This episode features Professor Barbara Pfetsch in conversation with Professor Neta Kligler-Vilenchik. They discuss Professor Pfetsch’s background and research in the changing media ecosystem. Professor Pfetsch explores the topic of political communications and explains the importance of communication about global problems.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Barbara Pfetsch

Neta Kligler-Vilenchik

Sponsor:

The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from our guests: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Barbara Pfetsch

Professor of Communication Theory and Media Effects 

Director of the Institute of Media and Communication Studies

Freie Universität Berlin

Twitter: @BarbaraPfetsch

Neta Kligler-Vilenchik

Associate Professor | Communication and Journalism.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

Twitter: @netakv

Works referenced in episode: 

Pfetsch, B., & Esser, F. (2013). Comparing political communication. In The handbook of comparative communication research (pp. 47-69). Routledge.

Pfetsch, B. (2001). Political communication culture in the United States and Germany. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 6(1), 46-67.

Copy and Audio Editors: 

Jacqueline Colarusso 

Sharlene Burgos 

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

This episode features Dr. Max McCombs in conversation with his long-time colleague and friend, Dr. David Weaver, as they discuss the origins and applications of the theory of agenda-setting. Dr. McCombs details how the theory of agenda-setting came to be 50 years ago, how the theory has since evolved, both in scope and geographically, as well as new potential grounds for the theory’s expansion.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Max McCombs

David Weaver

Sponsor:

The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from our guests: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Max McCombs

Jesse H. Jones Centennial Chair in Communication Emeritus | School of Journalism and Media University of Texas at Austin

Organization: Moody College of Communication

David Weaver

Distinguished and Roy W. Howard Emeritus Professor of Journalism | The Media School 

Indiana University-Bloomington

Organization: The Media School

Works Referenced: 

Lippmann, W. (1965). Public opinion. 1922. 

Shaw, D. L. (1977). The emergence of American political issues. Agenda Setting Function of the Press.

Copy and Audio Editor: 

Sharlene Burgos

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

In this episode, Professor Jake Harwood interviews Professor Howie Giles on how he created his communication accommodation theory and how this theory branched out into many disciplines from marine biology to computer-mediated communication. Professor Giles also shares his experience as a reserve police officer in the Santa Barbara Police Department and what it taught him about intergroup communication. Having an incredibly prolific academic career, Professor Giles also offers advice to junior scholars.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Jake Harwood

Howie Giles

Sponsors

The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from the host & speakers: 

 Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication; Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Host

Jake Harwood

Professor in Department of Communication

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 

Guest

Howie Giles

Distinguished Research Professor of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and Honorary Professor of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (dual affiliation)

Works referenced in episode: 

Giles, H. (1973). Accent mobility: A model and some data. Anthropological linguistics, 87-105.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Dominic Bonelli

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

In this episode, Dr. Kathleen Jamieson reflects on her career thus far through the lens of academia, politics, and journalism. From her early days as an aspiring scholar to an award-winning writer and leader of the political fact-checking movement, Dr. Jamieson recalls her inspirations and career moves that ultimately innovated her accomplished work in libraries and on Capital Hill. However, Dr. Jamieson also discusses her experiences breaking through sexist encounters and forging a path for women in academia, politics, and journalism.   

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Kate Kenski

Kathleen Jamieson

Sponsor:

The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University 

More from the host & speakers:

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication; Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Kate Kenski 

Professor of Communication; Professor of Political Communication, Public Opinion, and Research Methods 

University of Arizona

Kathleen Jamieson 

Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication; Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Public Policy Center Program Director of the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands

University of Pennsylvania 

Works referenced in episode: 

Jamieson, K. H. (1995). Beyond the double bind: Women and leadership. Oxford University Press on Demand.

Jamieson, K. H. (1988). Eloquence in an electronic age: The transformation of political speechmaking. Oxford University Press.
Jamieson, K. H. (2020). Cyberwar: how Russian hackers and trolls helped elect a president: what we don't, can't, and do know. Oxford University Press.
Kenski, K., Hardy, B. W., & Jamieson, K. H. (2010). The Obama victory: How media, money, and message shaped the 2008 election. Oxford University Press.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Lucia Barnum 

Bennett Pack

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

This episode features Professor Patti Valkenburg and PhD candidates Tim Verbeij and Teun Siebers discussing Professor Valkenburg’s research on the cognitive, emotional, and social effects of media on youth and adults. Professor Valkenburg comments on her interest in theorizing, studying, and demonstrating how age contributes to differing media susceptibility. 

