Jacob Groshek » Welcome

I am an assistant professor in the Media and Communication Department at Erasmus University. In the past several years, I have had my research accepted and appear in the Journal of Communication, The International Communication Gazette, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, International Journal of Communication, Social Science Computer Review, Media, War & Conflict, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, and Communication Education. Generally, my area of expertise concerns new media technologies and political change at the macro and micro levels, but this also extends to analyses of media content and advanced quantitative methods.

Over the course of my career, I have traveled extensively to over 30 countries on five continents for extended periods of time. Professionally, I have been a writer and media designer (as well as a teacher, mechanic, and construction worker), and I continue to freelance as an editor.

UPDATE (July 13, 2010): Just found out yesterday that the Journal of Communication has accepted my manuscript, "Media, Instability, and Democracy: Examining the Granger-Causal Relationships of 122 Countries from 1946 to 2003," for publication. Not sure of the publication date yet, but I will post a link when it comes out.

UPDATE (June 9, 2010): A busy three weeks in Wisconsin with family and friends is about to end. We move to Rotterdam on Sunday. An exciting time, to be sure, and ICA is just around the corner. Hoping to catch up with everyone--and maybe even sleep in for a day--in Singapore.

UPDATE (May 6, 2010): I have been added to the Program Committee for the Journal of Information Technology & Politics thematic conference in Seattle, Washington next May. I've always wanted to visit there.

UPDATE (April 13, 2010): I am moving to Rotterdam, the Netherlands where I will teach and research Political Communication, Quantitative Methods, and Communication Technology at Erasmus University. I couldn't be more pleased about the opportunity. See you there!

UPDATE (April 3, 2010): A busy, productive month of March. Conference and spring break trips went well and I made the AEJMC deadline. Hoping to have some time to regroup, ship out a manuscript to JoBEM, sell the house, and put together plans with Meg for our next move. Excited. Hopeful.

UPDATE (February 28, 2010): Turns out students in my large lecture class are really using their phones and laptops for class. They have created a collaborative note-taking page with Google Wave and are regularly using the Twitter hashtag I created. Some were so pleased, they wrote about it in the student newspaper. Read their editorial here.

UPDATE (February 26, 2010): In an interesting turn of events, Kurdistan-based Gulan magazine called me for an interview today. The actual interview takes place tomorrow--if you know Arabic, check gulan-media.com for the quotes.

UPDATE (February 18, 2010): Chris Barr, Senior Editorial Director of Yahoo! and founding editor of CNET, is coming to visit my classes. Still working with Yahoo! on the specifics, but it looks like he will be here on April 7. This should be great for all of us, especially our students.

UPDATE (February 10, 2010): I just found out that my article, "The Democratic Effects of the Internet, 1994-2003: A Cross-National Inquiry of 152 Countries," was the second-most read article in The International Communication Gazette for the month of December. How cool.

UPDATE (February 2, 2010): Following my participation on the roundtable keynoted by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, I have been invited to partner with the State Department on her initiative for Internet freedom. Details are ongoing, but I'm honored and eager to contribute.

UPDATE (Jan. 28, 2010): My manuscript, "A Time-Series, Multinational Analysis of Democratic Forecasts and Internet Diffusion," is now published in the International Journal of Communication.

UPDATE (Jan. 21, 2010): I had three manuscripts accepted for presentation at ICA: “Assessing Political Outcomes of New Media Use in the 2008 Presidential Election,”
“The Effectiveness of the Pervasive Method in Ethics Pedagogy,” and
“Negotiating Hegemony: Alternative and Mainstream Media Coverage of the Globalization Debate.” Now how do I fund a trip to Singapore?

UPDATE (Jan. 14, 2010): I have been invited and plan to attend Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s upcoming policy address on Internet Freedom at the Newseum on January 21st, 2010. I'm looking forward to participating in the roundtable afterwards.

UPDATE (Jan. 12, 2010): “Media Diffusion and Democratic Change: Examining the Granger-Causal Relationships of 122 Countries from 1946 to 2003,” a study that originated with my dissertation, has been accepted for presentation to the AEJMC Midwinter conference.

UPDATE (Jan. 10, 2010): A panel I proposed to the Communication Technology Division of AEJMC has been scheduled. It is titled "New Media Economics: Financially Sustainable Newsgathering and Information Flows" and includes Dan Gilmor (author of We the Media) as a panelist. Should be interesting.

UPDATE (Jan. 06, 2010): My manuscript, "A Time-Series, Multinational Analysis of Democratic Forecasts and Internet Diffusion," has been accepted for publication at the International Journal of Communication.

Jacob Groshek, Ph.D.