Elia Powers
Biographic Data
| ID | 4909174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elia Powers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elia |
| FAMILY NAME | Powers |
| SIGNATURE | POWERS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Towson University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
More Than ‘Just Advisers’
Consultants who worked with local television news stations starting in the 1960s promoted themselves as objective outsiders who merely interpreted audience sentiment. Yet that description mischaracterized their role and undersold their impact. These journalistic outsiders were not objective, and their influence was significant. They imported an audience-centered approach to evaluating on-air talent that disrupted broadcast news. Through archival …
Emoting with Friends of the Pod
Familiarity, Similarity, Representativeness, and Naturalness
Listening, Reflecting, and Protecting
Through in-depth interviews (N = 20), this study explores how journalists in the UK’s Facebook Community News Project described using empathy to report on and repair relationships with underserved communities. Reporters discussed how they engaged in empathetic listening with community members, humanized them through news profiles, and attempted to protect them after story publication. Through listening, reflecting, and protecting, they aimed to m…
Seeking “skilled, poised, fluent” verbal communicators
Journalism job advertisements send important signals about valued skills and attributes. How such advertisements articulate journalistic expertise, including interactional expertise, has been studied, but signals about verbal communication usually have been overlooked. Little is known about how journalism employers define the most valued communication skills and the ideal journalistic voice. This signaling theory study explores expectations adver…
The Journalist's Speech
Journalists commonly advocate for newsroom diversity and inclusivity. Yet stuttering, a speech disability affecting nearly 1% of the population, is seldom referenced in diversity training materials and newsroom surveys. Journalists have shared their experiences with stuttering. However, researchers have yet to examine how stuttering influences journalists’ career decisions and affects their professional lives. This study takes a phenomenological …
No Quick Fix
The U.S.-based Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) defines its mission as supporting and connecting journalists interested in “rigorous reporting on responses to social problems” that can “strengthen democracy” and “improve the overall quality and impact of journalism.” Yet journalists and scholars lack a shared framework for assessing the impact of solutions journalism and its contributions to democracy. As an emerging practice, solutions journal…
Selecting Metrics, Reflecting Norms
To thrive in the digital age, local news outlets must inform audiences and funders of civic-oriented journalism’s impact in their communities. There is little scholarly research on how journalists conceptualize and discuss impact. Literature commonly focuses on non-profit news outlets with a national audience and an investigative bent—an important but small part of the news ecosystem. Through in-depth interviews, this study examines how journalis…
My News Feed is Filtered?
Personalization algorithms, widely used by digital media sources, filter and prioritize news in ways that may not be apparent to users. Savvy media consumers should be aware of how this technology is used to tailor news to their tastes. This two-part study examines the extent to which US college students are aware of news personalization, and the actions and criteria that affect news selection and prioritization. Interviews with one set of studen…
What can Nonprofit Journalists Actually do for Democracy
At a time when news organizations are struggling to define and promote their own relevance, some argue that journalists should make explicit their efforts to contribute to democracy as well as the results of those efforts. This study focuses on one prominent nonprofit news organization, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), that openly discusses the impact of its work in a way that may point to the beginnings of a new …
Serving the Needs of the Latina Community for Health Information
Latinos remain the largest US population with limited health literacy (Andrulis D.P. & Brach, 2007). Concerned with how local media can meet the information needs of underserved audiences, we interviewed Latinas who were pregnant or mothers of young children living in a Spanish speaking community, and surveyed 33 local health professionals. Findings are that Latina women’s most common source of health information was family and friends. They said…
The World Unplugged» and «24 Hours without Media»
Across the globe, many students have easy and constant access to media, yet they often receive little or no instruction about the impact of their media consumption. This article outlines a «24 hours without media» exercise in accordance with the guidelines set in Module 7, Unit 1 of the UNESCO curriculum. In the fall of 2010, nearly 1,000 students from a dozen universities across five continents took part in «The World Unplugged» study. Researche…
What can Nonprofit Journalists Actually do for Democracy
At a time when news organizations are struggling to define and promote their own relevance, some argue that journalists should make explicit their efforts to contribute to democracy as well as the results of those efforts. This study focuses on one prominent nonprofit news organization, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), that openly discusses the impact of its work in a way that may point to the beginnings of a new …
Selecting Metrics, Reflecting Norms
To thrive in the digital age, local news outlets must inform audiences and funders of civic-oriented journalism’s impact in their communities. There is little scholarly research on how journalists conceptualize and discuss impact. Literature commonly focuses on non-profit news outlets with a national audience and an investigative bent—an important but small part of the news ecosystem. Through in-depth interviews, this study examines how journalis…
No Quick Fix
The U.S.-based Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) defines its mission as supporting and connecting journalists interested in “rigorous reporting on responses to social problems” that can “strengthen democracy” and “improve the overall quality and impact of journalism.” Yet journalists and scholars lack a shared framework for assessing the impact of solutions journalism and its contributions to democracy. As an emerging practice, solutions journal…
