Research and Creative Endeavor 6

Helping Students Be Wise Consumers of Media

August 5, 2022 | Tom Hanlon (College of Education) with Holly Rushakoff (College of Media)

Educators at the IMEDIA media literacy workshop

Twenty-one Illinois public school educators learned how to incorporate media literacy into their curricula this summer through an IMEDIA media literacy workshop on campus, hosted by faculty from the College of Media and College of Education.

“Media literacy is especially important in light of the last presidential election and the amount of disinformation and misinformation that is pervasive in the U.S.,” said Professor Sarah McCarthey, head of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction in the College of Education. “It’s more and more critical that we equip students with the ability to discern what’s factual from what’s not.”

The workshop, attended by librarians and teachers from language arts, social studies, special education, and art, was developed by the College of Media and the College of Education. The two colleges recently jointly launched a program entitled “Initiative for Media Education Inquiry and Action (IMEDIA),” along with the cofounder of the Illinois Media Literacy Coalition, Michael Spikes of Northwestern University.

The workshop was designed to better equip teachers and students with media literacy skills to encourage mindful media consumption and production and to help teachers meet the needs of a state mandate requiring public high schools to teach media literacy beginning with the 2022-2023 school year.

“Many of us in the College of Media have been working on media literacy-related research and teaching in the last several years,” said Professor Stephanie Craft, head of the Department of Journalism. “When we heard about the new law, we wanted to be able to turn that work into action. Teaming up with curriculum and instruction experts in the College of Education seemed an ideal way to do that.”

The IMEDIA team introduced participants to key concepts in the framework for media literacy, with a focus on news media literacy. Educators were:

shown how to help students identify propaganda and see how the media have been used for social and political change throughout history,
instructed in how to use documentaries to increase media literacy, and
taught by a local Urbana High School student and undergraduate students from the College of Media how students are both creators and consumers of social media content.

The IMEDIA collaboration is working to build a robust critical media literacy curriculum in Illinois schools. Interested teachers will continue working with IMEDIA for follow up on media literacy implementation throughout the 2022-2023 school year.

“Preparing Illinois students to successfully navigate an increasingly complex media environment is vital to their well-being and ability to participate in democratic life,” Craft said.

“The end goal is quite simple,” McCarthey added. “We want all of our students to be prepared to be critical media consumers.”

Learn more about IMEDIA.

IMEDIA team members include Professor Sarah McCarthey from the College of Education; Professor Amanda Ciafone from the College of Media; Michael Spikes from Northwestern University; doctoral student Sakshi Bhalla from the College of Media; Professor Michelle Nelson from the College of Media; Professor CL Cole from the College of Media; Professor Stephanie Craft from the College of Media; and Professor Jon Hale from the College of Education.

Leona Su named CAS Beckman Fellow for 2022-23

Leona Yi-Fan Su, assistant professor of advertising, was selected as a Center for Advanced Study Beckman Fellow for the 2022-23 academic year in an annual campuswide competition among faculty.

This year, the center appointed 11 CAS Associates, one CAS Fellow, and four CAS Beckman Fellows—the distinction as a CAS Beckman Fellow recognizes outstanding younger fellow candidates who have made distinctive scholarly contributions. The appointment grants faculty one semester of teaching release time to pursue an individual scholarly or creative project. Fellows also participate in a yearly roundtable discussion of research interests and are invited to offer a future CAS presentation.

Su will work on a project called “Conversational Agents for Correction of Health Misinformation.”

She plans to build a comprehensive knowledge base on the debunking mechanisms and efficacy of digital-messaging tools known as conversational agents. Conversational agents, such as chatbots, are increasingly prevalent in misinformation-correction efforts.

Based on the project’s findings, Su’s goal is to support the development and refinement of new digital technologies that can effectively correct health misinformation—”a task with strong practical and scientific importance in this age of digital misinformation,” she said.

Su’s research examines the interplay between media and society, with a particular focus on how social media and new technologies influence human communication and social behaviors in the context of scientific and health topics, as well as brand communication. Her recent research examines the effects of humor, social media, and new technologies on science communication.

Media students present at 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium

Update May 10, 2022:

Congratulations to Ethan Grinberg, sophomore in computer science + advertising (pictured above), for winning the Undergraduate Research Symposium’s Outstanding Award in the category of Numbers, Data, and Computation for his poster presentation on “The Mechanisms of Misinformation: Clustering Diffusion Networks of Low Credibility Sources by Topology.” His research mentor was Jacob Fisher, assistant professor of advertising.

