Dr. Marylou Naumoff considers the renewed American appetite for vampire and werewolf fiction as paradigmatic of Americans' need to process, manage, and confront uncertainty at a safe distance.
Social support, information seeking, & healthy eating
Dr. Christopher McKinley and Dr. Paul J. Wright co-investigate the association between diet and weight-focused informational support and online information seeking and the impact of this association on college students’ healthy eating intentions.
Sexting and the Remediation of Teen Sexuality
Dr. Hugh Curnutt (associate professor in SCM) offers an account of ‘‘sexting’s’’ cultural value and social uses by examining celebrities' production and distribution of sexual imagery on Twitter.
Problem Gambling Messages on College Web Sites
Dr. Christopher McKinley and his research team investigate the current frequency and nature of problem gambling-related content offered on U.S. college counseling center web sites (CCWs), and to extend previous research to the United Kingdom.
Mediated Memories of the Vietnam War
Dr. Harry Haines is stewarding a two-year archival research project of the mediated memory of the Vietnam War. This journey takes Dr. Haines to the depths of the Special Collections Department at Lasalle University (in Philadelphia) which houses one of the most extensive collections of multimedia artifacts from the Vietnam War.
