Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies, Ursinus College
My research focuses on topics of political media, conservative news, journalism history, and digital propaganda. My recently published book -- Making the News Popular: Mobilizing U.S. News Audiences (University of Illinois Press, 2016) -- explores American journalism's turn away from a high modern philosophy of professionalism toward an attempt to set news values in response to consumer demand.
3 ways Facebook and other social media companies could clean up their acts – if they wanted to
Dec 16, 2018 13:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Facebook is in crisis mode, but the company can take major steps to fix itself and the global community it says it wants to promote. Facebook founder, CEO and majority shareholder Mark Zuckerberg need not wait for...
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