Assistant Professor

About

  • Office Hours:

    Office Hours Wednesdays 1 pm – 2 pm & Thursday 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

  • Role:

    Faculty

  • Position:

    • Assistant Professor

  • Department:

    • Journalism & Media Communication

  • Education:

    • PhD Indiana University

Biography

Education: Ph.D., Media and Communication, Indiana University Bloomington, M.A., Royal Holloway University, London.

Research interests: Visual communication and its effects on the audience. The intersections that link online journalism, multimedia/strategic communication, underrepresented communities and public policies.

Publications

Selected Publications:

Famulari, U., & Major, L. H. (2022). News stories and images of immigration online: A quantitative analysis of digital-native and traditional news websites of different political orientations and social media engagement. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 1-20.

Famulari, U. (2021). The strategic use of visuals on Facebook: A multimodal analysis of images and audience reactions during the campaign for the 2019 UK general elections. Visual Communication Quarterly, 28 (4), 199-211.

Famulari, U. (2020). Framing the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy: A quantitative content analysis of visuals and stories in U.S. cable news and newspaper websites. Journalism Studies, 21 (16), 2267-2284.

Famulari, U. (2020). Defining problems and struggling to find solutions: Framing Roma people in Italian news websites. Journal of Italian Media & Cinema Studies, 3(2), 375-397.