Students from each major in the College of Media are participating in the 15^th annual University of Illinois Undergraduate Research Symposium, held Thursday, April 28, in the Illini Union. The symposium features presentations, posters, and performances from students across campus.

Media student poster presentations include:

“Virtual Reality and Its Immersive Capabilities: Can It Stimulate Pro-Environmental Behavior”
9–10:15 a.m., Illini Room A—Science and Technology Session

Justin Sun, Senior, Advertising
Minghao Sun, Junior, Advertising
Henry Rose, Senior, Advertising

Research Mentors: Chen (Crystal) Chen, ICR doctoral student/Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising, and Ewa Maslowska, Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising

“Analyzing the Relationship between Fear and Election Violence”
9–10:15 a.m., Illini Room C—Social Science and Behavior Session

Billy Wojcicki, Senior, Advertising

Research Mentor: Tolgahan Dilgin, Department of Political Science

“Analyzing Life Experiences through Oral History Methods”
1:30–2:45 p.m., Illini Room A—Health and Wellness Session

Vivian La, Sophomore, Journalism

Research Mentor: Sana Saboowala, Program in Ecology, Evolution, & Conservation Biology

“Investigating the Influence of Parenting Styles on Children’s Online Language Intensity in the Context of Celebrity Worship: Emotion Regulation as a Mediator”
1:30–2:45 p.m., Illini Room C—Social Science and Behavior Session

Sherry Zhang, Senior, Media & Cinema Studies

Research Mentor: Chen (Crystal) Chen, ICR doctoral student/Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising

“The Mechanisms of Misinformation: Clustering Diffusion Networks of Low Credibility Sources by Topology”
3:15–4:30 p.m., Illini Room South Lounge—Numbers, Data, and Computation Session

Ethan Grinberg, Sophomore, Computer Science + Advertising

Research Mentor: Jacob Fisher, Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising

Ethan Grinberg, CS+advertising sophomore, was also a semi-finalist in the Image of Research competition with his submission “The Shape of Misinformation.” See his image and description.

Two Media students also participated in the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program to assist advanced graduate students with their research projects:

Billy Wojcicki, advertising senior, worked with research mentor Tolgahan Dilgin in the Department of Political Science
Vivian La, journalism sophomore, worked with research mentor Sana Saboowala in the Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology

View the Undergraduate Research Week program .

Leona Su’s research examines effects of humor, social media, and new technologies on science communication

Leona Yi-Fan Su, assistant professor in the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising, is interested in how humor can help people engage with science.

“Science is thought of as serious,” Su said. “So you can think of humor as a way to catalyze that and make people get interested in science and be more willing to interact with science and scientists.”

While humor has been extensively studied in fields like advertising and marketing, she said, its role in science communication is less known.

Su is a co-principal investigator on an NSF-funded project that was awarded $750,000 in 2019 to examine the effectiveness of using humor for communication about science, particularly on social media. Sara Yeo, associate professor at the University of Utah, is the principal investigator, and the other co-principal investigator is Michael Cacciatore, professor at the University of Georgia.

“It’s important to keep in mind that humor plays a role, but different types of humor can play differently on different social media platforms and when communicating about various issues,” Su said.

Humor is often thought of as a simple construct, Su said. But really, it has a range of different types and techniques, such as benign versus aggressive humor. She also noted the differences in online culture between Twitter and Instagram.

In a recently published article, Su and her coauthors reported that wordplay and satire were positively linked to the number of likes and retweets a Twitter post received. On the other hand, anthropomorphic humor—attributing human characteristics to animals or objects—was negatively linked to the presence of comments, and humor was not linked to user engagement on Instagram.

Scientists and communicators have ample opportunities to interact with the public online, Su said.

“I think it’s important to encourage scientists to share their work with the public and to help with public engagement,” she added, and noted that her work can help them select message strategies.

Su’s broader interest is in how social media and other digital media change people’s perceptions and understandings of science. This also includes looking at the marketing techniques and brand communication strategies used on digital media by agricultural and technology businesses. For example, as a principal investigator, she is leading a project at the Center for Digital Agriculture that analyzes tweets about an emerging food technology, with the aim of understanding branding strategies and public opinion.

Above all, Su said, a key aim of her research is to bridge the gap between the general public and science.

The public should not be viewed merely as passive information receivers, Su said. That is, people don’t often make decisions solely on the facts presented to them.

