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Leslie Ramos Salazar (PhD, Arizona State University) is an Associate and Abdullat Professor of Business Communication and Decision Management at the Paul and Virginia College of Business at West Texas A&M University. Her teaching areas include current issues in management communication such as leadership communication and risk communication management, health care communication, business communication for health care managers, business communication, cross-cultural issues in business communication, and statistics for business and economics. Her research specializes in health communication, business communication, conflict management, and interpersonal communication. Her publications appear in Health Communication, Communication Teacher, Communication Quarterly, Communication Studies, and Business and Professional Communication Quarterly. She also serves on the editorial board of Communication Research Reports, Western Journal of Communication, and Com- munication Reports. She also serves as the Program Chair of the Southwestern Association of Business Communication.

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Wilfredo Alvarez is a teacher-scholar interested in relationships between communication, power, and social identity (e.g., race, social class, immigration status). Specifically, he is interested in how micro (personal relationships), meso (groups and organizations) and macro-level (popular culture) communication practices (e.g., pervasive discourses of race) are deployed institutionally to create, maintain, and challenge systems of oppression, discrimination and social inequality in U.S. society. He primarily teaches courses in intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, organizational communication, communication theory, conflict communication, and leadership communication.

Genelle I. Belmas, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications at the University of Kansas. She teaches media law, media ethics, communications technology, and gamification. Her research primarily focuses on media law and ethics. Her work has appeared in Yale Journal of Online Law and Technology, Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal, Federal Communications Law Journal, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, and Communications Law and Policy, among others, and has been cited by several appellate courts. She is the lead co-author of a media law textbook, Major Principles of Media Law (Cengage) and has also been the recipient of several research and teaching external grants. She has a B.A. in journalism and political science from the University of Wisconsin, an M.A. in political science from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota.

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Utku Beyazıt was borned in Ankara. He finished primary school in Ulubatlı Hasan Primary School, secondary and high school in İzmir Bornova Anatolian High School. He got fraduated from Near East Univeristy Psychology Department in 2007. In 2009, he finished his thesis entitled as “The Turkish Translation, Reliability and The Validity Study of Hypergender Ideology Scale” and got graduated from the Clinical (Applied) Psychology Master Program of Institute of Social Sciences of Near East University. In 2012, he entered Child Development Ph.D Program in Ankara University. He finished his dissertation entitled as “The Effectiveness of Education Programs for Mothers for the Prevention of Child Neglect” and got graduated in 2017. He is recently an Asssistant Professor in Akdeniz Uuniversity, Kumluca Health Sciences Faculty, Child Development Department. His studies are mainly on child maltreatment, peer bullying and early childhood development.

Aynur Bütün Ayhan was born in Eskişehir. She attended primary, secondary and high schools in Bandırma. She got graduated from Gazi University, Child Development and Preschool Teaching Depart- ment in 1995. She had her masters degree in 1998 and Ph.D. degree in 2005 in Ankara University Child Development and Education Department. She worked as a teacher Cebeci Vocational School For Girls between 1995 and 1999. Between 2001 and 2008, she worked as a research assistant in Ankara University, School of Home Economics, Department of Child Development and Education. She became an Associate Professor in 2008 and Professor in 2014. She continues to work in Ankara University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Child Development. She has many published national and international articles, books, book chapters and editorship. Her studies are mostly about child development, early childhood education, the education of sick and hospitalised children and computer assisted teaching.

Yvette Castillo (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor of Counselor Education at West Texas A&M University and was the first Helen Piehl Professor of Education from the College of Education and Social Sciences. She is the chair of the counselor education mental health graduate program of study and her teaching areas include cross-cultural counseling, human growth and development, psychopharmacology, and counseling techniques with children and adolescents to list a few. Castillo’s research interests involve social justice advocacy, servant leadership development, and issues of chronic illness, mental health stigma, and infertility within couples.

