
Brian Houston
2012-2013 Reynolds Fellow
University fellow
Reynolds Journalism Institute
Assistant Professor of Communication
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri
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About Brian Houston
J. Brian Houston, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Missouri and is Program Director for the Terrorism and Disaster Center (TDC) at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Houston’s research focuses on communication at all phases of disasters and on the mental health effects and political consequences of community crises. Recent and current research projects have examined the impact of media coverage of terrorism on children and adults, the role of new media during disasters, and the capacity for using information communication technologies to increase community resilience.
J. Brian Houston, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Missouri. He was a 2012-2013 RJI Fellow.
Stories about Brian Houston
Trauma Journalism
Brian Houston: The impact of trauma on communities
October 27, 2015Hurley Symposium 2013
Researchers: Political Twitter users tend to tweet almost exclusively among themselves
April 10, 2013In Twitter we trust: Can social media sway voters?
October 26, 2012President’s sharp comebacks dominate debate tweets
October 23, 2012“Binder Full of Tweets”
October 17, 2012Tweeters respond to VP candidates’ heated verbal sparring
October 12, 2012
Twitter analysis of TV news events
Create a dashboard that will harvest and process Twitter responses to televised news in real time, providing valuable information about public opinion. Focusing on the 2012 campaign season, results will allow the news commentator to have a sense of what issues were hot-buttons, the relative response of males and females to each candidate and geographic responses to candidates or topics.