2023-2024 CIC Internal Funding Program for Research and Creative Scholarship
Track I – Faculty-lead Research
Hashtaging for Change: Exploring the Inter-Group Relationship of Social Media Influencers
During #BlackLivesMatter and #StopAsianHate.
Anli Xiao, Candice Edrington, Wesley Stevens
Award amount: $3,684
Resistance, Resilience and Engagement: Understanding the Social Media Practices of
LGBTQ+ Youth
Leigh Moscowitz, Vanessa Kitzie, Jabari Evans
Award amount: $4,000
Assessing Perceptions of Source Credibility on Twitter for Emergency & Risk Communication
Brett Robertson, Shannon Bowen
Award amount: $3,850
Instructors’ Roles in Providing Equitable Access for Blind, Visually Impaired, and
Print Disabled (BVIPD) Students at the University of South Carolina
Dick Kawooya, Eric Robinson, Clayton Copeland
Award amount: $3,250
Track II – Student-led Research
Examining the Sexual Health Information Seeking Practices of South Carolina Young
Adults on Social Media
Alexander Vera
Award amount: $1,000
The Impact of Black Male Superintendents’ Race and Gender in Organizational Change
Keisa Gunby
Award amount: $345
Previous Years
YingYing Chen, Jungmi Jun, Sei-Hill Kim, and Jacob Long: $10,000 - Anti-Intellectualism on Twitter: An Analysis of the Source, Content, and Network Features
Candice Edrington, Tara Mortenson, and Sarah Johnson (SJMC Doctoral Student): $6,690 - Cultural Projection via #IAmaBlackMan Challenge on Instagram
Jabari Evans and Ellen Wartella (Northwestern University): $10,000 - Diversity & Youth Participatory Action Research Project involving Haven Studios in Chicago and Richland Library Teen Center
Darin Freeburg and iSchool Research Assistant (TBD): $6,300 - A Study of Knowledge Work in the Library
Tara Mortensen, Brian McDermott (UMass, Amherst), and Bob Wertz (SJMC Doctoral Student): $6,400 – CIC Internal Collaborative Research involving the Biometrics and User Experience Lab
Ehsan Mohammadi, Sei-Hill Kim, Holly Overton, Linwan Wu, Tara Mortensen, Taylor Wen - The Mosaic of Communication Science: An Analysis of 20 years of Academic Publications
Tara Mortensen, Taylor Wen, Linwan Wu, Ehsan Mohammadi - Emotionality in Staff News Photography Versus Stock Photography
Jungmi Jun, Ehsan Mohammadi, Kim Thompson - Social Conversation on the FDA’s Modified Risk Tobacco Products (MRTP) Authorization of IQOS and Young Adults’ Interest and Trial Intent of IQOS During the Pandemic
Amir Karami, Robert McKeever, Brooke McKeever, Brie Turner-McGrievy (Arnold School of Public Health) - Detecting and Characterizing Health Posts of Malicious Actors on Twitter