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Article by Ava Villalobos, Alyssa Heinlein, Brittany Montiel, and Nevaeh San Luis
ABOUT DR. ERICA AUSTIN – BACKGROUND AND INSPIRATION
Our team interviewed Dr. Erica Austin from Washington State University. She obtained her PhD in Communications from Stanford University, and she currently works as the Director of the Murrow Center for Media and Health Promotion Research at Washington State. We contacted Dr. Austin to discuss her study, “An Exploration of the Associations of Alcohol-Related Social Media Use and Message Interpretation Outcomes to Problem Drinking Among College Students.”
The Society for Communications Research 