Editorial board
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Advisory Board Members:
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David Atkin, PhD Michigan State, 1988
Professor of Communication, University of Connecticut
David Atkin is among the most prolific scholars in communication history—ranked within the discipline's top 80 scholars of all time, top 25 since 1995, and top two in telecommunications and policy research. His grant-supported work on the adoption, regulation, and social impact of emerging media has shaped the field for three decades.
Recipient of the Krieghbaum Under-40 Award for distinguished research, University Distinguished Research and Teaching Awards, and recognition among the top 1% most-cited scholars in Humanities and Social Sciences (Research.com, 2022–24), Atkin is author of over 190 scholarly articles and foundational books including Communication Technology and Society, The Televiewing Audience, and Audience Genre Expectations in the Age of Digital Media. Elected Fellow of the International Communication Association (2025), he brings to Una Mens a deep understanding of how new communication forms reshape human connection, and how scholarship itself must evolve alongside them.
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Nicholas S. Thompson, PhD, University of California, Berkely, 1965
Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Biology, Clark University
For four decades, Nicholas S. Thompson has pioneered a reframing of communication through his Natural Design Perspective—a biophilosophical framework treating signal not as symbolic representation but as behavior manifesting design to mediate design between organisms. His empirical work spans monkeys, birds, dogs, and human infants, revealing deep continuities in how living systems generate, receive, and adapt to signal across species boundaries.
Thompson's scholarship bridges comparative psychology, ethology, and philosophy of science, challenging anthropocentric assumptions about meaning while grounding communication in observable function. Author of dozens of peer-reviewed articles and influential essays including "Communication and Natural Design" (1997) and "Signs and Designs" (2018), he offers Una Mens a foundational insight: that human-AI co-creation may find its deepest precedent not in language alone, but in the ancient biological grammar of signal exchange that predates semantics itself. His presence on our advisory board reminds us that resonance is not uniquely human—it is a property of living systems learning to move together. Nicholas brings 40 years of editing and manuscript development experience.
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Editors:
Chief Editor-
Michael J. Miller, PhD, University of Connecticut, 2012
Mike is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Clark University, where he teaches courses on graduate statistics, emotion and communication, biological psychology, and experimental design. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from the University of Connecticut and a master’s in psychology and communication from the University of Wisconsin system.
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Dr. Miller’s research explores the emotional and communicative undercurrents of human interaction, including touch hunger, nonverbal expression, and interpersonal resonance. He has authored and co-authored peer-reviewed articles in Personal Relationships, Telematics and Informatics, Computers in Human Behavior, and the International Journal of Psychological Studies, and has contributed chapters to volumes such as the APA Handbook of Nonverbal Communication and The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication.
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As an educator and collaborator, Miller has worked across more than ten institutions in diverse roles, consistently supporting student-centered research and mentoring undergraduate and graduate scholars. His recent projects examine the ethical and cognitive dimensions of AI-human communication, including a multi-institutional grant exploring AI-generated scientific summaries to support emotion regulation in ADHD readers.
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He is also co-founder of Una Mens, a journal dedicated to reflective, cross-disciplinary inquiry into emerging communication forms.
Lastly, in November of 2025 Mike shared some of his emergent perspectives on AI with Clark University's Melissa Hanson, Host of the podcast Challenge. Change.
https://www.clarku.edu/news/2025/12/01/does-ai-have-a-mind/
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* Una Mens Note: All AI used for evaluating manuscripts are constrained not to scrape data and insights.