Dr. Kim Bissell and Dr. Anneliese Bolland from the Revise & Resubmit podcast interview Dr. Skye Cooley in the episode titled "We Think the Present Can Be Boring: But, Narratives Hijack Our Biology."
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MESA Students Featured in SMSC Graduate News
Students share their experiences working on the TRADOC project "Forecasting Resilience: A Future-Hunter Approach to a Prosperous Central America." https://media.okstate.edu/graduate-studies/graduate-student-news/686-tradoc-students-to-publish-research-2
Student Research Report: "Forecasting Resilience: A Future-Hunter Approach to a Prosperous Central America"
Six MESA students (Ellie Melero, Campbell Clark, Kelli Norton, Matthew O’Brien, Jared Rotha and Yi Wen Evonne Wong) produced a research report titled "Forecasting Resilience: A Future-Hunter Approach to a Prosperous Central America."
NVivo Podcast - Between the Data - Features MESA Work
Dr. Stacy Penna, NVivo Community Director, invites the MESA Group to talk about innovative research methods, applied practices, and passionate insights in qualitative research. The team shares their work on Perspectives on Mass Migration: Identifying and Assessing Strategic Narrative Alignment (Episode 35).
Vaccine Confidence Fund (VCF) funds the MESA Group research study
The MESA Group received the Vaccine Confidence Fund (VCF) grant to study narratives of vaccine confidence among marginalized migrants in the United States. VCF is the first flagship program of the Alliance for Advancing Health Online (AAHO). As one of 33 organizations that received VCF grants totaling over $7 million, the MESA Group aspires to address the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 among marginalized migrant populations, as well as the lack of research on vaccine confidence among these populations.
Book "The Future of Global Competition: Ontological Security and Narratives in Chinese, Iranian, Russian, and Venezuelan Media"
The MESA Group released the book titled "The Future of Global Competition: Ontological Security and Narratives in Chinese, Iranian, Russian, and Venezuelan Media." It is available to pre-order at Routledge and Amazon.
Mexican and Northern Triangle Perspectives on Migration: Identifying and Assessing Strategic Narrative Alignment
The MESA Group Video Brief. Dr. Skye Cooley and Campbell Clark present the results of the project "Mexican and Northern Triangle Perspectives on Migration: Identifying and Assessing Strategic Narrative Alignment." Produced by Evonne Wong and Ellie Melero.
Quick Look: "Transactional Communication Model"
The MESA Group and NSI published the Quick Look titled "Transactional Communication Model." This Quick Look presents a model for understanding the core communication process and elaborates on mechanisms to strengthen it. The report begins with an overview of the core communication process itself then discusses where and how factors internal and external to the communication process can influence the effectiveness of message transmission and interpretation.
Quick Look: "Understanding Mass Self-Communication"
The MESA Group and NSI published the Quick Look titled "Understanding Mass Self-Communication." This Quick Look discusses a new form of communication within networked societies—Castells’ so-called mass self-communication. This report highlights how barriers between old and new media are disappearing as increasing technological access creates new forms of labor, challenges traditional understandings of the communication process, and empowers individuals to make otherwise inconceivable system-wide impacts.