It’s a common misconception that people will be more supportive of science if they “are more knowledgeable about science,” she said, but in fact, their attitudes toward science can also be affected by heuristic cues such as their politics and other predisposition factors.

Having earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemistry, Su changed her academic focus after realizing she was more interested in understanding how science is communicated.

“I feel like there’s a gap [within] science communication,” she said. “When I was a scientist, I realized there are times you feel like what you are doing is just a language of your own.”

Su hopes her research will not only help scientists, but anyone who has to communicate complex topics.

“I do hope that some of our findings here in [science] communication can actually be applied or extended to other fields,” she said. “We have to know how messages can be more effectively communicated.”

—Vivian La, Communications Intern

ICR student accomplishments in 2020-2021

Congratulations to our students in the Institute of Communications Research for all of their hard work in the 2020-2021 academic year. They have written articles for publication, edited a journal, presented research at conferences, and received numerous awards, grants, and honors. Below is a roundup of their accomplishments.

PUBLICATIONS

Craft, S., & Kristensen, M. (2020). Noise and the Values of News. In M. Powers & A. Russell (Eds.), Rethinking Media Research for Changing Societies (pp. 78-88). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108886260.006

Goel, K., Cai, S., Ogwal, S., Wong, A., Engel, L.C., & McCarthy, C. (2020). The world before us: reappraising globalization in education in the tumult of contemporary change, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2020.1836744

Gu, J. (2021). Regulating Obscenity in Chinese Livestreaming: An Ongoing Mediation between the Private and the Public, the Nation and the Market. Asiascape: Digital Asia, 8, 71-92.

Ham, C. D., Chung, U. C., Kim, W. J., Lee, S. Y., & Oh, S. H. (In press). Greener than Others? Exploring Generational Differences in Green Purchase Intent. International Journal of Market Research. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14707853211034108

Ham, C. D., Ryu, S., Lee, J., Chung, U. C., Buteau, E., & Sar, S. (Accepted for publication) Intrusive or Relevant? Exploring How Consumers Avoid Native Facebook Ads through Decomposed Persuasion Knowledge. Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising.

Hu, X., & Wise, K. (2021). How playable ads influence consumer attitude: Exploring the mediation effects of perceived control and freedom threat. Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, 15(2), 295-315, DOI: 10.1108/JRIM-12-2020-0269.

Hu, X., & Yao, M. Z. (2021). Judging a book by its cover: Investigating consumer responses toward sponsored YouTube product review videos. Journal of Media Business Studies, DOI: 10.1080/16522354.2021.1960721.

Jarreau, P. B., Su, L. Y.-F., Chiang, E. C.-L., Bennett, S. M., Zhang, J. S., Ferguson, M., & Algarra, D. (2021). COVID ISSUE: Visual Narratives About COVID-19 Improve Message Accessibility, Self-Efficacy, and Health Precautions. Frontiers in Communication, 6(164). https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.712658

Jiang, H., & Zhang, M. (2021). Online information adoption about public infrastructure projects in China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 310, 127527.

Kang, Y. (2021). Beyond the layout: reading South Korean animations as affective-performative assemblages, Feminist Media Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2021.1939401

Khan, A., Natarajan, S., & Bhalla, S. (2021). Climate Strikes in Millennial India: Social Capital and “On-Ground” Networks in Digital-First Movements. Communication, Culture and Critique. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab035

Kim, W. J., Ryoo, Y. (Accepted for publication) Hypocrisy Induction: Using Chatbots to Promote COVID-19 Social Distancing. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

Kim, W. J., Ryoo, Y.,Yoon, S., & Kim, K. (Accepted for publication) Ethical Dissonance in Environmental Advertising: Moderating Effects of Self-Benefit vs. Other-Benefit Appeals. International Journal of Advertising.

Lee, S.Y., Yao, M., & Su, L.Y.-F. (In press). Unpopular Opinions vs Trolling: What can Dark Personalities Predict? Telematics and Informatics. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2021.101645

Lim, D., Lin, J.S., Chung, U.C., & Ko, Y. (2021). The role of construal fit in threat appeal to persuade young drivers not to text while driving. Journal of Social Marketing, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSOCM-06-2020-0109

Liu, Q., Tang, Q., & Wang, Y. (2021). The effects of pretraining intervention in immersive embodied virtual reality cardiopulmonary resuscitation training. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1-13.

