Most recent update: 2013.5.24
Eugenia Mitchelstein
Universidad de San Andrés
Vito Dumas 284
Victoria, Provincia de Buenos Aires
emitchelstein@udesa.edu.ar
1. Education
2007-present
Ph.D., Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern
University.
Expected completion date: May 2014.
Dissertation Topic: Information acquisition and political
participation before, during and after the 2011 presidential
campaign in Argentina
Supported by NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant (award
number 1026535)
(Project began in Fall 2010; data collection completed Fall 2011;
expected completion date of dissertation: Spring 2014.)
2004-2005
M. Sc., Department of Media and Communications, London
School of Economics and Political Science, University of
London.
1998-2003
Licenciada en Ciencia Política, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales,
Universidad de Buenos Aires.
2. Publications
Book
Boczkowski, P. J., & Mitchelstein, E. (2013). The News Gap: When the Information
Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Journal Articles
Boczkowski, P.J., Mitchelstein, E. & Walter, M. (2012). When Burglar Alarms Sound,
Do Monitorial Citizens Pay Attention to Them? The Online News Choices of
Journalists and Consumers during and after the 2008 U.S. Election Cycle.
Political Communication, 29 (4), 347-366
Mitchelstein, E. (2012). Catharsis and Community: Divergent Motivations for Audience
Participation in Online Newspapers and Blogs. International Journal of
Communication, 5, 2014-2034.
Boczkowski, P.J., & Mitchelstein, E. (2012). Clicking, Emailing, and Commenting:
How Users Take Advantage of Different Forms of Interactivity on Online News
Sites. Human Communication Research, 38 (3), 1-22.
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Boczkowski, P.J., Mitchelstein, E., & Walter, M. (2011). Convergence Across
Divergence: Understanding the Gap in the Online News Choices of Journalists
and Consumers in Western Europe and Latin America. Communication
Research, 38 (3), 376-396.
Mitchelstein, E., & Boczkowski, P.J. (2010). Online News Consumption Research: An
Assessment of Past Work and an Agenda for the Future. New Media and Society,
22 (7), 1085-1102.
Boczkowski, P. & Mitchelstein, P.J. (2010). Is There a Gap Between the News Choices
of Journalists and Consumers? A Relational and Dynamic Approach.
International Journal of Press/Politics, 15(4) 420–440.
Mitchelstein, E., & Boczkowski, P.J. (2009). Between Tradition and Change: A Review
of Recent Research on Online News Production. Journalism: Theory, Practice
& Criticism, 10 (5), 562- 568.
Book Chapters
Mitchelstein, E., & Boczkowski, P. (in press) Online news. In Mazzoleni, G. (Ed.), The
International Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Hoboken: WileyBlackwell.
Mitchelstein, E., & Boczkowski, P. (in press) New media and news consumption. In
Mesch, G. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Science.
Oxford: Elsevier.
Mitchelstein, E., & Boczkowski, P. (2013) Tradition and transformation in online news
production and consumption. In Dutton, W. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of
Internet Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 378-400
3. Works in Progress
Book
Boczkowski, P.J., Mitchelstein. E. and Siles, I. How institutions decay: The demise of
print newspapers in the United States, France and Argentina. Research in
progress
Articles under review
Mitchelstein E. Online Political Discussion: A Comparison between Users’ Comments
in Newspapers and Blogs. Resubmission invited at Journal of Computer
Mediated Communication (Date of original submission: June 2012).
4. Awards and Grants
2010
Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation.
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2010
Donald. H. and Carolyn E. Ecroyd Fellowship, School of
Communication, Northwestern University.
2010
Graduate Research Ignition Grant, School of Communication,
Northwestern University.
2010
Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University.
2008
Grant for Graduate Students Research, Buffett Center for International
and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University.
2004
Chevening Scholarship, Awarded by the United Kingdom Foreign and
Commonwealth Office, to pursue postgraduate studies in the UK.
2002
Young Multimedia Journalist of the year, Awarded by BBC World
Service and Clarín.
5. Conference Presentations
Boczkowski, P. & Mitchelstein, E. (2012) Clicking, sending and commenting: How
users take advantage of different forms of interactivity in online news sites.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication
Association, Mass Communication Division, New Orleans, LA, November 1720. (presented by co-author)
Mitchelstein, E. (2011). Technology, Communication and Political Engagement: The
2011Presidential Campaign in Argentina. Presented at the Doctoral Consortium,
Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, Boston, MA,
May 25-28.
Boczkowski, P. & Mitchelstein, E. (2011). The Content Production Practices of
Monitorial Citizens: Accounting for the Most Commented Stories on Online
News Sites During and After the U.S. 2008 Presidential Election. Presented at
the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, Boston,
MA, May 25-28.
Mitchelstein, E. (2010). Catharsis vs. Community: Different perceptions of online
discussion spaces among participants in online newspapers and blogs. Paper
presented at the 5th Meeting of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencia
Política, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 28-30.
Mitchelstein E. (2010). Online Political Discussion: A Comparison between Comments
in Newspapers and Blogs. Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science
Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 22-25.
Boczkowski, P. & Mitchelstein, E. (2010). Is There a Gap Between the News Choices of
Journalists and Consumers? A Relational and Dynamic Approach. Paper
presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL,
April 22-25.
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Boczkowski, P., Mitchelstein, E., & Walter, M. (2009). The news choices of journalists
and consumers in an era of digital media and global information flows: Latin
America and Europe in comparative perspective. Paper presented at the XXVIII
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, June 11-14.
Mitchelstein, E., & Boczkowski, P. (2009). Between tradition and change: A review of
recent research on online news production. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the International Communication Association, Chicago, IL, May 2125.
6. Professional Service
Journal Reviewer:
Journal of Communication, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, New Media
& Society, Revista Chilena de Ciencia Política
7. Other Relevant Work Experience
2007
AdSense Associate, Google, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2005-2007
Producer-Scriptwriter, Promofilm, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2003-2004
Production Coordinator, America TV, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2003
Intern, BBC World Service, London, United Kingdom.
2001-2002
Producer, América TV, Buenos Aires, Argentina