Estlow Research

Research & Creative Works

Our research, awards and programming foster conversations about the role of emergent digital media in protecting democratic freedoms. The Estlow Center is a platform for research projects that address relationships between media and social change. The yearly Estlow lecture and Anvil of Freedom award is given to a media professional or organization that upholds this commitment to democracy and journalistic innovation.

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CO-Based Media & Communication Publications

  • Books

    Clark, L.S. & Marchi, R. (2017). Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism. Cambridge University Press.

    • Focuses on ethnographic research conducted at Denver’s South High school. The school was first constructed in 1925 and is now host to a large number of English language learners. 
    • Awarded the 2018 Nancy Baym Book Award, Association of Internet Researchers
    • Awarded the 2018 James W. Carey Media Research Award, Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research
  • Articles A-D

    Clark, L.S., Jimenez, & Ramirez, J. (2024). Tethered compliance: Exploring the negotiation of participation and time in online civic engagement among low-income U.S. young people during the pandemic. Mobile Media & Communication 12(1). https://doi-org.du.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/20501579231208

    • Interview-based and ethnographic research rooted in a YPAR (Youth Participatory Action Research)  project on civic engagement that took place with young people living in four of Denver’s low income housing communities. 

     

    Clark, L.S. (2020). Reconsidering mobility: The competing logics of information and communication technologies across class differences in the context of Denver’s gentrification (pp. 266-279). In Erika Polson, L.S. Clark, & R. Gajjala, Eds., The Routledge Companion to Media and Class. New York: Routledge.  

    • Interview-based and ethnographic research rooted in simultaneous YPAR (Youth Participatory Action Research)  and Community Engaged Research projects on civic engagement that took place in four of Denver’s low income housing communities. 

     

    Clark, L.S. (2016). Participant or zombie? Exploring the limits of the participatory politics framework through a failed media-rich youth participatory action research (YPAR) project. For special issue, Cultural Industries and Transmedia in a Time of Spreadable Media: Origins, Literacies, and Futures (Ian Gordon & Sun Sun Lim, editors), The Information Society 32:5, 343-353.

    • Interview-based and ethnographic research rooted in a YPAR (Youth Participatory Action Research)  project that took place in one of Denver’s urban high schools. 

     

    Clark, L.S. (2016). Participants on the margins: #BlackLivesMatter and the role that shared artifacts of engagement played among minoritized political newcomers on Snapchat, Facebook, and Twitter. (Special issue on New Constructions of Public Space, Jose Van Dijck & Thomas Poell, eds.), International Journal of Communication, 10, 235-353.  Available: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/3843/1536

    • Interview-based and ethnographic research rooted in a YPAR (Youth Participatory Action Research)  project that took place in one of Denver’s urban high schools. 

     

    Clark, L.S. (2003). Challenges of social good in the world of 'Grand Theft Auto' and 'Barbie': A case study of a community computer center for youth. New Media & Society 5(1):95-116.

    • Interview-based and participatory observation ethnographic research that took place in one of Denver’s community centers serving low income neighborhoods. 

     

    Coppini, D., El Damanhoury, K., Snyder, S. (2021). Media Landscape Study and Recommended Solutions for Consideration. The Colorado Trust. Retrieved from https://bit.ly/3AQfBLy

     

    Coppini, D. & El Damanhoury, K., Lovell, E. (2021). The News About Local News: 10 Takeaways from Colorado Journalists. Colorado Media Project. Retrieved from https://bit.ly/39oO716  

     

    Damanhoury, K. E., Coppini, D., Johnson, B., & Rodriguez, G. (2022). Local News in Colorado: Comparing Journalism Quality Across Four Counties. Journalism Practice, 18(5), 1059–1080. https://doi-org.du.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/17512786.2022.2083003

    • Content analysis of 600 news articles exploring the factors behind similarities and differences in news coverage across four CO counties.
  • Articles E-Z

    Jimenez, C., Ramirez, J., & Clark, L.S. (2024). We know about things too: The labor of cultivating youth voice in critical media literacy, civic engagement, and YPAR projects. Youth & Society 56(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X231207973

    • Interview-based and ethnographic research rooted in a YPAR (Youth Participatory Action Research)  project on civic engagement that took place with young people living in four of Denver’s low income housing communities. 

     

    Polson, E. (2025). Street art in the Insta-city: Mobile audiences and urban placemaking. International Communication Gazette 87(1): 21-33.

    • Proposes the idea of the Insta-city, co-constructed via art, photography, location, and Instagram, as explored in relation to Denver’s street art scene.

