Faculty research profiles
Cory L. Armstrong
Summary
Dr. Armstrong’s research has focused on two areas: influences of media content and gender representations in media. Her work in women and media has provided a strong quantitative look at predictors of representations of women. Dr. Armstrong’s work has been cited in many recent articles, laying the groundwork for how women are represented in news content. Her second area of interest is redesigning the community pluralism concept. Many scholars have found that a more comprehensive measure in this area would allow for more macro-level studies. Recently, Dr. Armstrong has also been examining the role of credibility in news content, including college news content and online blogs. In 2006-07, she will be returning to gender representations in studies dealing with dieting/weight loss and in abortion protest coverage.
Recent publications
Shah, D.V., Boyle, M.P. Keum, H., Armstrong, C.L. and Schmierbach,M. Specificity, Complexity, and Validity: Rescuing Experimental Research on Framing Effects. In Paul D'Angelo and Jim A. Kuypers (Eds.), Doing News Framing Analysis: Empirical, theoretical, and Normative Perspectives, under contract.
Armstrong,C.L. (Forthcoming). The Evolution of Journalism Education: evaluating Student Performance by Active Learning, in press at the Florida Communication Journal.
Collins,S.J. and Armstrong, C.L. (Forthcoming) . Following the Setting Sun: College Students Readership of Free Newspapers on Campus, in press at Newspaper Research Journal.
Armstrong, C.L. and Collins, S.J. (Forthcoming) Reaching Out: Newspaper Credibility Among Younger Reeaders, in press at Mass Communication & Society.
Typecasting women: The Role of Genre in the Use of Female Newspaper Sources,” Cory L. Armstrong, Newspaper Research Journal, Summer 2006, 27(3), 66-81 .
“Writing about women: An examination of how content about women is determined in newspapers,” Cory L. Armstrong Mass Communication & Society, 2006, 9(4), 447-460.
“A Two-Dimensional Model of Community Pluralism,” Cory L. Armstrong, Mass Communication & Society, 2006, 9(3), 287-300.
“Female News Professionals in Local and National Broadcast News During the Buildup to the Iraqi Military Conflict,” Cory L. Armstrong, Michelle L.M. Wood, Michelle R. Nelson, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, March 2006, Volume 50, Issue 1.
“Expressive Responses to News Stories about Extremist Groups: A Framing Experiment,” Michael P. Boyle, Mike Schmierbach, Cory L. Armstrong, Jaeho Cho, Michael R. McCluskey, Douglas M. McLeod, and Dhavan V. Shah, Journal of Communication, June 2006, Volume 56(2) , 1-18.
“How Newspaper Sourcing Triggers Gender Stereotypes,” Cory L. Armstrong and Michelle R. Nelson, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Volume 82, Issue 4, Winter, 2005, pp. 820-837.
Keywords
Gender representations, women and media, news sources, source credibility, news credibility, news content, community pluralism, macro-level analysis, gender stereotypes, gay and lesbian studies, womens studies
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