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Parks, Malcolm R.
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1976

Office: CMU 340C
Phone: 221-3249
E-Mail: macp@u.washington.edu

Malcolm Parks, Assoc. Professor, conducts research on interpersonal relationships, persuasion, organizational change, and social networks. Current projects include studies of how social network factors might account for differences in the strength of attitudes on controversial issues, ways organizations can influence the health of their employees and clients, and the nature of interaction on social network sites like MySpace. His work examines interaction in both face-to-face and online settings. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in interpersonal communication, social scientific methods, computer-mediated communication, communication networks, and community. He is also affiliated with the Health Marketing and Communication Research Center.

Parks was the recipient of the 1996 Woolbert Award for disciplinary impact from the National Communication Association and the Hammer Award from the Office of the Vice President of the United States for his applied work in organizational innovation. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Army Research Organization, and the U.S. Air Force Office of Prevention and Health Services Assessment.

Last revised 3/7/2007

Selected Publications

Parks, M.R. (in press) Online relationships. In W. Dornsbush (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Communication. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Parks, M.R. (2007). Personal Relationships and Personal Networks. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Parks, M.R., & Disis, M. L. (2004). Conflicts of interest in translational research. Journal of Translational Medicine, 2(28) (09 Aug 2004).

Walther, J.B., & Parks, M.R. (2002). Cues filtered out, cues filtered in: Computer mediated communication and relationships. In M. L. Knapp, J. A. Daly, & G. R. Miller (Eds.), The Handbook of Interpersonal Communication (pp. 529-563)(3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Parks, M.R. (2000). Communication networks and relationship life cycles. In K. Dindia & S. Duck (Eds.) Communication and Personal Relationships. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Roberts, L.D. & Parks, M.R. (1999). The social geography of gender-switching in virtual environments on the Internet. Information, Communication & Society, 2(4), 521-540.. Also reprinted on pp. 265-285 in Technology, Consumption and Identity (2001). E. Green & A. Adam (Eds.). London: Routledge.

Parks, M.R., & Roberts, L.E. (1998). "Making MOOsic": The development of personal relationships on-line and a comparison to their off-line counterparts. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 15(4), 517-537.

Parks, M.R. (1998). "Where does scholarship begin?" American Journal of Communication, 1(2).

Parks, M.R. & Floyd, K. (1996). Making friends in cyberspace. Journal of Communication, 46(1), 80-97. (Refereed Article) Also appearing concurrently online in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, (March, 1996, Vol. 1. No. 4).

Parks, M.R. & Floyd, K. (1996). Meanings for closeness and intimacy in friendship. Journal of Personal and Social Relationships, 13, 85-107.

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