Yidi Wang Earns 2025 National Communication Association Graduate Student Mentorship Award
2025-09-19
Yidi Wang Earns 2025 National Communication Association Graduate Student Mentorship Award
Veronica Wilson Wins 2025 National Communication Association Graduate Student Services Award
2025-09-19
Veronica Wilson Wins 2025 National Communication Association Graduate Student Services Award
Walid Afifi Honored With the 2025 National Communication Association South West Asian/North African, Middle East Caucus Service Award
2025-09-19
Walid Afifi Honored With the 2025 National Communication Association South West Asian/North African, Middle East Caucus Service Award
Walid Afifi Designated as a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar
2025-09-19
Walid Afifi Designated as a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar
This award recognizes a lifetime of scholarly achievement in human communication for a member of the National Communication Association. Only about four scholars in the 7,000 membership of NCA receive this each year.
Shawn Hill Honored with 2025 Student Paper Award from the American Society of Criminology
2025-09-19
Shawn Hill Honored with 2025 Student Paper Award from the American Society of Criminology. His paper is titled “Does Humanizing the Police Improve the Effectiveness of Police Recruiting Efforts?”
Kyungin Kim Wins NCA Master’s Thesis Award
2025-09-17
Kyungin Kim won the 2025 National Communication Association’s Interpersonal Communication Division Outstanding Thesis Award for her thesis titled: "Undocumented College Students’ Career-Related Communication with Their Parents and the Ecological Vocational Anticipatory Socialization Model".
Casey Randazzo
Assistant Professor
Casey Randazzo investigates how communities use digital platforms and artificial intelligence, such as large language models, to organize collective action. Her research focuses on Human-AI organizing, examining how interactions between humans and AI agents influence disaster response and recovery.
Bio
Casey Randazzo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at UC Santa Barbara. Her research investigates how humans organize using communication technologies, with a focus on disaster recovery and response. She examines the roles of humans, AI agents, and discourse in shaping how information flows, tensions are managed, and communities mobilize. Dr. Randazzo draws on computational and qualitative methods, including network analysis, experimental simulations such as generative agent-based modeling, and thematic discourse analysis. Her research program demonstrates how communication processes and emerging technologies influence organizing during times of disruption.
Dr. Randazzo has published in leading journals and proceedings and has presented her work at research conferences spanning communication, computer-human interaction, and social networks. Her scholarship has been recognized with honors, including the 2024 Top Paper Award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association. At UCSB, Dr. Randazzo teaches courses on organizational communication, technology, and social networks.
Education
Ph.D. (2025), Rutgers University, Department of Communication
Master’s (2021), Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information
B.S. (2013), Cornell University, Department of Communication
Coursework toward B.S., Raritan Valley Community College, Department of Communication
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Research Area(s)
Yidi Wang Wins a Top Student Paper Award at National Communication Association Conference
2025-08-05
Yidi Wang’s paper is “Mapping the Neural Mechanisms of Persuasive Health Messaging: A Narrative Review of fMRI Applications, Methods, and Challenges,” A top student papers in the Communication and Social Cognition Division of NCA.
Hannah Overbye-Thompson, Kristy Hamilton, and Jacob Fisher Win a Top Student Paper Award at National Communication Association Conference
2025-08-05
Hannah Overbye-Thompson, Kristy Hamilton, and Jacob Fisher’s paper is “Understanding Human Detection of Algorithmic Bias Through Drift-Diffusion Modeling,” A top student paper in the Communication and Social Cognition Division of NCA.
Andy Merolla, Andreas Neubauer, Qing Huang, Jeffery A. Hall Win a Top Paper Award at National Communication Association Conference
2025-08-05
Andy Merolla, Andreas Neubauer, Qing Huang, and Jeffery A. Hall’s paper is “The Complicated Interpersonal Consequences of Worry: Effects on Social Interaction Depend on Where (and When) You Look,” A top paper in the Interpersonal Communication Division of NCA.