Matthew D Matsaganis
Biographic Data
| ID | 383810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew D Matsaganis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew D |
| FAMILY NAME | Matsaganis |
| SIGNATURE | MATSAGANIS M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0736-2592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Building communication infrastructure from below: Solidarity outpatient clinics and community resilience in times of crisis
When healthcare systems strain under overlapping crises, informal organizations often emerge to fill critical gaps. Yet communication scholarship has given limited attention to how these crisis-born groups build the communicative infrastructure that sustains their operations. Using communication infrastructure theory (CIT), we analyze solidarity outpatient clinics (SOCs) in Greece, grassroots health organizations that arose amid economic austerit…
The Limits of Digital Health for Primary Care Patients and Clinicians: Communication, Information Exchange, and Portal Use
Patient portals have the potential to both improve and harm patient-clinician partnerships by reshaping how health information is exchanged and how patients and providers communicate. Patients (n = 20) and primary care clinicians (n = 11) purposively sampled from clinics serving diverse New Jersey communities were interviewed. Patients distinguished two portal functions – linear information exchange and bidirectional communication – but did so in…
‘We were hungry for information’: Communicative resilience and storytelling networks among minority-owned micro-businesses during Covid-19
Poor Employment Conditions and Immigrant Health in Europe
Building on the extant literature and utilizing data from the EU-SILC and the EU-LFS surveys conducted between 2009 and 2023, we empirically investigate the impact of poor employment conditions—associated with insecure or precarious employment—on third-country nationals’ (TCNs’) self-perceived health status (SPH). The role of employment conditions in health is examined by employing indicators of temporary, part-time, and self-employment. Driven b…
Providing Health Care and Social Support during Economic Crises: Lessons Learned from 'Solidarity Outpatient Clinics' in Greece during the Great Recession
Solidarity outpatient clinics' (SOCs) emerged in Greece as a novel community-based health care resource during the global economic crisis that started in 2008. They have provided crucial social support to diverse vulnerable populations. Solidarity is a critical organizational principle underlying SOCs' operation. It is juxtaposed to charity to emphasize, among other things, building symmetrical relationships between providers and patients. Employ…
Ethnic Media in the Digital Age
Ethnic media are media produced for, and frequently by, immigrants, ethnic and linguistic minority groups, and indigenous populations. These media represent a sector of the broader media industry that has seen considerable growth globally, even while many mainstream, legacy media have struggled to survive or have ceased to exist, largely due to the emergence of new communication technologies. What is missing in the literature is a careful examina…
How Do the Places We Live In Impact Our Health: Challenges for, and Insights from, Communication Research
Since the 1990s, there has been a resurgence of research on how the places we live in impact our health. I review this interdisciplinary body of work to identify the main factors that explain how residential communities influence individuals’ health. In doing so, I highlight unanswered questions which communication research can help address. After surveying communication research that addresses the larger issue of how the places in which we live …
How ethnic media producers constitute their communities of practice: An ecological approach
Almost 60 million Americans regularly get their news and other information from ethnically targeted television, radio, newspapers, and websites (Allen, 2009). However, there is little research on ethnic media producers. Data collected in group discussions with media producers serving a variety of immigrant populations in Los Angeles were analyzed to investigate how they negotiate and develop their professional identities.Husband’s (2005) work on …
Ethnic Media as Partners for Increasing Broadband Adoption and Social Inclusion
How can the goal of the National Broadband Plan (NBP) to alleviate social disparities be achieved? Katz, Matsaganis and Ball-Rokeach believe that local ethnic media, working with local anchor institutions, are the key to ethnic and minority broadband adoption and social inclusion. The authors illustrate this by showing how ethnic media can help realize the NBP's goals generally, and specifically with regard to developing a National Digital Litera…
What are Ethnic Media
Understanding Ethnic Media: Producers, Consumers, and Societies
Preface PART I: ETHNIC MEDIA IN CONTEXT 1. What Are Ethnic Media? Introduction Defining Ethnic Media The Role of Geographic Context The Roles of Ethnic Media Globalization and the Ethnic Media Social Changes That Make Studying Ethnic Media Necessary Chapter-by-Chapter Book Overview 2. The Ethnic Media in History Emigration, Immigration, and the Ethnic Media Beginnings of the Ethnic Press in Europe Ethnic Media in the United States Ethnic Media in…
Individual Participation in Organizational Information Commons: The Impact of Team Level Social Influence and Technology-Specific Competence
Journal Article Individual Participation in Organizational Information Commons: The Impact of Team Level Social Influence and Technology-Specific Competence Get access Yu Yuan, Yu Yuan 1Cornell University 7Department of Communication, 308 Kennedy Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Janet Fulk, Janet Fulk 2University of Southern California Search for other works by thi…
