Mark W Tremayne

Associate Professor, Communication

Last Updated: January 6, 2021

tremayne@uta.edu

about me

Education

- 2002 PhD in Mass Communication
  Univ ersity of Wisconsin, Madison, 2002
- 1998 MA in Journalism
  The University of Texas at Austin, 1998
- 1989 BA in Legal Studies
  University of California, Berkeley, 1989

Memberships

- 2002 to Present Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
- 2002 to Present Broadcast Education Association
- 2002 to Present International Communication Association

Awards and Honors

- Apr 2018 2nd Place Faculty Paper - Open Division sponsored by Broadcast Education Association annual conference
- Dec 2006 Dean’s Fellowship sponsored by College of Communication, UT Austin
- Dec 2005 Summer Research Assignment ($12,000) sponsored by UT Austin
- Dec 2003 Jesse H. Jones Fellowship in Communication ($5,000) sponsored by UT Austin
- Dec 2000 Communication Technology and Policy Division Top Three Student Paper sponsored by AEJMC
- Dec 2000 Walter Damm Research Grant ($1,000) sponsored by UW Madison
- Dec 1999 Communication Technology and Policy Division Top Three Student Paper sponsored by AEJMC
- Dec 1998 University WARF Fellowship ($10,000) sponsored by UW Madison
- Dec 1998 Vilas Fellowship ($600) sponsored by UW Madison

News Articles

- Nov 2020 CBS 11 KTVT
  Story by KTVT's Brooke Katz about the social app Parler
- Oct 2020 KERA Dallas
  I talked to a Alejandra Martinez about young Texas Hispanics, social media and civic participation based on a previous study of mine and fellow UTA researchers.

Support & Funding

This data is entered manually by the author of the profile and may duplicate data in the Sponsored Projects section.

- Sept 2017 to Aug 2021 III: Small: Collaborative Research: Towards End-to-End Computer-Assisted Fact-Checking sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF) - $320780
  (Funded)
- May 2017 to Dec 2018 Bot vs. Bot: Automated Detection of Fake-news Bots sponsored by Texas National Security Network Fund - $30000
  (Funded)
- Sept 2019 to May 2021 Convergence Accelerator Phase I (RAISE): Credible Open Knowledge Network sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF) - $999870
  (Funded)
- 2014 to 2017 Medium: Collaborative Research: From Answering Questions to Questioning Answers (and Questions) - Perturbation Analysis of Database Queries sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF) - $0
  (Funded)
- Nov 2015 to Nov 2016 ClaimBuster: Detecting Check-worthy Factual Claims in Presidential Debates sponsored by Knight Foundation - $35000
  (Funded)
- 2007 to 2008 Viewers as Content Providers: The Impact on Broadcasters sponsored by National Association of Broadcasters Research Grant - $0
  Mark Tremayne (Funded)

Publications

2007

Book
Blogging, citizenship and the future of media
[Tremayne, MarkW]. 287. New York: "Routledge". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203944196

2007

Book Chapter
Examining the blog-media relationship
Blogging, citizenship and the future of media
[Tremayne, MarkW]. ix-xix. New York: "Routledge".

Book Chapter
Harnessing the active audience: Synthesizing blog research and lessons for the future of media
Blogging, Citizenship and the Future of Media
[Tremayne, MarkW]. 261-272. New York: "Routledge".

2006

Book Chapter
Applying network theory to the use of external links on news web sites
Internet newspapers: Making of a mainstream medium
[Tremayne, MarkW]. 49-64. Mahwah,NJ: "Lawrence Erlbaum".

2004

Book Review
Book review of Leah Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone’s (Eds.) “The Handbook of New Media,” Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant and Kieran Kelly’s “New Media: A Critical Introduction,” and Leonard Shyles’ (Ed.) “Deciphering Cyberspace”
The Handbook of New Media
[Tremayne, MarkW]. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator. 59(1), 83-85.

