Selected Conference Papers
| The Dynamics of Public Attention: Agenda-Setting Theory Meets Big Data (with Guggenheim, Jang, and Bae). International Communication Association, 2014. Three Guys Walk into A Bar: An Information Theoretic Approach. International Communication Association, 2013. Hardwired for News: Affective Intelligence and Political Attention (with Marcus and Mackuen). American Political Science Association, 2013. The Political Psychology of Tea Party Rheotric (with Mackuen). American Political Science Association, 2012. Strategic Citizenship: The Dynamics of Personality, Emotion, and Citizen Information Processing (with Mackuen, Marcus, and Miller). Midwest Political Science Association, 2011. “The Attentive Citizen” (with Michael MacKuen and George Marcus) American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle September 2011. |
| “Taming the Information Tide Americans’ Thoughts on Information Overload, Polarization and Social Media” (with Eszter Hargittai and Olivia Curry) International Communication Association Annual Conference, Boston, May 2011. |
| “Strategic Citizenship: The Dynamics of Personality, Emotion, and Citizen Information Processing” (with Michael MacKuen, George Marcus and Patrick Miller) Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago April 2011. |
| “Taming the Information Tide Americans’ Thoughts on Information Overload, Polarization and Social Media” (with Eszter Hargittai and Olivia Curry) Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, April 2011. |
| “A Critical Transition in Political Communication From Push Media to Pull Media” (with Krysha Gregorowicz) American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, September 2010. |
| “Measuring Subjective Emotional Responses: Testing the Validity of Two Approaches to Measurement” (with George Marcus and Michael MacKuen) Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago April 2010. |
| “The Exponential Growth of Digital Media in the American Household: Trends of Supply and Demand 1960 – 2005” (with Yong Jin Park and Elliot Panek) Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington VA September 2009. |
| “Needles and Haystacks: The Explosion of Political and Non-Political Information Flow” American Political Science Association, Toronto Canada, September 2009. |
| “The Flow of Mediated Culture: Trends of Supply and Demand 1960 – 2005” American Sociological Association, San Francisco CA, August 2009. |
| “Tracking the Flow of Information into the Home: An Empirical Assessment of the Digital Revolution in the U.S. from 1960 – 2005” (with Yong Jin Park and Elliot Panek) International Communications Association Annual Conference, Chicago, May 2009. |
| “Evolution of Media Effects Theory: Fifty Years of Cumulative Research” (with Lauren Guggenhein) Top Four Paper Award, Mass Communication Division, International Communication Association Annual Conference, Chicago, May 2009. |
| “Assessing Subjective Emotional Responses: Contrasting Two Approaches to Measurement” (with George Marcus and Michael Mackuen) Midwester Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, April 2009. |
| “Measuring Subjective Emotional Responses: Contrasting Two Approaches to Measurement” (with George Marcus and Michael Mackuen) International Society of Political Psychology Annual Scientific Meetings, Sciences Po, Paris, July, 2008. |
| “The Seven Deadly Sins of Communication Research” (with Roei Davidson, Sung-Hee Joo, Yong Jin Park, Ann E. Williams) International Communications Association Annual Conference, Dresden Germany June 2007. |
| “The Network Society and Evolving Communcation Theory” (with Peter Monge, Noshir Contractor, Jan Van Dijk and Scott Poole) International Communications Association Annual Conference, Dresden Germany June 2006. |
| “Revisiting the Gordian Knot” International Communications Association Annual Conference, New York, May 2005. |
| “Emotional Framing, Information Search, and the Operation of Affective Intelligence in Matters of Public Policy” (with Michael B. MacKuen, George E. Marcus, Luke Keele and Jenny Wolak) Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, April 2001. |
| “Affective Intelligence, Voting, and Matters of Public Policy” (with Michael B. MacKuen and George E. Marcus) American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Washington, September 2000. |
| “When Voters Can Interact and Compare Candidates Online: Experimentally Investigating Political Web Effects” (with R. Kirkland Ahern and Jennifer Stromer-Galley) International Communications Association Annual Conference, Acapulco, June 2000. |
| “Measuring Political Enthusiasm and Anxiety” “ (with George E. Marcus and Michael B. MacKuen) Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, April 2000. |
| “A Taxonomy of Communications Demand” (with Steven Lanning and Shawn R. O’Donnell) Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Alexandria VA, September 1999. |
