Media Science | Disciplines | College of Communication

The Digital Spin: Political Agenda Setting on Alternative Social Media Platforms

This study examines how agenda setting operates in today’s hybrid media ecosystem by investigating how mainstream political events during the…

Political Communication Social Media

November 13, 2025

Public Support for Warning Label Policies on Social Media Among U.S.…

Introduction: Health warning labels are used across several regulatory spaces to warn consumers about potentially harmful products. The study aimed…

Health Communication Social Media

October 1, 2025

Populist Hustlers Versus Establishment Dynasties: The Contentious Visual Framing Dual of…

We draw on three data sets to offer a comprehensive view on visual representation of presidential candidates and the impact…

Framing Social Media

September 23, 2025

Topic modeling of video and image data: a visual semantic unsupervised…

Understanding visual narratives is essential for analyzing media representation. This paper introduces VisTopics, a computational framework for analyzing large-scale visual…

AI

August 21, 2025

Media Matters: A Mixed-Method Look into the Research on Misinformation and…

We use a large-scale mixed-method analysis to examine changes in misinformation research over three decades, with a particular attention to…

Misinformation Social Media

August 12, 2025

Discipline: Media Science

Morgan Weiland

Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations

Xiaoya Jiang

Assistant Professor, Media Science

Jen Jiun Choi

Associate Professor of the Practice, Department of Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations

Valerie Giglio-Samson

Lecturer, Media Science

From COM to Career: Q&A With Sydney Koo, BS Media Science

Topic modeling of video and image data: a visual semantic unsupervised…