Contact Information
702 South Wright Street
Urbana IL 61801
Research Interests
Communication and Health Equity
Health Communication
Risk Communication
Media Effects
Research Description
Cabral Bigman’s research focuses on communication about health, risk, and inequality. She is particularly interested in the influence that messages about comparative risk and inequality have on health and communication-related behavior.
Education
Ph.D., Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
M.A., Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
B.A., Oberlin College, 2000
Courses Taught
Risk Communication (CMN 396)
Race and the Mass Media (CMN 429)
Health Communication Campaigns (CMN 464)
Communication and Health Equity (CMN 467)
Causality in Communication Research (CMN 529)
Recent Publications
Geusens, F., Bigman-Galimore, C. A., & Beullens, K. (2020). A cross-cultural comparison of the processes underlying the associations between sharing of and exposure to alcohol references and drinking intentions. New Media and Society, 22(1), 49-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819860057
Mello, S., Stifano, S., Tan, A. S., Sanders-Jackson, A., & Bigman, C. A. (2020). Gendered Conceptions of Preconception Health: A Thematic Analysis of Men’s and Women’s Beliefs about Responsibility for Preconception Health Behavior. Journal of Health Communication, 25(5), 374-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2020.1775728
Smith, M. A., Williamson, L. D., & Bigman, C. A. (2020). Can Social Media News Encourage Activism? The Impact of Discrimination News Frames on College Students’ Activism Intentions. Social Media and Society, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120921366
Bekalu, M. A., Ramanadhan, S., Bigman, C. A., Nagler, R. H., & Viswanath, K. (2019). Graphic and Arousing? Emotional and Cognitive Reactions to Tobacco Graphic Health Warnings and Associated Quit-Related Outcomes Among Low SEP Population Groups. Health communication, 34(7), 726-734. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2018.1434733
Bigman, C. A., Smith, M. A., Williamson, L. D., Planey, A. M., & Smith, S. M. N. (2019). Selective sharing on social media: Examining the effects of disparate racial impact frames on intentions to retransmit news stories among US college students. New Media and Society, 21(11-12), 2691-2709. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819856574