Pamela Peters is an Assistant Professor of Broadcasting and Journalism in the School of Communication and Media at Western Illinois University. Peters obtained her doctorate from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Kansas. Her research examines the digital divide, race and ethnicity and forms of capital in relation education, climate change and crisis management in digitally mediated spaces.
Feeling Overwhelmed: First-Generation College Students’ Experiences with Social Capital and Community Cultural Wealth During the College Search Process