In the third of our of "What's New With..." series, we have the great opportunity to catch up with Dr. Cynthia Peacock, now an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies within C&IS. When we last spoke with Cynthia, she was telling us about the time she took her students to attend the Iowa Caucuses, and about all of her work in political communication. She's been busy these last two years, and in today's episode, we get to hear all about it. She is currently working on a study about relational communication when individuals do not share the same political ideology--can you imagine the potential drama? But, she's also looking into issues such as the changes in the online environment, including social media, and how these changes will affect political engagement and opinion exchange. I don't want to give away too much here, but I will just say, this is another really fun one!! As a fun fact about Cynthia, she wanted to be a criminal psychologist or a National Geographic photographer when she was growing up, and her pathway to academia is an interesting (but cool) one!
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