Josephine Lukito Education - Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Completed: Aug. 2020)
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Josephine Lukito
Assistant Professor,
University of Texas at Austin,
School of Journalism
jlukito@utexas.edu
December 10, 2020 @josephinelukito
www.jlukito.com
Education
Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Completed: Aug. 2020)
Program: Journalism & Mass Communication
Minors: English Language & Linguistics (Syntax), Political Science (Methods & IR)
Advisor: Doug McLeod
Committee: Lew Friedland, Jon Pevehouse, Dhavan Shah, Anja Wanner
Dissertation: Global Trade, National News Frames, and State Public Opinion: Making Sense of
U.S.-China Trade, 2008-2018
M. A., Syracuse University, 2015 (Completed: May 2015)
Program: Media Studies
Advisor: Brad Gorham
Thesis: Language Abstractness as a Discursive Microframe: LCM Framing in American
Coverage of International News
B. A., State University of New York at Geneseo (Completed: May 2013)
Majors: Communication, Political Science
Advisor: Atsushi Tajima
Publications
Published
Pelled, A., Lukito, J., Foley, J., Sun, Z., Zhang, Y., Pevehouse, J. & Shah, D. (In Press). Death Across the
News Spectrum: A time series analysis of partisan coverage following mass shootings in the US
between 2012-2014. International Journal of Communication.
Freelon, D., Bossetta M., Wells, C., Lukito, J., Xia, Y. &, Adams, K., (2020). Black trolls matter: An
analysis of Russian sockpuppetry and digital blackface on Twitter. Social Science Computer
Review.
Dienlin, T., Johannes, N., Bowman, N. D., Masur, P. K., Engesser, S., Kumpel, A. S., Lukito, J., Bier, L.
M., Zhang, R., et al., (2020). An agenda for open science in communication. Journal of
Communication. [Article]
Lukito, J., Suk, J., Zhang, Y., Doroshenko, L., Su, M.-H., Kim, S. J., Xia, Y. & Wells, C. (2019).The Wolves
in Sheep’s Clothing: How Russia’s Internet Research Agency tweets appears in U.S. news as vox
populi. International Journal of Press/Politics. [Article] [Data]
Wells, C., Zhang, Y., Lukito, J. & Pevehouse, J. (2019). Modeling the formation of attentive publics in
social media: The case of Donald Trump. Mass Communication and Society.Lukito, J. (2019). Coordinating Disinformation: Understanding IRA activity on three U.S. social media
platforms, 2015-2017. Political Communication. [Article] [Code]
Wells, C., Shah, D., Lukito, J., Pelled, A., Pevehouse, J. & Yang, J. (2019). Trump, Twitter and news
media responsiveness: A media systems approach. New Media & Society.
Bucy, E., Foley, J., Lukito, J., Doroshenko, L., Shah, D., Pevehouse, J., & Wells, C. (2019). Performing
populism: Trump’s transgressive debate style and the dynamics of Twitter response. New Media
& Society.
Wells, C., Shah, D., V., Pevehouse, J. C., Foley, J., Pelled, A., Lukito, J., & Yang, J. (2019). The temporal
turn in communication research: Dynamic processes and time-series analyses using
computational approaches. International Journal of Communication.
Xia, Y., Lukito, J., Zhang, Y., Wells, C., Kim, S.-J., Tong, C. (2019). Disinformation, performed: Self-
presentation of a Russian IRA account on Twitter. Information, Communication & Society.
Zhang, Y., Shah, D., Foley, J., Abhishek, A., Lukito, J., Suk, J., Kim, S., Sun, Z., Pevehouse, J., &
Garlough, C. (2019). Whose Lives Matter? Mass Shootings and Social Media Discourses of
Sympathy and Policy, 2012-2014. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Lukito, J. & Golan, G.J. (2017). Newspaper editorial pages frame China similarly. Newspaper Research
Journal, 38(2), 215-230. [Codebook]
Wells, C., Shah, D. V., Pevehouse, J. C., Yang, J., Pelled, A., Boehm, F., Lukito, J., Ghosh, S. & Schmidt,
J. L. (2016). How Trump drove coverage to the nomination: Hybrid media campaigning. Political
Communication, 33(4), 669-676.
