Lindsey Meeks

• COMM 5810 - Content Analysis 

Dr. Meeks's research interests focus on political communication, gender, social media, and news media. 

In terms of tracking news coverage, she has implemented content analyses to analyze how news coverage has differed between male and female candidates, male and female journalists, the level of political office being sought, and sheriff elections across small, medium, and large counties. She has also employed experiments to examine how news coverage of candidates affects voters’ evaluations. 

She has also published a number of studies examining how partisan male and female candidates utilize social media in their campaigns and how these varying strategies affect voters’ evaluations. These studies have covered elements such as political issues, character traits, personalization, and interactivity. 

Some of her most recent research has examined male and female employees’ perceptions of sexual harassment in the workplace and ethical leadership. She is also currently working on multiple projects examining political candidates’ discourse around climate change and how their selected frames affect candidate evaluations, as well as climate change attitudes and intended behaviors.

Howe, W. & Meeks, L. (2020). Expected sacrifice: Women’s socialization experiences in male-dominated totalistic organizations. Northwest Journal of Communication.

Meeks, L. (2020). Undercovered, underinformed: Local news, local elections, and U.S. sheriffs. Journalism Studies, 21(12),1609-1626. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2020.1781546

Meeks, L. & Howe, W. (2020). Manager-employee communication in the #MeToo era:
The role of gender similarity and context ambiguity in ethical leadership. International Journal of Communication, 14, 2464-2482. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/13416

Meeks, L. (2020). Defining the enemy: How Donald Trump frames the news media. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 97(1), 211-234. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699019857676 

Meeks, L. (2019). Owning your message: Congressional candidates’ interactivity and issue ownership in mixed-gender campaigns. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 16(2), 187-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2019.1620149

Meeks, L. (2018). Appealing to the 52%: Exploring Clinton and Trump’s appeals to women voters during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. International Journal of Communication, 12, 2527-2545. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8763

Meeks, L. (2018). Questioning the president: Examining gender in the White House press corps. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 19(4), 519-535. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884916669737

Meeks, L. (2018). Tweeted, deleted: Theoretical, methodological, and ethical considerations for examining politicians’ deleted tweets. Information, Communication & Society, 21(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1257041

Meeks, L. (2017). Getting personal: Effects of Twitter personalization on candidate evaluations. Politics & Gender, 13(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X16000696

Meeks, L. (2017). Thank you, Mr. President: Journalist gender in presidential news conferences. International Journal of Communication, 11, 2411-2430. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6450

Meeks, L. (2016). Aligning and trespassing: Candidates’ party-based issue and trait ownership on Twitter. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 93(4), 1050-1072. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699015609284

Meeks, L. (2016). Gendered styles, gendered differences: Candidates’ use of personalization and interactivity on Twitter. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 13(4), 295-310. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2016.1160268

Meeks, L. & Domke, D. (2016). When politics is a woman’s game: Party and gender ownership in woman-versus-woman elections. Communication Research, 43(7), 895-921. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650215581369

Meeks, L. (2013). All the gender that’s fit to print: New York Times coverage of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin in 2008. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 90(3), 520-539. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699013493791

Meeks, L. (2013). He wrote, she wrote: Journalist gender, political office, and campaign news. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 90(1), 58-74. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699012468695

Meeks, L. (2012). Is she “man enough”?: Women candidates, executive political offices, and news coverage. Journal of Communication, 62(1), 175-193. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01621.x