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A network approach to intermedia agenda-setting: A big data analysis of traditional, partisan, and emerging online U.S. news.

 July 8, 2020 |  

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October 11th, 2015

Socioeconomic Status, Social Capital, and Partisan Polarity as Predictors of Political Incivility on Twitter

This paper came about when my clever colleague Toby Hopp asked me about a dataset I had collected. It was on the […]
March 31st, 2014

Network Issue Agendas on Twitter during the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election

I’ve been working on agenda-setting research now for 5 years. Still, I am incredibly humbled to be on a journal […]
April 4th, 2013

A Social Network Analysis of “Social Media” Articles in Academic Journals

My Ph.D. advisor Dr. Joe Bob Hester came to me with a question: how do academic articles on the broad […]
March 3rd, 2013

How many followers do people and news media have on Twitter?

Part of the research I do here at UNC looks at how people and the news media react to each […]
November 27th, 2012

LibLinear Algorithm & Twitter

As more and more social scientists employ algorithms to try and “code” or “annotate” large datasets, the question of which […]
November 26th, 2012

The Top Congressmen on Twitter

A colleague here at UNC asked me the other day if I could scrape the follower counts of the 500+ congressmen who […]
November 12th, 2012

Agenda-Setting, Ideologies & Twitter: How “Moderate Mitt” was a huge mistake for Newt Gingrich

Continuing with my agenda-setting research stream, I decided to look at the GOP primaries this year, and more specifically the […]
November 12th, 2012

When is a website liable for User Generated Content?

In some research I did last year, I investigated the question, when is a website liable for content it hosts […]
November 11th, 2012

Does Agenda-Setting Theory Still Apply to Social Media & Social Networking?

In what was my first agenda-setting study, I took a look at social media/social networking site Twitter, and investigated the […]