Avery E. Holton is a Vice President’s Clinical and Translational Research Scholar in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah, where his research navigates the intersections of digital and social media, news and information, and constructs of health and identity. He concurrently serves as the Undergraduate Journalism Sequence Coordinator in the University of Utah’s Department of Communication as well as the Student Media Advisor for the University. He also serves as an appointed Humanities Scholar, working with first year students as they transition from high school into Humanities courses at the university.
DJRG Fellow, March 2019
Avery was named a 2018 National Humanities Center Fellow for his work in the area of genetic information and its translation into digital and social media. This work is part of a larger collaborative project run through the Utah Center for Excellence in ELSI Research (UCEER), which is supported by a $3.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Dr. Holton’s research has appeared in more than 60 journal articles and book chapters and has been presented as more than 80 studies at national and international conferences. His work has been published in Communication Theory, Mass Communication & Society, Journalism Studies, and Health Communication, among others, helping him earn Faculty Researcher of the Year in 2014 at the University of Utah and the 2018 Rising Star in the Humanities Award at Utah.
His courses focus on digital and social media, innovative technology, and Journalism. He previously collaborated on an H2 Honors Fellowship with Dr. Sean Lawson, helping construct and teach multiple courses in the University of Utah’s Honor College centered on drones and emerging technology.
He joined the University of Utah in 2013 after completing his doctoral dissertation as a William Powers Fellow in the College of Communication at the University of Texas Austin. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy for his work on social media and health communication as well as a Doctoral Certification for his work on disabilities studies.
Title and abstract
Contemporary journalism in an exchanging arena: innovation and management as essential research basics
We intend during the visiting period to present the recent researches in progress in our research group COM+ established at University of Sao Paulo – USP, Brazil and offer a brief panorama over the Brazilian and Latin America digital journalism arena. Our broad intent is to develop a continuous relation amongst OsloMet and USP research groups. A set of academic activities was planned to support the exchanging program and future researches: innovations in digital journalism, media management processes, audience behavior and information consumption in a social network/media arena, and Research methods multiplicity and the communication field.
Selected publications
- Belair-Gagnon, V. & Holton, A. E. (2018). Boundary work, interloper media, and analytics in the newsroom. Digital Journalism, (in press)
- Coddington, M., Lewis, S. C., & Holton, A. E. (2018). Measuring and evaluating reciprocal journalism as a concept. Journalism Studies.
- Holton, A. E. & Molyneux, L. (2017). Identity lost? The personal impact of brand journalism. Journalism, 18 (2), 195-210.
- Holton, A. E. (2016). Intrapreneurial informants: An emergent role of freelance journalists . Journalism Practice , 10 (7), 917-927.
- Holton, A. E. , Lewis, S. C. & Coddington, M. (2016). Interacting with audiences: Journalistic role conceptions, reciprocity, and perceptions about participation. Journalism Studies , 17 (7), 849-859.