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Critical Media Effects: Social Scientific Theorizing, #CommSoWhite, and Legitimizing BIPOC Voices

The Critical Media Effects Framework bridges critical cultural communication with media effects scholarship through four central pillars of

Difficult Dialogues Project: Curated Resources on Race and Racism

The Difficult Dialogues Project has curated the following resources on trauma-informed scholarship, dialogue-based interventions, Black well

Beyond Implicit Bias Training: 10 Ways to Support BIPOC Scholars in Response to #BLM

Published on June 7, 2020 (This blog post is a collective response by BIPOC scholars to my Facebook post this morning; in particular, I w...

A Letter to My Dear Dept. Colleagues: BLM, Communication, and Long-Term Changes

I am here on Twitter/Facebook, co-organizing with other comm/media/journalism faculty and students. I am reporting back that the discussions

White Allies: 10 Ways to Support Black Lives (with a Bonus Tip at the End)

[Reposted from: Ramasubramanian, Srividya. (May 31, 2020). White Allies: 10 Ways to Support Black Lives (with a Bonus Top at the End); Me...

Reflecting on #OpenScience versus #OpenComm

[Citation: Ramasubramanian, S. (May 25, 2020). Reflecting on #OpenScience versus #OpenComm, DrSrivi.com Blog, Accessible at: https://www....

Media literacy as essential: Youth media, social justice, and civic participation

In this recent book chapter on "Civic Engagement, Social Justice, and Media Literacy" that I have co-authored with Ramin Chaboki Darzabi, we

Transformative Leadership, Collective Healing, and the Ethics of Care

As we experience the COVID-19 pandemic, I discuss the importance of leadership for transformation, collective healing, and care.

#CommunicationSoWhite: Two-Year Anniversary Reflections - Part 1

Reflections on the #CommunicationSoWhite movement and its beginnings in Summer 2018.

Call for Blog Entries: "Quarantined Across Borders"

Deadline extended. Call for entries for blog/ebook/IJOC Forum special issue on "Quarantined Across Borders" by Media Rise.

Third Anniversary of our Campus Protests, Counter-Talk, and Aggies Unite

On the third anniversary of our campus protests against white supremacy, I reflect on student-led activism and anti-racism pedagogy.

The Fall 2019 Difficult Dialogues were a big success!

Difficult Dialogues Project review at the end of Fall 2019. Teaching and mentoring our multidisciplinary research team at TAMU.

Named 2019 TAMU Presidential Impact Fellow

Honored to receive the 2019 Presidential Impact Fellow award at TAMU for overall scholarly excellence.

UC Santa Barbara & CalPoly Visit

Talks at UC-Santa Barbara and at CalPoly on the Difficult Dialogues Project, including feedback from attendees.

Massachusetts Trip: UMass-Amherst and Emerson

Talks at U-Mass Amherst on communication scholar-activism and Emerson College on Difficult Dialogues and anti-racism pedagogy at Emerson.

Best swag ever at TAMU Communication Summit

Workshop on Inclusive Communication for TAMU Comm Summit (for comm and marketing professionals) co-facilitated with my grad students.

Receiving the "Faculty Mentorship Award" from our grad students

Receiving the 2019 Faculty Mentorship Award from the Comm Grad Students Association.

Presumed Incompetence, (In)Visibility, and Minoritized Scholars

Reflections on intersectionality, marginalizations, and minoritized scholar experiences on campuses and the scholarly community.

The Double Bind of Imposter Syndrome Among Scholars of Color

Talking publicly about writing failures is a privilege that scholars of color often do not have. So deep are our ingrained beliefs of inferi

My talk on Critical Media Effects at New Zealand's Massey University

Invited talk on Critical Media Effects, Anti-Racism, and (De)Stigmatization

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