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Field Description

The Cornell University graduate program in Communication is designed to assist students in proposing, testing, and refining communication theories; in practicing skilled research; and in becoming knowledgeable about communication.

The Ph.D. degree is a research degree. Cornell's doctoral program is designed to be a small, high quality program that will encourage students' interests in academic work and will prepare them for nonacademic job opportunities.  Doctoral students focus on developing communication theory based on empirical social science research.  Program graduates will be able to compete successfully for teaching and research positions at colleges and universities, work at consulting firms, or conduct research and contribute to policy in government and private organizations.

Data and Statistics

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Field Manual

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Subject and Degrees

Communication

Concentrations by Subject

Communication

• communication
• human-computer interaction
• language and communication
• media communication and society
• organizational communication
• science, environment and health communication
• social psychology communication

Faculty

Rosemary Jane Avery

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: science, environment and health communication
• Research Interests: impact of advertising on health-related behavior

Natalie N. Bazarova

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: communication; social psychology communication
• Research Interests: interpersonal, small group and computer-mediated research

danah michele boyd

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: media communication and society
• Research Interests: sociotechnical systems; data/AI/machine learning; technology studies; social networks/fabrics/graphs; equity; ethnography

Sahara E. Byrne

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Communication: media communication and society; science, environment and health communication; social psychology communication
• Research Interests: cognitive development and media effects; persuasion and the boomerang effect

Monica Cornejo

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: communication; social psychology communication
• Research Interests: interpersonal; undocumented immigrants; migration; advocacy; health and wellbeing

Brooke Erin Duffy

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: media communication and society
• Research Interests: new media and society; media and creative industries; gender and feminist media studies; digital labor; qualitative research methods

Susan R. Fussell

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: human-computer interaction; social psychology communication
• Research Interests: human-computer interaction; social psychology communication; computer-mediated communication; computer-supported collaborative work; intercultural communication; social computing

Tarleton Gillespie

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: media communication and society
• Research Interests: digital copyright; technology and cultural participation; critical discourse of technology; new media and society; commercialization of digital media

Stephen H. Hilgartner

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: communication; science, environment and health communication
• Research Interests: science, technology and media; risk; the flow of knowledge

Lee Humphreys

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: human-computer interaction; media communication and society
• Research Interests: human-computer interaction; media communication and society; social uses and effects of communication technology; new media and society; mobile communication; urban communication

Steven Jackson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: media communication and society; science, environment and health communication
• Research Interests: communication policy; scientific communication collaboration; science and technology studies

Malte Jung

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: communication; human-computer interaction

René Kizilcec

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: human-computer interaction; social psychology communication
• Research Interests: learning, education, technology, equity

Bruce Voss Lewenstein

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: communication; science, environment and health communication
• Research Interests: history and evaluation of public communication of science and technology; models of science communication; documentation and history of contemporary science

Neil Anthony Lewis

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: communication; organizational communication; science, environment and health communication; social psychology communication
• Research Interests: motivation and goal pursuit processes: disparities in education, health and environment; behavioral science and policy

Michael Walton Macy

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: communication; media communication and society; social psychology communication
• Research Interests: collective action; emergence of norms; networks and cascades; game theory; agent-based modeling; social psychology

Drew Margolin

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: communication; media communication and society; organizational communication
• Research Interests: communication; language and communication; media communication and society; organizational communication

Alan D. Mathios

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: social psychology communication
• Research Interests: consumer protection; antitrust law and economics; public utility regulation; federal and state regulation

J. Nathan Matias

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: communication; human-computer interaction; social psychology communication
• Research Interests: digital governance, behavior changes in groups and networks shaped by algorithms, pervasive experimentation in society with a special focus on citizen behavioral science

Katherine A. McComas

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: science, environment and health communication
• Research Interests: risk communication; community involvement; public participation

Poppy Laurette McLeod

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: media communication and society; social psychology communication
• Research Interests: communication in small groups; interagency coordination in social services

Wunpini Mohammed

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: communication; media communication and society
• Research Interests: decolonization, indigenous language media, social movements, global media, feminisms

Jeff D. Niederdeppe

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: media communication and society; science, environment and health communication
• Research Interests: science, environment and health communication; media communication and society; mass communication; media campaigns; persuasive message design

Danny Parker

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: communication; media communication and society; social psychology communication
• Research Interests: Ethnography; urban and rural poverty; structural inequality; political identity and behavior; collective narratives and group formation; news production

Gordon Pennycook

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: human-computer interaction; media communication and society; science, environment and health communication; social psychology communication
• Research Interests: misinformation; judgment and decision making; social media; science communication; artificial intelligence

Amelia Greiner Safi

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Communication: communication; media communication and society; science, environment and health communication
• Research Interests: translational research; role of communication in policy making and impacts for health, environment, and urban planning; media and health

Dawn Ellen Schrader

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: communication
• Research Interests: moral psychology; ethics; lifespan developmental psychology; privacy and technology; cognitive psychology

Jonathon Schuldt

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: science, environment and health communication; social psychology communication
• Research Interests: science, environment and health communication; message framing; food labeling; social cognition

Katherine Sender

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: media communication and society
• Research Interests: media and gender, sexuality, LGBTQ studies, critical race studies, media and globalization, audiences, media production, documentary production

Michael A. Shapiro

• Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
• Concentrations: Communication: communication; media communication and society; social psychology communication
• Research Interests: mental processing of media; processing of media and new technology narratives; narrative impact on beliefs, attitudes and behaviors

Alex M Susskind

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: social psychology communication
• Research Interests: organizational change and development; communication technology and business processes

Claire Wardle

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: communication; media communication and society; science, environment and health communication
• Research Interests: journalism, misinformation, user-generated needs, technology, impact of AI on communities

Andrea Stevenson Won

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: human-computer interaction; science, environment and health communication; social psychology communication
• Research Interests: visual feedback, nonverbal behavior, synchrony

Yu Connie Yuan

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Communication: communication; media communication and society
• Research Interests: social network; knowledge management; communications technologies