Premilla D’Cruz is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. Her research interests include workplace bullying, emotions at work, self and identity at work, and technology and work. Premilla is Chief Co-Editor of the forthcoming Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment (Volumes 1-4, Springer). Premilla has been a visiting researcher at numerous European and Australian universities including Strathclyde, Portsmouth, Bergen, Rotterdam School of Management, Amsterdam, Edith Cowan and Western Australia. She has been President of the International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment (IAWBH) between 2016-2018, having earlier served as Secretary (2010-2016) and Special Interest Groups Coordinator (2008-2010). She is currently the section editor of Labour Relations and Business Ethics at the Journal of Business Ethics (an FT50 journal).

Elsa Diego-Medrano, Ph.D., is a professor in the College of Education and Social Sciences at West Texas A & M University in Canyon, Texas. Dr. Diego-Medrano teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in reading, early childhood, and bilingual education. Prior to teaching in higher education, Dr.

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Diego-Medrano taught in the public school system for 16 years as a bilingual teacher and was also a former Reading Recovery teacher. Dr. Diego-Medrano’s research interests include comprehension, bilingual education, and experiential learning for education candidates. Dr. Diego-Medrano is an active member and leader within several community and professional organization.

Ashley N. Doane earned her Ph.D. in Applied Experimental Psychology from Old Dominion Uni- versity in 2011. She is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Chowan University, Murfreesboro, North Carolina, US. Her primary research interests include predictors of cyberbullying victimization and perpetration, the role of cyberbullying bystanders, and cyberbullying prevention/intervention.

Mohammad Faisal is an Assistant Professor and Head in the Department of Computer Application at Integral University, Lucknow, India. He has more than 15 years of teaching & research experience. His areas of interest are Software Engineering, Requirement Volatility, Distributed Operating System, Cyber Security, and Mobile Computing. He is co-author in the book “Requirement Risk Management: A Practioner’s Approach” published by Lambert Academic Publication, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-659- 15494-2. He has published quality research papers in Journals, National and International Conferences of repute. He is contributing his knowledge and experience as member of Editorial Board/Advisory committee and TPC in various international Journals/Conferences of repute. Dr. Mohammad Faisal is an active member of various professional bodies IAENG, CSTA, ISOC-USA, EASST, HPC, ISTE, IAENG, and UACEE.

Isabel Fernández-Felipe has a degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in General Health Psy- chology. PhD student with a Predoctoral contract from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (FPU - University Teacher Training) and collaborator of the research group that belongs to the Labora- tory of Psychology and Technology (LabPsiTec) of the Universitat Jaume I.

Nancy Garcia serves as a faculty member in the Department of Communication at West Texas A&M University. She teaches international journalism, multimedia journalism, feature writing, new media, introduction to media communication, and quantitative research methods. Dr. Garcia’s research interests include the retention and transference of tacit knowledge in organizations, knowledge management, media literacy through service learning, and issues in news consumption in different communities.

Stephanie L. Gomez (Ph.D., University of Utah) is an Assistant Professor of Critical Media Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at Western Washington University. Her research focuses on the ways that race/ethnicity and their intersections with other identities are represented in popular media, including television and social media. In a recent book chapter, she analyzed the ways that race/ ethnicity are rhetorically articulated through popular cooking shows on the Food Network. Other recent research illustrates how Twitter has been used to support white supremacist discourse through support for President Trump’s travel bans.

Martina Hartner-Tiefenthaler is work and organization psychologist and currently acts as a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Management Science (Department Labor Science and Organization) at the Vienna University of Technology. Her research area is about new ways of working and the coordination

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in flexible work teams. She is particularly interested in team communication processes and how they can be shaped to provide a healthy work space.

Ezgi Ildırım, PhD, is a PhD Lecturer at Beykoz University, Psychology Department. Investigative interview, suggestibility, cyberbullying are main research areas.

Rhiannon B. Kallis (PhD, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2017) is an Assistant Professor of Social Media in the School of Communication at The University of Akron. Her research focuses on the impact of social media use on romantic relationships. She has co-authored articles published in the Journal of Communications Media and The Qualitative Report.