Liu, Q., Wang, Y., Tang, Q., & Liu, Z. (2020). Do You Feel the Same as I Do? Differences in Virtual Reality Technology Experience and Acceptance Between Elderly Adults and College Students. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 2555.

Nelson, M.R., Das, S., & Ahn, R.J. (2020). A Prescription for Health: (Pseudo)Scientific Advertising of Fruits and Vegetables in the Early 20th Century. Advertising & Society Quarterly 21(1), doi:10.1353/asr.2020.0007.

Ryoo, Y. & Kim, W. J. (Accepted for publication) Social Norms and Compliance in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Health Communication

Samayeen, N., Wong, A., & McCarthy, C. (2020): Space to breathe: George Floyd, BLM plaza and the monumentalization of divided American Urban landscapes, Educational Philosophy and Theory, DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2020.1795980

Samayeen, N., Wong, A., & McCarthy, C. (2021). Espacio para Respirar: George Floyd, la Plaza CLM y la Monumentalización de los Paisajes Estadounidenses Urbanos Divididos. Revista Enfoques Educacionales, 17(2), 73-88. doi:10.5354/0717-3229.2020.60637

Shabalina, O.I., & Nelson, M.R. (2020). Knowledge and Experience of Targeting and Retargeting in Online Advertising across Age Cohorts. In L.P. Shestyorkina & L.K. Lobodenko (Eds.), Media communications and Internet marketing in digital civilization (Vol. 2, pp. 270-298). Chelyabinsk: South-Ural State University publishing center.

Wang, Y., & Yao, M. Z. (2020). Did you notice the ads? Examining the influence of telepresence and user control on the effectiveness of embedded billboard ads in a VR racing game. Journal of Interactive Advertising, 20(3), 258-272.

Wong, A. (2020). Mapping signs and making them stick: discursive power and the semiotic construction of a ‘world’s leader’, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2020.1836748

Xu, X. (2021). Can Artificial Newscasters Bring Us Closer? A Comparison of Human and Artificial Newscasters on Outgroup Empathy. An extended abstract of 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference.

Zhang, M., Wang, X. and Hu, Y. (Accepted for publication), Strategic Framing Matters but Varies: A Structural Topic Modeling Approach to Analyzing China’s Foreign Propaganda about the 2019 Hong Kong Protests on Twitter, Social Science Computer Review.

JOURNAL EDITORSHIP

Goel, K., Cai, S., Ogwal, S., Wong, A., Engel, L.C., & McCarthy, C., (Eds.) (2021). Reassessing globalization: new perspectives on education in the tumult of global change, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Bhalla, S., & Ray, R. (2021). Foregrounding space and context: A discursive study of fact-checking in India. Presented at SACA-AEJMC.

Cano, A. A., & Perez S. (2020). The Chola Wannabe: A Chicana Reflection on Culture Appropriation of Chola and Aesthetics. Plática presented at the La Chola Conference, Oceanside, CA.

Cano, A. A. (2021). Panel presentation for the Social Dilemma Netflix Documentary Open Conversation at California State University of San Bernardino.

Chen, C., Hu, X., & Fisher, J. T. (2021). A systematic review of immersion: exploring the cognitive and social processes underlying immersive experiences. Paper accepted to be present at the National Communication Association 107th Annual Convention.

Chung, U. C., Ham, C. D., Lee, S. Y., Kim, W. J., & Oh, S. H. (2021). Understanding Ad-block Wall and Its Effects on Online Publisher and Advertising through Psychological Reactance. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Annual Conference, Virtual.

Chung, U. C., Ham, C. D., Lee, S. Y., Kim, W. J., & Oh, S. H. (2021). Understanding Ad-block Wall and Its Effects on Online Publisher and Advertising through Psychological Reactance. Korea Advertising Society (KAS) 2021 Global Colloquium, Gangneung, Korea.

Chung, U. C., Seok, A.Y., & Ham, C. D. (2021). Seeker or Sentry? Consumers’ Coping Mechanism with Third-Party Cookie Driven Advertising: Multidimensional Persuasion Knowledge Perspective. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Annual Conference, Virtual.

Gong, Z., Su, L. Y.-F., Zhang, J. S., Chen, T., & Wang, Y.-C. (2021). How Are Food Date Labels Associated with Consumer-level Food Waste? A Mixed-design Experiment. Presented at the 71st Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, virtual.

Gu, J. (2021). Mediating Intimacy and Performing Labor: Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Live/Life Streaming. Presented at the 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference, Virtual.

