July 25, 2023 • Jonathan McVerry

Scholars Sisi Hu and Amanda Hinnant share a common interest in researching prosocial health and science communication. Their collaboration started at the University of Missouri where Hu was a Ph.D. student and Hinnant was her dissertation adviser. Hu recently became an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas, but their collaboration continues. Their project studying motivations of messaging in the nonprofit health sector is part of the Page Center’s 2023 research call on prosocial communication. The first-time Page… More

July 12, 2023 • Jonathan McVerry

Last year, the number of refugees worldwide eclipsed 100 million. The ubiquity of the crisis attracts corporate support and advocacy of these displaced people. However, Brian Smith and Staci Smith say companies may not understand the intricacies of the crisis and their corporate efforts often don’t properly serve refugee needs. The Fulbright Scholars and Brigham Young University faculty members – Brian, associate professor of communication, and Staci, adjunct professor of management communication – say that to communicate about social… More

July 8, 2023

By Taylor Voges, Ketchum; Shelley Spector, The Museum of Public Relations; and Yan Jin, University of Georgia

“So much inaccuracy…perpetuated by decades of Hollywood drama, by advertising. Don't get me started on professional sports teams…the textbooks that students study in America about Native American history [are] so wrong.”

These unfortunate conceptions have led researchers to investigate various portrayals of Indigenous peoples from throughout the U.S. and Canada. Of the studies conducted by researchers on Native Americans, very… More

July 6, 2023

By Hao Xu, University of Melbourne, Australia; Jisu Huh and Hyejoon Rim, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Corporate social advocacy (CSA) has received growing attention in recent years, given the polarized political environment and publics’ expectations on companies as active societal members.

In CSA, the extent to which publics perceive a company’s stance to be consistent with or opposite to their own stances and value is likely to influence publics’ attitudes and perceptions regarding the involved company. As many of… More

June 30, 2023 • Jonathan McVerry

Scholars Queenie Jo-Yun Li and Yeunjae Lee both joined the School of Communication at the University of Miami in 2018. They quickly became collaborators. Their different interests – Li focuses on health communication and social change and Lee studies internal and employee communication – help inspire unique research ideas that examine how organizations can use resources to facilitate social change. Both Li and Lee have been funded by the Page Center before, and this year they are… More

June 20, 2023 • Jonathan McVerry

A cross-institutional team of Page Center scholars is studying corporate advocacy initiatives that will help build a model for companies to effectively and ethically communicate geopolitical issues. Their two-part study will examine social media communication from Fortunate 500 companies in the United States to learn how these corporations approach controversial global topics – in this case, the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the second part of their proposal, they will conduct survey research to investigate how corporate communication can… More