Current Projects in the HMC Lab
Current work:
Lab director, Dr. Cameron Piercy, is currently co-editing with Dr. Alaina Zanin (Arizona State) a book called Teaming with Machines, under contract with Wiley-Blackwell.
At weekly lab meetings, members are working on extending Social Exchange Theory to Sociotechnical Exchange Theory. Find our initial theorizing here: https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.10.3
KU Emerging Scholars, KU COMS PhD students, and Lab directors are working on several projects advancing communication theory applications in HMC. If you are interested in joining, email Lab Director, Dr. Cameron Piercy (cpiercy@ku.edu).
Check out our existing publications here:
Publications
- Carr, C. T., Hayes, R. A., & Piercy, C. W. (2023). “Posts are my own”: Effects of Social Media Disclaimers on Perceptions of Employees and Their Organizations from Tweets and Retweets.Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 28(5), 724 - 743 https://doi.org/10.1108/CCIJ-06-2022-0058
- Yoon, K., Piercy, C. W.,Kim, Y. G., & Zhu, Y., (2023). Boundary work and transactive memory systems in teams: Moderating effects of the visibility affordance.Management Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/08933189231192078
- Piercy, C. W.,Bisel, R. S., & Treem, J. W. (2022). Agency in computer-mediated communication: Bots and U.S. political elections. In J. H. Lipschultz, K. Freberg, & R. Luttrell (Eds.) The Emerging Media Handbook of Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media, (pp. 549-559). Emerald.
- Piercy, C. W., & Gist-Mackey, A. N. (2021). Automation anxieties: Perceptions about technological automation and the future of pharmacy work. Human-Machine Communication, 2, 191-208. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.2.10
- Lee, S. K., Kavya, P., & Lasser, S. (2021). Social Interactions and Relationships with an Intelligent Virtual Agent. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 150, 102608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2021.102608
- Piercy, C. W., & Carr, C. T. (2020). The structuration of identification on organizational members’ social media.International Journal of Business Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329488420955215
- Piercy, C. W.,& Underhill, G. R. (2020). Expectations of technology use during meetings: An experimental test of manager policy, device-use, and task-acknowledgement. Mobile Media & Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050157920927049
- Piercy, C. W., & Carr, C. T. (2020). Employer reviews may say as much about the employee as they do the employer: Online disclosures, organizational attachments, and unethical behavior. Journal of Applied Communication Research. 48, 577-597.https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2020.1812692
- Lee, S. K., Kramer, M. W., & Guo, Y. (2019). Social media affordances in entry‐level employees’ socialization: employee agency in the management of their professional impressions and vulnerability during early stages of socialization. New Technology, Work and Employment, 34(3), 244-261. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12147
- Kramer, M. W., Lee, S. K., & Guo, Y. (2019). Using communication technology to manage uncertainty during organizational assimilation: Information-seeking and information-giving. Western Journal of Communication, 83(3), 304-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2018.1518538
- Lee, S. K., & Flores, M. L. (2019). Immigrant workers’ organizational temporality: Association with cultural time orientation, acculturation, and mobile technology use. Management Communication Quarterly, 33(2), 189-218. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318918821727
- Zhu, Y. & Piercy, C.W. (2024) Impact of online patient reviews: Three choice-based conjoint experiments of hospital and physician ratings. Journal of Communication Technology, 6(1), 1- 23. DOI: 10.51548/joctec.6.1.2024.01
- Zhang, X., Lee, S. K., Kim, W., & Hahn, S. (2023). “Sorry, it was my fault”: Repairing trust in human-robot interactions. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 175, 103031. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2023.103031
- Piercy, C. W., & Lee, S. K. (2020). Reconsidering ties: The sociotechnical job search network.International Journal of Business Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329488420965680
- Piercy, C. W., & Zhu, Y. (2020). Transactive memory and the job search: Finding expertise and influence in socio-technical networks. Western Journal of Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2020.1761994
- Piercy, C. W., & Lee, S. K. (2019). A typology of job search sources: Exploring the changing nature of job search behavior.New Media & Society, 21, 1173 -1191.https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818808071
- Lee, S. K., & Katz, J. E. (2015). Bounded solidarity confirmed? How Korean immigrants' mobile communication configures their social networks. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 20(6), 615-631. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcc4.12142
- Zhang, X. and Lee, S.K. (2024), “Sorry, I Don’t Understand …”: effects of task type, personality presentation and performance error on user trust of a personal digital assistant, Information Technology & People, 37 (8),154-174. https://doi.org/10.1108/ITP-01-2022-0058
- Lee, S. K., Park, H., & Kim, S. Y. (2024). Gender and task effects of human–machine communication on trusting a Korean intelligent virtual assistant. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2024.2306136
- Zhang, X., Lee, S. K., Maeng, H., & Hahn, S. (2023). Effects of failure types on trust repairs in human–robot interactions. International Journal of Social Robotics, 15(9), 1619-1635. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-01059-0
- Lee, S. K., & Sun, J. (2023). Testing a theoretical model of trust in human-machine communication: emotional experience and social presence. Behaviour & Information Technology, 42(16), 2754-2767. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2022.2145998
- Zhang, Y. B., Harwood, J., Piercy, C. W., Liu, N., & Ruble, R. (2023). Accommodation, social Attraction, and intergroup attitudes on social media: The effects of outgroup self-presentation and ingroup accommodation. Language Sciences, 99, 101563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2023.101563
- Zhang, X., Piercy, C. W., & Lee, S. K.(2023). A test of mobile phone appropriation model: a comparison between Chinese and US samples. Asian Communication Research, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.20879/acr.2023.20.012
- Lee, S. K., Kavya, P., & Lasser, S. C. (2021). Social interactions and relationships with an intelligent virtual agent. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 150, 102608.
- Bostwick, E. N., Liao, D., & Lee, S. K. (2019). Could I be pregnant? A study of online adolescent pregnancy forums for social support. First Monday. https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/9950/8069