Diana Zulli, Ph.D.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (*indicates the coauthor was a graduate or undergraduate student when the research was conducted; **indicates the paper was the lead research article)

 

15. Mann, M., Zulli, D. (co-first author), Foote, J., *Ku, E., & *Primm, E. (2023). Unsorted significance: Examining potential pathways to extreme beliefs and communities on Reddit. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231174823

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14. Gehl, R., & Zulli, D. (2022). The digital covenant: Non-centralized platform governance on the Mastodon social network. Information, Communication, and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2147400

 

13. Zulli, D., Coe, K., & *Isaacs, Z. (2022). News framing in the aftermath of the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol: An analysis of labels, definitional uncertainty, and contextualization. American Behavioral Scientist. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642221096333

 

12. Zulli, D., & McKasy, M. (2022). Credibility as a differentiation and relational strategy: The case of CNN’s unprecedented Democratic climate crisis town hall forum. International Journal of Communication, 16(2022). 909-927. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/18668/3681  

 

11. Zulli, D., & Towner, T. (2021). The effects of “live,” authentic, and emotional Instagram images on congressional candidate evaluations. Social Media + Society, 7(4). 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211062917

 

10. McKasy, M., & Zulli, D. (2021). Political issues management: Framing the issue of climate change. International Journal of Communication, 15(2021). 4956-4975. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/16977/3602

 

9. Zulli, D., Coe, K., *Isaacs, Z., & Summers, I. (2021). Media coverage of the unfolding crisis of domestic terrorism in the USA, 1990-2020. Public Relations Inquiry, 10(3). 357-375. https://doi.org/10.1177/2046147X21996015

 

8. Zulli, D., & *Zulli, D. J. (2020). Extending the internet meme: Conceptualizing technological mimesis and imitation publics on the TikTok platform. New Media & Society, 24(8), 1872-1890. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820983603  

 

7. Zulli, D. (2020). Political scandals in the modern media environment: Applying a new analytical framework to Hillary Clinton’s Whitewater and e-mail scandals. International Journal of Communication, 14(2020). 5218-5236. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/14397/3244

 

6. Zulli, D., & McKasy, M. (2020). Political equivocation in a less-adversarial campaign context. Communication Research Reports, 37(4). 202-2011. https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2020.1811659

 

5. Zulli, D. (2020). Socio-mediated scandals: Theorizing political scandals in a digital media environment. Communication Theory, 31(4). 862-883. https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtaa014

 

4. Zulli, D., Liu, M., & Gehl, R. W. (2020). Rethinking the ‘social’ in ‘social media’: Insights into topology, abstraction, and scale on the Mastodon social network. New Media & Society, 22(7). 1188-1205. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820912533

 

3. Zulli, D. (2020). Evaluating hashtag activism: Examining the challenges and opportunities of #BlackLivesMatter. Participations: Journal for Audience Reception Studies, 17(1). 197-216. https://www.participations.org/17-01-12-zulli.pdf

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2. Zulli, D. (2019). The changing norms of gendered news coverage: Hillary Clinton in The New York Times, 1969-2016. Politics & Gender, 15(3). 599-621. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X18000466

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1. **Zulli, D. (2018). Capitalizing on the look: Insights into the glance, attention economy, and Instagram. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 35(2). 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2017.1394582

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Book Chapters

 

4. Zulli, D., & Coe, K. (2021). Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and the construction of crisis in campaign 2020. In R. Denton (Ed.), Studies of communication in the 2020 campaign (pp. 37-62). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

 

3. Zulli, D. (2021). Constructing gender, race, marital status, and sexual orientation as “presidential”: The case of Instagram and the 2020 nomination campaign. In J. Baumgartner & T. Towner (Eds.), The internet and the 2020 campaign (pp. 119-144). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. [peer reviewed]

 

2. Zulli, D. (2019). Towards a conception of the “mythic presidency:” Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and the visual politics of gender on Instagram. In L. L. Montalbano (Ed.), Gender, race, and social identity in American politics (pp. 193-213). (pp. 193-213). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

 

1. Zulli, D. (2019). Conflict and coping in high-stress careers: Spousal communication during wartime deployments. In S. Symonds LeBlanc (Ed.), Casing the family: Theoretical and applied approaches to understanding family communication (pp. 53-62). Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing.

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Invited Popular Press Publications

 

1. Zulli, D. (2020). Tweets, memes, and snaps: The way to the White House. Spectra: The Magazine of the National Communication Association, 56(1), 14-19.

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