Neil, J. M., Schweickart, T. L., Kim, J. Y., Zhang, T., Lukito, J., Golan, G. J., & Kiousis, S. K. (2016). The
dash for gas: Examining third-level agenda-building and fracking in the United Kingdom.
Journalism Studies.
Golan, G.J. & Lukito, J. (2015). The rise of the dragon? Framing China's global leadership in elite
American newspapers. International Communication Gazette, 77(8), 754-772. [Codebook]
Lukito, J., & Tajima, A. (2014). Two national newspapers cover recession distinctively. Newspaper
Research Journal, 35(3), 66-80.
Under Review
Zhang, Y., Lukito, J., Su, M.-H., Suk, J., Zia, Y., Kim, S. J., Doroshenko, L., & Wells, C. (Revise &
Resubmit). Assembling social media followings through polarized publics and media: How
Russian IRA accounts gained influence in the 2016 U.S. election cycle. Journal of Communication
Lukito, J. & Pevehouse, J. (Under Review). Dynamic social media attention competitions during two
U.S. presidential debates.
Lukito, J., Sarma, P., Abhishek, A., Foley, J., Pevehouse, J., Pelled, A., Bucy, E., Sethares, W., & Shah, D.
(Under Review). Resonant debate moments: Employing NLP and time series analysis to study
peaks of Twitter activity during two U.S. Presidential debates.
Doroshenko, L. & Lukito, J. (Under Review). Trollfare: Russia’s disinformation campaign during
military conflict in Ukraine.Lukito, J., Loya, G., Davalos, C., Li, J., Tong, C. & McLeod, D. (Under Review). Chiming in: A computer
assisted analysis of musician’s political engagement on Twitter” Paper accepted to the Annual
Conference for AEJMC.
Suk. J., Lukito, J., Su, M-H., Kim, S. J., Sun, Z., Sarma, P., & Tong, C. (Under Review). Do I sound
American? Predicting disinformation sharing of Russian IRA tweets from a linguistic
perspective.
Conference Participation
Zhang, Y., Chen, F. & Lukito, J. (2020). Networked amplification: The role of networked elites in
information diffusion surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter. Paper submitted to the
2021 Annual Conference of the International Communication Association [ICA]
Duan, Z., Li, J., Lukito, J., Chen, X., Shah, D., & Yang, S. (2020). Bots as Strategic Communicators in the
Digital Public Space: Evidence for Algorithmic Agenda-Setting during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Paper submitted to the 2021 Annual Conference of ICA.
Lukito, J. & Pevehouse, J. (2020). Competing for attention: Temporal dynamics of discussing
candidates on Twitter during the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential debate. Paper submitted to the
2021 Annual Conference of ICA.
Dumdum, O. & Lukito, J. (2020). Public intellectuals and news media as international governance
actors: Evidence from the World Bank’s aid transparency norm. Paper accepted to the 2020
Annual Conference for the ICA.
Doroshenko, L. & Lukito, J. (2019). Trollfare: Russia’s disinformation campaign during military conflict
in Ukraine. Paper presented to the 2019 Annual Conference for the Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). [Top Student Paper, International
Communications Division]
Lukito, J., Loya, G., Davalos, C., Li, J., Tong, C. & McLeod, D. (2019). #DonateNow!: A computer
assisted analysis of musician’s political engagement on Twitter” Paper accepted to the Annual
Conference for AEJMC. [Third Place Student Paper, Political Communication Division]
Lukito, J., Sarma, P, Foley, J., Pevehouse, J., Abhishek, A., Shah, D., Bucy, E., Wells, C., & Pelled, A.
