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Lissy Calienes Selected for The One Club for Creativity’s 2025 Young Ones Student Awards Jury
January 16, 2025

Hub Brown Authors Opinion Column for Students Returning for the UF Spring 2025 Semester
January 16, 2025

Two CJC Student Journalists Honored in 2024-2025 Hearst Journalism Awards Feature Writing Competition
January 16, 2025

Study: Sharing Social Media Posts Before Clicking on Their Content May Spread Misinformation
January 16, 2025

Partisanship, Politics and Place: How Media Shape Perception of Rural America
While traditional media research has focused on how news coverage shapes perceptions of racial, ethnic and religious groups, less is known about media’s role in influencing how people feel about others based on where they live. Researchers wanted to know what predicts people’s feelings toward individuals living in rural parts of the U.S.

Spreading Misinformation with Careless Sharing
The internet has become a minefield of misinformation, which has only become murkier as more and more people are sharing articles without even reading them. New research shows that about 75% of the news links shared on Facebook are reposted without users ever reading the content.

How Gender and Race Shaped Stacey Abrams’ Campaign to Court Black Male Voters
New research examines how Georgia gubenatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ 2022 campaign attempted to address the gap between support from Black women vs. Black men in her 2018 campaign, amid the complex intersections of race, gender and political discourse.

How Neoliberal Ideas Shaped Public Service Announcements: A Three-Decade Analysis
While traditional advertising is considered a function of capitalism, public service announcements  have long been considered a function for the public good. But new research reveals how neoliberal ideology has increasingly infiltrated even these public-interest messages.