Jennifer Stromer-Galley

Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania
Associate Professor

Teaching and Research Area/s: Political Communication, Communication and Technology
Office: SS 333
Phone: (518) 442-4873
Fax: (518) 442-3884
E-mail: jstromer@albany.edu
Home Page: http://www.albany.edu/~jstromer/.

• Teaching and Research Interests
• Research Projects
• Publications/Presentations
• Other Professional Activities
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Jennifer Stromer-Galley's Teaching and Research Interests

• Political Communication: the interrelationship between democratic government, elections, citizens, and media; transformation of political campaigns in changing media environments; interpersonal and online political talk and its social and individual effects
• Communication Technology and Democracy: how communication technology (old and new) are used in democratic practices
• Communication and the Public Sphere: the social forces that give rise to, alter, dissolve boundaries between public and private spheres
• Public Opinion: theoretical conceptions (historical and contemporary) of public opinion; factors contributing to public opinion; ways and problems of measurement
• Communication and the Internet: the Internet as research tool and medium for communication to individuals, groups, and mass audiences

Publications

Academic Publications

Stromer-Galley, J., & Martey, R. M. (2009). Visual spaces, norm governed places: The influence of spatial context online. New Media & Society, 11, 1041-1060.

Stromer-Galley, J., and Wichowski, A. (in press). Democratic Discourse Online. In M. Consalvo, C. Ess, & R. Burnett (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Internet Studies. London: Blackwell.

Stromer-Galley, J. (2009). The Web 2.0 election. In N. Anstead & W. Straw (Eds.),The change we need: What Britain can learn from Obama’s victory (pp. 49-58). London: The Fabian Society.

Stromer-Galley, J., & Martinson, A. (2009). Coherence in political computer-mediated communication: Comparing topics in chat. Discourse & Communication, 3, 195-216.

Stromer-Galley, J. and Muhlberger, P. (2009). Agreement and disagreement in group deliberation and its consequences: Satisfaction, engagement, and opinion reevaluation. Political Communication, 26, 173-192.

Black, L., Burkhalter, S., Gastil, J., and Stromer-Galley, J. (2009). Methods for analyzing and measuring group deliberation. In E. Bucy and R. L. Holbert (Eds.), Sourcebook for political communication research: Methods, measures, and analytical techniques. Mahwah, NJ: Routledge.

Stromer-Galley, J. (2009). The Web 2.0 election. In N. Anstead & W. Straw (Eds.), The change we need: What Britain can learn from Obama’s victory (pp. 49-58). London: The Fabian Society.

Muhlberger, P., & Stromer-Galley, J. (2009). Automated and Hand-Coded Measurement of Deliberative Quality in Online Policy Discussions” ACM International Conference Proceeding Series: Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference, DG.O 2009 290.

Muhlberger, P., Webb, N., & Stromer-Galley, J. (2008) The Deliberative E Rulemaking Project (DeER): Improving Federal Agency Rulemaking Via Natural Language Processing and Citizen Dialogue", ACM International Conference Proceeding Series: Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference, p. 403, vol. 289.(available at: http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm)

Martey R. M. and Stromer-Galley, J. (2007). The digital dollhouse: Context and social norms in The Sims Online. Games & Culture, 2, 314-344.

Stromer-Galley, J. (2007). Measuring Deliberation’s Content: A Coding Scheme.  Journal of Public Deliberation, 3(1).  Available: http://services.bepress.com/jpd/vol3/iss1/art12.

Stromer-Galley, J. and Baker, A. B. (2006). Joy and sorrow of interactivity on the campaign trail: Blogs in the primary campaign of Howard Dean. In A. P. Williams & J. C. Tedesco (Eds.), The internet election: Perspectives on the Web in campaign 2004 (pp. 111-131). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Stromer-Galley, J. and Mikeal, R. (2006). Gaming pink: Gender and structure in The Sims Online. In P. Messaris & L. Humphreys (Eds.), Digital media: Transformation in human communication (pp. 197-210). New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.

Stromer-Galley, J. (2004). Interactivity as process and interactivity as product. The Information Society, 20(5), 391-394.

Stromer-Galley, J. (2003). Diversity and political conversations on the Internet: Users’ Perspectives. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 8(3). Available http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol8/issue3/stromergalley.html

Stromer-Galley, J. (2003). Will internet voting increase turnout? In P. Howard & S. Jones (Eds.), Society online: The internet in context (pp. 87-102). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Stromer-Galley, J. (2003). Voting and the public sphere: Conversations on voting over the Internet. PS: Political Science and Politics, 36, 727-732.

