“Faculty and students have been agonizing recently about the emergence of fake news—false information packaged to deceive the public into thinking it was produced by professionals with respect for truth,” notes Thomas Fiedler (COM’71), dean of the College of Communication, in his spring 2017 COMtalk column. Another interested consumer of news—Barack Obama—described the new media… Read More
Tweets, reposts and shares can help a cause become hip, but do little to help it in the long run When Lei Guo, an assistant professor of communication, spends a day on social media, she’s not playing Candy Crush or tweeting what she had for breakfast. She’s doing research. Guo, originally from Shanghai, is especially… Read More
Assistant Professor, Division of Emerging Media Studies How did you become involved in the emerging media field? I’ve been doing research for several years. I graduated in 2014 with a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and my main area is in media effects—basically how traditional media influences public. When I was doing… Read More