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Patti Valkenburg

Tim Verbeij

Teun Siebers

Sponsor:

The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication; Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Patti Valkenburg

Distinguished University Professor, Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) 

University of Amsterdam

Twitter: @pmvalkenburg 

@UvA_AWeSome

Teun Siebers

PhD Candidate, Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) 

University of Amsterdam

Twitter: @teun_siebers  

Tim Verbeij

PhD Candidate, Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)

University of Amsterdam

Twitter: @timverbeij

Works referenced in episode: 

Valkenburg, P. M. (2023). Project AWeSome.

Valkenburg, P. M., & Peter, J. (2013). The differential susceptibility to media effects model. Journal of Communication, 63(2), 221-243.

Valkenburg, P. M. (2017). Understanding self-effects in social media. Human Communication Research, 43(4), 477-490.

Valkenburg, P., Beyens, I., Pouwels, J. L., van Driel, I. I., & Keijsers, L. (2021). Social media use and adolescents’ self-esteem: Heading for a person-specific media effects paradigm. Journal of Communication, 71(1), 56-78.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Jacqueline Colarusso 

Lacie Yao

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

In this episode, Professor Mary Bock interviews Professor Klaus Krippendorf about his academic career and philosophies. Well-known for his work on content analysis, Klaus shares his ethics on big data. He also discusses emancipatory scholarship as a way to question the epistemological assumptions about power, his push for women and gender studies as the ICA president, and many other topics.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Klaus Krippendorff

Mary Bock

Sponsor:

The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication; Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Klaus Krippendorf 

Emeritus Professor, Annenberg School for Communication 

University of Pennsylvania

Mary Bock

Assistant Professor of Journalism

University of Texas, Austin 

Twitter: @professorBock

Works referenced in episode:

Krippendorff, K. (2005). The semantic turn: A new foundation for design. CRC Press.

Krippendorff, K. (2018). Content analysis: An introduction to its methodology. Sage publications.

Copy and Audio Editor:

Jacqueline Colarusso

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

In this episode, Professor Pablo Boczkowski interviews Professor Silvio Waisbord on his experiences of getting his PhD during the military dictatorship in Argentina. They discuss toxic forms of communication in the digital era and how positive forms of communication can be scaled up. As the previous editor of Journal of Communication, Silvio shares how he found commonalities in communication research and bridged them.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Pablo Boczkowski

Silvio Waisbord

Sponsor

The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from the host & speakers: 

Host

Pablo Boczkowski

Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University

Twitter: @pablobochon  

Guest

Silvio Waisbord

Director and Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University 

Twitter: @silviowaisbord

Works referenced in episode: 

Waisbord, S. (2019). The communication manifesto. John Wiley & Sons.
Waisbord, S. (2019). Communication: A post-discipline. John Wiley & Sons.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Dominic Bonelli

Sharlene Burgos

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

In this episode of Architects of Communication Scholarship, Professor Patrice Buzzanell, a professor at the University of South Florida, is in conversation with Emerita Professor Linda Putnam at the University of California at Santa Barbara who specializes in organizational communication and conflict management. They discuss Professor Putnam’s career beginnings and inspirations as well as her current work and the state of the communication discipline. This episode tracks the evolution of the various subfields of communication through the lens of Professor Putnam’s career. 

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Patrice Buzzanell

Linda Putnam

Sponsor:

School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication; Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter - @CMHD_NU

Linda Putnam

Distinguished Research Professor and Emerita Professor | Department of Communication 

UC Santa Barbara

University Twitter - @ucsantabarbara 

Patrice Buzzanell

Distinguished University Professor | Department of Communication 

University of South Florida

University Twitter - @USFComDept

Works referenced in episode: 

Putnam, L. L., Fairhurst, G. T., & Banghart, S. (2016). Contradictions, dialectics, and paradoxes in organizations: A constitutive approach. Academy of Management Annals, 10(1), 65-171.

