Research
Published Work
"What’s on Wikipedia, and What’s Not…? Assessing Completeness of Information," Social Science Computer Review, accepted and forthcoming, 2009.
"Introducing Women to the Internet: Digital Discourse in Women’s Media," Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, under review, 2008.
"Framing the Internet: A Comparison of Gendered Spaces," Social Science Computer Review, Summer, 2008.
"Thinking Critically About New Media," chapter in Teaching with Multimedia: Pedagogy in the Websphere, editor Roxanne O'Connell, accepted for publication and forthcoming 2008.
James Tankard & Cindy Royal, “What's on the Web and What's Not,” Social Science Computer Review, Fall 2005.
"Tech-savvy women seek support in classroom and newsroom," Online Journalism Review, April 14, 2005, http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/041304royal/.
“Teaching Web Design in Journalism and Mass Communications Programs: Integration, Judgment, and Perspective,” Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, Winter 2005.
"Framing the Internet in Gendered Spaces: An Analysis of iVillage and AskMen.com," Media Report to Women, Fall 2004.
Cindy Royal & James Tankard, "Literary Journalism on the World Wide Web: The Case of Blackhawk Down" Newspaper Research Journal, Memphis, TN, Fall 2004.
"A Meta-analysis of Journal Articles Intersecting Internet and Gender," Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2005.
James Tankard & Cindy Royal, "Finding Out What's On the World Wide Web," Communication Impact: Designing Research that Matters, Susanna Hornig Priest, Ph.D., Editor, 2005.
Review of Computer-Mediated Communication: Social Interaction on the Internet and Human Communication on the Internet, in Journalism Studies, August 2006, forthcoming.
Review of Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher, in Women's and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines, Issue 1, Spring 2003.
"Framing the Internet," in Communication in the Millennium: A Dialogue Between Turkish and American Scholars, Anadolu University, Turkey, 2003.
Doctoral Dissertation
"Gendered Spaces and Digital Discourse: Framing Women's Relationship
with the Internet," a framing and discursive analysis of the ways that
gendered Web sites construct women's relationship with Internet technology,
March 2005.
Papers Presented
"User-Generated Content: How Social Networking Translates to Social Capital," presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and
Mass Communication Conference, Chicago, August 2008.
"What Do People Do Online? Implications For the Future of Media," International
Symposium in Online Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin,
March 2008.
Cindy Royal & Deepina Kapila, "Wikipedia: Completeness of Information on the Online Collaborative Encyclopedia," presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Washington, DC, August 2007.
Cindy Royal & Deepina Kapila, "What's on Wikipedia and What's Not," International Symposium in Online Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin, March 2007.
"Introducing Women to the Internet: Digital Discourse in Women’s Media" - presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, San Francisco, August 2006.
"Visualizing Technology: Images in Google and Yahoo News Aggregators" - presented at the International Symposium on Online Journalism, April 8, 2006.
"Framing the Internet in Gendered Spaces: An Analysis of iVillage and AskMen.com" - presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Toronto, August 2004.
"A Meta-analysis of Social Science Scholarship on Internet and Gender" - review of social science journal articles intersecting Internet and Gender - presented at the International Communication Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, May 2004.
"What's on the Web, and What's Not" - with
Dr. James Tankard - an analysis of gaps in content represented on the Web -
paper presented at the International Communications Association Conference,
San Diego, CA, May 24, 2003.
"Representations of Race and Sexuality on Feminist
Web Sites" - paper presented at the International Communication
Association Conference, San Diego, CA, May 26, 2003.
"Comparison of Computerized and Traditional Content Analysis Techniques: A Case Study of the Texas Democratic Gubernatorial Primary" - paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Kansas City, MO, August 2003 .
"Framing the Internet: Before and After the Tech Bust" - a look at how newspapers framed discussions of Internet technology before and since March 2000 - paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Kansas City, MO, August 2003 .
"Narrative Structure in Sex and the City" - an analysis of narrative structure in the popular HBO series: voice-over, central theme/multiple meanings, and relationship to technology - paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Kansas City, MO, August 2003. Winner of Second Place Student Paper.
"Teaching Web Design in Journalism and Mass Communications Programs: Integration, Judgment, and Perspective" - a case study of a Web Design course that converges skills and theory; accompanying video, to be presented at the Expanding Convergence: Media Use in a Changing Information Environment Conference, Columbia, SC, Nov. 6-8, 2003; accompanying Web site at www.cindyroyal.com/teaching highlighting student projects.
"The Convergence of Literary Journalism and the World Wide Web: The Case of Blackhawk Down" - co-written with Dr. James Tankard, presented at the Dynamics of Convergent Media Conference, Columbia, SC, Nov. 14-16, 2002.
"Mind the Gender Gap: Gender Differences in Motivation
to Contribute Online Content" - paper presented at Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Miami, FL, August
2002.
"Representations
of Women on the Web" - paper presented at The University
of Texas at Austin Gender Studies Conference, Austin, TX, February
9-10, 2001.
