My current research now is focusing on strategic communication, public diplomacy, and international political communication that affects poltitical conflicts. I am also studying how CMC can be used in political structuration that affect political conflict and conflict management. Addtionally, I am working with Dr. Chris Weaver on the use of automated text analysis computer programs for the tracking of discourse framing.

Some of my most current research concerns the use of CMC for political collaboratoria and a means of depolarizing conflicted political communication.  I doing this research as part of a project partially funded by Los Alamos National Lab and in conjunction with psychologies and mathematicians who seek to develop robust tools of communication dynamics measurement. 

One of my main areas of research is computer-mediated communication (CMC).  I am examining the following aspects of CMC in studies I am conducting: a) CMC and politics, particularly what is called electronic democracratization or "virtual democracy,"; b) CMC and education; and c) CMC and organizational communication. 

My second most major area of research is political communication where I continue my work on a) candidate images, b) ideology and politics, and c) democracy and CMC. 

I had developed an interest in the Digital Divide, particularly the ethnic component of the divide.  I am no longer doing data analysis about this topic.  A few years ago,  I  set up a list of links for scientific analyses of the Digital Divide having found myself exasperated by the shoddy pseduo-scentific reports being cited on radio, TV, and Internet sites.