Professor R. Lance Holbert is a faculty member within Klein’s Department of Communication and Social Influence. He studies persuasion-based processes of media influence within the context of politics. He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications. Professor Holbert is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center and an International Communication Association (ICA) Fellow. He is editor-in-chief of Journal of Communication, served as Chair of ICA’s and NCA’s Mass Communication Divisions, as well as NCA’s Political Communication Division, and was named the 2012 Teacher of the Year by the National Communication Association’s Mass Communication Division.
R. Lance Holbert
Professor
Departments: Communication and Social Influence, Media & Communication
Weiss Hall, Room 216A
Biography
Education
Year | School | Level | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
1991 | University of Rochester | BA | History |
1993 | Syracuse University | MS | Television-Radio-Film |
1993 | Syracuse University | MPA | Public Administration |
2000 | University of Wisconsin | PhD | Mass Communication |
Publications
Holbert, R. L., Dias, N., Hardy, B. W., Jamieson, K. H., Levendusky, M. S., Renninger, A. S., Romer, D., Winneg, K. M., & Pasek, J. (2021). Exploring the role of media use within an integrated behavioral model (IBM) approach to vote likelihood. American Behavioral Scientist, 65, 412-431. doi: 10.1177/0002764220975054
Walter, N., Cohen, J., Holbert, R. L., & Morag, Y. (2020). Fact-checking: A meta-analysis of what works and for whom. Political Communication, 37, 350-375. doi: 10.1080/10584609.2019.1668894
Holbert, R. L., & Park, E. (2020). Conceptualizing, organizing, and positing moderation in communication research. Communication Theory, 30, 227-246. doi: 10.1093/ct/qtz006
Holbert, R. L. (2019). Editorial vision, goals, processes, and procedures. Journal of Communication, 69, 237-248. doi: 10.1093/joc/jqz013
Robinson, N. W., & Holbert, R. L. (2018). Taking sides in the war on news: Exploring curvilinear associations and group differences. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 46, 684-702. doi: 10.1080/00909882.2018.1548028
Holbert, R. L., Hardy, B. W., Park, E., Robinson, N. W., Jung, J., & Zeng, C. (2018). Addressing a statistical power-alpha level blind spot in political- and health-related media research: Discontinuous criterion power analyses. ANNALS of the International Communication Association, 42, 75-92. doi: 10.1080/23808985.2018.1459198
Robinson, N. W., Zeng, C., & Holbert, R. L. (2018). The stubborn pervasiveness of television news in the digital age and the field’s attention to the medium, 2010-2014. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 62, 287-301. doi:10.1080/08838151.2018.1451857
Cohen, J., & Holbert, R. L. (2018). Assessing the predictive value of parasocial relationship intensity in a political context. Communication Research. (Available Online First). doi: 10.1177/0093650218759446