She also holds a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Zagreb, and earned her Ph.D in Communications from Louisiana State University. She is an expert and author of over a dozen peer-reviewed articles on the uses and effects of social media, primarily Facebook. She also sits on the editorial board of several peer-review journals, and recently published a book, “Social Media: Principles and Applications”. Her topic will look into testing the emergency alert communications on college students’ threat assessment and the resulting behavior.