Research PublicationsWack, M., Allen, J., Boatwright, B.C., & Cranmer, G. (2026). Assessing How Fact-checks Influence Accuracy and Consensus Judgments: Evidence from the Olympics. Risk Analysis.
Boatwright, B.C., DiRusso, C., & Pyle, A. (2026). Somebody’s Poisoned the Water Hole! Advancing Social Media Data Collection Principles to Account for the Effects of AI Slop on Public Relations Scholarship. Public Relations Review.
Boatwright, B.C., Cranmer, G., Kabir, E., & Warms, C. (2025). Nation branding via sportswashing: An exploration of pro-China YouTube influencers and commenters around the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Public Relations Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2025.102611
DiRusso, C., Kabir, E., Hagan, T., & Boatwright, B.C. (2025). Co-creation and electric vehicles: Identifying topics and trends in the Southeastern United States’s EV social media conversation. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2025.101509
Ash, E., Stephens, E., Xu, Y., & Boatwright, B.C. (2025). Promoting Teen Pregnancy Prevention: An Analysis of Social Media Content Strategy Over Five Years. Journal of Health Communication.
Corr, C., Harry, M., Stokowski, S., & Boatwright, B.C. (2025). The Local Perspective: Regional Television Framing of Name, Image, and Likeness. Communication and Sport.
Harrison, V., Morehouse, J., & Boatwright, B.C. (2024). The student as stakeholder: How the altruism of university social responsibility (USR) campaigns impacts student relationships. Journal of Communication Management.
Cox, E., Cranmer, G., & Boatwright, B.C. (2023). “Why Can’t We Play on Grass?” An Investigation of Discourse on Sterling Shepard’s ACL Tear. Communication & Sport. https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795231182903
Cranmer, G., Boatwright, B.C., Gertz., H., & Kowalski, K. (2023). Happy Birthday Title IX: The Role of Stakeholder Groups and Identity in Reactions to the 50th Anniversary of Title IX. Western Journal of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2023.2236061
Boatwright, B.C. & Pyle, A.S. (2023). “Don’t Mess with Ukrainian Farmers”: An examination of Ukraine and Kyiv’s official Twitter accounts as crisis communication, public diplomacy, and nation building. Public Relations Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2023.102338
Cranmer, G., Pelt, S., Boatwright, B.C., Sanderson, J., & Scheinbaum, A. (2023). Athletes’ displaced dissent on social media: triggering agents, message strategies, and user-generated responses. Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2023.2203828
Cho, M., Xu, S., & Boatwright, B.C. (2023). CEO Activism and employee relations: Factors affecting employees’ sense of belonging in the workplace. Public Relations Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2023.102295
Boatwright, B.C. & Freberg, K. (2023). Multi-modal influencers: Exploring how fitness coaches leverage social media and technology to foster engagement among their followers. International Journal of Strategic Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/1553118X.2022.2152341
Steiner, E., Pittman, M., Boatwright, B.C. (2023). When sports fans buy: Contextualizing social media engagement behavior to predict purchase intention. International Journal of Sport Communication. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2022-0158
Boatwright, B.C. (2022). Exploring online opinion leadership in the network paradigm: An analysis of influential users on Twitter shaping conversations around anthem protests by prominent athletes. Public Relations Review, 48(4), 102229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2022.102229
Harrison, V., Boatwright, B.C., & Bober, J. (2022). “A manifestation of their city as a god”: Gritty memes, the 2020 U.S. presidential election, and online representations of home. Communication & Sport. https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795221106115
Pangborn, S. M., Boatwright, B. C., Miller, C. L., & Velting, M. N. (2021). ‘I don’t feel like a hero’: Frontline healthcare providers’ social media storytelling during COVID-19. Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.2017108
Stamm, J., & Boatwright, B.C. (2021). We love you; we hate you: Fan Twitter responses to top college football recruits’ decisions. International Journal of Sports Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2021-0031.
Cranmer, G. A., Boatwright, B., Mikkilineni, S., & Fontana, J. (2021). Everyone Hates the NCAA: The Role of Identity in the Evaluations of Amateurism Transgressions: A Case Study of the Chase Young’s Loan Scandal. Communication & Sport. https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795211009162
Cho, M., Xiong, Y., & Boatwright, B.C. (2021). Through the lens of ethnicity and nationalism: A semantic network analysis of United Airlines’ dragging crisis. Public Relations Review, 47(1), 102006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2020.102006
Childers, C.C. & Boatwright, B.C. (2020). Are digital natives naive about digital influence? An exploration of generational differences and understanding of social media influencer marketing. Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising. https://doi.org/10.1080/10641734.2020.1830893
Boatwright, B.C., & White, C. (2020). Is privacy dead? Does it matter? How Facebook defines data collection and frames its data policy through public communication. Journal of Public Interest Communications,4(1), 78-101.
Foster, E.A., Park, S., & Boatwright, B.C. (2019). Information Source Preference in Health Crisis: Exploring the Roles of Perceived Risk, Preparedness, Knowledge, and Intent to Follow Directives. Public Relations Review, 44(5), 101794.
Pyle, A.S., Morgoch, M.L., & Boatwright, B.C. (2019). SnowedOut Atlanta: Examining digital emergence on Facebook during a crisis. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 27(4), 414-422.
Linvill, D.L., Boatwright, B.C., Grant, W.J., & Warren, P. (2019). The Russians are Hacking My Brain! Investigating the Strategic Tweeting of Russia’s Internet Research Agency during the 2016 United States Presidential Election. Computers in Human Behavior, 99, 292-300.
Boatwright, B.C., Mazer, J. P., & Beach, S. (2019). The 2016 US Presidential Election and Transition Events: A Social Media Volume and Sentiment Analysis. Southern Communication Journal, 84 (3), 1-14.
Xiong, Y., Cho, M., & Boatwright, B.C. (2019). Hashtag activism and message frames among social movement organizations: Semantic network analysis and thematic analysis of Twitter during the #MeToo movement. Public Relations Review, 45(1), 10-23.
Kent, M. L., & Boatwright, B. C. (2018). Ritualistic sacrifice in crisis communication: A case for eliminating scapegoating from the crisis/apologia lexicon. Public Relations Review, 44(4), 514-522.
Pyle, A., & Boatwright, B.C. (2018). Coming together around hashtags: Exploring the formation of digital emergent citizen groups. Journal of Public Interest Communication, 2(1), 3-17.
Linvill, D. L., Boatwright, B. C., & Grant, W. J. (2018). “Back-stage” dissent: student Twitter use addressing instructor ideology. Communication Education, 67(2), 125-143.
Boatwright, B.C., & Mazer, J.P. (2017). Developing discourse of renewal during campus crisis. Communication Teacher, 31(1), 41-46.
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