Title
Assistant ProfessorOffice Building
Yeager HallOffice
224Mailing Address
Yeager Hall 224School of Communication & Journalism-Box 2218
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007
Biography
Shola Aromona (Ph.D., University of Kansas) is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies. Her research is at the intersection of political communication, social media, media and information literacy, and gender. She earned a Ph.D. in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Kansas. She is currently studying social media discourse in electoral contexts in emerging democracies as well as factors influencing how individuals consume, engage and evaluate information on social media.Academic Responsibilities
PUBR 243: Public Relations PrinciplesPUBR 472: Research and Planning
MCOM 270: Data Analysis in Communication
MCOM 746: Cross-Platform Campaigns (Graduate level)
MCOM 761: Social Media Management (Graduate level)
Professional Memberships
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass CommunicationNational Communication Association
International Communication Association
Area(s) of Research
Digital, Media, and information literacyPolitical public relations
Social media and misinformation
Digital social advocacy
Political information evaluation
Feminist media
Political participation in emerging democracies
Department(s)
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School of Communication and Journalism