Instructor
(719) 502-3249 | Lina.Rawlings@pikespeak.edu
Box C16, Centennial | PCE-F229
Lina Rawlings, M.A., University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Lina Rawlings is in her 3rd year of the Ph.D. program in Communication at Liberty
University. Her research interests are interpersonal interactions in computer-mediated
environments with an emphasis on emojis and social support. Her dissertation is a
present-day communication project that studies the entangled ways social media interactions
are transforming our emotionally relevant experiences by addressing the technological
features that distinguish online communication from offline interactions. Under the
title, “The Power of the ‘Like:’ A Quantitative Study on the Facebook Emoji as Social
Support,” her research seeks to understand how virtual endorsements, like the Facebook
emoji, function as nonverbal and emotional communication within interpersonal interactions.
Lina’s research is supported by the School of Communication and the Arts at Liberty University and the RAND Corporation’s Social Support Survey. She holds a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. Before starting her Ph.D. at Liberty University, she worked as an online training instructor and the Director of Admissions for for-profit Universities in Colorado Springs.