Joseph McGlynn

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book Chapter

• McGlynn, J., Richardson, B. (2025). Sport organizations and whistleblowing. Organizational communication and sport: Connections, applications, and opportunities. Lexington Press.
• McGlynn, J. (2023). Self-Observation of Sublime Experience. Transformative learning: Autoethnographies of doing qualitative research. 67-81. Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20439-5_5
• McGlynn III, J. (2022). Parent and child communication and health risks in sport. Health communication and sport: Connections, applications, and opportunities. Lexington, KY, Lexington Press.
• McGlynn, J. (2021). Blowing the Whistle Is Laden With Risk. Whistleblowing, Communication and Consequences. 139-150. New York, New York, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367822033-14
• McGlone, M.S., McGlynn, J., Merola, N.A. (2017). Time is not on our side: Temporal metaphors in the Enron email corpus. Work Pressures: New Agendas in Communication. 120-136. New York, NY, Routledge.
• McGlynn, J. (2015). The whistle-blower. Culture, Development, and Petroleum: An Ethnography of the High North. 116-125. New York, Routledge.
• McGlynn, J. (2014). Language and deception. Encyclopedia of Deception. 581-584. Thousand Oaks, CA, SAGE Publications.

Conference Proceeding

• Zhou, Y., Huang, Y., McGlynn, J., Han, A. (2019). Trust Inference for Rideshare Through Co-Training on Social Media Data. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). 2532-2541.
• Zhou, Y., Huang, Y., McGlynn, J., Han, A. (2019). Trust Inference for Rideshare through Co-training on Social Media Data. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). 2532-2541. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata47090.2019.9005620
• Zhou, Y., Huang, Y., McGlynn, J., Han, A. (2017). Who Will You Share a Ride With: Factors that Influence Trust of Potential Rideshare Partners. Other.

Encyclopedia Article

• McGlynn III, J. (2020). Disinhibitory and Inhibitory Effects. 494-497. Thousand Oaks, CA, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society.

Journal Article

• McGlynn, J., Richardson, B.K. (2025). “I’m worried they will come back to haunt me”: Examining how retired NFL players make sense of concussion risks.. Journal of Business Ethics. 15. Springer.
• McGlynn, J., Cassilo, D. (2025). “I’m Worried They Will Come Back to Haunt Me”: Examining How Retired National Football League Players Make Sense of Concussion Risks. Communication & Sport. 13 (1) 33-55. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795231203366
• McGlynn, J., Richardson, B. (2023). Factors that reduce parental concern for concussion risks in youth tackle football. Sociology of Sport Journal. 40 (3) 321–329.
• Cassilo, D., McGlynn, J. (2023). “They just see guys as bodies”: Assessing credibility of injury communication in the National Football League.. Communication & Sport. 16 (1) 32–42. International Journal of Communication & Sport.
• McGlynn, J., Richardson, B.K., Boneau, R. (2022). Parent strategies to control concussion risk in youth tackle football.. Sociology of Sport Journal.
• Richardson, B.K., McGlynn, J. (2021). Constructing the heroic whistleblower: A social scientific approach.. 6 (2) 1-28.
• McGlynn, J., Boneau, R.B., Richardson, B.K. (2020). “It might also be good for your brain”: Cognitive and social benefits that motivate parents to permit youth tackle football.. Journal of Sport and Social Issues. 44 (3) 261-282.
• McGlynn III, J., Baryshevtsev, M., Dayton, Z.A. (2020). Misinformation more likely to use non-specific authority references: Twitter analysis of two COVID-19 myths. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. 1 (3) 16. https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/misinformation-more-likely-to-use-non-specific-authority-references-twitter-analysis-of-two-covid-19-myths/
• McGlynn, J., Boneau, R.D., Richardson, B.K. (2020). “It Might Also be Good for Your Brain”: Cognitive and Social Benefits that Motivate Parents to Permit Youth Tackle Football. Journal of Sport and Social Issues. 44 (3) 261-282. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723520903226
• Baryshevtsev, M., McGlynn, J. (2020). Persuasive Appeals Predict Credibility Judgments of Phishing Messages. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 23 (5) 297-302. Mary Ann Liebert Inc. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2019.0592
• Boneau, R.D., Richardson, B.K., McGlynn, J. (2020). “We Are a Football Family”: Making Sense of Parents’ Decisions to Allow Their Children to Play Tackle Football. Other. 8 (1) 26-49. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167479518816104
• McGlynn, J., Zhou, Y., Han, A., Huang, Y. (2019). Present, Endorsed, and Active: Instagram Cues that Predict Trust. Communication Research Reports. 36 (4) 338-348. Routledge.
• McGlynn, J., McGlone, M.S. (2019). Desire or Disease? Framing obesity to influence attributions of responsibility and policy support. Health Communication. 34 (7) 689-701. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2018.1431025
• Boneau, R., Richardson, B.K., McGlynn, J. (2018). "We are a Football Family": Making Sense of Parents Decisions To Allow Children to Play Tackle Football. Communication & Sport. 8 26-49. SAGE.
• Richardson, B.K., McGlynn III, J. (2015). Blowing the whistle off the field of play: An empirical model of whistle-blower experiences in the intercollegiate sport industry. 3 57-80.
• Richardson, B.K., McGlynn, J. (2015). Blowing the Whistle Off the Field of Play. Other. 3 (1) 57-80. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167479513517490
• McGlynn, J., Richardson, B.K. (2014). Public support, private alienation: Whistle-blowers and the paradox of social support. Western Journal of Communication. 78 (2) 213-237. Informa UK Limited. https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2013.807436
• McGlone, M.S., Bell, R.A., Sarah, Z., McGlynn, J. (2013). Don't let the flu catch you: Agency assignment in printed educational materials about the H1N1 virus. 18 740-756.
• Donovan-Kicken, E., McGlynn, J., Damron, J.C. (2012). When friends deflect questions about sensitive information: Individual differences and explanations for avoidance. Western Journal of Communication. 76 127-147.
• Richardson, B.K., McGlynn, J. (2011). Rabid fans, death threats, and dysfunctional stakeholders: The influence of organizational and industry contexts on whistle-blowing cases. Management Communication Quarterly. 25 (1) 121-150. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318910380344

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research

• McGlynn III, J., "Persuasive Effects of Authority References and Social Endorsement Cues on Misinformation Credibility Judgments," sponsored by Scholarly and Creative Activity Award - College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2022 - 2022).