Diane Jackson

Biography

Diane Jackson is a doctoral candidate in her fourth year here in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. She received her B.A. in Communication in 2017 from Hanover College and her M.S. in Communication in 2019 from Purdue University. Before returning to Purdue for her Ph.D., she worked in operations at a start-up information technology company in Indianapolis, IN.

Research and Teaching

Diane’s research is in the areas of Media Psychology and Political Communication and is mostly centered around the processing and spread of political and politicized information both in-person and through mediated contexts. Her research has examined partisan news media effects, discourse of political actors and elites, (online) activism, and political (mis)information cognition and communication. While she specializes in experimental research methods, Diane has experience using survey, quantitative content analysis, qualitative thematic analysis, and computational methods. Her dissertation will be an experiment using the Media Use Model (MUM; Hoewe & Ewoldsen, 2024), Misinformation Recognition and Response Model (MRRM; Amazeen, 2024), and Spiral of Silence model (SOS; Noelle-Neumann, 1974) to test the effects that expectations and partisan (mis)information have on people’s processing and their sharing and media reselection intentions.

Diane has served as an instructor of record for both online and in-person classes including COM 114: Introduction to Presentational Speaking, COM 212: Interpersonal Communication, COM 217: Science Writing and Communication, COM 251: Communication, Information, and Society, and COM 320: Small Group Communication. Diane has also served as a teaching assistant for COM 102: Introduction to Communication Theories, COM 253: Introduction to Public Relations, and COM 318: Persuasion.