The 2026 Scholarly Incubator invited faculty to examine the shared intellectual motivations that make SC&I a hub for foundational research.
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Our Mission
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.
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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.
Bettering New Jersey Together
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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