2017

Journal Article
The Facebook Agenda: Global Social Media News Characteristics
[Tremayne, MarkW]. American Communication Journal. 19(1),
http://www.ac-journal.org

2015

Journal Article
Using Social Media to Analyze Candidate Performance During Televised Political Debates
[Tremayne, MarkW, Minooie, Milad]. 9(3), 143-159. "SAGE Publications". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1931243115593321

Journal Article
Partisan Media and Political Poll Coverage
[Tremayne, MarkW]. 12(3), 270-284. "Informa UK Limited". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2015.1063366

2014

Journal Article
The gendered blogosphere: Examining inequality using network and feminist theory
[Tremayne, MarkW]. Republished in JMCQ’s Virtual Theme Collection: Women in the Newsroom, Status and Stasis.
http://journals.sagepub.com/page/jmq/women-in-the-newsroom/virtual-collection

Journal Article
New Perspectives from The Sky
[Tremayne, MarkW, Clark, AndrewM]. Digital Journalism. 2(2), 232-246. "Informa UK Limited". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2013.805039

Journal Article
Anatomy of Protest in the Digital Era: A Network Analysis ofTwitterand Occupy Wall Street
[Tremayne, MarkW]. 13(1), 110-126. "Informa UK Limited". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2013.830969

2013

Journal Article
Opinion Leadership on Gun Control in Social Networks:Preferential Attachment versus Reciprocal Linking
[Tremayne, MarkW, Minooie, M.]. American Communication Journal. 15(4), 34-52.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e0eb/a36e986b33932ebe2787e62c56627aefe25d.pdf?_ga=2.25396733.1763063710.1544662129-56458939.1542233557

2009

Journal Article
Blogwars, by David D. Perlmutter
[Tremayne, MarkW]. Political Communication. 26(3), 356-357. "Informa UK Limited". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10584600903037604

2008

Journal Article
Perceived authority and communication channel: Experiments with instant messaging
[Tremayne, MarkW, Chen, X., Figur, N., Huang, J.S.]. Social Science Computer Review. 26(2), 178-189. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894439307301895

Journal Article
Manipulating interactivity with thematically hyperlinked news texts: a media learning experiment
[Tremayne, MarkW]. 10(5), 703-727. "SAGE Publications". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444808094353

2007

Journal Article
From product to service: The diffusion of dynamic content in online newspapers
[Tremayne, MarkW, Schmitz Weiss, A., Alves, R.C.]. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. 84(4), 825-839. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769900708400411

2006

Journal Article
Issue publics on the web: Applying network theory to the war blogosphere
[Tremayne, MarkW, Zheng, N., Lee, J., Jeong, J.]. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 12(1), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.00326.x
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue1/tremayne.html

Journal Article
The Gendered Blogosphere: Examining Inequality using Network and Feminist Theory
[Harp, DustinM, Tremayne, MarkW]. 83(2), 247-264. "SAGE Publications". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769900608300202

2005

Journal Article
News Websites as Gated Cybercommunities
[Tremayne, MarkW]. 11(3), 28-39. "SAGE Publications". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135485650501100303

Journal Article
Lessons Learned from Experiments with Interactivity on the Web
[Tremayne, MarkW]. 5(2), 0-0. "Informa UK Limited". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15252019.2005.10722100

2004

Journal Article
The Web of Context: Applying Network Theory to the Use of Hyperlinks in Journalism on the Web
[Tremayne, MarkW]. 81(2), 237-253. "SAGE Publications". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769900408100202

2001

Journal Article
Interactivity, information processing and learning on the World Wide Web
[Tremayne, MarkW, Dunwoody, S.]. Science Communication. 23(2), 111-134. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1075547001023002003

2020

Conference Proceeding
A Benchmark Dataset of Check-worthy Factual Claims
[Arslan, Fatma, Hassan, Naeemul, Li, Chengkai, Tremayne, Mark]. 14, 821-829. "Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence".
https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/7346

In Process

Conference Proceeding
Social Media as a Bridge to Political Involvement for Young U.S. Hispanics
2nd Place Faculty Paper, Open Division, Broadcast Education Association annual conference
[Tremayne, MarkW, Harp, DustinM, Rodriguez Becerra, JulianMarcelo]. "Broadcast Education Association annual conference". Accepted.

2017

Conference Proceeding
Claimbuster: The first ever end-to-end fact-checking system
[Hassan, Naeemul, Zhang, Gensheng, Arslan, Fatma, Caraballo, Josue, Jimenez, Damian, Gawsane, Siddhant, Hasan, Shohedul, Joseph, Minumol, Kulkarni, Aaditya, Nayak, AnilKumar, Sable, Vikas, Li, Chengkai, Tremayne, Mark]. 1945-1948. "Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/3137765.3137815

Conference Proceeding
Toward Automated Fact-Checking: Detecting Check-worthy Factual Claims by ClaimBuster
[Hassan, N., Arslan, F., Li, C., Tremayne, MarkW]. 1803-1812. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: "Proceedings of the 2017ACM SIGKDD International Conference". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3097983.3098131

2016

Conference Proceeding
Comparing Automated Factual Claim Detection Against Judgments of Journalism Organizations
[Hassan, N., Tremayne, MarkW, Arslan, F., Li, C.]. Proceedings of the annual C + J Symposium(Computation plus Journalism). Stanford, CA.

2015

Conference Proceeding
Detecting Check-worthy Factual Claims in Presidential Debates
Proceedings of the 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM '15
[Hassan, Naeemul, Li, Chengkai, Tremayne, MarkW]. "ACM Press". DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2806416.2806652

Conference Proceeding
The Quest to Automate Fact-Checking
[Hassan, N., Adair, B., Hamilton, J., Li, C., Tremayne, MarkW, Yang, J., Yu, C.]. Proceedings of the annual C + J Symposium(Computation plus Journalism). New York.
http://cj2015.brown.columbia.edu/papers/automate-fact-checking.pdf

2006

Newsletter
Citizen media and the technology division
Communication, Technology Division Newsletter
[Tremayne, MarkW].(Fall), 2. "AEJMC".

2005

Newsletter
Blogs, restoring public trust in journalism, among many topics at midwinter conference
Communication, Technology and Policy Division Newsletter
[Tremayne, MarkW].(Spring), 6. "AEJMC".

