RESEARCH
Vulnerable transitions, mediated lives.
ONGOING RESEARCH
This mixed-methods agenda examines how first-generation students use generative AI to navigate the hidden curriculum, how AI disclosure affects judgments of credibility and trust, and how faculty are evaluated when AI mediates their communication. It grows from grant-funded research with students, faculty, and administrators at a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Findings are not presented here because the agenda is ongoing.
DEVELOPING PROJECT
This developing project asks how older first-time mothers use social media, online communities, tracking technologies, and AI while navigating identity transition, medicalized stigma, uncertainty, support, and credibility. It is presented as a developing research direction, not as a completed study or a set of findings.
10+ YEARS OF MIXED-METHODS RESEARCH
Methodological Expertise
Surveys
Experiments
Interviews
Digital Ethnography
Content Analysis
Discourse Analysis
Focus Groups
Mixed-Methods Research
Research leadership and ethics
Dr. Ro has served as principal investigator on two university research grants supporting a multi-stakeholder study of generative-AI adoption. She also serves on the University Institutional Review Board, evaluating study design, consent, privacy, risk, and participant protection.
COMPLETED RESEARCH
Completed studies include experimental and interview research on online dating and courtship, platform design and decision-making, false-information cues and perceived information quality, professional online dating assistants, Muslim American women’s use of online matchmaking, and commissioned focus-group research on organ-donation attitudes among underrepresented communities.
COMPLETED RESEARCH
Peer-Reviewed Publications
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2023
Health Communication
Griffin Padgett, D. R., Toman, L., Rochadiat, A. M. P., & Parekh, V.
The Howard Journal of Communications
Focus-group research examining ethnoracial attitudes, perceptions, and communication barriers related to organ and tissue donation.
APA citation
Griffin Padgett, D. R., Toman, L., Rochadiat, A. M. P., & Parekh, V. (2023). The gift that keeps on giving: Ethnoracial attitudes toward organ and tissue donation. The Howard Journal of Communications, 1–19.
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2021
Misinformation
Jahng, R., Stoycheff, E., & Rochadiat, A.
Mass Communication & Society
An experimental study examining how “fake news” cues in online comments influence people’s judgments of information quality and their willingness to verify information.
APA citation
Jahng, R., Stoycheff, E., & Rochadiat, A. (2021). They said it’s “fake”: Effects of discounting cues in online comments on information quality judgments and information authentication. Mass Communication & Society, 24(4), 527–552.
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2020
Digital Relationships
Rochadiat, A. M. P., Tong, S. T., & Corriero, E.
Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication
A book chapter examining how mobile communication technologies shape intimacy, relationship development, and everyday romantic interaction.
APA citation
Rochadiat, A. M. P., Tong, S. T., & Corriero, E. (2020). Intimacy in the app age: Romantic relationships and mobile technology. In the Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication. Oxford University Press.
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2020
Platforms
Rochadiat, A. M. P., Tong, S. T., Hancock, J., & Stuart-Ulin, C.
Social Media + Society
An interview-based study of professional online dating assistants and the hidden labor involved in managing identity, attraction, and communication on behalf of clients.
APA citation
Rochadiat, A. M. P., Tong, S. T., Hancock, J., & Stuart-Ulin, C. (2020). The outsourcing of online dating: Investigating the lived experiences of online dating assistants working in the contemporary gig economy. Social Media + Society, 6(3).
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2020
Trust
Jahng, R., Lee, H., & Rochadiat, A. M. P.
Public Relations Review
Research exploring how public-relations professionals identify, evaluate, and respond to misinformation through practices of information authentication.
APA citation
Jahng, R., Lee, H., & Rochadiat, A. M. P. (2020). Public relations practitioners’ management of fake news: Exploring key elements and acts of information authentication. Public Relations Review, 46(2).
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2017
Identity
Rochadiat, A. M. P., Tong, S. T., & Novak, J.
New Media & Society
A qualitative study examining how Muslim American women use online matchmaking while negotiating religious identity, cultural expectations, privacy, and courtship.
APA citation
Rochadiat, A. M. P., Tong, S. T., & Novak, J. (2017). Online dating and courtship among Muslim American women: Negotiating technology, religious identity, and culture. New Media & Society.
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