My research interests include critical security studies, organizational culture, communication technology, and qualitative research methods. My mission is to help scholarly, professional, and public audiences better appreciate the role of communication in conceptualizing and practicing 'security.' Specifically, my work focuses on how political, military, and scientific groups debate competing images and narratives of 'security,' as they create, administer, and revise related policies, programs, and operations. This work considers how democratic interaction within and between security elites and publics may contribute to the development of more accurate, just, and successful security narratives. I am currently completing on a book project involving the role of simulation, imitation, and mutual adaptation (i.e., mimesis) in post-9/11 U.S. media culture.
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communication theory, critical-cultural studies, qualitative research methods, nuclear weapons, national security, critical security studies, mimesis