Stromer-Galley, J., and Foot, K. A. (2002). Citizens perceptions of online interactivity and implications for political campaign communication. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 8(1). Available http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol8/issue1/stromerandfoot.html

Stromer-Galley. (2002). New voices in the public sphere: A comparative analysis of interpersonal and online political talk. Javnost – The Public 9(2), 23-42.

Stromer-Galley, J. and Jamieson, K. H. (2001). The transformation of leadership? In B. Axford and R.Huggins (Eds.), New media and politics (pp. 172-190). New York/London: Sage.

Stromer-Galley, J. Foot, K. A., Schneider, S. M., and Larsen, E. (2001). How citizens used the internet in election 2000. In S. Coleman (Eds.), Elections in the age of the Internet: Lessons from the United States (pp. 21-26). London: Hansard Society.

Stromer-Galley, J. (2000). Online interaction and why candidates avoid it. Journal of Communication, 50(4), 111-132.

Stromer-Galley, J. (2000). Democratizing democracy: Strong democracy, U.S. campaigns, and the Internet. Democratization, 7(1), 36-58.

Stromer-Galley, J. and Schiappa, E. (1998). The argumentative burdens of audience conjectures: Audience research in popular culture criticism. Communication Theory, 8, 27-62.

Encyclopedia Entries

Stromer-Galley, J. (2007). World Wide Web (political uses). Encyclopedia of Political Communication. L. L. Kaid & K. Holtz-Bacha (Eds.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Jamieson, K. H., & Stromer-Galley, J. (2001). Hybrid Genres. Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. T. Sloane (Ed.). Oxford University Press.

Other Professional Activities

Grants

Air Force Research Lab. "“Virtual World to Real World Inferences: Multi-Variant Analysis of Leadership, Gender, and Related Player Characteristics through the Lens of Group Dynamics.” Principal Investigator: K. Reene. Co-Principal Investigators: R. M. Martey, J. Stromer-Galley, M. Consalvo, T. Strzalkowski, $600,000 Oct. 2009 – Sept. 2012.

Army Research Lab. “DSARMD: Detecting Social Actions & Roles in Multiparty Dialogue.” Principal Investigator: T. Strzalkowski. Co-Principal Investigators: A. Broadwell, J. Stromer-Galley, S. Taylor, N. Webb. $1,903,041, July 2009 - July 2012.

Faculty Research Award Program Grant (FRAP-B) “Political Campaigning in the Internet Age” University at Albany, SUNY. $2500, April 2009-April 2012.

National Science Foundation Human Centered Computing Division. “Deliberative E-Rulemaking Decision Facilitation Project.” Principle Investigator: Peter Muhlberger; Co-Principle Investigators: Nick Webb, Jennifer Stromer-Galley. $449,000, awarded September 15, 2007 – Sept. 15, 2009.

College of Arts and Sciences Release-Time award, University at Albany, SUNY, Spring 2006

Faculty Research Award Program Grant (FRAP-A) "Measuring Deliberation: Comparing Online and Face-to-Face Discussion," University at Albany, SUNY, $9,127, 2005-2006.

Awards

Leonore Annenberg Award for service to the community and to the nation, 2003, to award community service work with the League of Women Voters and service provided to the school while a graduate student at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

Robert L. Scott Award for Departmental Service, University of Minnesota, 1997, for service provided to the department.

University Service

• Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Benefits, University Life Council, 2004-2006
• University Faculty Senator, University Life Council, 2004-2006.
• Public Speaking Trainer, Fellows program, Center for Women in Government and Civil Society

Community Service

• Webmistress, League of Women Voters of Albany County, August 2005 - May 2009
• Volunteer, Emergency Medical Support Attendant, Helderberg Volunteer Ambulance Squad, August 2004 - 2009.
• Member, League of Women Voters of Albany County, 2004 - present.
• Director of the Board, League of Women Voters of Philadelphia, 2000-2002.
• Guest Instructor, "Communication Skills," HERS Summer Institute, 2000.
  Moderator, Foundation for Individual Responsibility and Social Trust (FIRST) Convention, 2000.

Links to websites related to research

• http://www.deer.albany.edu/