About

Professor Boydstun’s research examines the interaction between media and politics, with a focus on how different media portrayals of the same policy issue can prompt citizens and policymakers to respond to that issue in different ways. She uses lab experiments, large-scale media studies, and manual and computational text analysis to study how issues make the news; the dynamics of “media storms;” and how media coverage can shape public opinion about policy issues such as immigration, gun control, same-sex marriage and capital punishment. She works with scholars across the globe as a member of the Comparative Agendas Project, a collaborative enterprise by political science and policy scholars to measure international government outputs. She serves on the editorial boards for the Text as Data Association and was a founding member of the Women Also Know Stuff initiative. She holds a B.A. from St. John's College and Ph.D. from Penn State University.  [Curriculum Vitae]