This paper came about when my clever colleague Toby Hopp asked me about a dataset I had collected. It was on the […]
I’ve been working on agenda-setting research now for 5 years. Still, I am incredibly humbled to be on a journal […]
My Ph.D. advisor Dr. Joe Bob Hester came to me with a question: how do academic articles on the broad […]
Part of the research I do here at UNC looks at how people and the news media react to each […]
As more and more social scientists employ algorithms to try and “code” or “annotate” large datasets, the question of which […]
A colleague here at UNC asked me the other day if I could scrape the follower counts of the 500+ congressmen who […]
Continuing with my agenda-setting research stream, I decided to look at the GOP primaries this year, and more specifically the […]
In some research I did last year, I investigated the question, when is a website liable for content it hosts […]
In what was my first agenda-setting study, I took a look at social media/social networking site Twitter, and investigated the […]