     

    Polson, E. (2022). From the tag to the #hashtag: Street art, Instagram, and gentrification. Space and Culture 27(1): 79-93.

    • Presents a case study of Instagrammable street art in the RiNo (River North) Arts District of Denver, exploring how mediatization is connected to gentrification processes.

     

    Polson, E., R. Botta, & E.V. Howeling. (2024). Where’s the bathroom in this mobile home? Adding water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) infrastructure to agendas on homelessness and digital media. Mobile Media & Communication.  12(2): 368-385. 

    • Exploring how digital media can help unhoused people to establish everyday routines, this case study reviews two community-based research projects that aimed to support unhoused people in Denver in their needs for water, sanitation, and hygiene.

Faculty Fellows Research & Creative Work

  • Lynn Schofield Clark

    Estlow Center Director

    Lynn Schofield Clark, PhD, is an MFJS Professor and Director of the Estlow International Research Center for Journalism and New Media. With interests in media and sociopolitical development, she specializes in media-rich community-based and participatory action research with young people and adults in communities experiencing marginalization.  In 2025-2026, she is researching:

    • Parent and young adult discussions about news
    • Young adult media production experiences and civic engagement development
    • Interdisciplinary methodologies for partnering with Chicano/a communities and elders in the development of museum quality oral histories
    • Mobile communication and critical AI research

  • Renee Botta

    Estlow Faculty Fellow

    Renee Botta is an Associate Professor with expertise in community-engaged health communication research. She has overseen externally funded partnerships with numerous nongovernmental organizations in Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Zambia. 

  • Joe Brown

    Estlow Faculty Fellow

    Joe Brown is an Associate Professor and documentarian with expertise in environmental and wildlife issues. His films have screened around the world at festivals such as: the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, The International Wildlife Film Festival, Ethnografilm: Paris, and are available online via Apple TV and Amazon. Joe has also produced media for many environmental organizations, including: The Waterkeeper Alliance, The Nature Conservancy, Project Coyote, and the Carnivore Coexistence Lab. Joe works with DU's Center for a Regenerative Future to help students envision a future that is better for both the environment and the human species. 

  • David Coppini

    Estlow Faculty Fellow

    David Coppini is Associate Professor whose expertise is in political communication and trust in news. His community engaged research has contributed to conversations about how local news can be revitalized throughout the state of Colorado. With Associate Professor Kareem El Damanhoury, he also conducts research on media literacy and combatting misinformation among young people from marginalized backgrounds.

  • Christof Demont-Heinrich

    Estlow Faculty Fellow

    Christof Demont-Heinrich is an Associate Professor with expertise in language, power, and globalization. His research explores the changing dynamics of English language dominance on the platform Spotify. He also has interests in environmental news and oversees a news website on solar-charged cars.

  • Kareem El Damanhoury

    Estlow Faculty Fellow

    Kareem El Damanhoury, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Digital Storytelling, Multimedia Journalism and Media Studies as well as the Director of DU's Prison Arts Initiative and DU Media. His research interests are in visual communication, global media strategies of state-sponsored news outlets, and local news ecosystems. In 2025-2026, he is researching:

    • Evaluating media literacy programming and its influence on media trust and news verification skills
    • Comparing global media strategies of Russia's RT and China's CGTN on social media
    • Examining news reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict across international media 

  • Carlos Jimenez

    Estlow Faculty Fellow

    Carlos Jimenez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism at the University of Denver. His research broadly examines the role of media in the everyday lives of work-class and immigrant communities: farmworkers, youth of color, and day laborers. His essays have appeared in the New Media and Society, Journal of Learning, Media and Technology, Journal of Radio and Audio Media, and other scholarly journals. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Media in the Fields, about how immigrant farmworkers in Oxnard, California use media to bring visibility to their lives and to reshape rural community according to their needs.

  • Nadia Kaneva

    Estlow Faculty Fellow

    Nadia Kaneva, PhD, is Professor of Strategic Communication in the Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. She serves as Director of the M.A. in Media and Public Communication and the Graduate Certificate in Public Diplomacy. Her work advances critical perspectives on nation branding and public diplomacy in the post-Cold War context. Her current research focuses on strategic communication in the Russia-Ukraine War and examines how digital media, transnational promotional industries, and globalized consumer culture enable the emergence of new modes of wartime propaganda and collective mobilization.

