Mike Gruszczynski, PhD
Assistant Professor of Communication Science
The Media School
Indiana University
Franklin Hall M130S
Bloomington, Indiana
mgruszc@iu.edu
812.855.6389
Positions and Institutional Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Communication Science (Fall 2018-Present)
The Media School
Indiana University-Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
Assistant Professor of Political Science (Fall 2013-Spring 2018)
Department of Political Science and Public Management
Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, TN
Visiting Instructor of Political Science (Spring 2012)
Department of Political Science
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Kearney, NE
Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant (Spring 2008-Spring 2013)
Department of Political Science
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE
Research Areas
Political Communication
Agenda-setting, framing, media fragmentation
Political Psychology
Attention, biology & politics, emotion & cognition
Methodology
Statistical programming, quantitative methodology, simulations
Education
PhD in Political Science, May 2013
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Fields: American Politics, Public Policy
Dissertation: Emotion and Public Attention to Political Issues
Committee: John R. Hibbing (Chair), Michael W. Wagner, Kevin B. Smith, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, Dona-Gene Mitchell, Mike Dodd, Sarah Michaels
M.A. in Political Science, May 2009
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Fields: American Politics, Public Policy
Thesis: Campaign Framing Among Blogs and the Mainstream Media
B.S. in Political Science, May 2007
B.S. in News-Editorial Journalism, May 2007
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Hunt, Kate, and Mike Gruszczynski. 2023. “‘Horizontal’ Two-Step Flow: The Role of Opinion Leaders in Directing Attention to Social Movements in Decentralized Information Environments.” Mass Communication and Society (Online First).
Gruszczynski, Mike, Danielle K. Brown, Haley Pierce, and Maria E. Grabe. 2022. “Facing the Competition: Gender differences in Facial Emotion and Prominence in Visual News Coverage of Democratic Presidential Primary Candidates.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (Online First).
Comfort, Suzannah E., Mike Gruszczynski, and Nicholas Browning. 2022. “Building the Science News Agenda: The Permeability of Science Journalism to Public Relations.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (Online First).
Geiger, Nathaniel, Michael H. Pasek, Mike Gruszczynski, Nathaniel J. Ratcliff, and Kevin S. Weaver. “Political Ingroup Conformity and Pro-Environmental Behavior: Evaluating the Evidence from a Survey and Mousetracking Experiments.” Pre-press; forthcoming in Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Gruszczynski, Mike. 2020. “How Media Storms and Topic Diversity Influence Agenda Fragmentation.” International Journal of Communication 14: 4599-4620.
Comfort, Suzannah Evans, Edson Tandoc, and Mike Gruszczynski. 2020. “Who is heard in climate change journalism? Sourcing patterns in climate change news in China, India, Singapore, and Thailand.” Climactic Change 158: 327-343.
Friesen, Amanda, Mike Gruszczynski, Kevin B. Smith, and John R. Alford. 2020. “Political Orientations Vary with Detection of Androstenone.” Politics and the Life Sciences 39(1): 26-37.
Gruszczynski, Mike. 2019. “Evidence of Partisan Agenda Fragmentation in the American Public, 1959-2015.” Public Opinion Quarterly 83(4): 749-781.
Hunt, Kate, and Mike Gruszczynski. “The Influence of New and Traditional Media Coverage on Public Attention to Social Movements: The Case of the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests.” In press at Information, Communication, and Society. (Published online first Sept. 24, 2019)
Hunt, Kate, and Mike Gruszczynski. 2019. “The Ratification of CEDAW and the Liberalization of Abortion Laws.” Politics & Gender 15: 722-45.
Wagner, Michael W., and Mike Gruszczynski. 2018. “Who Gets Covered? Ideological Extremity and News Coverage of Members of the U.S. Congress.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 95(3): 670-690.
Gruszczynski, Mike, and Michael W. Wagner. 2017. “Information Flow in the 21st Century: The Theory of Agenda-Update.” Mass Communication and Society, 20(3): 378-402.
