Research
My research interests lie at the intersection of political communication and new media studies. I have also studied trust and credibility, a foundational aspect of the broader information selection decision-making process that my dissertation examines in the context of political news and discussion. My full CV is available: Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Selected papers
Menchen-Trevino, E. & Karr, C. (2011) “Researching real-world Web use with Roxy: Collecting observational Web data with informed consent” A previous version of this manuscript was presented at JITP 2011, The Future of Computational Social Science, Seattle, Washington, May 2011.
Abstract: Outside of a lab environment, it has been difficult for researchers to collect both behavioral and self-reported Web-use data from the same participants. To address this challenge we created Roxy, open source software that collects real-world Web-use data with participants’ informed consent. Roxy gathers Web log data as well as the text and HTML code of each page visited by participants. We describe Roxy’s data gathering capabilities and search functions and then illustrate how we used the software in a multi-method study. The use case examines selective exposure to political communication during the November 2010 U.S. general election campaign.
Menchen-Trevino, E. & Hargittai, E. (2011) “Young Adults’ Credibility Assessment of Wikipedia”
This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use, not for redistribution.
The definitive version was published in Information, Communication & Society, Volume 14 Issue 1, February 2011. doi:10.1080/13691181003695173
Hargittai, E., Fullerton, L., Menchen-Trevino, E., Thomas, K. (2010) “Trust Online: Young Adults’ Evaluation of Web Content” International Journal of Communication, 4. Retrieved from http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/636.
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