- Research Communities
- Research Groups and Labs
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- The Big-DIG Research Lab
- Environmental Communication Lab
- Flint Water Crisis Working Group
- Infra.Lab
- M2E2: Mindless Media Exposure and Effects
- Family and Media Lab
- Media and Psychology in Everyday Life (MaPiEL) Lab
- Media and Risk Lab
- Mobile Communication Collective
- Political Communication and Behavior Lab
- Politics and Communication Lab
- Politics, Environment and Science Lab
- Research Strengths
- Faculty Fields of Study
- Marsh Center for the Study of Journalistic Performance
- Faculty Publications
wE in the mc2 bring energy to scholarship on the uses and consequences of mobile media in everyday social life. wE bridge the traditions of Political Communication and Media Psychology to study how mobile communication uniquely structures social behavior and social cognition. wE take a comparative approach to understand how different media, as well as different uses within them, shape social expectations and how people engage with each other, their communities, and the political process. For example, wE are conducting a longitudinal survey comparing nuanced uses of mobile and other media for new insights into their relative effects on cognition and behavior. The cognitive side examines differential effects on personal empathy and political perspective-taking, while the behavioral side examines reaching in to personal relationships and reaching out to engage in the civic and political domains.Although diverse in our interests and research traditions, wE all share the premise that mobile communication is uniquely meaningful in that it supports the possibility of connecting while users are physically in transition. All other forms of media, including portable devices, tether users to places with necessary infrastructure. Mobile media characteristically support the possibility of connecting between and beyond places of destination, not just in them. As a result, communication, information, and content can be weaved into the flows of everyday life moments and movements, with distinctive ramifications for society as well as the self. This is what wE study in the mc2.The Mobile Communication Collective is a dynamic network of interdisciplinary scholars and students. In addition to Professor Campbell, the present make-up includes two assistant professors in Pediatrics, three PhD students in Communication and Media, one undergraduate student in Communication and Media, and two visiting scholars from other institutions.If you are interested in more information about the Mobile Communication Collective, please contact us. wE are an inclusive network of scholars open to different research traditions, methods, and theoretical orientations. wE = mc2
Contact Information:
Faculty Coordinator: Professor Scott Campbell
Email: swcamp@umich.edu
Faculty
Undergraduate Students
Sydney Davis
Xianghua Zeng
Nicole Kim
Darina Wolfe
Shira Black
Stephanie Peng
Bianca Hiew
Alina Chan
Charles Cobb
August O'Neil
Alexandria Drake
Kaili Taagepera
Yuchen Song
Atussa ("Kiana") Kian
Regan Henderson