C. Karthikeyan Principal, TIMS, Bengaluru, and Alumnus of IIM-A., with 25 yrs of experience in HRM Industry and Academia is a Ph.D(HR)., triple masters in Management Programme from Re- puted Universities, and Institutions with M.B.A in (Human Resource Management and International Marketing).,M.B.A., in (Education Management)., M.B.A (International Business)., besides 4 other Masters in M.Sc (App Psy)., M.S.,(Psychotherapy)., M.Com., and Post Graduate Diploma in Guidance and Counselling PG.DGC besides being a pioneer in formation of HRIS team in the government sector. He has authored around 130 research articles realated to HR, Social Psychology and Organizational Behavior, with 13 books completed and another 6 books to be released shortly. An avid researcher on the areas of social sciences, and is an expert in the area of Personal Profile Analysis as certified by Thomas UK. He volunteers for many social causes and educates professionals and students on the same. Key note speaker for many national and international conferences, and is now convening couple of international conferences in the form of webinars, where in people from vagaries of professions across the world participates. He is passionate about the areas of social development and human resources development. He connects his majority of writing towards human development, and connects globally the industry academia platforms with his writing, since he is a leading strategist in Education too. He is now initiating series of webinars to bring in avid Industry Professionals of all the ranks especially the CEOs and VPs of various industrial belts to manifest their research skills to contribute effectively to decision making. He is active members in various editorial boards, research boards of universities and now currently passionate strategies to improvise skills in the Industrial go-getters towards improving their research capabilities so that the industrial stalwarts from all sectors can improve their research skill in the era of AI and Big Data. He had trained around 90 CEOs in Kerala on research which comprised of 3 batches.

Priyanka Khandelwal (PhD, Texas Tech University) is a visiting assistant professor of Business Communication and Marketing at the Paul and Virginia Engler College of Business, West Texas A&M University. She has always been intrigued by social media and the ways in which it can be used not only as a subject of research but also as a tool for conducting research in health communication and admin- istration, social media marketing, identity construction, and decision sciences.

Robin Kowalski is a Centennial professor of psychology at Clemson University. She obtained her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research interests focus primarily on aversive interpersonal behaviors, most notably complaining, teasing and bullying, with a particular focus on cyberbullying. She was named by Princeton Review as one of the best 300 professors in the nation, and was selected as a finalist for the 2013 and 2014 South Carolina Governor’s

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Professor of the Year Awards. She was also named a Trevillian Professor by the Clemson University College of Business and Behavioral Science.

Geoffrey Luurs (Ph.D., North Carolina State University) is an interpersonal communication scholar who studies the intersections of taboo and health. His primary research topics include bullying/cyberbullying and community health outcomes.

Jose Heliodoro Marco, Ph.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychology at University of Valencia (Spain). His main area of research are the assessment and treatment of people with Eating Disorders and Border- line Personality Disorders. He is a researcher in the research group LabPsiTec.

Maryl McGinley received her Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetorical Studies from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. She studied under Dr. Janie Harden Fritz and Dr. Ronald Arnett. She is now a professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.

Andrea L. Meluch (PhD, Kent State University, 2016) is an Assistant Professor of Business and Organizational Communication in the School of Communication and Department of Management at The University of Akron. Her research focuses on the intersections of health, organizational, and instructional communication. Specifically, she is interested in issues of organizational culture, mental health, and social support. She has published in Communication Education, Southern Communication Journal, Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare, Journal of Communication in Healthcare, and the Journal of Communication Pedagogy. She has also authored/co-authored more than a dozen book chapters and encyclopedia entries.

Avina Mendonca is Assistant Professor, Organizational Behaviour, IIM Nagpur. She completed her doctoral degree in Organizational Behaviour from IIM Ahmedabad. Avina’s research interests include dirty work, identity, service work and workplace bullying. She has co-edited Indian Perspectives on Workplace Bullying: A Decade of Insights (Springer, 2018) and co-authored a chapter on workplace bullying in the context of dirty work in Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Ha- rassment (Springer, 2019).

