Adrienne Holz
School of Communication
108 Shanks Hall
181 Turner St. NW
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-1671 | holz@vt.edu
Adrienne Holz is an associate professor in the School of Communication.
- Health Communication
- Media Effects
- Media Portrayals of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
- Social Impact of New Communication Technology
- Entertainment Media Content and Effects
- PhD, Virginia Tech
- MA, Virginia Tech
- BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
- International Communication Association
- Second Place Faculty Paper, Entertainment Studies Interest Group, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Denver, CO, August, 2010: Times change, but trailers don’t: Violent and sexual content in a decade of movie trailers.
- Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (Inducted 2008)
- Virginia Tech Grant Writing Institute Participant (June 2006) Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, $1,000.00 stipend
Journal Articles
Mackay, J., & Holz Ivory, A. (in press). Smartphones, tablets, and transforming journalistic routines. Electronic Journal of Communication.
Limperos, A., Waddell, T. F., Holz Ivory, A., & Ivory, J. (in press). Psychological and Physiological Reponses to Stereoscopic 3D Presentation in Handheld Digital Gaming: Comparing the Experiences of Frequent and Infrequent Game Players. Presence.
Holz Ivory, A., Fox, J., Waddell, T. F., & Ivory, J. (2014). Sex role stereotyping is hard to kill: A field experiment measuring social responses to user characteristics and behavior in an online multiplayer first-person shooter game. Computers in Human Behavior, 35, 148-156.
Holz Ivory, A., & Kaestle, C. E. (2013). Effects of profanity in video game content on players’ hostile expectations and other responses. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 57, 224-241.
Book Chapters
Holz Ivory, A., & Ivory, J. D. (2013). Food and beverage advergames are playing with children’s health. In C. Pardun (Ed.), Advertising and society: Controversies and consequences (2nd ed., pp. 210-218). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
Tedesco, J. C., & Holz Ivory, A. (2009). Investigating real-time response measures for public health campaign messages. In Maier, M., Maurer, M., Reinemann, C., Meyer, V., & Maier, J. (Eds.), Real-time Response Measurement in the Social Sciences. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang.
- Holz Ivory, Adrienne (Co-Principal Investigator), Ivory, James (Principal Investigator), Herr, Paul (Co-Principal Investigator), Magee, Robert (Co-Principal Investigator), "Virtual Environment-Based Field Research on Economic and Consumer Behavior, Decision-Making, and Social Interaction," Sponsored by Virginia Tech Institute for Society, Culture and Environment, Virginia Tech, $15,800.00. (May 2013 - Present).
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