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A vibrant and collaborative interdisciplinary research culture at the UNC School of Media and Journalism creates new knowledge, advances scholarship and helps reinvent media.

The UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media at the UNC School of Media and Journalism has released its latest report on the emergence and expansion of news deserts — communities with limited access to credible, comprehensive news — in the United States.

Deen Freelon is an associate professor in the UNC School of Media and Journalism whose research covers two major areas of scholarship: 1) political expression through digital media and 2) data science and computational methods for analyzing large digital datasets.

A vibrant and collaborative interdisciplinary research culture at the UNC School of Media and Journalism creates new knowledge, advances scholarship and helps reinvent media.

A vibrant and collaborative interdisciplinary research culture at the UNC School of Media and Journalism creates new knowledge, advances scholarship and helps reinvent media. Below is a list of recently published or presented scholarship by MJ-school faculty and students.

Story by University Communications | Originally published Sept. 5, 2018, on unc.edu

Seventeen faculty members, 10 graduate students and various alumni will represent the UNC School of Media and Journalism Aug. 6-9, 2018, at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in Washington, D.C.

Associate Professor Barbara Friedman and Professor Anne Johnston lead The Irina Project to improve the quality of media coverage of sex trafficking.

Identity is a deeper concept within academic research, and a key focus for Associate Professor Maria Leonora “Nori” Comello. Her work delves into how we perceive our individual selves, how those self-concepts can be activated by messages and how these self-concepts can affect our behavior and willingness to change for the better.

A vibrant and collaborative interdisciplinary research culture at the UNC School of Media and Journalism creates new knowledge, advances scholarship and helps reinvent media.