Gu, J. & Pyo, J. (2021). All-in-one Apps: Formation of Transnational Cultural Identity on WeChat and KakaoTalk, the 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference, Virtual.

Ham, C. D., Chung, U. C., Kim, W. J., Lee, S. Y., & Oh, S. H. (2021). Greener than Others? Exploring Generational Differences in Green Perceptions and Purchase Intentions of the US Consumer: Consumer Socialization and Social Intelligence Perspectives. American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Annual Conference, Virtual.

Ham, C. D., Chung, U. C., Kim, W. J., Lee, S. Y., & Oh, S. H. (2021). Greener than Others? Exploring Generational Differences in Green Perceptions and Purchase Intentions of the US Consumer: Consumer Socialization and Social Intelligence Perspectives. Korea Advertising Society (KAS) 2021 Global Colloquium, Gangneung, Korea.

Heo, S. J. (2021). Stick to the task when I am serious about my shopping: the effects of conversation styles of recommendation agents on consumer trust and privacy concerns. ICA annual conference.

Hu, X., & Chen, C. (2021). Visual or textual superiority effect? Investigating the effect of presentation format and individual processing propensity on mental imagery of online product information. American Academy of Advertising conference.

Kim, S.J., Lee, S.Y., Lee, H., Yao, S (2021). How News Usage and the Perceived Credibility of Government News Sources Contributed to Engaging in Preventive Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Korean American Communication Association Division of AEJMC annual conference, Virtual.

Kim, W. J., Ryoo, Y., & Yoon, S. K., Kim, K. (2020). Ethical Dissonance Influences on the Effectiveness of Other-Benefit versus Self-Benefit Appeals in Environmental Advertising. 2020 ICAMA-KAS International Conference. Online.

Kim, W. J., Ryoo, Y., Chung, U. C., & Kim, M. J. (2021). How Moral Failure Leverages Online Ethical Behaviors. American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Annual Conference, Virtual.

Kim, W. J., Ryoo, Y., Lee, S. Y., & Lee, J. A. (2021). Chatbot Advertising as a Double-edged Sword: The Roles of Regulatory Focus, Ad Personalization, and Privacy Concern. American Academy of Advertising (AAA), Online.

Kristensen, M., & Craft, S. (2020) Making News (Values) Relevant Again: A Ritual Approach. Journalism Division of ICA 2021.

Lee, H., Kim, S. J., Lee, S.Y., Yao, S., Wongmith, N., & Chock, T. M. (2021). Confusion about the Coronavirus: The effects of uncertainty on information seeking behaviors. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Virtual.

Lee, H., Kim, S. J., Yao, S., Lee, S.Y., and Chock, T. M. (2021). The Harder the Battle, the More We Talk: The Effects of Perceived Risk of Player-death on Game Enjoyment in Mobile FPS Game. Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association annual conterence, Virtual.

Lee, J. A., Lee, S. Y., Ryoo, Y., & Kim, W. J. (2021). Envying social media influencers makes me happy because I am inspired. International Communication Association (ICA), Online.

Lee, S.Y., & Yao, M.Z. (2021). Unpopular Opinions vs Trolling: What can Dark Personalities Predict? Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association annual conterence, Virtual.

McKasy, M., Cacciatore, M. A., Yeo, S. K., Zhang, J. S., Cook, J., & Olaleye, R. M. (2021). The Impact of Emotion and Humor on Support for Global Warming Action. Presented at the 71st Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, virtual.

Mukhopadhyay, A. (2021). Fragmented nation televised: “Buniyaad” and the narrative(s) of postcolonial India. Television Histories in Development conference hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

Mukhopadhyay, A. (2021). Racial Orders and Neoliberal borders: Digital media and Racialized citizenship during Covid in India. Royal Geographic Society Annual Conference. London, UK.

Nelson, M. R., Ham, C. D., Haley, E., & Chung, U. C. (2021). Political Advertising in the United States: Persuasion Knowledge and Support for Regulation in Social Media. American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Annual Conference, Virtual.

Oh, S. H., Lee, S.Y., Kim, W. J., Chung, U. C., & Ham C. D. (2021). The Differential Effects of News Media and Social Media on Health Prevention for E-cigarettes: Focusing on the Mediating Role of the Influence of Presumed Media Influence. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Annual Conference, Virtual.