Jess Block Nerren, MA, is a full-time faculty member at California State University, San Bernardino, where she is also an Ed.D. candidate. With a 17-year public relations track record of professionally serving employment law firms and HR administrators among many longtime professional clients, the topic of online behavior is extremely relevant and discussed frequently in her work, in order to protect employees and businesses from offline consequences of online harassment. Her research has included online trolling and audience behavior, anonymous commenting and behavior changes, spiral of silence theory in juvenile crime diversion, and media literacy solutions in peer to peer contact.

Ernesto Noronha is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. His research interests include technology and work, labour relations and globaliza- tion, diversity at work, and workplace bullying. Ernesto is Chief Co-Editor of the forthcoming Hand- books of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment (Volumes 1-4, Springer). Ernesto has been a visiting professor at the Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) School, Cornell University, and at

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the Institute for Sociology, University of Vienna, in addition to being a visiting researcher at numerous European and Australian universities. He is currently a board member of the RC30 Sociology of Work group at the International Sociological Association (ISA) and the section editor of Labour Relations and Business Ethics at the Journal of Business Ethics (an FT50 journal).

Tracey Owens Patton is Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism, adjunct Professor in African American & Diaspora Studies in the School of Culture, Gen- der, and Social Justice, and affiliate faculty in the Creative Writing MFA Program in the Department of Visual and Literary Arts at The University of Wyoming. She also served as the Director of the African American & Diaspora Studies Program from 2009-2017 at the University of Wyoming. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Utah. Her area of specialization is critical cultural communication, critical media studies, rhetorical studies, and transnational studies. She has authored a number of academic articles on topics involving the interdependence between race, gender, and power and how these issues interrelate culturally and rhetorically in education, media, memory, myth, and speeches. Dr. Patton presents her research at academic conferences, has published a co-authored book titled, Gender, Whiteness, and Power in Rodeo: Breaking Away from the Ties of Sexism and Racism (2012), and is working on a second book involving race, memory, rejection, and World War II.

Soledad Quero is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain) and director of Master in General Health Psychology. Her main research is the adaptation and validation of CBT programs for different emotional disorders and the application of Communication and Information Technologies to improve psychological treatment.

Sabrina Ricks is the president of SBR Workplace Consultation Services which specializes in training and developing policies and procedures in organizations against harassment and bullying. She is a member of the Prince William County Chamber of Commerce where she serves as an ambassador. She is also a volunteer for the Occoquan-Woodbridge-Lorton Volunteer Fire Department where she serves as the election officer and an instructor for various courses. She also serves on the new member committee helping to orient new members to the Department. She has served as an emergency medical technician and ambulance driver. Although, she no longer runs operationally, she still holds her EMT certification. Dr. Ricks is an adjunct professor at Northern Virginia Community College where she instructs in the business and student development departments. She is also an adjunct professor at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology where she instructs in the international psychology department. Finally, her work is never done as she is a wife and stepmother to three bubbly teenagers and adults.

Chelsea Robbins is a Doctorate student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Clemson Uni- versity. Her research interests center around gender differences in the workplace, with a specific focus on intersectionality among ethnic and sexual minorities as well as the impact of inclusive workplace culture on employees. Chelsea is originally from West Palm Beach Florida, but currently enjoys living in the city of Clemson.

Melody Lee Rood is an Assistant Professor and Student Success Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she serves as a liaison to the International and Global Studies Program, the Library and Information Science Program, as well as the library’s Open Educational Resources Initia-

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tives. She received her MLS from North Carolina Central University. Her research interests include the academic success of non-traditional students, open education and open pedagogy, and equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Harrison M. Rosenthal is a joint Juris Doctor and Doctor of Philosophy student at the University of Kansas School of Law and the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. He teaches communications law, media ethics, information gathering, and principles of gamification. In addition to First Amendment jurisprudence, Rosenthal researches new media content regulation and attorney well-being. Rosenthal serves on the Kansas Supreme Court’s Taskforce for Lawyer Well-Being. In that role, he created a wellness survey that will be distributed across the state to help collect information and further the mission of well-being in the bar. He also serves as Graduate Student Liaison to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Law & Policy Division. He has clerked for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, the Seventh and Tenth Judicial Districts of Kansas, and the Kansas Court of Appeals.

