Megan Duncan
School of Communication
148 Shanks Hall
181 Turner Street, NW
Blacksburg, VA 24061
meganduncan@vt.edu
Megan Duncan is an associate professor in the School of Communication.
- News Credibility
- Political News
- Digital News Audience Engagement
- Data Journalism
- Survey Experiments
- PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- MA, University of Florida
- BA, Point Park University
Books
Duncan, M., et al. The Media Handbook: Writing and Producing Media for the Public. UW-Madison e-book, 2015.
Journal Articles
Duncan, M. (2022). Selective rating: Partisan bias in crowdsourced news rating systems. Journal of Information Technology and Politics. 13(9), 360-375. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2021.1997867
Duncan, M. (2022). What's in a label? Negative credibility labels in partisan news. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. 99(2), 390-413. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699020961856
Duncan, M., Perryman, M., & Shaughnessy, B. (2021). Same scandal, different standards: The effect of partisanship on expectations of news reports about whistleblowers. Online first from Mass Communication & Society. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2021.1936558
Duncan, M., & Culver, K. (2020). Technologies, ethics and journalism’s relationship with the public. Media and Communication, 8(3), 101-111. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i3.3039
Duncan, M., Pelled, A., Wise, D., Gosh, S., Shan, Y., Zheng, M., & McLeod, D. (2020). Staying silent and speaking out in online comments sections: The influence of spiral of silence and corrective action in reaction to news. Computers in Human Behavior 102, 192-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.08.026
Coppini, D., Duncan, M., McLeod, D., Wise, D., Bialik, K., & Wu, Y. "When the whole world is watching: A motivations-based account of selective expression and exposure." Computers in Human Behavior, 75, 2017, pp. 766-774.
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