(2019). Highlights of two U.S. presidential debates: Identifying candidate insults that go viral.
Paper accepted to the Annual Conference for AEJMC.
Lukito, J., Sarma, P., Foley, J. & Abhishek, A. (2019). Using time series and natural language processing
to identify viral moments in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Debate. Paper accepted at the NLP+CSS
Workshop of the 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics. [Spotlight Talk]
Suk. J., Lukito, J., Su, M-H., Kim, S. J., Sun, Z., Sarma, P., & Tong, C. (2019). Do I sound American?
Predicting disinformation sharing of Russian IRA tweets from a linguistic perspective. Paper
accepted to the 2019 Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA).Lukito, J., McLeod, D., & Boyle, M. (2019). Allies and opponents of the status quo: Partisan news media
descriptions of protesters and police in four 21st century protests. Paper accepted to the 2019
Annual Conference of ICA.
Wells, C., Lukito., J., & Sun, Z. (2018) Three ways of looking at a media system: Attention, agenda, and
tone in the last months of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Paper accepted to the 2018 Oxford
International Journal of Press & Politics Conference.
Lukito, J., Suk, J., Zhang, Y., Doroenko, L., Kim, S., Su, M.-H., Suk, J., Xia, Y., Freelon, D., & Wells,
C. (2018). Zero Day Twitter: How Russian Propaganda Infiltrated the U.S. Hybrid Media
System. Paper presented at the 2018 Annual Conference for AEJMC. [Top Paper, Political
Communication Interest Group & Third-Place Professional Relevancy Award]
Foley, J., Lukito, J., Bucy, E. P., Shah, D. V., Abhishek, A. (2018). Dual-screening and Dynamic
communication flows: The interplay of candidate cues and social media expression during the
2016 presidential debates. Paper presented at the 2018 Annual Conference of the National
Communication Association (NCA).
Xia, Y., Lukito, J., Zhang, Y., Kim, S. J., Tong, C. (2018). “This world lacks personalities. You have one.”
Self-presentation of an IRA account. Paper presented at the 2018 Information Communication
and Society symposium.
Suk, J. Zhang, Y., Lukito, J., Su M-H., Foley, J. (2018). Tracing Twitter Buzz: Clustering Hashtags and
Handles About Mass Shootings and Gun Control. Presented at the Annual Conference of ICA.
Zhang Y., Shah D., Foley, J. M., Abhishek, A. Pevehouse, J., Lukito, J., Kim S. J., Suk J., Yang E.,
Garlough C. (2018). The Features of Tragedy, Expressions of Sympathy, and Debates over
Policy: A Time Series Analysis of Mass Shootings and Social Media Discourses. Presented at the
2018 Annual Conference of ICA.
Chong H., Lukito, J., Kniaz, T., Gill, H. (2017). The shifting composition of party association during the
2016 presidential election. Presented at the 2017 Annual Conference of the American
Association for Public Opinion Research.
Lukito, J. & Conathan, D. (2017). A case study using syntax dependencies to find differences between
news and non-news tweets. Paper accepted to the (inaugural) Computational Methods Interest
Group at the 2017 Annual Conference of ICA.
Lukito, J. (2017). Abstract language as a framing device. Paper accepted to the Mass Communication
Division at the 2017 Annual Conference of ICA.
Yang, J., Sangar, A., Duncan, M., Zhang, Y., Kornflit, R. Lukito, J., Kim, S., Wu, Y. & Cao, D. (2017).
Obamacare and political polarization on Twitter: An application of machine learning and social
network analysis. Paper accepted at the 2017 Annual Conference of ICA.
Lukito, J. (2016). Understanding Entman’s frame functions in construction of American international
news. Paper accepted to the 2016 Annual Conference for the Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
Lukito, J. (2016). Martial arts as masculine performance: How Asian American men interpret filmic
representations of Asian men. Presented at the Annual Conference of ICA, Fukuoka, Japan.Lukito, J. (2015). Language abstractness as discursive microframes: LCM framing in American
coverage of international news. Paper accepted to the 2015 Annual Conference of AEJMC.
