Barbara Myslik

Position Title

Lecturer

bmyslik@ucdavis.edu

393 Kerr Hall

Education

Ph.D. in Communication, University of Florida, 2020
M.A. in Communication, University of California, Davis, 2012
B.A. and M.A. in Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 2007

About

Dr. Myslik has been teaching a variety of communication courses since 2009. Her academic passions include political communication, public relations, and comparative analysis of international media systems in relation to different political realities. In addition to her teaching and research, Dr. Myslik has worked as a communication consultant for many small political campaigns across the country, in an effort to help elect more women and minority candidates to local public offices. Her research focuses on political public relations, social media in political communication, and applications of agenda-setting and agenda-building theories in those settings.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Lan, X., Tarasevich, S., Proverbs, P., Myslik, B. & Kiousis, S. (2020). President Trump vs.
CEOs: of presidential and corporate agenda building. Journal of Public Relations
Research. DOI: 10.1080/1062726X.2020.1719494

Khalitova, L., Myslik, B., Turska-Kawa, A., Tarasevich, S., Kiousis, S. (2020). He who pays
the piper, calls the tune? Examining Russia’s and Poland’s public diplomacy efforts
to shape the international coverage of the Smolensk crash Public Relations Review
46(2), p.1-17

Myslik, B., Khalitova, L., Zhang, T., Mohr, T., Kim, J., Turska-Kawa, A., Tarasevich,
S.,Carroll, C., Golan, G., Kiousis, S. (2019). Two Tales of One Crash:
Intergovernmental Media Relations and Agenda Building During the Smolensk Air
Crash. International Communications Gazette
https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048519853766

Tarasevich, S., Khalitova, L., Arceneaux, P., Myslik, B., Kiousis, S. (2019). Ethnic
Nationalism and Gatekeeping in the European Media: Linking Agenda Setting,
Agenda Building, and Agenda Indexing. The Agenda Setting Journal, 3(1),
p. 23 - 42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/asj.18014.tar

Zhang, T., Khalitova, L., Myslik, B., Kim, J., Mohr, T., Kiousis, S. (2018). Comparing Chinese
state-sponsored media’s agenda-building influence on Taiwan and Singapore media
during the 2014 Hong Kong Protest. Chinese Journal of Communication 11(1). 66-87.

Zhang, T., Kim, J., Mohr, T., Myslik, B., Khalitova, L., Golan, G., Kiousis, S. (2017). Agenda-
building role of state-owned media around the world: 2014 Hong Kong protest case.
Journal of Public Relations Research 29(5). 238-254.

Myslik, B. (2014). Semantic Network Analysis of Political Party Platforms in Scottish
Elections 1999-2011 Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia
Politologica vol. XIII.

Book Chapters

Myslik, B. & Kiousis, S. (2019) Political communication and government relations in B.
Brunner-Johnson (Ed.) Public Relations Theory: Application and Understanding.
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Blackwell.

Wanta, W. & Myslik, B. (2019) Mass communication theory and research in D. Stacks, M. B.
Salven and K. C. Eichhorn (Eds) Mass communication theory and research. 3^rd Edition. New York, NY: Routledge.

Teaching

Dr. Myslik’s teaching experience includes teaching over 20 different communication courses in a variety of settings. At UC Davis she has thought 8 classes so far, including Analysis of Media Messages, Communication Campaigns, Social Media and PR, Political Communication, Theories of Persuasion, Media and Health, Public Speaking, and Interpersonal Communication.