Katherine Ognyanova (a.k.a Katya) is a Doctoral Candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California. She studies mass communication and media effects, social use of technology, network theory and methodology, Internet censorship, privacy and digital policy-making. Her spare time is split between visits to the San Diego Wild Animal Park and visits to the xkcd website.
Prior to joining a doctoral program, Katya got a degree in Computer Science, worked in print and online media, did policy research & data analysis for various government and NGO projects.
Check out Katherine’s bio, her academic work or her infrequently updated blog. Take a look at the research groups she works with: the Annenberg Networks Network, Metamorphosis and the Center for the Digital Future. If you are so inclined, follow Katya on Twitter or Academia.edu.
Communication, Networks, and Visualization RSS Feed Bundles
If like me you’re getting most of your daily news from RSS, you may find this post helpful. Google Reader …
Research & Community Media: Alhambra Source
Just finished & uploaded to YouTube: a slidecast for our Alhambra Source project. The Source is a participatory news platform …
Actors and Links in the Media System:
Taking a Network Perspective
Exploring the structure of relationships between news organizations, issues, and audience members is key to understanding the media system. The …
New Media & Civic Engagement
The Alhambra project is a collaboration between Metamorphosis and the USC Annenberg Journalism School. The project looks at the potential …
Truth, beauty, geeks and nerds:
Ngram & Google Insight
Google’s recent launch of Ngram – a service that shows the frequencies of phrases appearing in indexed books – opened …
The Future of Journalism:
A Network Visualization
This semantic map takes a cue from Chris Anderson‘s The-Future-of-Journalism visualization post @ Nieman Lab. CWA makes the fair point …
Social Web
E-mail: kateto(at)ognyanova.net
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