| “New Media, Public Knowledge and Political Behavior” American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, August 1999. |
| “The Internet and the Political Economy of Communications” Panelist, International Communications Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, May 1999. |
| “The Impact of the New Media: Fragmentation, Stratification and Political Evolution” Conference of Mediated Politics and the Future of Democracy, Annenberg School, October 1998. |
| “The Nature of Issue Publics” (with Shanto lyengar) Philip Converse Symposium, American Political Science Association, Boston MA, September 1998. |
| “Communications Standards and Public Policy: A Gametheoretic Approach” Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence Italy, June 1998. |
| “Affective Choice and Rational Choice” (with George E. Marcus and Michael B. MacKuen and Joanne Miller) American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Washington, August 1997. |
| “Who Owns the Internet” in The Internet and Society,O’Reilly Associates (ed.) Harvard University Press, April 1997, from 1996 Harvard Conference. |
| “The Web’s Next Wave: A Field Study of Internet Diffusion and Use Patterns” (with Shawn R. O’Donnell and Steven M. Schneider) MIT Media Lab, News in the Future Research Consortium, October 1996. |
| “Emotion and Reason in Mass Political Behavior” (with George E. Marcus and Michael B. MacKuen) International Society of Political Psychology, Vancouver Canada, July 1996. [Winner of Freedman Award]. |
| “The Political Economy of the Set-Top Box” Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Solomon’s Island MD, October 1995. |
| “The Globalization of Information Infrastructure: A Paradox for National Policy” International Communications Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM May 1995. |
| “New Home Technologies and Consumers’ Use of Times” (with John Robinson) American Association for Public Opinion Research, St. Petersburg FL, May 1995. |
| “Toward a Unified Theory of Human Communications” Invited Lecture in Political Communications, Communications Studies, Northwestern University, December 1994. |
| “Crosstalk: Candidates, Media and Voters” panelist, Shorenstein Center, Harvard University, December 1994. |
| National Telecommunication Forum, panelist, Boulder CO., November 1994. |
| “Themes and Superthemes in Audience Decodings of Television News”(with David Swanson) American Political Science Association Annual Conference, New York, August 1994. |
| “Television and Politics” panelist, Freedom Channel, Moscow, Russia, June 1994. |
| “Toward a New Journalist’s Agenda” panelist, Nieman Foundation, Harvard University, May 1994. |
| “Megamedia: The Growth of International Media Conglomerates “ International Communications Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, May 1993. |
| “Media and Audiences: The Need for Multimethod Research Designs” (with Ann Crigler) News of the World Conference, UNESCO, Perugia, Italy, June 1992. |
| “Policy Gridlock and the Communications Revolution” (with Lee McKnight, Richard Jay Solomon, and Suzanne C. Neil), International Communications Association, Annual Conference, Communication Law & Policy Section Top Three Refereed Papers, Miami, May 1992. |
| “Common Knowledge,” Invited Bouchers Lecture, Department of Communications Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 1992. |
| “Dynamic Models of Political Involvement,” (with George Marcus, Michael MacKuen and John Sullivan) American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, August 1991. |
| “News and the Construction of Political Meaning,” (with Ann Crigler and Marion Just) American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, August 1991. |
| “Interpreting Visual vs. Aural Messages from Television News” (with Ann Crigler and Marion Just)International Communications Association Annual Conference, Chicago, May 1991. |
| “What Ever Happened to Mass Society Theory?” American Association of Public Opinion Research Annual Conference, Phoenix AZ, May 1991. |
| “Broadening the Debate over HDTV,” Airlie Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Airlie VA, October 1990. |
| “Media Content and Audience Response: Parallel Content Analysis Time-Series,” Toward a Comprehensive Theory of the Audience, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, September 1990. |
| “News Patterns, Public Perceptions and Learning” (with Ann Crigler and Marion Just) American Political Science Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, September 1990. |
| “Political Issues in the Mass Media: Creating an Informed Electorate,” American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, August 1990. |
| “Cognitive and Affective Frames of Political News” (with Ann Crigler and Marion Just) International Society of Political Psychology Annual Conference, Washington DC, July 1990. |