[Second Place Top Student Paper, International Communications Division]
Schweickart, T. L., Neil, J. M., Kim, J. Y., Lukito, J., Zhang, T., Golan, G. J., & Kiousis, S. K. (2015). Time-
lagged analysis of third-level agenda-building: Florida’s debate on medical marijuana. Paper
accepted to the 2015 Annual Conference of AEJMC Conference. [Third Place Top Paper
Competition, Public Relations Division]
Schweickart, T. L. & Lukito, J. (2015). Agenda building and health diplomacy: Advancing the model of
country concept. Paper accepted to the Public Diplomacy Pre-Conference Panel in the 2015
Annual Conference of AEJMC Conference.
Lim, J. S., Jeong Y. J., & Lukito, J. (2015). The relationship between cosmetic surgery advertisements
and third person behavior in the United States. Paper accepted to the 2015 Annual Conference
of the International Communication Association, Seattle WA.
Lukito, J. (2014, May). Americanizing anime: Is Disney’s representation of Miyazaki movies removing
the “Japan” from Japanese anime? Paper accepted to the 2014 Annual Conference of the
International Communication Association, Seattle, WA.
Lukito, J. and Tajima, A. (2013, April). Economics news explored: role of elite newspapers and non-
elite newspapers presenting a holistic picture of the 2008-09 U.S. recession. Paper accepted to
the Annual Conference of the Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburg, PA.
Lukito, J. (2013, April). Selectively social media: Selective exposure theory and social media during the
2012 US presidential elections. Paper accepted to the Annual Undergraduate Scholars’
Conference of the Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburg, PA.
Lukito, J. & Tajima, A. (2012, August). Setting frames, contextualizing frames: Elite vs. non-elite press
coverage of the 2008 US recession. Paper accepted to the Annual Conference of the Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Chicago, IL.
Lukito, J. (2012, April). The American nightmare: Hegemony and the transformation of the American
dream. Paper accepted to the Annual Undergraduate Scholars’ Conference of the Eastern
Communication Association, Cambridge, MA.
Lukito, J. (2011, April). Critical youth and slanted truth: Media framing and audience perception in the
2010 midterm elections. Paper accepted to the Annual Undergraduate Scholars’ Conference of
the Eastern Communication Association, Arlington, VA.
Book Chapters
Pelled, A., Lukito, J., Boehm, F., Yang, J., & Shah, D. (2018). “Little Marco,” “lyin’ Ted”, “crooked
Hillary,” and the “biased” media: How Trump used Twitter to attack and organize. In Stroud, T.
& McGregor, S. (Eds.) Digital discussion: How big data informs political communication (pp. 176-196).
Lukito, J. (Forthcoming). Understanding State-Sponsored Disinformation through the Case of Russia’s
Internet Research Agency. In Porter, L. (Ed.) Hacking democracy: Technology, the Internet, & Politics.Media Appearances & Research Papers
Center for Communication and Civic Renewal
UW Scholars receive major funding to study polarization and civic renewal. UW-Madison [Press
Release]. Retrieved from https://news.wisc.edu/uw-scholars-receive-major-funding-to-study-
polarization-and-civic-renewal
Wagner, M., Suk, J., Shah, D., Friedland, L., Foley, J., Hughes, C., Lukito, J., Cramer, K., & Wells, C.
(2019, March 29). What makes Wisconsin swing? Vox. Retrieved from
https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2019/3/29/18286836/wisconsin-swing-vote-
democratic-primary
Russian IRA Disinformation Project
Lukito, J. (2019, December 13). How to avoid another Russian-troll misinformation nightmare in 2020.
