| Affiliations: | Aggie Research Mentoring Program |
| Project Leader: | Johanna Dunaway, Ph.D. jdunaway@tamu.edu Political Science |
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Meeting Times:
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Thursdays or Fridays at 3 PM |
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Team Size:
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8
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| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Hands-on research experience, earned course, co-authorship on research papers credit, possibility of earning co-authorship on published papers or conference papers, explore whether you are interested in graduate school |
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Team Needs:
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Beneficial but not required: Experience using excel, google sheets, SPSS, STATA or R for data gathering and entry. Experience with programming in R for extracting data from text, web-scraping, or automated content analysis. Required: responsive to communication, organized, somewhat detail oriented |
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Description:
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This large data collection project will collect data to document the evolution of the American news ecosystem from 2000-2021, mapping the location, audience, and ownership characteristics, staffing information as well as mergers, acquisitions, and closures of local news outlets across the United States during this time. We will also collect data on the emergence, proliferation, and changes among partisan cable news and digital media entities during this time. We will track these changes along with the content produced by several of these media outlets with the aim of understanding whether and how they relate to political attitudes and behaviors among the mass public and political elites |