Research Activities

Projects

• Asian mental health and COVID-19 news (quantitative)
• Student activism and cyberbullying (quantitative)
• Indigenous communities and environmental news (qualitative)
• Critical algorithmic literacy (qualitative/theory-building)
• Transnational feminist and queer perspectives on AI (qualitative/theory-building)
• Mapping equitable media literacy (mixed methods)
• Anti-racism and difficult dialogues (mixed methods/community-engaged)
• Immigrants and the media (mixed methods/community-engaged)
• WHO maternal mental health project (arts-based/community-engaged)
• Photopoetry exhibition by resettled refugee youth (arts-based/community-engaged)
• Women of color in the media – interviews (community-engaged)

Publications

Ramasubramanian, S., and Riewestahl, E. (2022).  Trauma-informed approaches. International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. Wiley Press.

Mihailidis, P., Ramasubramanian, S., Tully, M., Bhusari, B., Johnson, P., and Riewestahl, E. (2021). Equity and Impact in Media Literacy Practice: Mapping the Field in the United States. National Association for Media Literacy Education. https://mappingimpactfulml.org

Mihailidis, P., Ramasubramanian, S., Tully, M., Foster. B., Riewestahl, E., and Johnson, P. (2021). Do media literacies approach equity & justice? Journal of Media Literacy Education. 13(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.23860/JMLE-2021-13-2-1

Ramasubramanian, S., Riewestahl, E., and Landmark, S. (2021) The Trauma-informed Equity-minded Asset-based Model (TEAM): The six R’s for social justice-oriented educators; Journal of Media Literacy Education. 13(2), 29-42. https://doi.org/10.23860/JMLE-2021-13-2-3

Presentations

Ramasubramanian, S., Bhatti, S. J., Santia, M. and Tang, L. (forthcoming in May 2023) Asian American Mental Health, Ethnic Blame, and Media Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Communication Association, Toronto, CA.

Ramasubramanian, S., de Carvalho, R., Brown, C., Couri, D.C., Winfield, A., Wilson, J.  and Wolfe., A. (forthcoming in May 2023). Action-Based Anti-Racism Dialogues: A Trauma-Informed Approach for Organizational Change-Making, International Communication Association, Toronto, CA.

Riewestahl, E., Baker, E., Ramasubramanian, S., and Merchant, L. (November 2022). Indigenous Media Forms, Frames, & Futurisms: Comparing Anishinaabe and Mainstream News Coverage of the Line #3 Pipeline Project. National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA. [TOP PAPER AWARD]

Ramasubramanian, S., Baker, E., Bhatti, S., Burth, S., McKoy, K., and Yin. M. (October 2022). Fostering the Future of Research within a Collaboratory for Data Equity, Social Healing, Inclusive Futures and Transformation. Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas, Oakland, CA.

Baker, E., Nordquist, B., Badr. A., Ramasubramanian, S., Wang, W., and Bhadki, M. (October 2022). Communities of Care and Resilience through Arts-Based Digital Storytelling: The Narratio Project, Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas, Oakland, CA.

Burth, S., Riewestahl, E., Ramasubramanian, S., Foster, B., Johnson, P. R., Mihailidis, P. and Tully, M. (October, 2022). The 6E’s of Media Literacy Impact: A Framework to Understand Differential Outcomes of Media Literacy Practices; Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas, Oakland, CA.

Riewestahl, E., Baker, E., Ramasubramanian, S., and Merchant, L. (2022). Kinship, Security, Resistance: Comparing Indigenous and non-Indigenous Media Coverage of Line #3. Seven Generation Inter-Tribal Leadership Summit, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University, Hayward, WI.

Johnson, P. R., Tully M., Foster, B., Riewestahl, E., Ramasubramanian, S., and Mihailidis, P. (August 2022). Developing a framework for equitable media literacy practice: Voices from the field. AEJMC 105th Annual Conference. Detroit, MI.

Mihailidis, P., Ramasubramanian, S., Tully, M., Johnson, P., Riewestahl, E., and Foster, B. (2022) Media Literacy as a Safeguard to Democracy. International Media Literacy Research Symposium. Madison, WI.

Riewestahl, E., Baker, E., and Ramasubramanian, S. (May 2022). Framing the Enbridge Oil Line #3 Project: A Comparative Content Analysis of Anishinaabeg Newspapers and Mainstream Regional Newspapers, International Communication Association, Paris, France.

Ramasubramanian, S., Burth, S., McKoy, K. and Wang, W.  CODE^SHIFT: Public Impact, Collaborative Research, and Data Equity, Newhouse Impact Symposium, Syracuse U, November 2022.

Grants Funded

CNY Humanities Corridor Grant, Communication & Social Justice Working Group (with Cornell U), Continuing Working Group Grant, $2000 for Fall 2022 and $2500 for Fall 2023

Syracuse Repair Symposium, “Embodied Citizenship, Precarity, and Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic” exhibit and “Critical Autoethnography & Poetic Transcription” workshop; Center for Humanities, Syracuse University, 2022-2023; $4000