Individual Participation in Organizational Information Commons: The Impact of Team Level Social Influence and Technology-Specific Competence
This research extended earlier public goods research on individual incentives to use an organizational information commons that was based in Marwell and Oliver's (1993) collective action model. A revised theoretical model that incorporated team-level social influence and technology-specific competence was proposed. The model was tested using online survey data from 150 individuals in 13 work groups across 5 organizations. The research demonstrate…
Agenda Setting in a Culture of Fear: The Lasting Effects of September 11 on American Politics and Journalism
Agenda setting has been developed, expanded, and employed in numerous studies as an analytical tool that affords an understanding of not only how our political reality is formulated but also how “realities” can be manufactured. However, as the authors argue, by grafting agenda setting and media systems dependency theory—two different traditions in mass communication theory—it is possible to better account for changes in the agenda-setting process…
The 2000 U.S. Presidential Debate Versus the 2000 Greek Prime Minister Debate: A Comparative Analysis
The prevalence of televised debates is growing in popularity among democracies. This study examines the similarities and differences in format, style, journalistic involvement, and issues covered in the first presidential debate of the 2000 U.S. election campaign in October in Boston and the Greek Prime Minister debate of March 2000 held in Athens. A major theme is the dynamics of establishing the rules governing the debate in Greece and the role…
How ethnic media producers constitute their communities of practice: An ecological approach
Almost 60 million Americans regularly get their news and other information from ethnically targeted television, radio, newspapers, and websites (Allen, 2009). However, there is little research on ethnic media producers. Data collected in group discussions with media producers serving a variety of immigrant populations in Los Angeles were analyzed to investigate how they negotiate and develop their professional identities.Husband’s (2005) work on …
Ethnic Media in the Digital Age
Ethnic media are media produced for, and frequently by, immigrants, ethnic and linguistic minority groups, and indigenous populations. These media represent a sector of the broader media industry that has seen considerable growth globally, even while many mainstream, legacy media have struggled to survive or have ceased to exist, largely due to the emergence of new communication technologies. What is missing in the literature is a careful examina…
Agenda Setting in a Culture of Fear: The Lasting Effects of September 11 on American Politics and Journalism
Agenda setting has been developed, expanded, and employed in numerous studies as an analytical tool that affords an understanding of not only how our political reality is formulated but also how “realities” can be manufactured. However, as the authors argue, by grafting agenda setting and media systems dependency theory—two different traditions in mass communication theory—it is possible to better account for changes in the agenda-setting process…
The 2000 U.S. Presidential Debate Versus the 2000 Greek Prime Minister Debate: A Comparative Analysis
The prevalence of televised debates is growing in popularity among democracies. This study examines the similarities and differences in format, style, journalistic involvement, and issues covered in the first presidential debate of the 2000 U.S. election campaign in October in Boston and the Greek Prime Minister debate of March 2000 held in Athens. A major theme is the dynamics of establishing the rules governing the debate in Greece and the role…
Ethnic Media as Partners for Increasing Broadband Adoption and Social Inclusion
How can the goal of the National Broadband Plan (NBP) to alleviate social disparities be achieved? Katz, Matsaganis and Ball-Rokeach believe that local ethnic media, working with local anchor institutions, are the key to ethnic and minority broadband adoption and social inclusion. The authors illustrate this by showing how ethnic media can help realize the NBP's goals generally, and specifically with regard to developing a National Digital Litera…
The 2000 U.S. Presidential Debate Versus the 2000 Greek Prime Minister Debate: A Comparative Analysis
The prevalence of televised debates is growing in popularity among democracies. This study examines the similarities and differences in format, style, journalistic involvement, and issues covered in the first presidential debate of the 2000 U.S. election campaign in October in Boston and the Greek Prime Minister debate of March 2000 held in Athens. A major theme is the dynamics of establishing the rules governing the debate in Greece and the role…
Individual Participation in Organizational Information Commons: The Impact of Team Level Social Influence and Technology-Specific Competence
Journal Article Individual Participation in Organizational Information Commons: The Impact of Team Level Social Influence and Technology-Specific Competence Get access Yu Yuan, Yu Yuan 1Cornell University 7Department of Communication, 308 Kennedy Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Janet Fulk, Janet Fulk 2University of Southern California Search for other works by thi…
Individual Participation in Organizational Information Commons: The Impact of Team Level Social Influence and Technology-Specific Competence
This research extended earlier public goods research on individual incentives to use an organizational information commons that was based in Marwell and Oliver's (1993) collective action model. A revised theoretical model that incorporated team-level social influence and technology-specific competence was proposed. The model was tested using online survey data from 150 individuals in 13 work groups across 5 organizations. The research demonstrate…