Michaels, Sarah, and Mike Gruszczynski. 2016. “Deliberating on Missouri River Water Diversions in Congressional Committee Hearings.” Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, 158: 132-147.
Wagner, Michael W., and Mike Gruszczynski. 2016. “When Framing Matters: How Partisan and Journalistic Frames Affect Individual Opinions and Party Identification.” Journalism & Communication Monographs, 18(1): 5-48.
Gruszczynski, Mike. 2015. “The Persistence and Survival of Campaign Controversies in Blog and Mainstream Media Coverage.” In Controlling the Message: Campaigning and Governing in an Information Rich Environment, eds. Justin S. Vaughn and Victoria Farrar-Myers. New York: NYU Press, 113-135.
Gruszczynski, Mike, and Sarah Michaels. 2014. “Localized Concerns, Scientific Argumentation, Framing, and Federalism: The Case of the Devils Lake Water Diversion.” Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, 6(2-3): 173-193.
Gruszczynski, Mike, Amanda Balzer (Friesen), Carly M. Jacobs, Kevin B. Smith, and John R. Hibbing. 2013. “The Physiology of Political Participation.” Political Behavior, 35(1): 135-152.
Gruszczynski, Mike, and Sarah Michaels. 2012. “The Evolution of Elite Framing Following Enactment of Legislation.” Policy Sciences, 45(4): 359-384.
Dodd, Michael D., Amanda Balzer, Carly M. Jacobs, Mike Gruszczynski, Kevin B. Smith, and John R. Hibbing. 2012. “The Political Left Rolls with the Good and the Political Right Confronts the Bad: Connecting Physiology and Cognition to Preferences.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences, 367: 640-649.
Book Chapters
Geiger, Nathaniel, Mike Gruszczynski, and Janet Swim. “Political Psychology and the Climate Crisis.” Forthcoming chapter in Cambridge Handbook of Political Psychology.
Book Contracts
Wagner, Michael W., and Mike Gruszczynski. “Good Media, Bad Media: The Benefits and Consequences of a Negative, Emotional, and Biased News Media.” Book under contract at Routledge.
Programming
kripp.boot - R package to perform bootstrapped reliability results for Krippendorff’s Alpha intercoder reliability statistics (package contributor, maintainer)
newsflash - R package to access GDELT TV Archive (package contributor)
Other Publications
Gruszczynski, Mike. “Haig, Alexander Meigs, Jr.” American National Biography Online, Oxford University Press.
Selected Conference Participation
Media Diversity and Agenda Fragmentation. Presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL (Apr. 8, 2017).
Examining Agenda Fragmentation Among the U.S. Mainstream Media. Presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Jan. 9, 2016).
The News Media as a Political Institution: Party Competition and the Variance in Journalistic Framing. Presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, Seattle, Washington (with and presented by Michael W. Wagner in absentia, May 24, 2014)
Information Flow in the 21st Century: The Theory of Agenda-Uptake. Presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, Seattle, Washington (with and presented by Michael W. Wagner in absentia, May 24, 2014)
Contextual Data for the Understanding of Individual Behavior in Trust Research, Invited Presentation at the 62nd Annual Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, Cooperation & Compliance with Authority: The Role of Institutional Trust, Lincoln, Nebraska (April 24, 2014).
How Media Type Affects News Coverage of Partisan Extremists and Moderates. Presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois (with Michael W. Wagner, April 4, 2014).
Chair and Co-Discussant, “Framing Effects” panel at 2014 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois (April 3, 2014).
Editorial Mood and the Dynamics of Public Opinion in the United States. Presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois (with Michael W. Wagner, August 30, 2013).
