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Courtny L. Franco, PhD

Lead Strategy Analyst | End-of-Life Planning Expert

Dr. Courtny L. Franco is a first generation research scientist, advocate, and educator at the intersection of end-of-life planning, health, and technology. She earned her doctorate in communication and information health sciences from the University of Alabama, and her master’s in experimental psychology from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her research focuses on behavioral health outcomes related to end-of-life planning, sustainable funerary practices, and digital death care. She is the lead strategy analyst volunteer for the  End-of-Life Death Scholars (nonprofit) and member of the Death & Dying Division for the National Communication Association. 

Web Team Services | Areas of Expertise

  • Research & analysis

  • Data-driven decision making

  • Strategic thinking & planning

  • Internal communications

Publications

Franco, C. L. (2024). Sustainable deaths: An investigation of young adults’ intentions to communicate and document their green funeral plans. ProQuest. 

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Britt, R. K., Carmack, H. J., Morris, A., Chakraborty, A. R., Franco, C. L. (2024). Does organizational messaging make a difference? Investigating themes and language style in Twitter discourse and engagement by mental health organizations. Journal of Health Communication, 29(2), 1-8). https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2023.2278609

 

Britt, R. K., Franco, C. L., & Jones, N. (2023). Trends and Challenges within Reddit and Health Communication Research: A Systematic Review. Communication and the Public. https://doi.org/10.1177/205704732312090

 

Van Dyke, M., Britt, B., Britt, R. K., & Franco, C. L. (2022). How environment-focused communities discuss COVID-19 online: An analysis of (risk) information amplification on Reddit. Journal of Environmental Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2022.2056222

 

Fugate, J.M.B., & Franco, C. L. (2021). Implications for emotion: Using anatomically-based facial coding to compare emoji faces across platforms, Frontiers in Psychology - Personality and Social Psychology, 12(7), 238-259. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.605928

 

Franco, C.L., and Fugate J.M.B., (2020). Emoji face renderings: Exploring the role emoji platform differences have on emotional interpretation, Journal of Nonverbal Human Behavior, 44(3), 301-328. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-019-00330-1

 

Fugate, J.M.B. & Franco, C. L. (2019). What color is your anger? Assessing color-emotion pairings in English speakers, Frontiers Journal of Cognition, 10(2), 206-223. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00206

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