Dr. Brent Hale
Assistant Professor
Bio
Brent Hale (PhD, Indiana University) is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and mediated communication specialist. His research focus includes interlocutory and psychological responses to social media content through commenting, including messages related to health and politics. He has published quantitative analyses of various social media platforms, including Imgur, Reddit, and YouTube.
Personal Website: 鈥媤ww.brentjhale.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentjhale/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WO4_iegAAAAJ&hl=en
- PHD - Indiana University-Bloomington (2020)
- MA - Indiana University-Bloomington (2016)
CMS 310 - Research Methods in Communication Studies
CMS 320 - Professional Communication
CMS 450 - Designing Solutions for Defense
COM 110 - Careers and Skills in Communication
COM 310 - Digital and Social Media
COM 600 - Communication Theory and Research
- An Analysis of r/coronavirus Discourse about COVID-19 Healthcare Workers and Patients during the Early Pandemic: Heroic Frontliners or Unavoidable Victims?, Communication Studies, 2024,
- A Peaceful Transfer of Power? A Content Analysis of Leadership Framing and Political Discourse in r/politics and r/conservative Following the 2021 U.S. Capitol Riots, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2024,
- Examining the effect of identification with a social media community on persuasive message processing and attitude change, New Media & Society, 2022,
- Reddit as a source of COVID-19 information: A content analysis of r/coronavirus during the early pandemic, Journal of Communication Technology, 2022,
- Posting about cancer: Predicting social support in Imgur comments, Social Media and Society, 2020,
- Testing three measures of verbal-visual frame interplay in German news coverage of refugees and asylum seekers, International Journal of Communication, 2020
- Responding to depression-related Imgur posts: A content analysis of social support and non-bona fide features in user-generated comments, Digital Health, 2019,
- Vlogging cancer: Predictors of social support in YouTube cancer vlogs., Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2018,
- Visual war: A content analysis of Clinton and Trump subreddits during the 2016 campaign, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 2018,
- 鈥�+1 for Imgur鈥�: A content analysis of SIDE theory and common voice effects on a hierarchical bidirectionally-voted commenting system, Computers in Human Behavior, 2017,
- National Communication Association
- International Communication Association
- Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication