My research and teaching focus on how advances in communication technology impact the goals of diversity and equality associated with ‘‘deliberative’’ and “participative” models of democracy. My most significant studies use survey and content analysis, as well as theory based methods to understand the influence of the contemporary media environment on: (1) selective exposure to ideologically diverse and cognitively complex political perspectives, and (2) the equality and quality of democratic processes.In 2011, I was awarded best faculty paper in the UT Austin College of Communication (the Ellen A. Wartella, Distinguished Research Award). I have published a number of book chapters and articles in prominent communication and interdisciplinary journals, including Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, Political Psychology, Sex Roles, International Journal of Communication, and Mass Communication and Society.