Scholars explore how communication technologies, culture, performance and media, including emerging digital applications such as artificial intelligence, shape creative and critical forms of global engagement.

On one hand, we examine how power dynamics, technological innovation, and inclusive practices intersect with cultural, communicative, and community life across diverse contexts. On the other hand, our work integrates critical and cultural inquiry, mediated discourse analysis, rhetoric, and performance-based approaches to illuminate and address complex global challenges.

Through collaborative, interdisciplinary research and sustained community partnerships, research in this area advances inclusive, ethical, and socially engaged scholarship that prepares students to lead and innovate in an increasingly interconnected world.