Institute of Communications Research
The Institute of Communications Research advances the field of communication and media research through innovative scholarship and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Through its dual function of pioneering research and facilitating doctoral education within the 澳门六合彩官网, the Institute of Communications Research serves as a hub for intellectual inquiry and a cornerstone for preparing future leaders in the field.
Research Groups
Initiative for Media Education Inquiry and Action
The Initiative for Media Education Inquiry and Action (IMEDIA) is a project of faculty and students in the 澳门六合彩官网 and the College of Education. IMEDIA studies existing media pedagogies and collaborates with community partners in developing media education research and practices.
Media and Advertising Lab
How do media and advertising influence us? Why do people pay more attention to some media than others? What are the pros and cons of media multitasking? When does immersing yourself in media lead to positive vs. negative consequences? The Media and Advertising (MAd) Lab seeks to understand the psychology behind media and advertising effects- how media and advertising impact our cognitive processes, affect, and behavior.
Media, Technology, and Social Behavior聽Research Lab
The Media, Technology, and Social Behavior (MTSB) Research Lab is dedicated to transdisciplinary explorations at the interactions of technology, society, and human communication. We study how people use and interact with new tech, how it shapes our social behaviors, and the ways we communicate in these digital spaces.
Movement Visualization Lab
Lab co-director: Assistant Professor Jenny Oyallon-Koloski
The mv lab is an embodied research environment that studies the manifestations of human movement in audiovisual, cinematic space by drawing on frameworks from Laban Movement Analysis, film form analysis, computer vision protocols, and visualization theory. The motion-capture mv tool allows a moving agent to interact in real time with a skeleton visualization of their figure movement, while a second agent can manipulate the frame鈥檚 relationship to the virtual skeleton, mimicking the craft of the moving camera.
Media Users and Consumers
The MUSE group studies the connections between globalization and Internet users, those between algorithms and behaviors on social media usage. Methodologically, the group encourages methods that are best suited for the questions at hand. They conduct interviews, analyze passively collected behavioral data, social media data, conduct online and offline experiments and surveys, as well as applied computational methods (machine learning, network analysis, text mining, etc).
Political Advertising Literacy
A collaboration between the University of Illinois and the University of Tennessee, the purpose of this research group is to investigate how much U.S. voters know about political advertising, called political advertising literacy (PAL), and improve their knowledge to effectively cope with misleading political advertising.
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Research Facilities
We have dedicated research spaces in both the Armory building and Gregory Hall.
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