Halima Sadia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Integral University, Lucknow, India. She has 14 years of teaching and research experience. She is also pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from Abdul Kalam Technical University (A Central University), Lucknow, India. Her research interests include Software Engineering, Cyber Secu- rity, Machine Learning, Blockchain and DBMS. She has published research articles in various reputed Journals, National and International Conferences. She has authored a book Titled “Requirement Risk Management: A Practioner’s Approach” published by Lambert Academic Publication, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-659-15494-2. She is contributing her knowledge and experience as member of Editorial Board and Advisory committee and TPC in various international Journals/Conferences of repute. She is an active member of different professional bodies including ISTE, IAENG, UACEE, CSTA, ISOC-USA, EASST, HPC-Houston.

Jennifer A. Scarduzio, Ph.D. (Arizona State University), is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky. Her research examines the dark side of organizational and interpersonal communication including sexual harassment, the dark side of emotion and identity at work, the dark side of health and wellness at work, and intimate partner violence.

John Schriner holds a Master of Library Science from North Carolina Central University and a Master of Science in Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. He writes and presents his research in areas that include anonymity networks, dark web research, sociolinguistics, and computational linguistics. He is currently the Web Services Librarian and an Assistant Professor at Queensborough Community College (CUNY) with liaison work to the Criminal Justice and Education departments.

Kevin Shufford is a doctoral student and graduate teaching associate in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. His research focuses primarily on romantic rela- tionship functioning and how computer-mediated communication (e.g., social media, texting) impacts said relationships.

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Julie Snyder-Yuly is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and an affiliated faculty with the Women and Gender Studies and Digital Humanities Programs at Marshall University. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Utah. Her areas of specialization are social media, critical cultural communication, leadership studies, and qualitative methods. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, race, and class. She recently co-authored an article on women and writing groups and is currently working on a project examining pedagogical practices in the basic communication course.

Christina S. Walker (J.D., University of Kentucky) is a licensed attorney and doctoral (Ph.D.) student in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Kentucky. Her work focuses on pertinent issues at the intersection of communication, law, and culture.

Adam Weiss worked as an elementary bilingual teacher and an adult ESL instructor for nine years. After receiving his Doctorate of Education degree (Ed.D.) from Vanderbilt University, Dr. Weiss joined the faculty of education at West Texas A&M University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses related to bilingual and ESL education, multicultural education, multicultural literacy, and educational pedagogy. His research interests prove diverse, focusing on topics such as the implementation of ESL programs, educational policy, and multicultural literature in K-12 classrooms.

Sonali Yadav is a Research professional and Faculty member with seven years of teaching and research experience. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Integral University, Lucknow. She has done her M.Tech. in Computer Science (spl: Cloud Computing) from Banasthali Vidyapeeth (Rajasthan), India, which is among the premier research Institutes of India. Her areas of interest are Cloud Computing, Cyber Forensics, Data Sciences. She has authored and published many research papers and book chapter in journal of repute. She is also contributing her knowledge and experience as a member of Editorial Board and TPC in various international Journals/Conferences of repute. She has also qualified the prestigious GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) in 2010.

Jillian Yarbrough obtained her BS in education from Texas Christian University and he MS, PhD and MBA from Texas A&M University. She has worked as an Operations Manager, a Business Analyst and a Management Consultant. She is current a Clinical Professor of Management with West Texas A&M University.

Yeşim Yurdakul graduated from Faculty of Education, Pre-school Education Department, Adnan Menderes University in 2009. She began working as a pre-school teacher in Antalya, in 2009 and has been working in Antalya since then. In 2015, she completed her master’s degree at Akdeniz University, Preschool Education Department. She is currently a doctoral student in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Child Development Department, Ankara University, Turkey. She has studies on cyberbullying behaviors and cyberbullying prevention programs in adolescence.

Eva Zedlacher is Assistant Professor of Management at Webster Vienna Private University. Her research interests include workplace (cyber)bullying, gender and organizational culture. Before she returned to Academia, Eva Zedlacher worked in the field of organizational development for two large companies. Her current research focus is third parties’ perspectives and intervention in cyberbullying at work.

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