About the Authors

Ashley Sanders-Jackson

sande411@msu.edu

Affiliation Michigan State University, Department of Advertising and Public Relations, College of Communication Arts and Science, 404 Wilson Road, Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Andy S. L. Tan

Current address: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Division of Population Sciences, Center for Community-Based Research, 450 Brookline Ave LW662, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Harvard University, TH Chan School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cabral A. Bigman

Affiliation University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Communication, 3001 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Susan Mello

Affiliation Northeastern University, Department of Communication Studies, College of Arts, Media and Design, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeff Niederdeppe

Affiliation Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Communication, 476 Mann Library Building, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ASJ AT CB JN. Formal analysis: AT. Funding acquisition: ASJ. Methodology: ASJ AT CB JN SM. Resources: ASJ AT CB JN SM. Software: ASJ AT. Validation: ASJ AT. Visualization: AT. Writing - original draft: ASJ AT. Writing - review & editing: ASJ AT CB JN SM.