Agenda Setting in a Culture of Fear: The Lasting Effects of September 11 on American Politics and Journalism
Agenda setting has been developed, expanded, and employed in numerous studies as an analytical tool that affords an understanding of not only how our political reality is formulated but also how “realities” can be manufactured. However, as the authors argue, by grafting agenda setting and media systems dependency theory—two different traditions in mass communication theory—it is possible to better account for changes in the agenda-setting process…
What are Ethnic Media
Understanding Ethnic Media: Producers, Consumers, and Societies
Preface PART I: ETHNIC MEDIA IN CONTEXT 1. What Are Ethnic Media? Introduction Defining Ethnic Media The Role of Geographic Context The Roles of Ethnic Media Globalization and the Ethnic Media Social Changes That Make Studying Ethnic Media Necessary Chapter-by-Chapter Book Overview 2. The Ethnic Media in History Emigration, Immigration, and the Ethnic Media Beginnings of the Ethnic Press in Europe Ethnic Media in the United States Ethnic Media in…
Ethnic Media as Partners for Increasing Broadband Adoption and Social Inclusion
How can the goal of the National Broadband Plan (NBP) to alleviate social disparities be achieved? Katz, Matsaganis and Ball-Rokeach believe that local ethnic media, working with local anchor institutions, are the key to ethnic and minority broadband adoption and social inclusion. The authors illustrate this by showing how ethnic media can help realize the NBP's goals generally, and specifically with regard to developing a National Digital Litera…
How ethnic media producers constitute their communities of practice: An ecological approach
Almost 60 million Americans regularly get their news and other information from ethnically targeted television, radio, newspapers, and websites (Allen, 2009). However, there is little research on ethnic media producers. Data collected in group discussions with media producers serving a variety of immigrant populations in Los Angeles were analyzed to investigate how they negotiate and develop their professional identities.Husband’s (2005) work on …
How Do the Places We Live In Impact Our Health: Challenges for, and Insights from, Communication Research
Since the 1990s, there has been a resurgence of research on how the places we live in impact our health. I review this interdisciplinary body of work to identify the main factors that explain how residential communities influence individuals’ health. In doing so, I highlight unanswered questions which communication research can help address. After surveying communication research that addresses the larger issue of how the places in which we live …
Ethnic Media in the Digital Age
Ethnic media are media produced for, and frequently by, immigrants, ethnic and linguistic minority groups, and indigenous populations. These media represent a sector of the broader media industry that has seen considerable growth globally, even while many mainstream, legacy media have struggled to survive or have ceased to exist, largely due to the emergence of new communication technologies. What is missing in the literature is a careful examina…
Poor Employment Conditions and Immigrant Health in Europe
Building on the extant literature and utilizing data from the EU-SILC and the EU-LFS surveys conducted between 2009 and 2023, we empirically investigate the impact of poor employment conditions—associated with insecure or precarious employment—on third-country nationals’ (TCNs’) self-perceived health status (SPH). The role of employment conditions in health is examined by employing indicators of temporary, part-time, and self-employment. Driven b…
Providing Health Care and Social Support during Economic Crises: Lessons Learned from 'Solidarity Outpatient Clinics' in Greece during the Great Recession
Solidarity outpatient clinics' (SOCs) emerged in Greece as a novel community-based health care resource during the global economic crisis that started in 2008. They have provided crucial social support to diverse vulnerable populations. Solidarity is a critical organizational principle underlying SOCs' operation. It is juxtaposed to charity to emphasize, among other things, building symmetrical relationships between providers and patients. Employ…
Building communication infrastructure from below: Solidarity outpatient clinics and community resilience in times of crisis
When healthcare systems strain under overlapping crises, informal organizations often emerge to fill critical gaps. Yet communication scholarship has given limited attention to how these crisis-born groups build the communicative infrastructure that sustains their operations. Using communication infrastructure theory (CIT), we analyze solidarity outpatient clinics (SOCs) in Greece, grassroots health organizations that arose amid economic austerit…
The Limits of Digital Health for Primary Care Patients and Clinicians: Communication, Information Exchange, and Portal Use
Patient portals have the potential to both improve and harm patient-clinician partnerships by reshaping how health information is exchanged and how patients and providers communicate. Patients (n = 20) and primary care clinicians (n = 11) purposively sampled from clinics serving diverse New Jersey communities were interviewed. Patients distinguished two portal functions – linear information exchange and bidirectional communication – but did so in…
‘We were hungry for information’: Communicative resilience and storytelling networks among minority-owned micro-businesses during Covid-19
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Ethnic group (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (3 works)