Results for "social media"

Projects

The Brain and Social Media

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In this project we are examining how participants' behavior outside the scanner (e.g., their personality, their social media usage) relates (or not!) to the  neural activation we observe in the scanner at the UT…

Metz Elementary School Archive

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This project, which was started in the class titled LAH350 Archival Advocacy during 2020-21, partnered with community members from a local Austin elementary school to build an online digital archive of their school's…

Faculty

Lucy Atkinson

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Women's and Gender Studies, Advertising, Public Relations
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Lucy Atkinson studies persuasive communication (advertising, PR, social media) in the context of the environment, sustainability and climate change. She examines how mass media communicate about these issues and the…

Joan Hughes

Affiliated Departments:
Curriculum and Instruction
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Dr. Hughes' research and teaching focuses on teacher learning and technology integration in preservice (learning to become a teacher) and inservice (a current teacher teaching in a school) contexts. Her current…

Yan Leng

Affiliated Departments:
McCombs School of Business
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-- Machine learning on social networks
-- Recommendation systems
-- Social media analysis

Brad Love

Affiliated Departments:
College of Natural Sciences, College of Communication, Advertising, Public Relations, Dell Medical School, School of Undergraduate Studies
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My research investigates the interplay of mass media and public health, particularly as it relates to combating disparities.
Recent work focuses on how young adults affected by cancer can use digital media (…

Gina Masullo

Affiliated Departments:
School of Journalism
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Dr. Masullo's research focuses on how the digital space both connects and divides people and how that influences society, individuals, and journalism. She has a particular interest in bridging divides between groups…

Dhiraj Murthy

Affiliated Departments:
Sociology, College of Communication, School of Journalism, School of Information, School of Information
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Dhiraj Murthy's research explores social media, digital research methods, race/ethnicity, qualitative/mixed methods, big data quantitative analysis, and virtual organizations. His work also uniquely explores the…

Ashwin Rajadesingan

Affiliated Departments:
College of Communication
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I study how people engage with politics online. I am interested in how online spaces can foster spirited, engaging political discussions and contribute to building a vibrant deliberative democracy. I combine large-…

Suzanne Scott

Affiliated Departments:
Radio-Television-Film
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Her research and teaching interests include fan studies, media convergence, digital and participatory culture, social media, transmedia storytelling, comic book culture, and gender studies.