Dustin Carnahan, Emily Lynch, and I are honored to have been named inaugural recipients of the “Best Paper in Political Behavior” award at this year’s APSA.  The Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section gave the award for our 2013 paper, “A Turn Toward Avoidance? Selective Exposure to Online Political Information, 2004-2008.” An abstract can be found here: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-011-9185-6.

A new paper that looks at science misperceptions and partisan bias, titled “The Partisan Brain: How Dissonant Science Messages Lead Conservatives and Liberals to (Dis)trust science” has been been awarded the third place faculty paper award by the ComSHER division of AEJMC. We will be presenting the paper in August.

A paper that I coauthored with Talia Stroud has received a top-four paper award from the political communication division of the National Communication Association.  Talia and I will be presenting the work in November. Garrett, R. K., & Stroud, N. J. (2012). Decoupling selective approach and selective avoidance. Paper to be presented at the Annual Conference of the National Communication Association, Orlando, FL.

I have been awarded an NSF CAREER award, providing five years of funding to examine the consequences of online news and social media on political misperceptions.  I’m joined in my efforts by a great team of graduate students, including Dustin Carnahand, Ben Johnson, Emily Lynch, Rebecca Riley, and Brian Weeks. More information about the project can be found here.