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D-Index
55
Citations
13150
World Ranking
2010
National Ranking
967

Overview

Seth C. Lewis is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States and works primarily within the social sciences. Their research engages extensively with communication and intersects with sociology, political science, safety research, literature and literary theory, and gender studies.

Their work spans key topics including media studies and communication, misinformation and its impacts, social media and politics, ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence, gender, feminism and media, digital marketing and social media, and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research.

Seth C. Lewis has contributed multiple papers to journals known within the field of journalism and media studies. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Digital Journalism
  • New Media & Society
  • Journalism
  • Journalism Studies
  • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • "Online Harassment and Its Implications for the Journalist-Audience Relationship," 2020, Digital Journalism
  • "The Objects and Objectives of Journalism Research During the Coronavirus Pandemic and Beyond," 2020, Digital Journalism

Collaborations are a significant part of their research, with frequent co-authorship involving:

  • Oscar Westlund
  • Jacob L. Nelson
  • Rodrigo Zamith
  • Valérie Bélair-Gagnon
  • Bibo Lin

The scope and focus of Seth C. Lewis's work involve analyzing the dynamics of digital journalism, media ethics, and the societal impact of misinformation as well as the role of journalists in contemporary media environments. The research also touches on the emotional labor experienced by journalists and the structural challenges within news production amid evolving political and social contexts.

Best Publications

  • NORMALIZING TWITTER Journalism practice in an emerging communication space

    Dominic Louis Lasorsa;Seth C. Lewis;Avery E. Holton

  • THE TENSION BETWEEN PROFESSIONAL CONTROL AND OPEN PARTICIPATION: Journalism and its boundaries

    Seth C. Lewis

  • Artificial intelligence and communication: A Human–Machine Communication research agenda:

    Andrea L Guzman;Seth C Lewis

  • Content Analysis in an Era of Big Data: A Hybrid Approach to Computational and Manual Methods

    Seth C. Lewis;Rodrigo Zamith;Alfred Hermida

  • Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin's Sources on Twitter During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions

    Alfred Hermida;Seth C. Lewis;Rodrigo Zamith

  • Boundaries of journalism: Professionalism, practices and participation

    Matt Carlson;Seth C. Lewis

  • Reciprocal Journalism: A Concept of Mutual Exchange Between Journalists and Audiences

    Seth C. Lewis;Avery E. Holton;Mark Coddington

  • ACTORS, ACTANTS, AUDIENCES, AND ACTIVITIES IN CROSS- MEDIA NEWS WORK A matrix and a research agenda

    Seth C. Lewis;Oscar Westlund

  • Thinking about citizen journalism: The philosophical and practical challenges of user-generated content for community newspapers

    Seth C. Lewis;Kelly Kaufhold;Dominic L. Lasorsa

  • Open source and journalism: toward new frameworks for imagining news innovation

    Seth C Lewis;Nikki Usher

  • Big Data and Journalism: Epistemology, Expertise, Economics, and Ethics

    Seth C. Lewis;Oscar Westlund

  • Audience Clicks and News Placement A Study of Time-Lagged Influence in Online Journalism

    Angela M. Lee;Seth C. Lewis;Matthew Powers

  • Framing the War on Terror: The internalization of policy in the US press

    Stephen D. Reese;Seth C. Lewis

  • Automation, Journalism, and Human–Machine Communication: Rethinking Roles and Relationships of Humans and Machines in News

    Seth C. Lewis;Andrea L. Guzman;Thomas R. Schmidt

  • What kind of news gatekeepers do we want machines to be? Filter bubbles, fragmentation, and the normative dimensions of algorithmic recommendations

    Efrat Nechushtai;Seth C. Lewis

  • A Decade of Research on Social Media and Journalism: Assumptions, Blind Spots, and a Way Forward

    Seth C. Lewis;Logan Molyneux

  • Journalists, Social Media, and the Use of Humor on Twitter

    Seth C Lewis

  • Journalism In An Era Of Big Data: Cases, concepts, and critiques

    Seth C. Lewis

  • What is the War on Terror? Framing through the Eyes of Journalists

    Seth C. Lewis;Stephen D. Reese

  • Online Harassment and Its Implications for the Journalist–Audience Relationship

    Seth C. Lewis;Rodrigo Zamith;Mark Coddington

  • Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin's Sources on Twitter During the Tunisian

    Alfred Hermida;Seth C. Lewis;Rodrigo Zamith

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfred Hermida
Alfred Hermida University of British Columbia
Patric R. Spence
Patric R. Spence University of Central Florida

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