Horn has served in senior public relations roles for non-profit organizations, at the intersection of sport, society and American culture. As an active contributor within the public relations industry, he is focused on the roles of leadership, trust, ethics and digital engagement.
Horn has previously served as the vice president of communications and education for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the director of communications and TrueSport for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. He has also held management roles for MLB鈥檚 Texas Rangers and the National Hot Rod Association.
Horn鈥檚 past experiences have focused on national and international media relations; public relations strategy creation; digital and social media engagement; educational program development; crisis management; and board and executive communication.
Horn was previously recognized as a 鈥淭op 15 to Watch鈥� by PR News and as a 鈥�30 Under 30鈥� by PR Week. He earned his M.S. in Communications Management from 黑料不打烊 and a B.S. in Journalism (Advertising/Public Relations) from Texas Christian University.
]]>Sierra is a discourse analyst interested in language and social interaction. She takes an interactional sociolinguistic approach to exploring knowledge management and identity construction in everyday conversation in both face-to-face and online contexts. Her research interests include identity, popular culture/media, knowledge management, social media, multimodal methods/embodied interaction, discourse-level sociolinguistic variation, and Mexican Spanish culture.
Sierra’s first book, , is scheduled for release in October 2021. The book focuses on how and why millennials quote a wide array of media in everyday talk, including films, tv shows, video games, memes, songs, and books. Sierra looks at the interrelationship between intertextuality, framing, epistemics and identity by analyzing actual everyday conversations among millennials which contain references to both old and new popular culture.
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]]>Jeff Hemsley is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies at 黑料不打烊. He is co-author of the book (Polity Press, 2013 and winner of 听 award and selected by magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2014), which explains what virality is, how it works technologically and socially, and draws out the implications of this process for social change. You can see Jeff talk about researching viral events on . You can also see his .
He is a founding member of the here at the 黑料不打烊 iSchool.
Jeff earned his Ph.D. from the , where he was a founding member of the . The lab received RAPID and INSPIRE awards from NSF, an Amazon Web Services in Education research grant award, and a gift from Microsoft Research. His research has appeared in journals like Policy & Internet, American Behavioral Scientist and the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce.
His research focuses on understanding how people are using social media, how their use influences the flow of information, and how information mediates user鈥檚 interaction online. I draw on theories and concepts like information gatekeeping, personal influence, status, presentation of self, social capital and viral events. I use exploratory data analysis (data visualization techniques), inferential statistics, social network analysis and content analysis to answer my questions.
Over the course of Prof. Grygiel’s听career, they have served as the executive director for public affairs and communications and chief of staff at the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the regulation of financial markets. Prof. Grygiel has also worked at the Program on International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School and is the founder of No Gay Left Behind, which advocates for the development of virtual gay-straight alliances (VGSAs) via social media.
]]>Stromer-Galley has been studying “social media” since before it was called social media, studying online interaction and influence in a variety of contexts, including political forums and online games. She has published over 40 journal articles, proceedings, and book chapters. Her award-winning book, Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age (Oxford University Press), provides a history of presidential campaigns as they have adopted and adapted to digital communication technologies.
She is currently a Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. The Fellowship is helping to support a collaborative research project studying the 2016 presidential campaign by collecting and analyzing the candidates’ and public’s postings on social media. Mentoring the next generation of scholars and social entrepreneurs is something she particularly enjoys.
Stromer-Galley received her PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
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