Eliana DuBosar is an assistant professor of public relations in the School of Communication and Journalism. Her research interests fall largely under the umbrella of political communication. Specifically, she is interested in understanding the role of social identity in people’s communication processes and belief formation. As such, she has focused on identity-based selective exposure, the role of emotions in political information seeking, and how partisan and non-traditional media relate to people’s beliefs. She is also interested in understanding how to increase trust in the media to encourage more holistic information seeking and reduce misinformation/partisan misperceptions. She utilizes quantitative methods in her research, including surveys, experiments, and some computational methods for analyzing social media data.

Dr. DuBosar has presented her work at the annual meetings for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and the International Communication Association (ICA). Her work has been published in Media Psychology, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, New Media and Society, Mass Communication and Society, and the International Journal of Communication, among other venues.