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Gina Masullo is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Media at The University of Texas at Austin, where she also serves as Associate Director of the grant-funded Center for Media Engagement. She previously held an Assistant Professor position at the University of Southern Mississippi and has extensive experience as a journalist, working for newspapers like The Post-Standard in Syracuse, NY, where she covered crime, governance, and later parenting topics. Her formal education includes a Ph.D. and M.A. in Mass Communication from Syracuse University and a B.A. in Communication from Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Her research focuses on digital media’s role in societal connection/division, online incivility’s effects, and how journalists can improve democratic engagement. She has co-edited works like Scandal in a Digital Age and authored Online Incivility and Public Debate. Current projects include the Knight Foundation-funded Connective Democracy Initiative, exploring solutions to societal polarization. Her work emphasizes bridging divides through empathetic communication and platform design.
Dr. Masullo has won multiple awards for her research, including the 2023 Top Faculty Paper for LGBTQ+ discourse analysis and the 2019 AEJMC Research Prize for Professional Relevance. She teaches courses like Social Media Journalism and Fundamentals of Statistics. Notably, she has advised projects on protest coverage, news labels, and hate speech moderation, with grants totaling over $3 million through collaborations with institutions like Google News Initiative and the Hewlett Foundation.
