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Below I have provided a few examples of research that has either been presented at academic conferences, published in peer reviewed journals, or both.


Youth Make the News


This poster was created using Adobe InDesign and was a top student paper in the 2008 AEJMC Civic and Citizen Interest Group Scholar to Scholar session. This research served as an exploratory study for my dissertation.

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Virtual Possibilities


This study was presented at the 2009 AEJMC conference and subsequently published in the Journal of Interactive Learning Research. Below you will find links to the PowerPoint presentation given at AEJMC and a PDF of the published journal article.

Click here to see the PowerPoint presentation.

Click here to see the journal article.


Assessing the Value of Virtual Worlds


This study was presented by my colleagues Dr. Mathew W. Ragas and Ph.D. Candidate K. Westmoreland Bowers at the 2009 ICA conference, where it was awarded the top student paper in the Instructional and Developmental Communication Division. The study was also published in the International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Below you will find links to the PowerPoint presentation given at ICA and a PDF of the published journal article.

Click here to see the PowerPoint presentation.

Click here to see the journal article.