Listening, Reflecting, and Protecting
Through in-depth interviews (N = 20), this study explores how journalists in the UK’s Facebook Community News Project described using empathy to report on and repair relationships with underserved communities. Reporters discussed how they engaged in empathetic listening with community members, humanized them through news profiles, and attempted to protect them after story publication. Through listening, reflecting, and protecting, they aimed to m…
The Journalist's Speech
Journalists commonly advocate for newsroom diversity and inclusivity. Yet stuttering, a speech disability affecting nearly 1% of the population, is seldom referenced in diversity training materials and newsroom surveys. Journalists have shared their experiences with stuttering. However, researchers have yet to examine how stuttering influences journalists’ career decisions and affects their professional lives. This study takes a phenomenological …
The World Unplugged» and «24 Hours without Media»
Across the globe, many students have easy and constant access to media, yet they often receive little or no instruction about the impact of their media consumption. This article outlines a «24 hours without media» exercise in accordance with the guidelines set in Module 7, Unit 1 of the UNESCO curriculum. In the fall of 2010, nearly 1,000 students from a dozen universities across five continents took part in «The World Unplugged» study. Researche…
The World Unplugged» and «24 Hours without Media»
Across the globe, many students have easy and constant access to media, yet they often receive little or no instruction about the impact of their media consumption. This article outlines a «24 hours without media» exercise in accordance with the guidelines set in Module 7, Unit 1 of the UNESCO curriculum. In the fall of 2010, nearly 1,000 students from a dozen universities across five continents took part in «The World Unplugged» study. Researche…
Serving the Needs of the Latina Community for Health Information
Latinos remain the largest US population with limited health literacy (Andrulis D.P. & Brach, 2007). Concerned with how local media can meet the information needs of underserved audiences, we interviewed Latinas who were pregnant or mothers of young children living in a Spanish speaking community, and surveyed 33 local health professionals. Findings are that Latina women’s most common source of health information was family and friends. They said…
What can Nonprofit Journalists Actually do for Democracy
At a time when news organizations are struggling to define and promote their own relevance, some argue that journalists should make explicit their efforts to contribute to democracy as well as the results of those efforts. This study focuses on one prominent nonprofit news organization, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), that openly discusses the impact of its work in a way that may point to the beginnings of a new …
My News Feed is Filtered?
Personalization algorithms, widely used by digital media sources, filter and prioritize news in ways that may not be apparent to users. Savvy media consumers should be aware of how this technology is used to tailor news to their tastes. This two-part study examines the extent to which US college students are aware of news personalization, and the actions and criteria that affect news selection and prioritization. Interviews with one set of studen…
Selecting Metrics, Reflecting Norms
To thrive in the digital age, local news outlets must inform audiences and funders of civic-oriented journalism’s impact in their communities. There is little scholarly research on how journalists conceptualize and discuss impact. Literature commonly focuses on non-profit news outlets with a national audience and an investigative bent—an important but small part of the news ecosystem. Through in-depth interviews, this study examines how journalis…
No Quick Fix
The U.S.-based Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) defines its mission as supporting and connecting journalists interested in “rigorous reporting on responses to social problems” that can “strengthen democracy” and “improve the overall quality and impact of journalism.” Yet journalists and scholars lack a shared framework for assessing the impact of solutions journalism and its contributions to democracy. As an emerging practice, solutions journal…
The Journalist's Speech
Journalists commonly advocate for newsroom diversity and inclusivity. Yet stuttering, a speech disability affecting nearly 1% of the population, is seldom referenced in diversity training materials and newsroom surveys. Journalists have shared their experiences with stuttering. However, researchers have yet to examine how stuttering influences journalists’ career decisions and affects their professional lives. This study takes a phenomenological …
Seeking “skilled, poised, fluent” verbal communicators
Journalism job advertisements send important signals about valued skills and attributes. How such advertisements articulate journalistic expertise, including interactional expertise, has been studied, but signals about verbal communication usually have been overlooked. Little is known about how journalism employers define the most valued communication skills and the ideal journalistic voice. This signaling theory study explores expectations adver…
Listening, Reflecting, and Protecting
Through in-depth interviews (N = 20), this study explores how journalists in the UK’s Facebook Community News Project described using empathy to report on and repair relationships with underserved communities. Reporters discussed how they engaged in empathetic listening with community members, humanized them through news profiles, and attempted to protect them after story publication. Through listening, reflecting, and protecting, they aimed to m…
More Than ‘Just Advisers’
Consultants who worked with local television news stations starting in the 1960s promoted themselves as objective outsiders who merely interpreted audience sentiment. Yet that description mischaracterized their role and undersold their impact. These journalistic outsiders were not objective, and their influence was significant. They imported an audience-centered approach to evaluating on-air talent that disrupted broadcast news. Through archival …
Emoting with Friends of the Pod
Familiarity, Similarity, Representativeness, and Naturalness
Political science (8 works) · Journalism (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (4 works)