University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: Department Leadership

Johnson, Derek

Biography  Office Hours: By Appointment Current and Future Projects Examining the strategies used in the media industries to manage the mortality of labor and consumers Explaining why the temporal logics of media franchising make it a recurring battleground in struggles for (and just as often, against) social justice Expertise and Activities My research examines the …

Johnson, Jenell

Biography Current and Future Projects Communication about light pollution and the dark sky movement Claims of certainty in life detection experiments in the Viking mission to Mars in the late 1970s and their relation to public support of NASA Expertise and Activities My research interests include the rhetoric of health and medicine, science and technology …

van Swol, Lyn

Biography Office Hours: Tuesday noon to 2pm And by appointment Current and Future Projects Emotional contagion of positive and negative emotional language in a discussion with a chatbot partner How group discussion of climate change can change attitudes towards taking action to combat climate change Applying research on advice communication to environmental settings, like forestry, …