  • Rachael A. Liberman

    Estlow Faculty Fellow

    Rachael A. Liberman is Teaching Professor in Media Studies with expertise in critical media literacy and humanizing pedagogy, digital embodiment, mediations of sexual subjectivity, feminist pornography, and porn literacy. Her single and co-authored works have been published in the Feminist Media Studies, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Porn Studies and The Communication Review.

  • Runchao Liu

    Estlow Faculty Fellow

    Runchao Liu is an assistant professor in the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. Liu’s research focuses on the cultural politics of popular music, sound, and listening for the ways they intersect with social justice, identity, and activism. Their work often brings together media and cultural studies, popular music and sound studies, Asian American studies, and Global Asias studies through critical and interdisciplinary lenses. In 2025-2026, she is working on

    • Examining Asian American experiences in rock and punk music through a book project.
    • Researching the changing scene of indie music by examining its evolvement as a space for intersectional sounds and experiences.
    • Leading a Wikipedia project at the Music of Asian America Research Center to increase the visibility of Asian American musicians and composers.
    • Creating a public-facing digital archive on Asian American rock and punk music.

  • Andrew Matranga

    Estlow Faculty Fellow

    Andrew Matranga is a Teaching Professor in Journalism Studies at the University of Denver, where he teaches at the intersection of editorial design, multimedia storytelling, and journalistic innovation. He also teaches branding and narrative strategy in the entrepreneurship program at the Daniels College of Business. With a background in magazine journalism, advertising, and podcast production, he brings a cross-disciplinary, real-world approach to creative education. He advises The Clarion, DU’s student-run newspaper, where he mentors students in immersive reporting, news design, and media production.

    His current Ed.D. research explores adaptive teaching presence and neurodivergent identity in flipped classrooms, focusing on relational pedagogy, improvisational methods, and inclusive learning design. Across all his work, he brings a storyteller’s mindset—centered on voice, connection, and the belief that well-crafted narratives can move people and spark change.

  • Erika Polson

    Estlow Faculty Fellow

    Erika Polson is an associate professor in the department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. Her critical cultural research on digital media, mobility, and placemaking is published in leading media and communication journals, as well as the (2016) book, Privileged Mobilities: Geo-Social Media, Professional Migration, and a New Global Middle Class. Recent projects include co-editing a Special Issue on “Digital placemaking” in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (2021) and articles in Special Issues in Mobile Media & Communication on “Homelessness and mobile media” (2023), in Space & Culture on “Gentrification and the right to the geomedia city” (2024), and in the International Communication Gazette on “Urban Places, Technologies and People: The Importance of Urban Communication for Communication and Media Studies” (2025). She is currently working on a book about how mobile and social media have changed travel and impacted places.

  • Derigan Silver

    Estlow Faculty Fellow

    Derigan Silver is Associate Professor of Media Law and Faculty Director of Freedom of Expression and Pluralism whose research explores government secrecy and national security law, originalism, defamation, social architecture theory. He has also conducted research on student freedom of expression issues and commercial speech.

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Faculty Publications

Our media, film and journalism studies faculty are leading-edge researchers whose projects and publications uphold Estlow's dedication to finding new forms of expression and experimentation in digital media environments.

