Dr. Mary Beth Deline
Assistant Professor
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Office
FEL Fell Hall
Office Hours
Tuesday, 5-6; Thursday 2:15-3:15.
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Biography
I investigate information avoidance, how changes are implemented in organizations and communities, and how resistance to these changes occurs, often in sustainability contexts. This requires intersecting strategic, organizational and environmental communication, using methods ranging from qualitative interviews to surveys to content analyses.
Current Courses
COM 297.004 Communication Research Methods
COM 297.005 Communication Research Methods
COM 358.001 Crisis Communication
COM 274.001 Environmental Communication
COM 400.019 Independent Study
COM 478.001 Seminar In Public Relations Research: Case Studies
Ph D Communication
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Top Five Great Idea for Teaching, PR Division, AEJMC
AEJMC PR Division
2022
AEJMC ComSHER Teaching Award (Honorable Mention)
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk Division
2019
College of Arts and Sciences International Travel Support Award
Illinois State University
2019
Grants and Contracts
I'm Dying to Avoid That: Inequitable Risk, Information Avoidance and Health Communication Campaigns
Mary Beth Deline.
ISU. July 1 2021 - June 30 2022
NFIG
Mary Beth Deline.
ISU. 2019 - 2019
Book, Chapter
Representations of the environment on television, and their effects
James Shanahan, Katherine McComas, Mary Beth Deline.
(2022), Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication, Routledge
Representations of the Environment on Television, and Their Effects
Jim Shanahan, Katherine McComas, Mary Beth Deline.
(2015), 271-279, The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication
Expanding moral messaging climate change research
Mary Beth Deline.
Understanding Pope Francis: Message, media and audience., Lexington Books
Journal Article
Addressing Barriers to Racial Health Disparity Policy Change Advocacy: Exploring White Defensiveness Strategies
Mary Beth Deline, Mary Katreeb, Emily MJ Mason, Laura Rickard, Ertemisa Godinez, Kajsa Dalrymple.
Health Promotion Practice, (2025), doi:10.1177/15248399241311587
Environmental Information Avoidance on a U.S. Campus.
Mary Beth Deline, Laura Rickard, Jared Worwood, Pei Geng, Elisabeth Reed.
Iowa Journal of Communication, 56 (1), (2025)
"Hide Our Heads in the Sand": Environmental Information Avoidance Motives in the United States
Mary Beth Deline, Laura Rickard, Mary Katreeb, Melissa Adams.
Frontiers Communication: Science and Environmental Communication, (2024), doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1468968
The (fish) scales of justice: How perceived fairness influences social license to operate in aquaculture development.
Laura Rickard, Mary Beth Deline, Nathan Smith.
Journal of Risk Research, (2024), https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2024.2315999
Looking Back, Stepping Forward: COVID-19 PR KSA Development and Adaptation Assessment for Post-traumatic Growt
Mary Beth Deline.
Journal of Public Relations Education, 8 (3), (2022)
Planned Risk Information Avoidance: A Proposed Theoretical Model
Mary Beth Deline, Lee Ann Kahlor.
Communication Theory, 29 (3), 360-382, (2019), doi:10.1093/ct/qty035
Framing Resistance: Identifying Frames that Guide Resistance Interpretation at Work
Mary Beth Deline.
Management Communication Quarterly, (2018), doi:10.1177/0893318918793731
Energizing organizational research: Advancing the energy field with group concepts and theories
Mary Beth Deline.
Energy Research and Social Science, 8, 207-221, (2015), http://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2015.06.003
Saving energy at the workplace: The salience of behavioral antecedents and sense of community
Graham N. Dixon, Mary Beth Deline, Katherine McComas, Lauren Chambliss, Michael Hoffmann.
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE, 6, 121-127, (2015), 10.1016/j.erss.2015.01.004
The Use of Comparative Feedback to Influence Workplace Energy Conservation.
Graham Dixon, Mary Beth Deline, Katherine McComas, Lauren Chambliss, Michael Hoffman.
Environment and Behavior, 47 (6), 667-693, (2014), 10.1037/t48058-000
Flint in crisis: Investigating environmental crisis communication response strategies
Mary Beth Deline.
Communication Teacher
Presentations
White Young Adults’ Defensiveness Strategies in Relation to COVID-19 Racial Health Inequities
Mary Beth Deline, Mary Katreeb, Emily Mason, Rickard Laura, Dalrymple Kajsa.
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Philadelphia, PA, August 8, 2024
Environmental information avoidance motives
Mary Beth Deline, Mary Katreeb, Melissa Adams.
The Conference on Communication and the Environment, Online, June 6, 2023
The (fish) scales of justice: How perceived fairness influences social license to operate in aquaculture development
Mary Beth Deline, Laura Rickard, Nathan Smith.
International Communication Association, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 29, 2023
Top Five GIFT winners
Mary Beth Deline.
PR Division of AEJMC, pedagogy pre-conference, Online, August 2, 2022
Truths, Lies, and Compliance with Covid-19 Guidance
Melissa Tully, Kajsa Dalrymple, Mary Beth Deline, Kylah Hedding.
AEJMC, Online, August 5, 2021
White Young Adults’ Motives for COVID-19 Information Avoidance
Mary Beth Deline, Kajsa Dalrymple, MJ Mason.
AEJMC, Online, August 5, 2021
Sticking My Head In the Sand: Motives for Environmental Information Avoidance
Mary Beth Deline, Kajsa Dalrymple, Jared Worwood, Pei Geng, Elisabeth Reed.
International Communication Association, Online, May 27, 2021
Resistance Drivers
Mary Beth Deline, Pei Geng.
National Communication Association, Online, November 19, 2020
Teaching about Politics and the Environment
Mary Beth Deline.
AEJMC, Online, August 7, 2020
ComSHER Teaching Awards Panel
Mary Beth Deline.
AEJMC, Toronto, August 7, 2019
Framing Efficacy Upstream and Downstream: Examining Efficacy Media Frames in Relation to Distributed Water Pollution Risks
Mary Beth Deline, Kajsa Dalrymple.
The 2019 Conference on Communication and Environment, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 18, 2019