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C-SPAN Video Archives Topic Models

This page includes the topic model visualizations from the work that I did as part of the 2022 C-SPAN Center for Scholarship and Engagement Research Conference. These topic models represent data collected from the C-Span Video Archives during the presidential transition periods during the Great Recession (Bush to Biden) and the COVID-19 Recession (Trump to…

Dissertation – Topic Models

Dissertation – Topic Models This page includes visualizations of the topic models that I used to dig deeper into the narratives that emerged during this investigation. Feel free to explore the visualizations to get a better sense of how each topic illuminated these economic narratives. Topic modeling was a central component of the first study…

Recap – Fields Institute Workshop & Systemic Recovery

Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to be the lone communication scholar in a sea of economists, physicists, and mathematicians for a three-week problem-solving workshop hosted by the Fields Institute for Advanced Mathematical Research. The problem-solving workshop was an opportunity to investigate and rethink economic approaches to systemic recovery. Needless to say, it was…

New Publication – Emplotting Anticipatory Resilience

One of the first projects that I began working on when I joined the doctoral program at the University of South Florida is now officially published in Communication Monographs. Link to the article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03637751.2021.1971272 This piece is an examination of the concept of anticipatory resilience (from the communication theory of resilience) using the antenarrative theoretical…


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