Research Studies
Old Dominion University, VA
M.A. in Lifespan and Digital Communication
Department of Communication and Theatre Arts
Graduate Student Studies and Research Collection
COMM601
Lifespan Communication Theory and Research
A collection of academic studies surrounding the effects of human communication as it evolves across the lifespan: A focus towards our adaptive interaction across our surroundings, be these immediate and extended family, work, healthcare, and spirituality, throughout all phases of life and via all channels of communication, with an emphasis on communication and multilingualism research
COMM602
Digital Communication Research and Theory
A collection of academic studies around contemporary media --i.e., "legacy media" like television or ever-changing social media platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn
The focus is to research, analyze, contextualize, and understand ongoing media developments and their evolution through methods which are different from those used by an average person.
COMM603
Social Change and Communication Systems
A collection of scholarly studies around persuasive techniques, community engagement, mobilizing large-scale social movements, and the political consequences of human and digital communication across the lifespan, to examines the role of various communication systems in enacting social change involving commercial, governmental and not-for-profit contexts
COMM604
Lifespan Communication Research Methods
A collection of academic studies on communication and multilingualism, serving as exercises around social scientific and qualitative methods used in lifespan development communication research, and focusing on approaches to investigating communication of children, adolescents, and later life