  • Publications 2019-Present
    • Polson, E. (Forthcoming in 2021). "From the Tag to the #Hashtag: Street art, Instagram,and Gentrification." Space & Culture [Special Issue: Gentrification and the right to the geomedia city, edited by Maren Hartmann & André Jansson]
    • Norum, R. & Polson, E. (Forthcoming in 2021). "Placemaking Experiences in a New Economy." Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies [Special Issue: Digital Placemaking, edited by Germaine Halegoua and Erika Polson].
    • Thompson, Margaret (Under contract). Multicultural Journalism: Critical Reflexivity in News Practice, Routledge.
    • El Damanhoury, K. (2020). Toward a Protostate Media System: The Role of Content. International Journal of Communication, 14. p. 1783-1807. 
    • Winkler, C., El-Damanhoury, K., Dicker, A., Luu, Y., Kaczkowski, W., & El-Karhili, N. (2020). Considering the military-media nexus from the perspective of competing groups: the case of ISIS and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 13(1), p. 3-23.
    • Kaczkowski, W., Winkler, C., El Damanhoury, K., & Luu, Y. (2020). Intersections of the real and the virtual caliphates: The Islamic State's territory and its online propaganda. Journal of Global Security Studies.
    • Polson, E.; Schofield Clark, L. & Gajjala, R. (Eds.) (2020). Routledge Companion to Media & Class, London, UK: Routledge.
    • Polson, E. (2020). Online Media and the Aspirational Class 'Mobility' of Digital Nomads. In Polson, E.; Schofield Clark, L. & Gajjala, R. (Eds), Routledge Companion to Media & Class, London, UK: Routledge.
    • Polson, E.; Schofield Clark, L. & Gajjala, R. (2020). Media and Class in the 21st Century. In Polson, E.; Schofield Clark, L. & Gajjala, R. (Eds), Routledge Companion to Media & Class, London, UK: Routledge.
    • Calvert, C., Kozlowski, D.V, & Derigan Silver. (2020). Mass Media Law (21st Edition). New York: McGraw-Hill.
    • Clark, L. S., & Golan, O. (2019). From designed to spontaneous: Technologically enhanced learning communities (An introduction). In Yael Kali, Ayelet Baram Tzabari, & Amit Schejter (Eds.), Learning in a Networked Society. New York: Springer.
    • Hinzo, A., & Clark, L. S. (2019). Digital survivance and Trickster humor: Exploring visual and digital Indigenous epistemologies in the #NoDAPL movement. Information, Communication & Society 6 (AoIR Special Issue): 791-807. https://doiorg.du.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1573911
    • Mun, K., Rojas, H., Coppini, D., Cho, H. (2019). Studying Political Tolerance in an Era of Terrorism Frames and Social Media. Media, War & Conflict. 
    • Duncan, M. & Coppini, D. (2019). "Party and Peers. Corrective action effects on opinion and expression in the context of intergroup political conflict". Journal of Information, Technology and Politics, 16(3), 265- 289,https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2019.1644266
    • Coppini, D. (2019). Sensationalism versus substance: Building a framework that examines mass media coverage of migrants in the Italian context. Journal of European Popular Culture, 10(1), 53- 59, https://doi.org/10.1386/jepc.10.1.53_1.
    • DeCarvalho, L. J. & Cox, N.B. (2019). "Queerness (Un) Shackled: Theorizing Orange is the New Black." In Trier-Bieniek, A. (Ed.), Feminist Theory and Pop Culture (Second Edition). Koninklijke Brill NV: Leiden, The Netherlands.
    • Demont-Heinrich, C. (2019). "New Global Music Distributions System, Same Old Linguistic Hegemony? Analyzing English on Spotify." In Boyd-Barrett, O. & Mirrlees, T (Eds), Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change. Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield.
    • El Damanhoury, K. (2019). Constructing Place Identity: ISIS and Al-Qaeda's Branding Competition over the Caliphate. Journal of Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. doi: 10.1057/s41254-019-00155-1
    • El Damanhoury, K. (2019). Picturing Statehood during ISIS's Caliphal Days. In Krona, M. & Pennington, R. (Ed), The Media World of ISIS. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
    • El Damanhoury, K. (2019). The visual depiction of statehood in Daesh's Dabiq magazine and al-Naba' newsletter. In Winkler, C. (Ed), Networking Argument. New York, NY: Routledge.
    • Winkler, C., El Damanhoury, K., Saleh, Z., Hendry, J., & Elkarhili, N (2019). Intersections of ISIS Media Leader Loss and Media Campaign Strategy: A Visual Framing Analysis. Media, War & Conflict. doi: 10.1177/1750635219889370
    • Jimenez, C. (2019) "Antenna Dilemmas: The Rise of an Indigenous-Language Low-Power Radio Station in Southern California," Journal of Radio and Audio Media. 
    • Polson, E. (2019) Information SuperCalle: The Social Internet of Havana's WiFi Streets. In Wilken, R.; Goggin, G. & Horst, H. (Eds.), Location Technologies in International Context, London, UK: Routledge.
    • Reddell, T. (2019). The Sound of Things to Come: An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
    • Kozlowski, D. V. & Silver, D. (2019). "Measuring Reed's reach: Content discrimination in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals after Reed v. Town of Gilbert," Communication Law & Policy.
  • Archived Publications

