Biography

Bruce W. Hardy is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Social Influence in the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. His research and teaching focuses on political, science and health communication; knowledge acquisition, opinion formation and behavior; emergent technologies and society; and advanced research methods. His research has been published in numerous academic journals, including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Science Communication, American Behavioral Scientist, Computers in Human Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, and Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. Hardy’s research has won national and international scholarly awards from the American Publishers Association, the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association. He is also a Distinguished Research Fellow with the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center.