David H. Tewksbury
Contact Information
Office: 177 Lincoln Hall
Telephone: (217) 244-7001
Email: tewksbur@uiuc.edu
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Study
Bio
Professor Tewksbury teaches classes and conducts research examining the role of the news media in democratic systems. One of Professor Tewksbury's current projects looks at patterns of news frames used in coverage of large-scale natural and human-made disasters. The study is designed to assess whether such coverage meets the informational needs and wants of general audiences. A recent study examined whether audiences who become aware of the external source (e.g., public relations messages) of news content change their evaluations of television news stories, producers, and stations.
Curriculum Vitae
Experience
- Mass communication of political information; Internet-based news distribution; cognitive and affective responses to news messages (e.g., framing and agenda setting); third-person perception and presumed influence; construction of news messages.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Michigan
Selected Publications
Tewksbury, D., & Rittenberg, J. (in press). Online news creation and consumption: Implications for modern democracies. In A. Chadwick & P. N. Howard (eds), The handbook of Internet politics. London: Routledge.
Coe, K., Tewksbury, D., Bond, B., Drogos, K., Porter, R. W., Yahn, A., & Zhang, Y. (in press). Hostile news: Partisan use and perceptions of cable news programming. Journal of Communication.
Scheufele, D. A., & Tewksbury, D. (2007). Framing, agenda-setting, and priming: The evolution of three media effects models. Journal of Communication, 57, 9-20.
Tewksbury, D. (2006). Exposure to the newer media in a presidential primary campaign. Political Communication, 23, 313-332.
Tewksbury , D. (2005). The seeds of audience fragmentation: Specialization in the use of online news sites. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media , 49, 332-348.