    2018

    • Clark, L. S. (2018). Storytelling the self into citizenship: How social media practices facilitate adolescent and emerging adult political life. In Zizi Papacharissi (Ed.), The Networked Self: Birth, Life, Death. New York: Routledge.
    • Clark, L. S., & Brites, M. J. (2018). The challenge of extending youth rights in families: Differing approaches to cultivating citizenship. (2018th ed.). Nordicom Review. Gothenberg, Sweden.
    • Clark, L. S. (2018). Sketching a research agenda on families and technology in an era of migration. In Jennifer Van Hook, Susan M. McHale, & Valarie King (Eds.), Families and Technology: The 25th Annual Symposium on the Family. New York: Springer.
    • Clark, L. S., & Gillespie, M. (2018). From Scandinavia to the world. Contesting Religion: The Media Dynamics of Cultural Conflicts in Scandinavia.
    • Clark, L. S., & Walker, S. (2018). Popular Culture. Encyclopedia of Religion.
    • Marchi, R., & Clark, L. S. (2018). Social media and connective journalism: The formation of counterpublics and youth civic participation. Journalism. https://journals-sagepubcom.du.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1177/1464884918807811.
    • Kennedy, H., Dorsey, C., Anyon, Y., & Clark, L. S. (2018). YELL @ Denver program manual. Denver, CO: The Bridge Project, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver. https://portfolio.du.edu/yanyon/page/70291.
    • Coppini, D., Alvarez, G., Rojas, H. (2018). Entertainment, News, and Inequality. How Colombian media shape perceptions of income inequality and why it matters. International Journal of Communication, 12, 1651-1674.
    • Rodino-Colocino, Michelle, Lauren J. DeCarvalho, and Aaron Heresco. (2018). Neo-Orthodox Masculinities on Man Caves. Television & New Media 19 (7): 626-645.
    • El Damanhoury, K. & Winkler, C. (2018). Picturing law and order: A visual framing analysis of ISIS's Dabiq magazine. Journal of Arab Media & Society, Winter/Spring (25), p. 1-20.
    • El Damanhoury, K., Winkler, C., Kaczkowski, W., & Dicker, A. (2018). Examining the military–media nexus in ISIS's provincial photography campaign. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 1-20.
    • Winkler, C., El Damanhoury, K., Dicker, A., & Lemieux, A. F. (2018). Images of death and dying in ISIS media: A comparison of English and Arabic print publications. Media, War & Conflict. doi:10.1177/1750635217746200
    • Winkler, C., el-Damanhoury, K., & Lemieux, A. F. (2018). Validating extremism: Strategic use of authority appeals in al-Naba' infographics. Journal of Argumentation in Context, 7(1), 33-71.
    • Botta, R. A., Fenson-Hood, K., Scandurra, L., & Muasya, R. (2018). A Campaign to sustain hand washing behaviors in an urban informal settlement in Kenya. In Claudia Parvanta, David Nelson and Richard Harner (Eds.), Public Health Communication: Critical Tools and Strategies. Burlington MA: Jones & Bartlett.
    • Coppini, D., Alvarez, G., Rojas, H. (2018). "Entertainment, News, and Inequality. How Colombian media shape perceptions of income inequality and why it matters." International Journal of Communication, 12, 1651-1674.
    • Rodino-Colocino, Michelle, Lauren J. DeCarvalho, and Aaron Heresco, 2018. "Neo-Orthodox Masculinities on Man Caves." Television & New Media 19(7): 626-645.
    • DeCarvalho, Lauren J., and Nadia Martínez-Carrillo. 2018. "Serving (Fetishized) Time: An Intersectional Analysis of Netflix's Food Trucks in Mexico and the United States." The Journal of Popular Culture 51 (2), 487-510.
    • Kaneva, N. (2018). Simulation nations: Nation brands and Baudrillard's theory of media, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 21(5): 631-648.
    • Kaneva, N. S. (2018). "Why American Feminists Should Mourn FEMEN's Oksana Shachko: And how FEMEN cleared the way for #MeToo." https://medium.com/meantime/why-americanfeminists-should-mourn-femens-oksana-shachko-641325e3e3b9.
    • Kaneva, N. S. (2018). "Trump and Putin Told the Same Lie in Helsinki, But For Different Reasons: What that shows about the global balance of power." https://medium.com/meantime/trump-and-putin-told-the-same-lie-in-helsinkibut-for-very-different-reasons-e1906d4e5b2e. o Published the following book chapters:
    • Kaneva, N. S. (2018). Nation branding: Toward an agenda for critical research. In Hong Fan & Yu Hu (Eds.), Nation Image: The Belt and Road Initiative and Nation Branding. (pp. 157- 179). Beijing: Tsinghua University Press.
    • Kaneva, N. S. (2018). Neoliberal development and nation branding: Lessons from post-war Kosovo. In James Pamment & Karin Wilkins (Eds.), Communicating National Image through Development and Diplomacy: The Politics of Foreign Aid. New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Kaneva, N. "Between brand utopias and lived experience" in Inclusive Place Branding: Critical Perspectives in Theory and Practice, edited by M. Kavaratzis, M. Giovanardi and M. Lichrou. Routledge. 2018.
    • Kaneva, N. (2018). "Nation branding: Toward and agenda for critical research," in Fan Hong & Hu Yu (eds.), Nation Image: The Belt and Road Initiative and Nation Branding, Beijing, China: Tsinghua University Press, pp.157-179.
    • Polson, E. (2018). 'Doing' Local: Place-Based Travel Apps and the Globally Networked Self. In Papacharissi, Z. (Ed.), A Networked Self: Platforms, Stories, Connections. London, UK: Routledge.

