Jocelyn McKinnon-Crowley

Jocelyn McKinnon-Crowley

Doctoral Advisor: Keren Henderson

Education:
M.A., Communication, Washington State University
B.A., Telecommunications and History of Art, Indiana University

Recent Presentations:

  • McKinnon-Crowley, J. (August, 2024). Emotional Responses to Local, Rural, Political News: A Mixed-Method Content Analysis. AEJMC 2024, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
  • McKinnon-Crowley, J. (August, 2024). The Hollowing Out of Nonprofit News: An Ethnographic Investigation into the Implications of Exploited News Workers. AEJMC 2024, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
  • McKinnon-Crowley, J. (2024, June). When Crises Happen in News Deserts: Rural Social Media Commenters Adhering to Journalistic Norms. ICA 2024, Gold Coast, Australia.
  • Lee, Y.I., Mu, D., McKinnon-Crowley, J., & Bolls, P. (2024, June). University Branding and Emotional Shifts Affecting Message Responses: A Psychophysiological Experiment on University COVID-19 Vaccine and Mask Policies. ICA 2024, Gold Coast, Australia.
  • McKinnon-Crowley, J. (May, 2024). A Critical Approach to AI-Assisted Local News Products for Accessibility. In Critical Perspectives on Science and Technology [Panel Presentation]. ICQI Conference, Urbana, IL, United States.
  • McKinnon-Crowley, J. (2024, May). Tensions in Teaching Occupational Norms Across Race, Gender, and Age in Local Nonprofit News Organizations. ICQI Conference, Urbana, IL, United States.
  • McKinnon- Crowley, J. (2024, April). Barriers to Broadcast News on TikTok: Content Analysis of Caption Accessibility. Newhouse Impact Spring Symposium. Syracuse, NY, United States.
  • McKinnon-Crowley, J. (2024, March). Normative Local, Startup, Nonprofit News Work. 2024 Local Journalism Researchers Workshop, Durham, NC, United States.
  • McKinnon-Crowley, J. (2024, March). Exclusion of People with Disabilities from the News Audience as Illustrated through Advertising: A Critical Cultural Perspective. 2024 Student Research in Communication Conference, organized by the School of Communication at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States. 
  • Sukalla, F., Bolls, P. D., McKinnon-Crowley, J., & Mu, D. (2024, January). Der Einfluss individueller Unterschiede in der Emotionsregulation auf die Verarbeitung emotionaler, extremer Statements von Politiker:innen [The effects of individual differences in emotion regulation on the processing of emotional, extreme statements from politicians].  Presentation at the annual conference of the Media Reception and Effects Research division of the German Communication Association, Fribourg (Switzerland).


Bio:
Jocelyn McKinnon-Crowley is a mixed-methods researcher focusing on access to news. She studies both access to news content from a critical perspective and access to the production of news from a labor perspective. Currently, she has three main research avenues. First, looking at the norms and working conditions of nonprofit journalists through ethnographic methods. Second, understanding what AI means for journalists as part of an NSF grant studying the future of work. Third, studying the accessibility of news production and content in order to better advocate for the information rights of disabled people.

She is an active member of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the International Communication Association, and the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry where she regularly presents her work.

She also enjoys teaching. During her time as a master's student at Washington State University, she taught Introduction to Public Speaking in the Digital Age and Multimedia Content Creation, and TA'd for quantitative research methods. She has developed materials for a course Misinformation on Social Media and serves as a mentor for first-generation students making the transition into college. She also frequently guest lectures on access barriers to news and information.