The Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media brings together a diverse and accomplished faculty from across the university, both established senior faculty and younger faculty in new areas. Some will teach the required core courses in the program, and some will teach electives and special topics courses within their own departments. All will be available to serve on advisory committees for students. There are two categories of faculty associated with the doctoral program, Program Faculty and Affiliated Faculty.
Program Faculty
The Program Faculty are full and associate graduate faculty in the Departments of English and Communication who have an expressed interest, a record of research and scholarship in relevant areas, and the ability to teach core courses or courses in the disciplinary areas (see Curriculum). Program faculty will teach the core courses, direct dissertations, serve on advisory committees, and elect the Program Committee that governs the program.
Professor
- Berube, David, Christopher Cummings, Michael Cacciatore, Dietram Scheufele, and Jason Kalin. "Characteristics and Classification of Nanoparticles: Expert Delphi Survey." Nanotoxicology 30 Sep. 2010: 1-10. Early Online.
- Berube, David, Eileen M. Searson, Timothy S. Morton, and Christopher L. Cummings. "Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies - Consumer Product Inventory Evaluated." Nanotechnology Law and Business Journal 7.2 (2010): 152-163. Print.
- Berube, David. "Researching Social Media in the 21st Century." NSF SBE White Paper, 2010.
- Christopher Cummings (Chair)
- Jordan Frith (Member)
Associate Professor
- Kinsella, W. J., Kelly, A. R., & Kittle Autry, M. (2013). Risk, regulation, and rhetorical boundary work: Claims and challenges surrounding a purported nuclear renaissance. Communication Monographs, 80(3), in press.
- Kinsella, W. J. (Ed.) (2012). Forum: Communicative action in response to a nuclear crisis—Representations of Fukushima across communication contexts. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 6(2), 250-284.
- Kinsella, W. J. (2012). Environments, risks, and the limits of representation: Examples from nuclear energy. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 6(2), 251-259.
- Kinsella, W. J. (Ed.) (2011). Special issue: Learning from the 2008-09 global financial crisis. Electronic Journal of Communication, 21(no. 3-4).
- Kinsella, W. J. (2011). Research on nuclear energy in an international context: Challenges for empirical research design and preliminary findings. Technikfolgenabschätzung: Theorie und Praxis (Technology Assessment: Theory and Practice), 20(2), 84-89.
- Kinsella, W. J. (2010). Risk communication, phenomenology, and the limits of representation. Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies, 2(2), 267-276.
- President, Environmental Communication Division, National Communiucation Association, 2009-2010
- Christian Casper (member)
- Nick Temple (member)
- David Gruber (member)
- Ashley Kelly (member)
- Meagan Kittle Autry (member)
- Melinda Leonardo (member)
- Kate Maddalena (chair)
- Brian Bulla (Forestry & Natural Resources, member)
- Autumn Thoyre (Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill, member)
Assistant Professor
- Berube, D. M., Cummings, C. L., Frith, J. H., Binder, A. R., & Oldendick, R. (in press). Comparing nanoparticle risk perceptions to other known EHS risks. Journal of Nanoparticle Research.
- Binder, A. R., Cacciatore, M. A., Scheufele, D. A., Shaw, B. R., & Corley, E. A. (in press). Measuring risk/benefit perceptions of emerging technologies and their potential impact on communication of public opinion toward science. Public Understanding of Science. doi: 10.1177/096366251039015
- Binder, A. R., Scheufele, D. A., Brossard, D., & Gunther, A. C. (2011). Interpersonal amplification of risk? Citizen discussions and their influence on perceptions of risks and benefits of a biological research facility. Risk Analysis 31(2), 324-334.doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01516.x
"Digital technologies, tied to the Internet, could produce a vastly more competitive and vibrant market for building and cultivating culture; that market could include a much wider and more diverse range of creators; those creators could produce and distribute a much more vibrant range of creativity … all so long as the RCAs of our day don’t use the law to protect themselves against this competition."
—Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture
