School Notes

Date posted:   Jan 27, 2020

"Diversifying or reinforcing science communication? Examining the flow of frame contagion across media platforms,"

In "Diversifying or reinforcing science communication? Assistant Professor of Communication Mo Jang examines the flow of frame contagion across media platforms," focused on the information flow of hoax frames about climate change between news media and social media. The study found that partisan news media play a critical role in spreading climate change hoax frames and social media reflect such polarized views. This piece is published in the Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, a flagship journal in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). 
https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699019874731