Welcome to the Edna Anderson-Taylor
Communication Institute
What We Do
The Edna Anderson-Taylor Communication Institute, housed in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah, serves as a crossroads to bring together scholars, practitioners, and students from across campus, our local community, and well beyond. Together, we think about the role that communication plays in some of society’s most pressing problems—and how we can best work to address them.
Educating the Next Generation
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Living with Hereditary Cancer Risk: Translating Health Communication Research to Support Previvors and Families’ Communication and Decision Making
Previvors—survivors with a predisposition to hereditary cancer who have not been diagnosed with cancer—face chronic uncertainty that shapes their health and family-building decisions.
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“If I get free”: On Black religion, deconstruction, and digital media
In this talk, Dr. Anderson-Horne examines the transformation of Black religious practices within the digital religious deconstruction movement. She discusses how Black content creators and podcasts hosted by or featuring Black guests illustrate the relationship between race, religion, and technology. Black religious deconstruction is not digital by accident, but a demonstration of the ways decolonial and progressive activism must also challenge (religious) technoculture.
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Sound Tactics in the March for our Lives
This talk situates sound as a critical resource in the rhetorical arsenal of contemporary activism. Advancing his theory of “sound tactics,” Justin Eckstein argues that the qualities of immediacy, intensity, and immersion uniquely position sound to compel institutional response. T