Research Philosophy

I place enormous value on research skill-building and flexibility. I thrive on participating in collaborative projects and seek out the grounding process of independent research. I believe research should contribute to understanding communication phenomena to improve the human experience.

  • Title: Corporate Conscience: Applying Ethics of Care Informed Crisis Responses to Corporate Social Advocacy Backlash

    Committee: Dr. Denise Bortree (Chair), Dr. Holly Overton, Dr. Colleen Connolly-Ahern, & Dr. Patrick Plaisance

    • Strategic Nonprofit Communication

    • Relationship Management & OPR

    • Corporate Social Advocacy

    • Corporate Social Responsibility

    • Community Advocacy & Resilience

    • Message Features and Modalities

    • Crisis Communication

    • Privacy & Big Data

    • Consumer Decision-Making Processes

    • Recipient of a 2021 Page/Johnson Legacy Scholar Grant from the Arthur W. Page Center. Co-author: Dr. Anli Xaio, South Carolina University. Grant amount: $2,500.

    • Recipient of a research grant from the Don Davis Program in Ethical Leadership, 2021. Grant amount: $1,500.

    • UF Global Fellow, 2023

    • Kopenhaver Center Fellow, Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University and AEJMC

      • Accepted as one of the cohorts of the pre-convention workshop, Women Faculty Moving Forward: The Future is Female, at the 105th Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual conference, August 2, 2022

    • Distinguished Alumna Speaker, Paterno Fellows Recognition Ceremony, 2022

    • Recipient of the Literati Award for Outstanding Paper, 2021

      • Vafeiadis, M., Bortree, D. S., Buckley, C., Diddi, P., & Xiao, A. (2019). Refuting fake news on social media: nonprofits, crisis response strategies and issue involvement. Journal of Product & Brand Management.

    • Sidney and Helen Friedman Endowed Scholarship, 2017–2018

    • Sidney and Helen Friedman Endowed Scholarship, 2020–2021

    • Schreyer Honors College Graduate, Penn State, 2012

    • Paterno Fellows Program Graduate, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State, 2012

    • Geah Pressgrove, Ph.D., West Virginia University

    • Julia Fraustino, Ph.D., West Virginia University

    • Virginia Harrison, Ph.D., Clemson University

    • Michail Vafeaidis, Ph.D., Auburn University

    • Pratiti Diddi, Ph.D., Lamar University

    • Denise Bortree, Ph.D., Penn State

    • Frank, Dardis, Ph.D., Penn State

    • Anli Xiao, Ph.D., South Carolina University

    • Jason Freeman, Ph.D., Brigham Young University

    • Carlina, DiRusso, Ph.D., Ketchum Inc.

    • Nicholas Eng, ABD, Penn State

    • Rachel Peng, ABD, Penn State

    • Nitzan Navick, Ph.D Student, UC Santa Barbara

    • Katie Haejung Kim, Ph.D. Student, University of Minnesota

    • Bennet Schwoon, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Zurich

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Voges, T. S., Jin, Y., Buckley, C., Eaddy, L. L., & Lu, X. (2024). A new framework for managing “crisis spillover” as a type of sticky crisis: Initial insights from a crisis communication expert panel. Public Relations Review, 50(1), 102424.Description goes here

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  • Harrison, V., Bober, J., Buckley, C., & Vallos, V., (2023). “Save Our Spikes”: Social Media Advocacy and Fan Reaction to the End of Minor League Baseball (MiLB). Communication & Sport. https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795231151916

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  • Harrison, V., Vafeaidis, M., Diddi, P., Buckley, C., & Dardis, F., (2022). Understanding how corporate social responsibility partnership factors influence nonprofit supportive intentions. Public Relations Review. 48(5), 102184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2022.102184

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  • DiRusso, C., Buckley, C., Diddi, P., Dardis, F. E., Vafeiadis, M., & Eng, N. (2022). Designing effective corporate social advocacy campaigns using valence, arousal, and issue salience. Public Relations Review, 48(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2022.102207

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  • Eng N., Buckley C., Peng RX. (2022). Tracking the Path of the Green Consumer: Surveying the Decision-Making Process from Self-Transcendent Values to Supportive CSR Intentions*. Sustainability, 14(3), 1106. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031106

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  • Freeman, J., Buckley, C., Triptow, C., & Chai, Y., (2021). For the love of lists: identifying the effects of listicle type and length. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 1-23, https://doi.org/10.1080/13614568.2021.2001581

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  • Vafeiadis, M., Harrison, V. S., Diddi, P., Dardis, F., & Buckley, C. (2021). Strategic Nonprofit Communication: Effects of Cross-Sector Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Alliances on Nonprofits and the Mediating Role of Social-Objectives Achievement and Consumer Brand Identification. International Journal of Strategic Communication, 15(4), 275-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/1553118X.2021.1945610

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  • Harrison, V., Buckley, C., & Xiao, A. (2020). The roles of donation experience and advocacy: extending the organization–donor relationship model. Journal of Communication Management, 25(1), 85-103. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCOM-06-2020-0057

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  • Vafeiadis, M., Bortree, D. S., Buckley, C., Diddi, P., & Xiao, A. (2019). Refuting fake news on social media: nonprofits, crisis response strategies and issue involvement. Journal of Product & Brand Management, 29(2), 209- 222. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBM-12-2018-2146

    Winner of the 2021 Literati Award for Outstanding Paper in the Journal of Product and Brand Management.

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  • Kankane, S., DiRusso, C., & Buckley, C. (2018). Can we nudge users toward better password management? An initial study. Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conferences on Human Factors in Computing Systems, https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188689

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Invited Book Chapters

Buckley, C. Haejung, K. K., Navick, N., & Schwoon, B.* (2022). CSR Conversation: What is the future of CSR communication research?. In A. O’Connor (Editor). The Routledge Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility Communication (pp. 357-366). New York, NY. Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003184911-34

* Authors are listed alphabetically, and all contributed equally.

Media Hits

Cited by Chau, L. (2021, August 5). Forward motion: The fourth industrial revolution is happening now. Forbes.https://www.forbes.com/sites/zengernews/2021/07/31/forward-motion-the-fourth-industrial-revolution-is-happening-now/?sh=50dfa6d63a68.

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