Research award

Just found out that several of my collaborators (Kristen Landreville, Michael Beam and Nicholas Geidner) and I have won the 3rd place award in the annual Jung-Sook Lee student paper competition run by the AEJMC (comm tech division). In this project, titled: "Gatekeeping and YouTube: News filters and the intermedia dynamic in the age of user-generated content,"we’ve examined how YouTube empowered non-elites to very effectively join the public discourse throughout the 2008 Presidential Election campaign.