Michael Gruszczynski, PhD Assistant Professor, Austin Peay State University Department of Political Science 601 College Street Clement 143B, P.O. Box 4748 Clarksville, TN 37044 gruszczynskim@apsu.edu 931.221.7581 Areas of Interest American Politics: Political psychology, political communication Public Policy: Policy agenda-setting and framing, water policy Methodology: Content analysis, text mining, statistical programming Education Ph.D in Political Science, May 2013 Fields: American Politics, Public Policy Dissertation: Emotion and Public Attention to Political Issues Committee: John R. Hibbing (Chair), Kevin B. Smith, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, Michael W. Wagner, Dona-Gene Mitchell, Mike Dodd, Sarah Michaels Abstract: Which mechanisms underlie the orientation of public attention to political issues? Though research on media agenda-setting has been one of the most successful enterprises in political communication and behavior, little is known of the actual processes that drive this phenomenon. I hypothesize that inherent in all environmental stimuli is emotional information, and that it is this information that drives the linkages between media and public agendas. Using a combination of large-scale automated content analyses of several political issues in the New York Times, public search attention data, and psychological and physiological data on attentional processes, I demonstrate that it is negatively-valenced and arousing coverage that drives public attention to issues, rather than the amount of coverage in the media. By unpacking the black box of public attention, this research provides a much fuller picture of how and why the media are able to set the agenda. M.A. in Political Science, May 2009 Fields: American Politics, Public Policy Thesis: Campaign Framing Among Blogs and the Mainstream Media B.S. in Political Science and News-Editorial Journalism, May 2007 University of Nebraska at Kearney Gruszczynski Curriculum Vitae 1/6
Academic Assignment Spring 2014 POLS 2010-01 American National Government POLS 3760-03/W1 Methods of Research POLS 451C-11 American Political Psychology Spring I 2014 POLS 2040-WM1 Introduction to Public Policy Fall 2013 POLS 2010-06/12 American National Government POLS 3760-03/09 Methods of Research Peer-Reviewed Publications Gruszczynski, Michael W. The Persistence and Survival of Campaign Controversies in Blog and Mainstream Media Coverage. Forthcoming in Controlling the Message?: Campaigning and Governing in an Information Rich Environment, eds. Justin S. Vaughn and Victoria Farrar-Myers. In press at NYU Press, estimated publication date Spring 2015. Gruszczynski, Michael W., Amanda Balzer, Carly M. Jacobs, Kevin B. Smith, and John R. Hibbing. 2013. The Physiology of Political Participation. Political Behavior, 35(1): 135-152. Gruszczynski, Michael W., and Sarah Michaels. 2012. The Evolution of Elite Framing Following Enactment of Legislation. Policy Sciences, 45(4): 359-384. Dodd, Michael D., Amanda Balzer, Carly M. Jacobs, Michael W. Gruszczynski, Kevin B. Smith, and John R. Hibbing. 2012. The Political Left Rolls with the Good and the Political Right Confronts the Bad: Connecting Physiology and Cognition to Preferences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences, 367: 640-649. Under Review Wagner, Michael W., and Mike Gruszczynski. Indexing without Sources: Party Competition, Issue Ownership, and how Journalists Frame the News. Gruszczynski, Mike, and Sarah Michaels. Localized concerns, scientific argumentation, framing and federalism: Considering the arguments about the 2005 Devils Lake water diversion in Congressional and North Dakota state legislative hearings. Works in Progress Gruszczynski, Mike. Applied Political Science Research Methods. Book manuscript. Gruszczynski, Michael W. Is the Public Agenda Fragmented? Preparing for submission to Public Opinion Quarterly. Michaels, Sarah, and Michael W. Gruszczynski. Science, Conflict, and U.S. Congressional Hearings. Preparing for submission to Policy Studies Journal. Gruszczynski Curriculum Vitae 2/6
Gruszczynski, Michael W., and Michael W. Wagner. Information Search and Agenda-Uptake in the 2008 Presidential Campaign. Preparing for submission to Mass Communication and Society. Selected Conference Participation How Media Type Affects News Coverage of Partisan Extremists and Moderates. To be presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois (with Michael W. Wagner, April 4, 2014). Chair and Co-Discussant, Framing Effects panel at the upcoming 2014 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois (April 3, 2014). Editorial Mood and the Dynamics of Public Opinion in the United States. Presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois (with Michael W. Wagner, August 30, 2013). Deliberating on Controversy: The Role of Environmental Science in US and Canadian Legislative Consideration of Diverting Water from Devils Lake, North Dakota into the Binational Hudson Bay Drainage Basin. Presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois. Is the Public Agenda Fragmented? Presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois. The Measurement of Institutional Stability: A Stochastic Process Analysis Approach. Presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois (with Kate E.L. Hunt, Jacob P. Wobig). Examining the Role of Affective Language in Predicting the Agenda-Setting Effect. Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, Washington. Participant, Policy Agendas Project Short Course, at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, Washington. Chair and Discussant, The Affective Basis of Political Evaluations" panel at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois. The Conflictual Nature of Issue Evolution: Using Evolutionary Factor Analysis to Understand the Shifting of Debate in Congressional Hearings. Presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois (with Sarah Michaels). The Physiology of Political Participation. Presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC (with John R. Hibbing, Kevin B. Smith, John R. Alford, Amanda J. Balzer, and Carly Jacobs). Gruszczynski Curriculum Vitae 3/6
Grants & Awards Canadian Studies Faculty Research Program (2012), co-principal investigator with Professor Sarah Michaels ($11,000). Funding acquired to study comparative policy framing between Canadian and U.S. state legislatures and Congress. University of Nebraska Department of Political Science Senning Faculty Research Grant (2012), co-principal investigator with Professor Sarah Michaels ($6,500). Funding acquired to study comparative policy framing between Canadian and U.S. state legislatures and Congress. Midwest Political Science Association Harrell Rodgers Graduate Student Travel Scholarship (2012, $500). Honored McNair Scholars Graduate Mentor Award (2012). University of Nebraska Department of Political Science Senning Summer Research Fellowship, for Differential Threat Conditioning in Liberals and Conservatives. (2011, $2,000). University of Nebraska Foundation Fund for Research on the U.S. Congress (2010), co-principal investigator with Professor Sarah Michaels ($3,250). Funding acquired to study the interaction between advocacy coalitions, policy debate and water policy in the U.S. Congress. University of North Dakota Institute for Borderland Studies Conference Travel Grant (2010), for Meandering Problems: The Ebb and Flow of Issue Definitions in Upper Midwest Water Diversion Controversies" ($300). American Political Science Association Organized Section on Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior Graduate Student Travel Grant (2010), for The Physiology of Political Participation" ($500). University of Nebraska Karen Dunning Women s and Gender Studies Graduate Paper of the Year Award (2009), for America s Ultimate Tree House: Gender, Emotion, and Campaigning for the Presidency," with Carly Jacobs ($300). University of Nebraska MacPhee Graduate Fellowship (2007-2008, $3,500). Software affectcount: Automated content analysis of dimensional and discrete affective language content in political texts (Version 2.0, June 2012). efa: A Stata Utility to execute evolutionary factor analysis procedures on quantitative text analysis data (Version 1.0, September 2011). Gruszczynski Curriculum Vitae 4/6
efaso: Stata utility to explore second-order factor structures in evolutionary factor analysis data. (Version 0.9, March 2011). reffect: A Stata Utility to compute Pearson s r effect sizes following analysis of variance models (Version 1.0, June 2010). Departmental Service Austin Peay State University Reference and letter writer for Keiland Dunigan (Vanderbilt, Northwest University, Fall 2013) Reference and letter writer for William Lute (American University, Fall 2013) Creation and analysis of Political Science Student Satisfaction Survey (Fall 2013) Faculty Advisor, APSU College Democrats (Fall 2013-Spring 2014) UNL McNair Graduate Mentor to Misam Ali (2011-2012) UNL UCARE Mentor to Joan Larson (2010-2011) UNL McNair Graduate Mentor to Brian Shreck (2009-2010) Professional Development Service to the Discipline Professional Activities Press E-dossier One-on-One Training Session (November 20, 2013) QEP and NGLC Breakthrough Models Incubator Faculty Development Session (November 8, 2013) Distance Education Overview Faculty Development Session (October 25, 2013) New Faculty Orientation, Sections I and II (August 19-20, 2013) Reviewer, American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, Political Behavior, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly Member, Midwest Political Science Association Co-Founder, University of Nebraska Political Science Graduate Student Association Communication and Professional Development Coordinator, University of Nebraska Political Science Graduate Student Association (2009-2010) The Physiology of Political Participation The Week ABC News Online New Scientist Political Left Rolls with the Good and the Political Right Confronts the Bad BBC News The Economist Wired Magazine Gruszczynski Curriculum Vitae 5/6
References John R. Hibbing Foundation Regents University Professor, Department of Political Science 532 Oldfather Hall Lincoln, NE 68588-0328 402.472.3220 jhibbing1@unl.edu Kevin B. Smith Professor, Department of Political Science 529 Oldfather Hall Lincoln, NE 68588-0328 402.472.0779 ksmith1@unl.edu Michael W. Wagner Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Wisconsin-Madison 5054 Vilas Communication Hall 821 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706-1497 608.263.3392 mwagner8@wisc.edu Gruszczynski Curriculum Vitae 6/6