Quartz. Retrieved from https://qz.com/1764746/how-to-avoid-an-election-2020-misinformation-
nightmare/
Lukito, J., Wells, C., Zhang, Y., Doroshenko, L., Kim, S. J., Su, M.-H., Suk, J., Xia, Y. & Freelon, D. (2018,
February). The Twitter exploit: How Russian propaganda infiltrated U.S. news [Research paper].
Retrieved from https://mcrc.journalism.wisc.edu/files/2018/05/TwitterExploit.pdf
Lukito, J. & Wells, C. (2018, March 8). Most major outlets have used Russian tweets as sources for
partisan opinion: study [Front page story on date of publication]. Columbia Journalism Review.
Retrieved from https://www.cjr.org/analysis/tweets-russia-news.php [This piece was quoted in
the Mueller Report, p. 27, footnote 71]
Pasque, L. S. (2018, March 25). Q&A: UW researcher Josephine Lukito digs into how major American
media were fooled by Russian tweets [Interview]. The Cap Times. Retrieved from
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/q-a-uw-researcher-josephine-lukito-
digs-into-how-major/article_4ec0c5ab-bc9b-5675-90c9-2d468c3afea4.html
Knutson, K. (2019, April 23). Research by team of grad students cited in Mueller Report. UW Madison
News. Retrieved from https://news.wisc.edu/research-by-team-of-grad-students-cited-in-mueller-
report/?fbclid=IwAR3Ia1WyKENOYPSOZdZYp3qm4enKc80XvtoL7visGS4qrZnsEfnu9Tr_JMY
Lukito, J. (2019, July 25). CNN Interview. Clip: https://journalism.wisc.edu/2019/07/25/josephine-lukito-
discusses-research-project-on-cnn/
Miscellaneous
[Interview] (2020). Rural Wisconsin voters increasingly focus on national issues, and some are swayed
by misinformation. Green Bay Press Gazette. Retrieved from
https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2020/10/22/wisconsin-elections-rural-
voters-focus-national-issues-fake-news/3654327001/
Invited TalksLukito, J. State-Sponsored Disinformation and Independence Movements: China and Indonesia. Presented to
the Clemson Disinformation Network, November 2020.
Lukito, J. Audience-building for disinformation actors: How Russian IRA accounts used elite
interactions to grow their followership. Presented to UT-Austin Good Systems, October 2020.
Lukito, J. Russian IRA Activity in U.S. Political Discourse. Presented in SLAVIC 245: The Evil Empire?
Reading Putin’s Russia, October 2019.
Lukito, J. Framing and Agenda Setting. Presented at the International Communication Association
Computational Methods Interest Group “Expanding Computational Communication”
Preconference, May 2019.
Lukito, J., The Twitter exploit: Russian IRA hacking of the hybrid media system. Presented to the UW-
Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication Board of Visitors, April 2018.
Lukito, J. Mediated public diplomacy during the Qatar diplomatic crisis. Presented to the UW-Madison War
Reporting Class, March 2018.
McLeod, D., Park, H. & Lukito, J. Understanding the electorate: What a cluster****! Presented to the
Journalism & Mass Communication Colloquium, November 2017.
Affiliations
Ongoing Research Group Affiliations
Mass Communication Research Center, UW-Madison, SJMC [survey/experiments]
Research Group Lead, 2018-2019
Social Media and Democracy Research Group, UW-Madison, SJMC [big data & pol. comm.]
Center for Communication and Civic Renewal, UW-Madison, SJMC [local political comm.]
Knight Fellow, 2018-2020
MCRC Fellow, 2020-Present
Computational Methods Research Group, UW-Madison, SJMC [computational analysis]
Research Group Lead, 2016-2019
Instructor, 2017-2020
Rohe Lab, UW-Madison, Statistics Dept. [Murmuration Project]
Participant, 2018-2020
Affiliations with Professional Organizations
International Communication Association (ICA)
2019-2021 Student & Early Scholar Representative, Computational Methods IG
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
2019-2020 Membership Chair, Political Communication Division
2020-2021 Midwinter Conference Chair, Political Communication Division
American Political Science Association (APSA)
CSS+NLP [NAACL]
2020-2021 Organizing Committee
Organized EventsCo-Organizer, 2019 – “Expanding Computational Communication: Towards a pipeline for
graduate students and early career scholars.” Preconference organized for the 2019
Conference of the International Communication Association. Co-organized with Frederic
Hopp and Nate TeBlunthuis.
