Student Information
Graduate Student
Communication
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Long Bio
LD Mattson is working as a research assistant after completing a Ph.D. in Communication and a graduate certificate in Sustainability.
LD studies risk and organizational communication in public health contexts. His research investigates the ways trust in governance organizations impacts opportunities for climate resilience and science communication. His work can be found in academic journals such as Environmental Humanities, Journal of Applied Communication, and Social Sciences.
LD's work has been recognized with top paper awards from the National Communication Association and Western States Communication Associations, as well as with the Outstanding Doctoral Student Research and Creative Activities Award from the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication.
Publications
- Roberto, A. J., Mattson, L. D., Von Feldt, P., & Zhou, X. (2023). “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”: Predicting college students’ voting behavior using the extended parallel process model. Social Sciences, 12(11), 628.
- Steiner, E., Mattson, L. D., Strauss, R., & Corman, S. R. (forthcoming). A worldview approach to the difficulty of confidence on a global team. Interculture Journal: Online Journal for Intercultural Studies, 22(39), 95-106.
- Huber, A. A., McRae, C. J., Mattson, L.D., Sanders, S., Rousset, S., Oglesby, B., Magalona, C., & Stanley, B. L. (2023). Embodied fragments: Failure, resistance and pedagogical possibility. Text and Performance Quarterly, 43(4), 248-257.
- Kim, H., Mattson, L. D., Zhang, D, & Cho, H. J. (2022). The role of organizational and supervisor support in young adult workers’ resilience, efficacy, and burnout during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 50(6), 691-710.
- Mattson, L. & Gordon, J. G. (2022). Becoming mutant: Metamorphoses for a Waterworld. Environmental Humanities, 14(1), 29-48.
- Mattson, L. (2021). Hurricanes as a call to remember: An autoethnography of queer ecological temporality. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 10(2), 7-14.
Research Activity
Research Assistant for the Center for Strategic Communication
- "Generative narrative networks for strategic analysis and forecasting conflict." PI: Steven R. Corman. Office of Naval Research: N00014-22-1-2596
- "Detecting and tracking adversarial framing in mainstream and social media." PI: Steven R. Corman. Office of Naval Research: N00014-18-1-2692
Courses
2023 Summer
2022 Summer
2021 Fall
2021 Summer
2021 Spring
2020 Fall
