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. [...]
Just presented at the NCA 2012 Convention, Orlando FL, Top Papers in Political Communication panel. This study takes an MSD approach to look at the impact of the Internet on political efficacy. The results show that online political efficacy is associated with the perceived comprehensiveness and credibility of online news. Efficacy [...]
Just finished & uploaded to YouTube: a slidecast for our Alhambra Source project. The Source is a participatory news platform aimed at enhancing civic engagement at the community level. Its development was largely based on grounded communication research. The site was launched in 2010 as a collaboration between the COMM & [...]
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 [...]
The Alhambra project is a collaboration between Metamorphosis and the USC Annenberg Journalism School. The project looks at the potential of new media to promote civic engagement and intergroup interactions. The product of it all - Alhambra Source - is a community news website serving a diverse city in LA County. [...]