media Archives - Katya Ognyanova

12 02, 2013

Topics in Mainstream Media: A Dynamic Network Visualization

Katya Ognyanova2018-06-22T00:17:50-04:00February 12th, 2013|Tags: agenda, agenda-setting, dynamic, elections, Gephi, media, network analysis, networks, new media, news, RStudio, topics, visualization|

My doctoral dissertation (defended a few months back) studies a dynamic network of news outlets and the topics they cover over time. It implements a measure of media fragmentation and uses actor-based modeling to evaluate the impact of economic, political, organizational, and structural forces on certain properties of the media agenda. [...]

30 05, 2011

Actors and Links in the Media System: Taking a Network Perspective

Katya Ognyanova2018-06-22T00:53:15-04:00May 30th, 2011|Tags: agenda-setting, framing, link analysis, media, media effects, network analysis, networks, new media, semantic|

Exploring the structure of relationships between news organizations, issues, and audience members is key to understanding the media system. The paper I'm posting here (just presented at ICA 2011, Boston) looks into a range of network types available to media researchers: inter-organizational, semantic, issue, hyperlink, and social graphs. It discusses important predictors [...]