Graduate Students
Matthew Ragas
Degree program: PHD
Anticipated graduation year: 2010
Working Dissertation title: “Agenda-Building and Agenda-Setting in Corporate Proxy Contests”
Personal phone: 407.963.8763 (cell)
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Web: www.mattragas.com
Previous education
M.S.,
Management, University of Central Florida, 2005
B.S.,
Marketing, University of Central Florida, 1999
Research area
My interdisciplinary research interests include financial public relations, business journalism, political public relations and interactive media. Specifically, my media effects-focused research studies agenda-setting, agenda-building, framing and priming effects and consequences involving news media content, public opinion and the strategic communication efforts (information subsidies) of corporate, brand and political actors. Secondary interests include brand community and brand personality. Also active in new media, consumer-generated content and virtual world related research.
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