{"id":42646,"date":"2025-06-11T14:32:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=42646"},"modified":"2025-07-03T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:48:08","slug":"three-earn-doctorates-in-emerging-media-studies","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/three-earn-doctorates-in-emerging-media-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Three earn doctorates in emerging media studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three COM students successfully defended their doctoral dissertations and were each awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/academics\/emerging-media-studies\/phd-in-emerging-media-studies\/\">PhD in emerging media studies<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Sejin Paik authored \u201cThe Digital Soup: The Interplay Between Journalistic and Algorithmic Curation on News Framing Effects.\u201d She was advised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/chris-chao-su\/\">Chris Chao Su<\/a>, assistant professor, emerging media studies.<\/li><li>Li Zhang authored \u201cJudging a Bot by Its Cover: Investigating the Effectiveness and Implications of Social Bot Labeling.\u201d She was advised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/jim-cummings\/\">James Cummings<\/a>, associate professor, emerging media studies.<\/li><li>Alex Rochefort authored \u201cUnsafe at Scale: Big Tech, Social Media, and the Challenge of Policy Reform.\u201d He was advised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/chris-wells\/\">Chris Wells<\/a>, associate dean of faculty development and professor, emerging media studies.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>COM\u2019s PhD program is the nation\u2019s first doctorate program in emerging media and its critical, daily role in modern life. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/meet-coms-first-doctoral-recipient-sarah-krongard\/\">The program awarded its first degree in 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three COM students successfully defended their doctoral dissertations and were each awarded a PhD in emerging media studies: Sejin Paik&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1654,"featured_media":42647,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/42646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/42646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42648,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/42646\/revisions\/42648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42646"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=42646"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=42646"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=42646"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=42646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}