Who controls the frame?
Mass Communication
What gets repeated, who gets heard, and what an audience is finally allowed to remember.
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Research Lab
Media, sociology, and art—and the questions about people that connect them.Media, sociology, art—and people.
Four lines of inquiry
Questions I keep coming back to.
What is shaping the behavior?
Sociology
Culture, institutions, incentives, and power are never separate from the choices people make.
Can the visual defend the argument?
Commercial Art
Taste can attract attention. Evidence, craft, and critique are what make the work hold up.
Who do we become in public?
Networked Identity
Feeds, platforms, metrics, and imagined audiences change how people perform, trust, gather, and decide.
Writing archive
College writing, in context.
My studies at Black Hills State University connected mass communication, sociology, and commercial art. This page brings those interests together; the questions above describe areas of inquiry, rather than individual published papers.