Hospitality Chair, 2017-2019 – Communication Crossroads (Annual UW-Madison Graduate
Student Conference).
Classroom Experience
Instructor of Record
J381M: Computational Media and Data Science, Fall 2020 – Spring 2021
Teaching Assistantships
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2016 – Spring 2018 (4 semesters)
Course: (J345) Principles of Strategic Communication
Professors: Dhavan Shah, Chris Wells, Stacy Forester
Student Mentor, PEOPLE Program, Summer 2017
Assisted a 3-week workshop for rising 8th grade students from low-income households
to learn about college.
Professor: Doug McLeod
Teaching Assistant & Course Development, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018
Course: (J175) Digital Media Fluency
Professor: Deb Pierce
Teaching Assistant, Spring 2016
Course: (J202) Mass Media Practices
Professor: Michael Wagner
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2015
Course: (J162) Media in Multicultural America
Professor: Hemant Shah
Instructional Associate, Spring 2015
Course: (COM 505) Media Law for Journalists
Professor: Angela Ruffles
Instructional Associate, Fall 2013 – Fall 2014 (3 semesters)
Course: (COM 107) Mass Media and Society
Professor: Anne Osborne, Charisse L’Pree
Course Assistant, Spring 2013
Course: (PLSC 341) Democracy and International Relations
Professor: Victoria Farmer
Teaching Assistant, Spring 2013
Course: (COMN 160) Introduction to Mass Communication
Professor: Atsushi Tajima
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2012
Course: (COMN 368) Research in Media and Culture Studies
Professor: Atsushi Tajima
Teaching Assistant, Spring 2012Course: (PLSC 140) Introduction to International Politics
Professor: Sean Morgan
Awards
2019, 2 Top Paper Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
- 1st Place Paper, International Communications Division
- 3rd Place Paper, Political Communication Division
2018, 2 Top Paper Awards, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
- 1st Place Paper, Political Communication Interest Group
- 3rd Place Paper, AEJMC Research Prize for Professional Relevance
2018, Leadership Award, University of Wisconsin, Madison SJMC
2017, Top Research Paper, Crossroads Communication, University of Wisconsin, Madison SJMC
- Paper presented at Mini-10 Conference
2017, Leadership Award, University of Wisconsin, Madison SJMC
2017, Teaching Excellent Award, University of Wisconsin, Madison SJMC
2015, 2 Top Paper Awards, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
- 2nd Place Student Paper, International Communications Division
- 3rd Place Paper, Public Relations Division
2015 Catherine L. Covert Research Award, Syracuse University
2013 President’s Cup, State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo
2013 Senior Merit Award, SUNY Geneseo Department of Communication
Research & Project Assistantships
Shah, Dhavan [RA], Fall 2018 – Summer 2020 (4 semester, 2 summers)
Formal Title: Knight Scholar of Communications and Civic Renewal, Graduate Fellow
McLeod, Doug [PA], Summer 2018
Golan, Guy J. [RA], Fall 2013 – Spring 2015 (4 semesters)
Lim, Joon Soo [RA], Summer 2014
Related Skills
Proficiency in linguistic software: COCA, DICTION, Leximancer, LIWC, QDA Miner, WordStat
Proficiency in statistical software: SPSS, STATA
Proficiency in programming languages: R (advanced), sql (intermediate), Python (beginner)
Proficiency in social listening platforms: CrowdTangle, Synthesio, CrimsonHexagon
Proficiency in web scripting: CSS3, HTML 4
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