Ignatius G. D Suglo, assistant professor of rhetoric & communication studies, published “Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana” in the International Journal of Communication.
Timothy Barney, professor of rhetoric and communication studies, received the 2026 Distinguished Service Award from the University of Richmond at Colloquy.
Ben Pettis, assistant professor of rhetoric and communication studies, presented "Standardizing and Optimizing Education: Constructing the Neoliberal User in Learning Management Systems" at the 76th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference.
Ben Pettis published "Subscribe, Follow, Save: Podcast Preservation in the Platform Era" in the Journal of Radio and Audio Media. The article discusses the PodcastRE project and the ongoing changes in the podcasting industry and audio distribution platforms which create challenges for digital archiving projects.
Ben Pettis, assistant professor of rhetoric and communication studies, presented "Rumors of Twitter's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Examining the Persistence and Perseverance of Academic Twitter" at the Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine (CMSSP) conference.
Ben Pettis, assistant professor of rhetoric and communication studies, published “The two lives of Chuck Norris” in The Conversation about what happens when internet culture turns both celebrities and regular people into memes.
Taylor Arnold, professor of data science and statistics, and Lauren Tilton, professor of digital humanities and director of UR’s Center for Liberal Arts and AI, received a grant to support their research to develop AI models that analyze film and television. The funding is part of a larger award from Schmidt Sciences and includes collaboration with colleagues at UC Berkeley and Bowdoin College.
Ben Pettis, assistant professor of rhetoric and communication studies, published a book review of Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.
Ignatius G. D Suglo, assistant professor of rhetoric & communication studies, was appointed to the editorial board of the flagship journal Communication, Culture, & Critique.
Malcolm Ogden, visiting assistant professor of rhetoric and communication studies, published the chapter "The Weird Internet and Speculative Knowledge" in the De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Cultures.
Malcolm Ogden, visiting assistant professor of rhetoric and communication studies, presented "AI, grammar, and consciousness: A media genealogical analysis of Grammarly" at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S): Reverberations.
Timothy Barney, professor of rhetoric and communication studies, was awarded the 2025 Mednick Faculty Fellowship Award from the Virginia Foundation for Independent Collegesin the amount of $2,800 for the project, "Mapping the Ford Foundation," a digital humanities initiative co-led with Nicole Sackley, associate professor of history and American studies. The University of Richmond selects one faculty member annually to apply for the grant.