 Research Interests
Dr. Cranmer's primary research centers around understanding how groups (i.e., sports teams and traditional organizations) can function more efficiently. He is especially concerned with the organizational processes that encompass individuals' socialization (i.e., adjustment to tasks and roles), the exchange of social and organizational resources, and the fostering of human development.
His secondary interests include the exploration of how media comes to shape audiences' understanding of social classifications, especially race, and external stakeholders' discourse around organizational policies and practices.
Research PublicationsCranmer, G. A., & Posteher, K. (In press). The contradictions surrounding the socialization of Division-I student-athletes. In M. Milford & R. Smith (Eds.), Communication and contradiction in college athletics. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
Cranmer, G. A. (2019). Athletic coaching: A communication perspective. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
Cranmer, G. A., Cassilo, D., Sanderson, J., & Troutman, B. (2019). Social media discourse about Division-I football players’ announcements of early exit: The role of expressed fandom. Communication & Sport. Advance online publication. doi:10.1177/2167479519874804
Fontana, J., Cranmer, G. A., & Sollitto, M. (2019). “Next person up”: Understanding collegiate student-athletes’ socialization experiences with teammate exit. Communication & Sport. Advance online publication. doi:10.1177/2167479519859864
Ash, E., & Cranmer, G. A. (2019). Transcontextual effects of racialized brawn and brain framing: Students’ off the field perceptions of student-athletes. Communication & Sport. Advanced online publication. doi:10.1177/2167479519830621
Cranmer, G. A., Gagnon, R. J., & Mazer, J. P. (2019). A continued application of confirmation theory: Division-I student-athletes’ responses to coach confirmation. Communication & Sport. Advanced online publication. doi:10.1177/2167479518824868
Cranmer, G. A., Goldman, Z. W., & Houghton, J. D. (2019). I’ll do it myself: Self-leadership, proactivity, and socialization. Leadership & Organizational Development Journal, 40, 684-698. doi:10.1108/LODJ-11-2018-0389
Cranmer, G. A., Arnson, E., Moore, A., Scott, A., & Peed, J. (2019). High school athletes’ reports of confirmation as a function of starting status and leader-member exchange. Communication & Sport, 7, 510-528. doi:10.1177/2167479518783838
Cranmer, G. A., Yeargin, R., & Spinda, J. (2019). Life after signing: The recruiting process as a resource of college football players’ socialization (pp. 77-84). In T. L. Rentner & D. P. Burns (Eds.), Case studies in sport communication: You make the call. New York, NY: Routledge.
Sollitto, M., & Cranmer, G. A. (2019). The relationship between aggressive communication traits and organizational assimilation. International Journal of Business Communication, 56, 278-296. doi:10.1177/2329488415613339
Bowman, N. D., & Cranmer, G. A. (2019). Can videogames be a sport? Debating and complicating eSports as physical competitions. In R. Rogers (Ed.), eSports: Understanding the world of competitive video games (pp. 15-30). Lanham, MD: Lexington.
Cranmer, G. A., & Linvill, D. (2019). Call it intuition: Moral foundations theory and understanding political and social disagreement in a contentious society. In T. Avtgis, A. Rancer, E. MacGeorge, & C. Liberman (Eds.), Casing communication theory (pp. 49-64). Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt.
Cranmer, G. A., & Bowman, N. D. (2019). Fight of the century: Parasocial relationships & affective disposition theory. In J. P. Mazer (Ed.), Communication and social media: Case studies in personal and professional relationships (pp. 137-144). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Cranmer, G. A., Buckner, M. M., Pham, N., & Jordan, B. (2018). “I disagree”: An exploration of triggering events, messages, and success of athletes’ dissent. Communication & Sport, 6, 523-546. doi:10.1177/2167479517731334
Cranmer, G. A. (2018). An application of socialization resources theory: Collegiate student-athletes’ team socialization as a function of their social exchanges with coaches and teammates. Communication & Sport, 6, 349-367. doi:10.1177/2167479517714458
Cranmer, G. A., & LaBelle, S. (2018). An application of the disclosure decision-making model to understand high school football players’ disclosures of concussion symptoms. International Journal of Sport Communication, 11, 241-260. doi:10.1123/ijsc.2017-0120
Cranmer, G. A., & Sanderson, J. (2018). “Rough week for testosterone”: Public commentary around the Ivy League’s decision to restrict tackle football in practice. Western Journal of Communication, 82, 631-647. doi:10.1080/10570314.2018.1441431
Cranmer, G. A., Brann, M., & Weber, K. D. (2018). “Challenge me!”: Using confirmation theory to understand coach confirmation as an effective coaching behavior. Communication & Sport, 6, 239-259. doi:10.1177/2167479516684755
Myers, S. A., Cranmer, G. A., Goldman, Z. W., Sollitto, M., Gillen, H., & Ball, H. (2018). The appropriateness, importance, and frequency of seeking information from organizational peers. International Journal of Business Communication, 55, 30-43. doi:10.1177/2329488415573928
Cranmer, G. A., Brann, M., & Weber, K. D. (2017). Quantifying coach confirmation: The development and preliminary validation of the coach confirmation instrument. Communication & Sport, 5, 751-769. doi:10.1177/2167479516660037
Cranmer, G. A., Anzur, C. K., & Sollitto, M. (2017). Memorable messages of social support that former high school athletes received from their head coaches. Communication & Sport, 5, 604-621. doi:10.1177/2167479516641934
