Lei Guo Receives JMC Quarterly’s Outstanding Article Award

Congratulations to Dr. Lei Guo of BU, and her colleague Dr. Chris Vargo of CU Boulder, on winning the 2017 Outstanding Article Award from Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly for their article titled, “Networks, Big Data, and Intermedia Agenda Setting: An Analysis of Traditional, Partisan, and Emerging Online U.S. News.” The award will be presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in Washington, D.C.

This large-scale intermedia agenda–setting analysis examines U.S. online media sources for 2015. The network agenda–setting model showed that media agendas were highly homogeneous and reciprocal. Online partisan media played a leading role in the entire media agenda. Two elite newspapers—The New York Times and The Washington Post—were found to no longer be in control of the news agenda and were more likely to follow online partisan media. This article provides evidence for a nuanced view of the network agenda–setting model; intermedia agenda–setting effects varied by media type, issue type, and time periods.