Peer-reviewed Research Publications
Cheema, S. E., & Browning, N. (2025). The Roles of Passion and Emotions in Social Movements: BLM Activists’ Niche that Scaled Up the Movement in the Digital Sphere. Howard Journal of Communications. https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2025.2530461
Browning, N., & Cheema, S. E. (2025). Engaging in Organizational Advocacy to Fulfill Corporate Responsibility to Race: How Passion Drives Activists’ Behavior. Public Relations Review, 51(2), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2025.102569 [Published as part of the special issue, Passionate Publics: Passion, Desire, Autonomous Publics and the Future of Public Relations]
Comfort, S. E., Gruszczynski, M., & Browning, N. (2024). Building the Science News Agenda: The Permeability of Science Journalism to Public Relations. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 101(3), 637-656. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990211047949
Heatherly, K.*, Yang, S.-U., Browning, N., and Kim, E.* (2022). Words, Money, or Action? How Corporate Social Advocacy Drove Media Coverage in Response to the Black Lives Matter Protests of 2020. Public Relations Journal, 15(2), 1-22. https://prjournal.instituteforpr.org/wp-content/uploads/Heatherly.PRJ_.15.2.pdf
Moon, B.*, & Browning, N. (2022). When publics collide: Developing the dual orientation conflict model in inter-public conflict. Public Relations Review, 48(4), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2022.102211 [Published as part of the special issue, The Contingency Theory of Strategic Conflict Management]
Browning, N., Lee, E.*, Lee, S. H.*, & Yang, S.-U. (2022). We’re All In This Together: Legitimacy and Coronavirus-Oriented CSR Messaging. Sustainability, 14(5), 1-38. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052534 [Published as part of the special issue, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Social Advocacy, and Societal Changes]
Browning, N. (2022). Ethics in Public Relations. In G. A. Borchard (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Journalism (2nd ed.) (pp. 1353-1357). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781544391199.n336
Browning, N. (2021). What is Shared in the Sharing Economy? Ethics and Externalities in Public-Private Partnerships. Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality, 9(1), 18-51. https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1118&context=ijlse
Browning, N., Lee, E.*, Park, Y. E., Kim, T.*, and Collins, R.* (2020). Muting or Meddling? Advocacy as a Relational Communication Strategy Affecting Organization-Public Relationships and Stakeholder Response. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 97(4), 1026-1053. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699020916810
Browning, N., & Sweetser, K. D. (2020). How Media Diet, Partisan Frames, Candidate Traits, and Political Organization-Public Relationship Communication Drive Party Reputation. Public Relations Review, 46(2), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2020.101884
Browning, N., Yang, S.-U., Park, Y. E., Lee, E.*, & Kim, T.* (2019). Do Ethics Matter? Investigating Donor Responses to Primary and Tertiary Ethical Violations. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 96(4), 1145-1171. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699019835903
Browning, N. (2018). Ethics and the Profession: The Crystallizing of PR Practice from Association to Accreditation, 1936-1964. American Journalism, 35(2), 140-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2018.1455400 [Selected for Teaching Our Journal]
Browning, N., Gogo, O., & Kimmel, M. (2018). Comprehending CSR Messages: Applying the Elaboration Likelihood Model. Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 23(1), 17-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/CCIJ-07-2017-0068
Cacciatore, M. A., Browning, N., Scheufele, D. A., Brossard, D., Xenos, M. A., & Corley, E. A. (2018). Opposing Ends of the Spectrum: Exploring Trust in Scientific and Religious Authorities. Public Understanding of Science, 27(1), 11-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662516661090
Sweetser, K. D., & Browning, N. (2017). Credibility or Credulity? Examining Political Organization-Public Relationships in an Election of Interloping Candidates. Journal of Public Relations Research, 29(5), 200-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726X.2017.1388240
Browning, N. (2015) The Ethics of Two-Way Symmetry and the Dilemmas of Dialogic Kantianism. Journal of Media Ethics, 30(1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2014.985295
Browning, N., & Sweetser, K.D. (2014). The Let Down Effect: Satisfaction, Motivation, and Credibility Assessments of Political Infotainment. American Behavioral Scientist, 58(6), 810-826. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764213515227
Browning, N. (2011). “Mad Money” Madness: Jim Cramer's Image Restoration Effort. Public Relations Review, 37(2), 184-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2011.01.009
Non-refereed Research Publications
Browning, N. & Yang, S.-U. (2024). Editor’s Essay: Public Relations, the Public Good, and Prominent Pathways and Principles. Journal of Public Relations Research, 36(3), 177-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726X.2024.2352974
Yang, S.-U., & Browning, N. (2024). Editor’s Essay: Reflections, Resolutions, and Outlook for the New Year. Journal of Public Relations Research, 36(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726X.2024.2304473
Browning, N., & Yang, S.-U. (2022). Editor’s essay: Reflecting on OPR research. Journal of Public Relations Research, 34(5), 175-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726X.2022.2125152
Browning, N. (2022). Betsy Ann Plank: The Making of a Public Relations Icon. American Journalism, 39(3), 340-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2022.2097842
Yang, S.-U., & Browning, N. (2022). Editor’s essay: A new Chapter. Journal of Public Relations Research, 34(1-2), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726X.2022.2073728
Teaching Publications
Browning, N., & Thompson, W. (Accepted). The Position Paper: An Early-Semester, PR Writing Assignment. In B. Frisby & R. Kaufmann (Eds.), Teaching Communication (Vol. 4, pp. x-y). San Diego, CA: Cognella.
Browning, N., & Thompson, W. (Accepted). Teaching Public Relations Writing: A Pathway Toward Proficiency. In S. Keith (Ed.), Teaching Communication (Vol. 3, pp. x-y). San Diego, CA: Cognella.
Thompson, W., & Browning, N. (2022). Writing for Public Relations and Strategic Communication. San Diego, CA: Cognella. [Watch the authors discuss the overarching pedagogy for the textbook]
Popular Press Contributions
Heatherly, K.*, Yang, S.-U., Browning, N., and Kim, E.* (2022, September 30). Words, Money, or Action? How Corporate Social Advocacy Drove Media Coverage of Black Lives Matter. Institute for Public Relations. https://instituteforpr.org/words-money-or-action-how-corporate-social-advocacy-drove-media-coverage-of-black-lives-matter/
Browning, N. (2022, September 9). If businesses really oppose abortion ban, they’ll back Democrats in next election [op-ed]. The Herald-Times. https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/09/09/column-do-eli-lilly-cummins-really-stand-behind-abortion-statements/65896415007/
Browning, N. (2021, January 26). Speech Rights and Responsibilities [op-ed]. The Herald-Times. https://www.hoosiertimes.com/herald_times_online/opinion/columns/column-speech-rights-and-responsibilities/article_ed162478-5c2a-11eb-9235-ab0c7aac070f.html
Baird, N.,* & Browning, N. (2020, October 8). The city council irresponsibly struck down Hamilton’s tax proposal [op-ed]. The Indiana Daily Student. https://www.idsnews.com/article/2020/10/guest-column-bloomington-city-council-mayor-hamilton-tax-proposal
Browning, N. (2020, August 24). Honoring Our History [op-ed]. The Herald-Times. https://www.hoosiertimes.com/herald_times_online/opinion/columns/column-honoring-our-history/article_2c64c7bc-e02d-11ea-ace0-fb9c9e1b774a.html
* = student author