Matthew Weber

@docmattweber

Scholar & consultant; my focus is on media, organizational change and communication dynamics. Associate Professor at Rutgers University.

New Brunswick, NJ matthewsweber.com Joined June 2007

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Matthew Weber @docmattweber Jun 28, 2023

*New Pub* Paper in Journal of Medical Internet Research reporting our key findings from an experiment where we created a custom knowledge portal for an ongoing policy process here in NJ jmir.org/2023/1/e41997

Special thx to @wtgrantfdn & co-author @vlarmour (& Itzhak and Cali)

www.jmir.org Testing Multiple Methods to Effectively Promote Use of a Knowledge Portal to Health Policy Makers:... Background: Health policy makers and advocates increasingly utilize online resources for policy-relevant knowledge. Knowledge brokering is one potential mechanism to encourage the use of research...

Matthew Weber @docmattweber May 29, 2023

So incredibly proud to see my advisee recognized by @Journalism_ICA with their Outstanding Dissertation award (co advised w @journoscholar ). Wonderful to see this phenomenal work being recognized by others. Congrats!!

Allison J. Steinke, Ph.D. @ajsteinkephd May 29, 2023

Humbled & honored to receive @icahdq @journalism_ica’s Outstanding Dissertation Award today at #ICA23 for my work on “The Institutionalization of Solutions Journalism!” I’m thrilled to lift up the work of global #solutionsjournalists & for my work to be celebrated in this way!

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Matthew Weber @docmattweber Nov 29, 2022

Proud to share my latest publication on an audience perspective of local and sense of community. We outline a definition of local for policy and news research. I'm grateful to have worked with the incomparable @Nick_Mathews on this work. tandfonline.com/eprint/XKVIHWP…

www.tandfonline.com Explicating Local: An Audience-Based Framing of Local Community and Local News In recent years, much has been made of the crisis in local news. Communities across the United States are rapidly losing local news coverage. In response, policymakers and community advocates have ...

Matthew Weber @docmattweber Nov 14, 2022

@Delta enjoyed my seat mate telling me to f* off when I accidentally bumped him during the flight. Perils of the middle seat? But I don’t think your flight attendants should be offering free beer as the resolution!! Seems counterintuitive esp if he was intoxicated??

Matthew Weber @docmattweber Oct 24, 2022

Excited to have this piece out - we'll share as soon as it's online. But in the meantime, it's been a blast exploring conceptualizations of community and local with @Nick_Mathews - looking forward to future collaborations!!