Courses Taught
Indiana University
MSCH-J 423 Public Opinion
MSCH-T 512 Communication and Politics
MSCH-C 315 Media Processes and Effects
Austin Peay State University
POLS 3760 Methods of Research
POLS 453 Advanced Methods of Research (Independent Study)
POLS 451 Applied Polling and Survey Research
POLS 4240 Political Psychology
POLS 4260 Campaign Strategy & Management
POLS 4210 Communication and Public Opinion
POLS 4130 Political Parties and Interest Groups
POLS 4210 Legislative Process and Behavior
POLS 4200 The American Presidency
POLS 451 American Bureaucracy
POLS 2010 American National Government
POLS 2040 Introduction to Public Policy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
POLS 230 Elections, Political Parties, and Special Interests
POLS 210 American Bureaucracy
POLS 236 Public Policy Analysis
University of Nebraska at Kearney
PSCI 110 Introduction to American Politics
Grants & Awards
Indiana University Overseas Conference Grant (2019, $1000)
Phi Kappa Phi Honored Professor for Elizabeth Kelly, Inductee (April 6, 2016)
Golden Key Society Honored Member, Nominated by Erica Brotherton (April 17, 2015)
Phi Kappa Phi Honored Professor for Tyler Meadows, Inductee (April 9, 2014)
Canadian Studies Faculty Research Program (2012), co-principal investigator with Professor Sarah Michaels ($11,000). Funding acquired to study comparative policy framing between Canadian and U.S. state legislatures and Congress.
University of Nebraska Department of Political Science Senning Faculty Research Grant (2012), co-principal investigator with Professor Sarah Michaels ($6,500). Funding acquired to study comparative policy framing between Canadian and U.S. state legislatures and Congress.
Midwest Political Science Association Harrell Rodgers Graduate Student Travel Scholarship (2012, $500).
Honored McNair Scholars Graduate Mentor Award (2012).
University of Nebraska Department of Political Science Senning Summer Research Fellowship, for “Differential Threat Conditioning in Liberals and Conservatives.” (2011, $2,000).
University of Nebraska Foundation Fund for Research on the U.S. Congress (2010), co-principal investigator with Professor Sarah Michaels ($3,250). Funding acquired to study the interaction between advocacy coalitions, policy debate and water policy in the U.S. Congress.
University of North Dakota Institute for Borderland Studies Conference Travel Grant (2010), for “Meandering Problems: The Ebb and Flow of Issue Definitions in Upper Midwest Water Diversion Controversies” ($300).
American Political Science Association Organized Section on Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior Graduate Student Travel Grant (2010), for “The Physiology of Political Participation” ($500).
University of Nebraska Karen Dunning Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Paper of the Year Award (2009), for “America’s Ultimate Tree House: Gender, Emotion, and Campaigning for the Presidency,” with Carly Jacobs ($300).
Service
The Media School at Indiana University
Austin Peay State University Department of Political Science
Faculty Mentor to Dr. Harold Young (Fall 2016-Spring 2017)
Independent Research Advisor for Clarisse Warren, Mitchell Currey, Erica Brotherton, Shawn Harding, and Antonia Cassida
Faculty Advisor, APSU Political Behavior Association (Spring 2016-Spring 2017)
Faculty Advisor, APSU College Democrats (Fall 2013-Spring 2016)
Austin Peay State University
Faculty Advisor, Campus Kitchen at APSU (Fall 2016-Present)
Faculty Senator, APSU Faculty Senate (Fall 2016-Spring 2018)
Faculty Representative, Institutional Effectiveness Committee (Fall 2016-Spring 2018)
Member At-Large, Institutional Review Board (Fall 2015-Spring 2017)
Member, E3 Assessment Committee (Fall 2015-Spring 2017)
Member, E3 Task Force Committee (Fall 2015-Spring 2016)
Faculty Chaperone, Valmeyer, IL Alternative Break Trip (Fall 2015)
Selected Participant in APSU Explore, Experience, Excel Inaugural Faculty Development Workshop (Spring 2015)
Thesis Committee Member for John Duggar, Masters Student in Communication (Fall 2014-Summer 2015)
Community
Pro-bono Research Analyst for Leadership Clarksville (Spring 2015)