Neo accepts Assistant Professor position at Hawaii

It gives me great pleasure to announce that my former advisee, Rachel Neo, has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the School of Communications at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Rachel plans to continue her work on online bandwagon effects. She will also expand her research program to include cross-national comparative work on how digital media influence political expression and public engagement.

COPS Alumnus Elizabeth Stoycheff research about online surveillance is highlighted by Washtingon Post and international media

Dr. Elizabeth Stoycheff, assistant professor at Wayne State University and OSU COPS alumnus, recently published "Under Surveillance: Examining Facebook's Spiral of Silence Effects in the Wake of NSA Internet Monitoring" in the peer-reviewed journal Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.  Her article is getting a great deal of media coverage, including a write-up in the Washington Post, Think Progress, and others.

Congrats Elizabeth!

Clementson Research Gets Play at Home and Abroad

COPS member David Clementson's forthcoming research (this fall) in Presidential Studies Quarterly on candidate communication styles is getting a lot of attention in U.S. and international media through its application to the current presidential race. After an interview of David in Pacific Standard was shared by each of the three major communication associations (ICA, NCA, and AEJMC), the story has been picked up by the Huffington Post as well as The Daily Mail.

Thursday talk in Political Science

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us this Thursday for our next Workshop in American Politics speaker, J. Eric Oliver from the University of Chicago. Prof. Oliver will be giving a talk titled “Enchanted America: How Intuitions Shape Public Opinion.” Chapter 5 from a book of the same title is attached.

The talk will be 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Spencer Room, with a graduate student meeting at the same place 2:30 to 3 p.m.

Thanks!

Vlad

Pearson & Kosicki publish paper in Journalism Studies

Congratulations to George Pearson and Jerry Kosicki for their paper -- now available online -- "How way-Finding is Challenging Gatekeeping in the Digital Age" in Journalism Studies. The paper "re-evaluates the relevance of the gatekeeping framework in the twenty-first century, arguing that in an age of digital journalism the gatekeeping metaphor has begun to restrict our study of journalism."
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1461670X.2015.1123112#.VpaP0PkrJFE

Minseon Jeong Receives Honorable Mention for Paper at Public Opinion Conference

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Minseon Jeong for her Honorable Mention in the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research Student Paper Award competition. Her paper, "Relationship of News Media Consumption, Political Efficacy, and the Moderating Effect of Political Interest" was the result of a collaboration during her MA program at Washington State University with Kyle Lorenzano and Yiran Wang.

COPS Thursday 10/1/15

A quick reminder that tomorrow we'll have Paul Beck, Erik Nisbet, and Hillary Schulman presenting on their research programs and current projects during COPS. As usual, we'll be meeting in 3150 Derby from 2-3pm.

Neo article published in IJPOR

Congratulations to Rachel Neo on the (electronic) publication of her sole-authored article, "Favoritism or Animosity? Examining How SNS Network Homogeneity Influences Vote Choice via Affective Mechanisms" in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. As the title suggests, the paper examines how online social network composition shapes citizens' feelings toward political candidates, and how this impacts vote choice.  Check it out here:

DOI: 10.1093/ijpor/edv035

Clementson paper accepted in Presidential Studies Quarterly

Congratulations to doctoral student David Clementson, who was recently notified that his paper "When does a Presidential Candidate seem Presidential and Trustworthy? Campaign Messages Through the Lens of Language Expectancy Theory" has been accepted for publication in Presidential Studies Quarterly. The manuscript is expected to appear in the March 2017 issue.

Peifer wins AEJ award

Jason Peifer's paper, "Perceived News Media Importance: Developing and Validating a Tool for Clarifying Dynamics of Media Trust", has been named a Top Student Paper by the Communication Theory & Methodology Division of AEJMC.  Well done, Jason.

Congratulations to Hyunjin Song on Dissertation Defense

I am proud and happy to announce that Hyunjin Song today successfully defended his dissertation, "A Dynamic Longitudinal Examination of Social Networks and Political Behavior: The Moderating Effect of Local Network Properties and Its Implication for Social Influence Processes." Jin did a great job on the dissertation and defense, and now looks forward to his new position at the University of Vienna in Austria. Please help me congratulate Jin!

Brian Weeks moving to University of Michigan

Congratulations to Brian Weeks, who has accepted a position in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan.  He will also have an appointment in the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. Brian earned his PhD from the School of Communication at Ohio State University last year, and has spent the past year working with Homero Gil de Zúñiga at the University of Vienna.  Well done, Brian!

Hyunjin Song Accepts Position in Vienna

Please help me congratulate Hyunjin "Jin" Song on his acceptance of a job offer at the University of Vienna in Austria. Starting this summer, Jin will be Assistant Professor in the Department of Methods in the Social Sciences at the University of Vienna. There, he will be applying his considerable theoretical and methodological skills to the study of text analysis. Jin also has his dissertation distributed to his committee and a defense scheduled later this month. Congrats, Jin -- your hard work continues to pay off!

Peifer accepts job in Journalism at Indiana U

I am pleased to announce that Jason Peifer has accepted an offer to be an Assistant Professor of Journalism in the Media School at Indiana University, Bloomington starting in the Fall.  Jason, who has a professional background in journalism, is particularly interested in political entertainment.  He is currently working on his dissertation, which examines how news parody influences perceptions of journalism's importance.  

Congratulations, Jason!

COPS Alumnus Elizabeth Stoycheff has a first-authored article in the November issue of Political Communication on Internet and Democratization

Dr. Elizabeth Stoycheff, an alumnus of COPS and currently an assistant professor at Wayne State University, has a first-authored article in this month's Political Communication examining the cross-national relationship between Internet penetration, Internet use, and democratic attitudes. The title and abstract (with link to the article) are below. Congrats!

What’s the Bandwidth for Democracy? Deconstructing Internet Penetration and Citizen Attitudes About Governance

Recent world events have highlighted the democratic potential of information and communication technologies. This article draws upon the democracy literature to develop a multilevel conceptual framework that links country-level Internet penetration and individual-level Internet use to citizen attitudes about governance in 34 developing countries. In doing so, it deconstructs “Internet penetration” into three dimensions—hardware (e.g., computers), users, and broadband—to provide greater theoretical specificity about how Internet diffusion leads citizens to adopt democratic attitudes. Results from multilevel analyses indicate that individual Internet use and the diffusion of Internet hardware shape citizens’ perceptions of the supply of democracy in their countries, and individual Internet use and diffusion of broadband lead citizens to adopt stronger democratic preferences. Theoretical and normative implications are discussed.