Research at the Department of Communication

Our department is committed to producing ground-breaking scholarship and teaching that expands the boundaries of knowledge. We examine problems of human interaction, participation, collaboration, deliberation, enculturation, and decision-making across a wide variety of settings. Our depatment fosters scholarship that cuts across the areas of rhetoric, organizational communication, and group interaction.

To communication researchers, communication is not just getting a message from point A to point B. Communication research focuses on how people use messages to inform, persuade, manage, relate, and influence each other in various contexts and cultures, using a variety of channels and media. Communication scholars work toward understanding these processes and promoting their effective and ethical practice.

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