Dr. Ryan is the author of Prime Time Activism: Media Strategies for Grassroots Organizing (South End Press, 1999) and co-editor of Rhyming Hope and History: Academics, Activists and Social Movement Scholarship (University of Minnesota Press, 2005). Dr. Ryan studies how social groups organize for change, paying particular attention to the role of mass media and communication in those change efforts. She collaborates with regional and national social movement organizations by working to integrate movement and communication strategies. Her recent research projects have focused on how unions, domestic violence groups, and community-based organizations integrate strategic communications into broader change strategies.