Today I welcome Kimberley Bissell and Jiyoung Lee.
Kim Bissell (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is the Southern Progress Endowed Professor in Magazine Journalism and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. She is also the Director of the college’s research institute, the Institute for Communication and Information Research. She has done research in health and sports communication for more than 20 years and has received external funding for her work in health disparities and children.   Much of her research examines the social effects of media specific to health outcomes in children.  
Jiyoung Lee (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama, Department of Journalism and Creative Media. Her research is at the heart of emerging media effects including artificial intelligence and augmented reality on persuasion communication. Specifically, she studies human-computer interaction in the context of medical/risk misinformation, how new media affect polarization, and how media literacy interventions should be designed to engage the public in accurate information about health risks. Her work has appeared in several top communication journals, including Media Psychology, Health Communication, Behaviour & Information Technology, and Journal of Applied Communication Research.