Kyle Lorenzano

Kyle Lorenzano is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication, Film, and Media at the University of West Georgia. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Communication from the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University, in addition to a B.S. in Communication Studies from the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.

His teaching interests focus primarily on emerging technology and mass media, having taught courses on multimedia storytelling, media industries/programming, social media marketing, and media theory/criticism. His research interests mostly center on political communication and social change, with an emphasis on the relationship between new media and polarization. This research has resulted in recent publications in Communication and the Public and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, as well as several papers delivered at top conferences in the discipline.

 

  • B.S., Communication Studies, Arizona State University, 2012
  • M.A., Communication, Washington State University, 2014
  • Ph.D., Communication, Washington State University, 2018

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Summer 2020 Sections

  • COMM-3354 (Digital Social Media & Society) Section: E01
  • COMM-3355 (Media Programming & Mgmt) Section: E01

Spring 2020 Sections

  • COMM-3350 (Telecom & Electr Media Industr) Section: 01
  • COMM-3354 (Digital Social Media & Society) Section: E01
  • COMM-4485 (Podcasting) Section: 01

Fall 2019 Sections

  • COMM-3350 (Telecom & Electr Media Industr) Section: 01
  • COMM-3354 (Digital Social Media & Society) Section: E01
  • COMM-3355 (Media Programming & Mgmt) Section: 01

Lorenzano, K. J., Moon, S. J., & Borah, P. (2023). Partisan selective exposure and politically polarized attitudes toward disruptive protest. Communication and the Public, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/20570473231171460 [View Publication External Resource]

Borah, P., Lorenzano, K., Vishnevskaya, A. & Austin, E. (2022) Conservative Media Use and COVID-19 Related Behavior: The Moderating Role of Media Literacy Variables. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 19, 7572. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137572 [View Publication External Resource]

Lorenzano, K.J. , Sari, M., Storm, C.H., Rhodes, S., & Borah, P. (2018). Challenges for an SNS- based public sphere in 2016. Online Information Review. https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-12- 2017-0352 [View Publication External Resource]