MESA graduate student Kelli Norton presented her thesis titled "Identifying Persuasive Language Techniques in the United States and Iran Political News Articles" at the AEJMC Midwinter Conference in Norman, OK.

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).

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. 

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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.