Putnam, L. L., & Fairhurst, G. T. (2015). Revisiting “organizations as discursive constructions”: 10 years later. Communication Theory, 25(4), 375-392.

Putnam, L. L. (2010). Communication as changing the negotiation game. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 38(4), 325-335.

Putnam, L. L., & Nicotera, A. M. (2009). Building theories of organization: The constitutive role of communication. Routledge.

Fairhurst, G. T., & Putnam, L. (2004). Organizations as discursive constructions. Communication theory, 14(1), 5-26.

Putnam, L. L. (2004). Dialectical tensions and rhetorical tropes in negotiations. Organization studies, 25(1), 35-53.

Putnam, L. L., & Holmer, M. (1992). Framing, reframing, and issue development.

Putnam, L. L., Van Hoeven, S. A., & Bullis, C. A. (1991). The role of rituals and fantasy themes in teachers' bargaining. Western Journal of Communication (includes Communication Reports), 55(1), 85-103.

Putnam, L. L., & Roloff, M. E. (Eds.). (1992). Communication and negotiation (Vol. 20). Sage.
Roloff, M. E., Putnam, L. L., & Anastasiou, L. (2003). Negotiation skills. Handbook of communication and social interaction skills, 801-833.
Putnam, L. L., Wilson, S. R., & Turner, D. B. (1990). The evolution of policy arguments in teachers' negotiations. Argumentation, 4, 129-152.

Putnam, L. L. (1983). Small group work climates: A lag-sequential analysis of group interaction. Small Group Behavior, 14(4), 465-494.

Putnam, L. L., & Sorenson, R. L. (1981). Equivocal messages in organizations. Human Communication Research, 8(2), 114-132.

Bormann, E. G., Pratt, J., & Putnam, L. (1978). Power, authority, and sex: Male response to female leadership. Communications Monographs, 45(2), 119-155.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Daniel Christain

Jabari Clemons

Troy Cruz

Communication Professor Francis Nyamnjoh discusses studying social anthropology as it pertains to communication scholarship in Africa. He continues to explore the role of technology in many African societies and communication. Francis also gives his thoughts on how his journey in communication has helped to shape his personal thoughts along the way.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Herman Wasserman

Francis Nyamnjoh

Sponsor:

School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication; Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Herman Wasserman

Professor of Media Studies | Centre for Film and Media Studies 

University of Cape Town

Twitter - @hwasser

Francis Nyamnjoh

Professor of Social Anthropology | Anthropology

University of Cape Town

Advisory Board | Migration for development and equality

Works referenced in episode: 

Achebe, Chinua. (1994). Things fall apart. New York: Anchor.

Masenda, S. T. (1989). Psychohistorical perspectives on Chinua Achebe's" Things Fall Apart" and" Arrow of God". The University of Oklahoma.

Nyamnjoh, Francis Beng (1990). “Broadcasting for Nation-Building in Cameroon: Development and Constraints.” University of Leicester.
Wasserman, H. (2022). The Incompleteness of Knowledge Production: An Interview with Francis Nyamnjoh. African Journalism Studies, 1-9.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Troy Cruz

Daniel Christain

This episode features Professors Robin Nabi and Joseph Cappella as they discuss Professor Cappella’s background and research in political and health communication studies. Professor Cappella explores messaging and media effects as well as the social consequences of mistrust and misinformation, especially within political communication.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Joseph Cappella

Robin Nabi

Sponsor:

The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University

More from the host & speakers:

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication; Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Joseph Cappella

Emeritus Professor, Annenberg School for Communication 

University of Pennsylvania

Twitter: @AnnenbergPenn

Robin Nabi

Professor of Communication 

University of California, Santa Barbara

Works referenced in episode: 

Fishbein, M., & Cappella, J. N. (2006). The role of theory in developing effective health communications. Journal of communication, 56(suppl_1), S1-S17.

Cappella, J. N., & Jamieson, K. H. (1997). Spiral of cynicism: The press and the public good. Oxford University Press.