullon, K., Oh, S., Ohman Strickland, P., Levy, P., Heckman, C. J., Greene, K., Crabtree, B. F., & Hudson, S. V. (2026). A mixed-methods pilot study of a youth-led digital hypertension education intervention among parent-youth dyads. Health Education and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1177/10901981261425263
Jindani, A., & Matsaganis, M. (2026). ‘We were hungry for information’: Communicative resilience and storytelling networks among minority-owned micro-businesses during COVID-19. Journal of Applied Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2026.2642738
Johnson, A. R., Longfellow, G. A., Lee, C. N., Ormseth, B., Skolnick, G. B., Politi, M. C., Rivera, Y. M., & Myckatyn, T. (2026). Correction: Social media as a platform for cancer care decision-making among women: Internet survey-based study on trust, engagement, and preferences (JMIR cancer (2025) 11 (e64724) DOI: 10.2196/64724). JMIR Cancer, 12, https://doi.org/10.2196/87683
Jung, W., Kim, A. H., Hung, Y., Chear, C., Shah, V., & Ammari, T. (2026). Digital pulse of development: Leveraging social media discourse for poverty analysis. Information Processing & Management, 63(7, Part A), 104579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2025.104579
Kirasur, N., & Paris, B. (2026). Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70073
Lai, C., & Fu, J. S. (2026). Understanding hybridity, representational networks, and resilience enactment through social media communication. Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502261432708
Lu, A. J., & Sun, Y. (2026). Ubiquitous lingering technologies: What's left behind by the past “proximate futures”? Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1145/3789676
McLaren, R. M., Solomon, D. H., Knobloch, L. K., & Theiss, J. A. (2026). The study of relational turbulence theory in families: Reflections on the past and visions for the future. Journal of Family Communication, 0(0), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2026.2658450
Nnaji, C., Abraczinskas, M., Calhoun, K., D’Alonzo, K., Cuevas, K. M., Glassman, N. R., Key, K., Senteio, C. R., & Strelnick, H. (2026). Beyond acknowledgments: Community authorship as a necessary shift toward equity in scholarly writing and publishing. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 20(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1353/cpr.2026.a987067
Wu, Y., Ross, N., & Kim, S. (2026). Providing tech support as care work among care workers in assisted living facilities: Qualitative interview study. JMIR Aging, 9, https://doi.org/10.2196/80272
2025 SC&I Publications
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