Advocacy Communications

Outcomes to Date

Published in February 2018 American Behavioral Scientist: "On the Border of the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Views from Two Different Cultural Perspectives"
Daniela Dimitrova, Iowa State University; Emel Ozdora, University of Bilkent, Turkey; and Colleen Connolly-Ahern, Pennsylvania State University.

Preliminary findings were presented to the UNESCO Forum, “Youth and the Internet: Fighting Radicalization and Extremism,” Paris, France, June 2015.

Senior research fellow Colleen Connolly-Ahern discussed the Arthur W. Page Refugee Communication Project during a Global Bridges Panel at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual meeting, Portland, Oregon, August 2015.

Connolly-Ahern represented the Arthur W. Page Center at the UNESCO World Youth Forum, Paris, France, October 2015.

Results from all four projects were presented in a refereed panel presentation, “Communicating in the Interest of Human Dignity: The Arthur W. Page Refugee Communication Project,” at the National Communication Association annual meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2015.
 

Projects Funded

"Media use and memory building among African refugees in Israel"
Noam Tirosh, Ben Gurion University, Israel and Amit M Schejter, Pennsylvania State University

"ICT4D Use Among Refugees in Sicily"
Akshaya Sreenisan and Steve Bien-Aime, Pennsylvania State University

"On the Border of the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Views from Two Different Cultural Perspectives"
Daniela Dimitrova, Iowa State University; Emel Ozdora, University of Bilkent, Turkey; and Colleen Connolly-Ahern, Pennsylvania State University. 

"Unaccompanied Minors on our Doorstep: Communication Origins and Solutions for the Central American Child “Refugee” Crisis"
Colleen Connolly-Ahern, Pennsylvania State University; Daniel Tamul and Nadia Carillo-Martinez, Indiana University-Purdue University