Cranmer, G. A. (2017). A communicative approach to sport socialization: The functions of memorable messages during Division-I student-athletes’ socialization. International Journal of Sport Communication, 10, 233-257. doi:10.1123/IJSC.2017-0031
Cranmer, G. A., & Myers, S. A. (2017). Exploring Division-I student-athletes’ memorable messages from their anticipatory socialization. Communication Quarterly, 65, 125-143. doi:10.1080/01463373.2016.1197292
Cranmer, G. A., & Buckner, M. (2017). High school athletes’ relationships with head coaches and teammates as predictors of their expressions of upward and lateral dissent. Communication Studies, 68, 37-55. doi:10.1080/10510974.2016.1254096
Cranmer, G. A., Bowman, N. D., & Goldman, Z. W. (2017). A preliminary study of racialized brawn and brain framing effects. Communication Research Reports, 34, 78-83. doi:10.1080/08824096.2016.1224165
Cranmer, G. A., Goldman, Z. W., & Booth-Butterfield, M. (2017). The mediated relationship between received support and job satisfaction: An initial application of socialization resources theory. Western Journal of Communication, 81, 64-86. doi:10.1080/10570314.2016.1231931
Goldman, Z. W., Cranmer, G. A., Sollitto, M., Labelle, S., & Lancaster, A. L. (2017). What do college students want? A prioritization of instructional behaviors and characteristics. Communication Education, 66, 280-298. doi:10.1080/03634523.2016.1265135
Linvill, D., & Cranmer, G. A. (2017). Students’ perceptions of teacher clarity: The role of cognitive traits. Communication Research Reports, 34, 344-349. doi:10.1080/08824096.2017.1356279
Cranmer, G. A. (2017). One-group pretest-posttest design. In M. Allen (Ed.), Sage encyclopedia of communication research methods (pp. 1124-1126). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Cranmer, G. A. (2017). Level of measurement, ratio. In M. Allen (Ed.), Sage encyclopedia of communication research methods (pp. 949-951). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Cranmer, G. A. (2016). A continuation of sport teams from an organizational perspective: Predictors of athlete-coach leader-member exchange. Communication & Sport, 4, 43-61. doi:10.1177/2167479514542151
Cranmer, G. A., Brann, M., & Anzur, C. K. (2016). Putting coach confirmation theory into practice: How to confirm youth and high school athletes and coach more effectively. Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 29(6), 25-29. doi:10.1080/08924562.2016.1231098
Cranmer, G. A., Lancaster, A. L., & Harris, T. M. (2016). Shot in black and white: Visualized racial framing within ESPN’s The Body Issue. International Journal of Sport Communication, 9, 209-228. doi:10.1123/IJSC.2015-0126
Cranmer, G. A., & Brann, M. (2015). “It makes me feel like I am an important part of this team”: An exploratory study of coach confirmation. International Journal of Sport Communication, 8, 193-211. doi:10.1123/IJSC.2014-0078
Cranmer, G. A., & Myers, S. A. (2015). Sports teams as organizations: A leader-member exchange perspective of player communication with coaches and teammates. Communication & Sport, 3, 100-118. doi:10.1177/2167479513520487
Cranmer, G. A., & Goodboy, A. K. (2015). Power play: Coach power use and athletes’ communicative evaluations and responses. Western Journal of Communication, 79, 614-633. doi:10.1080/10570314.2015.1069389
Cranmer, G. A., & Sollitto, M. (2015). Sport support: Received social support as a predictor of athlete satisfaction. Communication Research Reports, 32, 253-264. doi:10.1080/08824096
Cranmer, G. A., & Harris, T. M. (2015). “White-side, strong-side”: A critical examination of race and leadership in Remember the Titans. Howard Journal of Communications, 26, 153-171. doi:10.1080/10646175.2014.985807
Cranmer, G. A., & Martin, M. M. (2015). An examination of aggression and adaption traits with moral foundations theory. Communication Research Reports, 32, 360-366. doi:10.1080/08824096.2015.1089848
Myers, S. A., Sollitto, M., Cranmer, G. A., Goldman, Z. W., Ball, H., & Gillen, H. G. (2015). “It’s all about getting the job done”: Information acquisition among restaurant workers. Journal of the Speech and Theatre Association of Missouri, 45, 23-35.
Cranmer, G. A., Brann, M., & Bowman, N. D. (2014). Male athletes, female aesthetics: The continued ambivalence toward female athletes in ESPN’s The Body Issue. International Journal of Sport Communication, 7, 145-165. doi:10.1123/IJSC.2014-0021
Cranmer, G. A., Bowman, N. D., Chory, R. M., & Weber, K. D. (2014). Color-blind: Race as an antecedent condition of brawn and brain framing of Heisman finalists in newspaper coverage. Howard Journal of Communications, 25, 171-191.
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Bowman, N. D., & Cranmer, G. A. (2014). Socialmediasport: Theoretical implications for the reified relationship between spectator and performer. In A. C. Billings & M. Hardin (Eds.), Routledge handbook of sport and new media (pp. 213-224). New York, NY: Routledge.
Honors and AwardsJunior Faculty Researcher of the Year Nominee, Clemson Division of Research, Clemson University, 2019
Award for Excellence in Research - Emerging Scholar, College of Behavioral, Social & Health Sciences, Clemson University, 2019
Early Career Research Award, Sports Communication Interest Group, International Communication Association, 2019
1st Associate Dean's recognition of Scholarship in Journal Publications, College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences, Clemson University, 2018
Emerging Scholar Award, Communication & Sport Division, National Communication Association, 2017
Judee K. Burgoon Doctoral Student Research Award, West Virginia University, 2015
Top Papers
NCA, Communication & Sport, 2019
ECA, Applied Communication, 2015, 2017
ECA, Organizational Communication, 2014, 2015
Top 5 Paper Awards
NCA, Communication & Sport, 2017 (x2)
ECA, Instructional Communication, 2014 LinksGoogle Scholar Page
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