About Me
I am an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
My 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. I tackle these questions using diverse methodologies, including surveys, experiments, interviews, and ethnography. My recent book with Oxford University Press explores the reasons why individuals do not express their political opinions in public and how they express those opinions and organize in secret. This work is concerned with the effects of social, geographic, and political polarization and how this threatens liberal democratic norms.
My work has been published in a number of leading journals, including the Journal of Communication, Mass Communication and Society, Social Media + Society, Communication Methods and Measures, and Social Science Computer Review.
Emily Van Duyn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
@emilyvanduyn
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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3001 Lincoln Hall
702 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL, 61801
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
2015-2019
Ph.D.
Communication Studies
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Dissertation (Defended July 2019):
Networked Silence: Political Dissent in a Digital Era
Advisor: Dr. Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud
Committee Members: Dr. Roderick Hart,
Dr. Sharon Jarvis, Dr. Wenhong Chen
2014-2015
M.Ed.
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
Simmons School of Education and Human Development Specialization in literacy (distinction)
2009-2013
B.A., Government
B.S., Communication Studies
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Government, College of Liberal Arts (High Honors)
Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
(High Honors)
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2020-Present
Assistant Professor
2019-2020
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Program on Democracy and the Internet
Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
2015-2019
Graduate Research Associate
2017-2018
Teaching Assistant
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Moody College of Communication
Department of Communication Studies
RESEARCH
BOOK
Van Duyn, E. (2021). Democracy lives in darkness: How and why people keep their politics a secret. Oxford University Press.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Stroud, N. J. & Van Duyn, E. (2023). Curbing the decline of local news by building audience relationships. Journal of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad018
Collier, J., & Van Duyn, E. (2023). Fake news by any other name: The effects of phrases for false content on public perceptions of news media. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 54(1), 424-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2148487
Peacock, C., & Van Duyn, E. (2023). Monitoring and correcting: Why women read and men comment online. Information, Communication, & Society, 26(6), 1106-1121. https://doi.org/
10.1080/1369118x.2021.1993957
Van Duyn, E., & Muddiman, A. (2022). Features, community, and perceptions of incivility
across 20 news sites. Journalism, 23(1), 134-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884920907779
Van Duyn, E., Peacock, C., & Stroud, N. J. (2021). The gender gap in online news comment sections. Social Science Computer Review, 39(2), 181-196. https://doi.org/10.1177/
0894439319864876
Van Duyn, E. (2020). Mainstream marginalization: Secret political organizing and the role of social media. Social Media + Society, 6(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120981044
Stroud, N. J., & Van Duyn, E. (2020). 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., & 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. (2018). Hidden democracy: Political dissent in rural America. Journal of Communication, 68(5), 965-987. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqy042
TEACHING
TEACHING HISTORY
As a discipline, communication is concerned with how individuals relate with and relay information to one another. As the conditions in which lines of difference across communities become starker and information becomes both more difficult to navigate and identify, the work of teaching communication theories and skills becomes important for our students and society alike. I began teaching when serving as a Teach for America Corps Member in east Dallas, where I taught middle school reading and language arts, and where I focused on the importance of media in shaping our understanding of the world and ourselves. During this time, I also became a certified teacher and received my master's in education. My emphasis on the classroom as a place to learn and practice skills for the critical consumption of information and the advocacy of community needs has remained central to my pedagogy ever since.
I regularly teach undergraduate and graduate courses related to communication, politics, media, and public opinion, and am consistently identified as a "Teacher Ranked as Excellent" based on student feedback.
FALL 2023 COURSES
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CMN 328: Social Media & Politics
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CMN 529: Communication & Public Opinion