Barbara A Myslik
(PhD)
Barbara Myslik is an assistant professor of public relations at the California State University in Sacramento. She is originally from Poland, where she obtained an undergraduate and a master's degree in Sociology from Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She then got her master's in communication science from the University of California Davis and continued with her PhD at the University of Florida. Dr. Myslik has been teaching a variety of communication courses since 2009. Her academic passions include political communication, public relations, and comparative analysis of international media systems in different political realities. Her research focuses on political public relations, social media in political communication, and applications of agenda-setting and agenda-building theories in those settings. In addition to her teaching and research, Dr. Myslik has worked as a communication consultant for many small political campaigns across the country in an effort to help elect more women and minority candidates to local public offices.
Publications
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Khalitova, L., Myslik, B., Turska-Kawa, A., Tarasevich, S., & Kiousis, S. (2020). He who pays the piper, calls the tune? Examining Russia’s and Poland’s public diplomacy efforts to shape the international coverage of the Smolensk crash. Public Relations Review, 46(2), 101858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2019.101858
Lan, X., Tarasevich, S., Proverbs, P., Myslik, B., & Kiousis, S. (2020). President Trump vs. CEOs: a comparison of presidential and corporate agenda building. Journal of Public Relations Research, 32(1–2), 30–46. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726X.2020.1719494
Myslik, B., Khalitova, L., Zhang, T., Tarasevich, S., Kiousis, S., Mohr, T., Kim, J. Y., Turska-Kawa, A., Carroll, C., & Golan, G. (2019). Two tales of one crash: Intergovernmental media relations and agenda building during the Smolensk airplane crash. International Communication Gazette. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048519853766
Roman, N., Myslik, B., & Beasley, B. (2024). “Unwanted guests” or welcomed neighbors? Portrayals of Ukrainian refugees in Russian, Polish, and UK news coverage. International Communication Gazette, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17480485241291803
Tarasevich, S., Khalitova, L., Arceneaux, P., Myslik, B., & Kiousis, S. (2019). Ethnic nationalism and gatekeeping in the European media: linking agenda setting, agenda building, and agenda indexing. The Agenda Setting Journal, 3(1), 23-42. https://doi.org/10.1075/asj.18014.tar
Zhang, T., Kim, J. Y., Mohr, T. L., Myslik, B. A., Khalitova, L., Golan, G. J., & Kiousis, S. (2017). Agenda-Building role of state-owned media around the world: 2014 Hong Kong protest case. Journal of Public Relations Research, 29(5), 238–254. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726X.2017.1396988
Zhang, T., Khalitova, L., Myslik, B., Mohr, T. L., Kim, J. Y., & Kiousis, S. (2017). Comparing Chinese state-sponsored media’s agenda-building influence on Taiwan and Singapore media during the 2014 Hong Kong Protest. Chinese Journal of Communication, 11(1), 66–87. https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2017.1386694