associate prof | communication network researcher | 🏳️‍🌈

Minneapolis, Minnesota
Joined August 2014
Thrilled and honored to receive the NCA PRIDE Outstanding Article of the Year! Huge thanks to the award committee members @NCA_PRD and my co-author/advisor @SafferPHD!
Join us in celebrating this year's PRIDE Award winners!
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The Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky will be hiring multiple lines for tenure-track assistant professors. For more details, please see the full call at the link below: @icahdq @NatComm #ICA23 #NCA23 ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/4764…
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Minnesota replaces Texas as a top 5 state for business! This is great news for our economy and our state!
Minnesota replaces Texas as No. 5 in CNBC's closely watched ranking of "America's Top States for Business," shoving the Lone Star state out of the top five for the first time ever, landing at No. 6. bizjournals.com/twincities/n…
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Check out our latest piece that reveals some of the social forces shaping networked publics’ issue engagement: xitter.cf/YanQu123/status/167730…
Thrilled to announce that this piece has come out in JPRR! My proudest project thus far!! A condensed version of my awarded dissertation that constructs a new model of networked publics. Always grateful to @SafferPHD and all committee members' excellent mentorship!
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🙌 🙌 🙌 “I wish I would have seen a pride flag at the Target. I wish someone would have read a children’s book to me about a gay couple.”
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#UMNProud to celebrate Pride Month with our Hubbard School community. @UMNews works to build and bridge communities that welcome and affirm people to be their whole selves, honoring their multiple identities and lived experiences. z.umn.edu/umnpride
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Congratulations @katie_h_kim, @YanQu123, and @SafferPHD for winning the University of Georgia Advertising & Public Relations Top Paper Award for Public Relations Theory and Practice for incredible research work! @UMNews #iprrc #iprrc26
Employees’ information-sharing networks can impact employees’ voice behavior, which sequentially affect employee engagement — @katie_h_kim, @YanQu123, and @SafferPHD from @UMNews #iprrc #iprrc26
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The American Advertising Federation named 50 students from across the U.S. to its 2023 class of "Most Promising Multicultural Students," including a record six students from the University of Minnesota. kare11.com/article/news/loca…
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I started this project as a first year Ph.D. student in Dr. Riffe's class. Got 3 rejections before seeing it coming out. A content analysis of Chinese companies' CSR stakeholder engagement practices, and a little nostalgic of my Ph.D. life... tandfonline.com/eprint/FMFXB…
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This view on the walk home makes the longest days a little more palatable.
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A rejection notice the Friday before a long weekend hits differently. – at Minneapolis, MN
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Nice job @ClaireKampDush & @wmannin! That's an incredible dataset: pop.umn.edu/data/nchat
Happening today at 1pm ET: "COVID, Racial Trauma, and Sexual and Gender Minorities in the US: New Evidence from the National Couples' Health and Time Study" presented as webinar #11 of NIH's SGMRO Scientific Webinar Series. Register: dpcpsi.nih.gov/sgmro/scienti… @NCHATstudy
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.@jordanmorehou and I reading a reviewer’s comments:
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University of Kentucky is hiring an assistant professor in organizational communication! Please share if you know anybody that might be interested 😃 #OCMC22 ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/4175…
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Greg Flugaur calls himself "a nobody." Perhaps that is true. But, as he also says, "I’m a nobody who knows a somebody." And that somebody helped him break the major news of USC's interest in the Big Ten months before national media got the story. lat.ms/3K4vKjh
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Ended this summer’s strat comm reading group with @M_Aronczyk + @maripapel’s A Strategic Nature (Oxford). A smart take on how PR creates relational meanings, invests in legitimacy, makes publics, and constructs contexts of environmental comms. academic.oup.com/book/39011
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So many brilliant nuggets throughout the book. One of my faves is their unique take on PR as an infrastructure that I hope gets picked up more widely in the field.
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Thanks for the great discussions this summer @profamyoc @alvinyxz @YanQu123 @_Hao_Xu & the twitterless Christina!
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