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Leticia Bode
Dr. Bode is an associate professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology master’s program at Georgetown University. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and her bachelor’s degree from Trinity University. Her work lies at the intersection of communication, technology, and political behavior, emphasizing the role communication and information technologies may play in the acquisition and use of political information. This covers a wide area, including projects looking at incidental exposure to political information on social media, effects of exposure to political comedy, use of social media by political elites, selective exposure and political engagement in new media, and the changing nature of political socialization given the modern media environment. Work on these subjects has appeared in Journal of Communication, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media and Society, Mass Communication and Society, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, and Information, Communication, and Society, and other journals. She also sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Information Technology and Politics, and Social Media + Society.
Ph.D., Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., Political Science
Trinity University
Contact Me: [email protected]
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Emily Vraga
Emily began a new position as an Associate Professor in the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota in fall of 2019, where she hold the Don and Carole Larson Professorship in Health Communication. She is incredibly passionate about research. She loves asking (and sometimes answering) questions about how people come to learn about issues of public importance and the ways in which communication can foster a better society. More specifically, her research focuses on how people come to understand news and information on contentious health, science, and political issues, and especially with how people navigate disagreement about these issues and misinformation on a range of health topics on social media. How do we interpret information that does not agree with our predispositions? What can we do to ensure we are accurately distinguishing between high quality and low quality information online? How can we recognize and correct misinformation when we see it? How do we communicate with others who have differing viewpoints or who may be misinformed about a topic?
Ph.D., Mass Communication
University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., Journalism and Mass Communication; Spanish
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Contact Me: [email protected]