     

    2017

    • Kochanova, M. and Botta, R.A. (2017) "We Don't Want to Know": HIV from a Cultural Perspective. In Athena du Pre and Eileen Berlin Ray (eds.) Case Studies: Real-Life Scenarios in Health Communication. Oxford University Press.
    • Clark, L.S. and Marchi, R. (2017) Young People and the Future of News. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
    • Clark, L.S. & Russell, A. (2017). "'The Circle' Imagines a Dark Future without Journalists In-Frame." Poynter. https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2017/the-circle-imagines-a-dark-future-without-journalists-in-frame/
    • Clark, L.S. "Participant or zombie? Exploring the limits of the participatory politics framework through a failed YUPAR project," The Information Society 32(5): 343-353.
    • Damanhoury, K. E., & Saleh, F. (2017). Is it the same fight? Comparative analysis of CNN and Al Jazeera America's online coverage of the 2014 Gaza War. Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 10(1), 85-103
    • El Damanhoury, K. (2017). Understanding ISIS's provincial propaganda: A visual framing analysis of Wilayat Sinai's imagery in 2016. Journal of Middle East Media, 13, 1-40.
    • Coppini, D., Duncan, M., Wise, D., McLeod D., Bialik, C., Wu, Y. (2017). "When everyone's watching. Motivations-based Account of Selective Expression and Exposure." Computers in Human Behavior, 75, 766-774 .
    • Jimenez, C. (2017). From telephones in rural Oaxaca to mobile phones among Mixtec farm workers in Oxnard, California. New Media & Society, 19(12), 2059-2074. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816655098
    • Kaneva, N. (2017). The branded national imagination and its limits: Insights from the post-socialist experience, Strategic Review for Southern Africa, 39(1): 116-138.
    • Kaneva, N. & Klemmer, A. (2017). The rise of brandidates? A cultural perspective on political candidate brands in postmodern consumer democracies. Journal of Customer Behavior, 15(3): 299-313.
    • Polson, E. (2017). Privileged Mobilities: Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media and a New Global Middle Class. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.
    • Calvert, C., Kozlowski, D.V, & Derigan Silver. (2017). Mass Media Law (20th Edition). New York: McGraw-Hill.
    • Silver, D. (2017). "The news media and the FOI." in W. Hopkins (Ed.), The U.S. Freedom of Information Act at 50. New York, NY: Routledge.
    • Silver, D. (2017). "Social Media and Defamation." In D. Stewart (Ed.), Social Media and the Law. New York, NY: Routledge.

Research Teams

Journalism and Activism

Journalism is a site where citizens, protestors, tech developers, hackers and PR professionals shape the news together. This research team explores power relations among journalists and other public actors in the digital era. The team investigates emergent digital tools, platforms and people to reconsider existing media environments.

Multicultural Journalism

Estlow Fellow Margie Thompson leads this team of researchers focused on newsroom diversity. The team examines intercultural competence, cultural sensitivity and multicultural journalistic practices. Their work is particularly invested in innovative ways to engage with communities of color that live up to our democratic ideals of a representative society.

Journalism and Technology

This research team, led by Assistant Teaching Professor Andrew Matranga, looks at changes in editorial design and digital strategy, social media, content management, and business analytics and data science. The team is developing the Open Book Classroom Model, an accountability system and conversation about individual and group progress in the classroom.

Young People and the Future News

Young People and the Future of News finds that young people are using technology not only to stay informed but to make news and change the culture of media worldwide. The research project and book are the result of a collaboration among Estlow Director Lynn Schofield Clark, Associate Professor in journalism and media studies at Rutgers University Regina Marchi, and a DU-based research team.

Local Journalism

Assistant Professors Kareem El Damanhoury and David Coppini, with research assistance from MFJS graduate students, produced a research study funded by the Colorado Trust to assess the affects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the news landscape in Colorado and to come up with recommendations to bolster the journalism infrastructure in the state.