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702 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL, 61801
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Biography
Emily Van Duyn is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before coming to Illinois, Van Duyn earned her PhD in Communication Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University with the Program on Democracy and the Internet. Her research explores why people talk (or do not talk) about politics and the role of digital media in facilitating a space for community and political discourse. She tackles these questions using diverse methodologies, including surveys, experiments, interviews, and ethnography. Her forthcoming book with Oxford University Press focuses on the reasons why individuals do not express their political opinions in public and how they express those opinions and organize in secret. Across two years, she follows a secret group of progressives in rural Texas who, out of fear of their conservative community, meet in secret to talk about politics and take political action. Her work is concerned with the effects of social, geographic, and political polarization and how these phenomena threaten liberal democratic norms.
Research Interests
Political Communication
Public Opinion
Media Effects
Political Polarization
Education
Ph.D., Communication Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
M.Ed., Southern Methodist University
B.S., Communication Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
B.A., Government, The University of Texas at Austin
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Recent Publications
Stroud, N. J., & Van Duyn, E. (Accepted/In press). Assessing the External Validity of Using News Websites as Experimental Stimuli. Communication Methods and Measures, 14(3), 212-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2020.1718630
Van Duyn, E., & Muddiman, A. (Accepted/In press). Predicting perceptions of incivility across 20 news comment sections. Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884920907779
Van Duyn, E., & Collier, J. (2019). Priming and Fake News: The Effects of Elite Discourse on Evaluations of News Media. Mass Communication and Society, 22(1), 29-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2018.1511807
Van Duyn, E., Peacock, C., & Stroud, N. J. (Accepted/In press). The Gender Gap in Online News Comment Sections. Social Science Computer Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439319864876
Van Duyn, E. (2018). Hidden democracy: Political dissent in rural America. Journal of Communication, 68(5), 965-987. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqy042