Amanda Sturgill

Books

Sturgill, A. (2022). #WeAreAltGov: Inside the Resistance on Social Media. Rowman & Littlefield.

Sturgill, A. (2020). Detecting Deception: Tools to Fight Fake News. Rowman & Littlefield.

Namaste, N., & Sturgill, A. (2020). Mind the Gap: Global Learning at Home and Abroad. The Engaged Learning and Teaching Series. Stylus Publishing LLC. 

(Wrote single-author chapter, co-authored two chapters, wrote all section introductions and edited all chapters.)

Grady, D. A., Hollifield, C. A., & Sturgill, A. (Eds.). (2020). The Golden Age of Data : Media Analytics in Study & Practice (Electronic Media Research Series). Routledge. Wrote two chapters, edited section of book. 

Grant, A., Sturgill, A., Chen, C-H and Stout, D., eds. (2019). Religion Online: How Digital Technology is Changing the Way We Worship and Pray. 2-volume set from ABC-CLIO. (I co-wrote the introduction and wrote chapters on Artificial Intelligence, Mainline Protestants and New Religious Movements as well as edited all chapters)

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

Sturgill, A. (2023). “Web Presence.” In: Cohen, Y., & Soukup, P. A. (Eds.). (2023). The Handbook of Religion and Communication. John Wiley & Sons.

Baird, N., Kasparkova, A., Macharia, S. & Sturgill, A. (2022) “’What One Learns in College Only Makes Sense When Practicing It at Work’: How Early-Career Alumni Evaluate Writing Success”, a chapter in Writing Beyond the University: Preparing Lifelong Learners for Lifewide Writing. Elon, NC: Center for Engaged Learning. 

Sturgill, A. (2020). Getting the most out of your graduate assistantship. In The Graduate Student Guidebook: From Orientation to Tenure Track. K. Foss, ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 

Sturgill, A. (2015). Missionaries. In The SAGE encyclopedia of world poverty. (Second Edition, pp. 1050-1052). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483345727.n552

Sturgill, A. (2015). Technology Diffusion. In The SAGE encyclopedia of world poverty. (Second Edition, pp. 1522-1524). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483345727.n789

Sturgill, A. and Jongsuwanwattana, P. (2006). Legal and Ethical Concerns of Gathering Data Via Internet. In Handbook of Electronic Surveys and Measurement (pp. 119-124). Hershey, Penn.: IDEA Group publishing.

Sturgill, A. (2006). “Evangelicalism.” In Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication and Media (pp. 136-140). Oxford, UK: Routledge.

Rieger, R. and Sturgill, A. (1999) “Evaluating On-line Environments: Tools for Observing Users and Gathering Feedback.” In New Directions for Evaluation, Capturing Complexity: Issues and Techniques for Using Technology in Evaluation (pp. 45-58). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Gay, G., Rieger, R. and Sturgill, A. (1998) “Findings of the MESL Casual User Survey.” In Getty Information Institute (Ed.), MESL: Delivering Digital Images (pp. 122-132). Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute.

Peer-reviewed Journal Papers

Vandermaas-Peeler, M., O. Choplin, K. Doehler, A. Sturgill, N. Namaste, and M. Buckmaster. (2021). The ‘Authentic’ Me: New Understandings of Self and the World As a Result of Global Learning Experiences. Teaching and Learning Inquiry 9 (2). 

Hannam, B.; Sturgill, A.; Furnas, K. & Vincent, H. (2019). Factors in Leadership Development for Communication Students in Co-Curricular Organizations. Teaching Journalism & Mass Communication 9(2): 12-21. 

Sturgill, A.; Hannam, B. & Walsh, B. (2018). External Resource Use for Undergraduates Learning Coding in Communications. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator. Summer.

Sturgill, A., & Motley, P. (2014). Methods of reflection about service learning: Guided vs. free, dialogic vs. expressive and public vs. private. Teaching and Learning Inquiry: the ISSOTL Journal, 2(1), 81-93.

Motley, P. & Sturgill, A. (2014). Cultivating a Professional Ethic in Covering Marginalized Populations: Learning about the Poor through Service-Learning. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 69(2), 166-179.

Collins, B., & Sturgill, A. (2013). The Effects of Media Use on Religious Individuals’ Perceptions of Science. Journal of Media and Religion, 12(4), 217-230.

Sturgill, A., Motley, P. & Saltz, S. (2013). Using service-learning to teach communications skills in the context of economic diversity. Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication. Summer.

Sturgill, A. & Motley, P. (2013). Indirect vs. direct service-learning in communication: Implications for student learning and community benefit. Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication. Summer.

Motley, P. and Sturgill, A. (2013). Assessing the Merits of International Service-learning in Developing Professionalism in Mass Communication. Communication Teacher, 27(3), 172-189.

Sturgill, A. Pierce R., & Wang Y. (2010). Online News Websites: How Much Content Do Young Adults Want?Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, 11(2). 

Sturgill, A., Winney, J., & Libhart, T. (2008). Harry Potter and Children’s Perception of the News Media. American Communication Journal, 10 (1).

Sturgill, A. (2007). Municipal Information Web Sites And The Language Divide. Electronic Journal of Communication, 17(3,4).

Sturgill, A. (2005). Rural Voters and Local Elections on the Internet: Implications for Web Site Design. Southwestern Journal of Mass Communication Research, 21(1), 1-11.

Sturgill, A. (2004). Scope and Purposes of Church Web Sites. Journal of Media and Religion, 3(3), 165-176.

Sturgill, A., Gay, G., & Martin, W. (1999). Surviving Technology: A Study of Student Use of Computer-Mediated Communication to Support Technology Education. International Journal of Educational Telecommunications, 5(3), 239-259.

Gay, G., Sturgill, A., Martin, W., & Huttenlocher, D. (1999). Using Distributed Web Resources to Support Engineering Education. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 4(3).

Editor-Reviewed Journal Articles

Sturgill, A. (2021). Health Care Providers Can Help Combat Harmful Misinformation About the Pandemic. North Carolina Medical Journal 82(1): 68-70. 

Sturgill, A.; Hannam, B. & B. Walsh. (2017). Teaching Coding in the Mass Communication Classroom. Journal of Media Education 8(1): 28-34.