Ray, R. (2021). Does SNS platform choice matter? Analyzing perceptions of the U.S-China trade conflict through item-response theory. Adjudged as one of the 4 promising student papers of the Information Systems Division of ICA.

Ray, R., Bhalla, S., Taneja, H. (2021). Do fact-checkers overcome partisan divides? An investigation of Indian Twitter users. The 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference.

Ryoo, Y., Jeon, Y.W., & Kim, W.J. (2021). Attributions of Blame Following Robot Serivce Failure, The 2021 Korean Society for Consumer Advertising Psychology (KSCAP) Annual Convention, Online.

Ryoo, Y., Soheil, K. Lee, J.A., Kim, W. J., & Sung, Y. (2020). When Does (Does not) Neutralization Lead to Prosocial Actions? 2020 ICAMA-KAS International Conference. Online.

Shabalina, O. (2020). Layout Complexity of Social Media Feeds and Goal-Oriented Visual Search Behavior. Attention & Perception Brown Bag series (Daniel Simons), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Shabalina, O., Hu, X., & K. Wise (2021). Trade-Off Between Layout Congruency and User Experience in Visual Search Behavior on Pinterest Boards. The virtual 104th Annual AEJMC Conference.

Valdivia A., Baez, J., Leon-Boys D., Perez S., & Cano, A. A. (2021). Quinceañera Studies: Intersectional Approaches to a 21st Century Mediated Latinidad. Panel presented at the Cultural Studies Association Conference

POLICY PAPERS

Chan, A., Wong, A., Oliver, M. (2021). Walking Through Time as One: Contextualizing the Impact of the Champaign County Community Coalition. Community Data Clinic in Partnership with the Champaign County Community Coalition.

AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS

Bhalla, S. (2020-2023). Illinois Distinguished Fellowship

Cano, A. (2021) National Conference in American Higher Education Student Scholarship on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE).

Chung, U. C. (2021). Best Paper (second place) of the Korea Advertising Society (KAS). Greener than Others? Exploring Generational Differences in Green Perceptions and Purchase Intentions of the US Consumer: Consumer Socialization and Social Intelligence Perspectives. Global Colloquium, Awarded by Korea Advertising Society (KAS).

Gu, J. (2021). Donald and Barbara Smalley Graduate Research Fellowship, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Hu, X. (2021). American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Graduate Student Scholarships.

Hu, X. (2021). Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Advertising Division Graduate Student Highlight https://mlashley4.wixsite.com/aejmcaddiv/xiaohan-catherine-hu

Kim, W. J. (2021). Best Conference Paper Award, Korean Society for Consumer Advertising Psychology Annual Convention

Kim, W. J. (2021). American Academy of Advertising (AAA) Graduate Student Scholarships

Kim, W. J. (2021). Best Paper of the Korea Advertising Society, 2021, Global Colloquium,

Kim, W. J. (2021). Graduate Student Conference Scholarship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Lee, S.Y. (2021). Top Graduate Student Paper Award. Awarded by AEJMC-Korean American Communication Association (How News Usage and the Perceived Credibility of Government News Sources Contributed to Engaging in Preventive Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic).

Mukhopadhyay, A. (2021). Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant.

Wong, A. (2020). Research Cluster Grant. Humanities Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Community Research Cooperative: Methodologies for Research Justice, with Anita Say Chan, Rachel Magee, Gilberto Rosas, & Karen Rodriguez’G

Wong, A. (2021). Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship. Center for Global Studies, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign U.S. Department of Education Grant.

Wong, A. (2021). Minorities and Communication Paula Poindexter Student Grant: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Project: Affective Communication within the Context of Localized Media: How journalism and local Asian and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAAPI) communities respond to the anti-Asian hate initiatives with Qinglin Luan and Jane Pyo

Wong, A. (2021). Student Sustainability Committee Grant. Student Sustainability Committee, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Project: Resuscitating Soil for Sustainable Futures. In collaboration with Dr. Esther Ngumbi, Dr. Faye Harrison, Dr. Krystal Smalls, Dr. Ann Yeung, Ken Salo, Lila Dodge and Chibundo Egwuatu

Wong. A. (2020). Research Cluster Grant. Humanities Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Problems in Decolonizing Academia, with Faye Harrison, Cameron McCarthy, Esther Ngumbi, Ken Salo, Krystal Smalls, Chibundo Egwuatu & Lila Dodge

Zhang, M. (2021). Grant from SICSS-Chicago (Summer Institute of Computational Social Science)