Presentations

- February 2019
  Tremayne, MarkW (Presenter), Hurtado, Brandon (Panelist), Harp, DustinM (Panelist), "Young Latinos and Social Media", UT Arlington and Texas Tech, Arlington, TX. (February 22, 2019).
- April 2018
  Tremayne, MarkW, Harp, DustinM, Rodriguez Becerra, JulianMarcelo, "Social Media as a Bridge to Political Involvement for Young U.S. Hispanics", Las Vegas. (April 9, 2018).
- October 2015
  Tremayne, MarkW, "The Facebook Agenda: Global Social Media News Characteristics", College Station, Texas. (October , 2015).
- August 2014
  Tremayne, MarkW, Minooie, M., "Using Social Media To Analyze Candidate Performance and Public Opinion During Political Debates.", Montreal. (August , 2014).
- June 2013
  Tremayne, MarkW, Minooie, M., "Opinion Leadership in Social Networks:Preferential Attachment versus Reciprocal Linking", London. (June , 2013).
- August 2012
  Tremayne, MarkW, Clark, AndrewM, "New Perspectives from the Sky: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Journalism", Chicago, IL. (August , 2012).
- May 2012
  Tremayne, MarkW, "Anatomy of Protest in the Digital Era: A Network Analysis of Twitter and Occupy Wall Street", Phoenix. (May , 2012).
- August 2009
  Tremayne, MarkW, Harp, DustinM, "Race, Gender and Teen New Media Use", Boston. (August , 2009).
- August 2008
  Tremayne, MarkW, "Collective Intelligence: The Promise and Peril of User-Generated Politics", Chicago. (August , 2008).
- August 2007
  Tremayne, MarkW, Schmitz Weiss, A., Alves, R., "From product to service: Dynamic content in online newspapers.", Washington, D.C.. (August , 2007).
- May 2007
  Harp, DustinM, Tremayne, MarkW, "Programmed by the People: The Intersection of Political Communication and the YouTube Generation", San Francisco. (May , 2007).
- 2006
  Chen, X., Figur, N., Huang, J.S., Tremayne, MarkW, "Perceived Authority and Communication Channel: Experiments with Instant Messaging", San Francisco. ( , 2006).
- August 2006
  Harp, DustinM, Nichols, S., Tremayne, MarkW, Castronova, T., "Women in the Blogosphere: Access, Practices, and Gender Politics", San Francisco. (August , 2006).
- March 2006
  Tremayne, MarkW, "Blogs: Cutting-Edge Communication Tools", Austin, TX. (March 29, 2006).
- 2005
  Tremayne, MarkW, "Information Flows on the Web", Austin . ( , 2005).
- August 2005
  Tremayne, MarkW, Schmitz Weiss, A., "Contingent Interactivity and News Story Navigation: An Experiment", San Antonio. (August , 2005).
- August 2005
  Tremayne, MarkW, "Customized media messages:Prospects and promises for mass communication on the web", San Antonio, TX. (August , 2005).
- August 2005
  Harp, DustinM, Tremayne, MarkW, "The gendered blogosphere: Where promise meets reality", San Antonio. (August , 2005).
- June 2005
  Tremayne, MarkW, "Blogging: A Public Dialogue". (June 28, 2005).
- May 2005
  Tremayne, MarkW, Schmitz Weiss, A., "Issue salience and web page design: An agenda setting experiment", New York. (May , 2005).
- August 2004
  Tremayne, MarkW, "News websites as gated cybercommunities", Toronto. (August , 2004).
- August 2004
  Tremayne, MarkW, "Untangling interactivity on the web", Toronto. (August , 2004).
- March 2004
  Tremayne, MarkW, "Online Journalism". (March 29, 2004).
- September 2003
  Tremayne, MarkW, "New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methodologies", University of Minnesota. (September , 2003).
- May 2003
  Tremayne, MarkW, "Learning on the web: The importance of interactivity and motivation", San Diego. (May , 2003).
- March 2003
  Tremayne, MarkW, "Center for citizen initiatives", Productivity Enhancement Program. (March , 2003).
- November 2002
  Tremayne, MarkW, "Interactivity and Learning in the New Media Environment". (November 11, 2002).
- August 2001
  Tremayne, MarkW, Dunwoody, S., "Interactivity as a cognitive process", Washington,D.C.. (August , 2001).
- February 2001
  Tremayne, MarkW, Dunwoody, S., "Using Think Aloud Protocols to Compare the Usefulness of Science Web Sites", San Francisco. (February , 2001).
- August 2000
  Tremayne, MarkW, "Broadcasters on the Web: The changing patterns of mass communication", Phoenix. (August , 2000).
- August 2000
  Tremayne, MarkW, "The hypermedia news story", Phoenix. (August , 2000).
- August 1999
  Harp, DustinM, Tremayne, MarkW, "Everything leads to pornography: Myths and realities of searching the Web", New Orleans. (August , 1999).
- August 1999
  Tremayne, MarkW, "Media convergence on the Internet", New Orleans. (August , 1999).
- May 1999
  Tremayne, MarkW, "The Internet user: Active, passive or both", San Francisco. (May , 1999).
- May 1999
  Tremayne, MarkW, "Use of nonlinear storytelling on news Web sites", San Francisco. (May , 1999).
- 1998
  Tremayne, MarkW, "Online news: The importance of interactivity", Dallas. ( , 1998).
- August 1997
  Tremayne, MarkW, "The Internet: Is the medium the message?", Chicago. (August , 1997).

Students Supervised

- Dec 2019
  Master's Thesis Committee Member
  Cindy Vasquez, (Communication)
  Visual propaganda - Measuring persuasion through political internet memes
- Apr 2019
  Master's Comprehensive Exam Committee Member
  Shirley Fleischman, (Communication)
- Dec 2018
  Master's Comprehensive Exam Committee Member
  Kanai Kuhnel, (Communication)
- Aug 2018
  Master's Thesis Committee Member
  Zedan Xu, (Communication)
- May 2018
  Master's Comprehensive Exam Committee Member
  Konnori Battee, (Communication)

Courses

Service to the University

- Sept 2020 to Present Committee Member
  
  Advisory Committee on Tenure and Promotion
- Sept 2019 to Present Program Coordinator
  
  Broadcast Sequence
  Oversee the broadcast major. Work with broadcast faculty on schedules and other issues. Keep abreast of program needs, equipment, etc.
- Sept 2019 to Present Committee Member
  
  COLA Digital Humanities Initiative
- Sept 2019 to Present Committee Member
  
  Curriculum Committee
- Sept 2018 to Present Committee Member
  
  Graduate Studies Committee
- Sept 2018 to Present Position appointed by department chair
  
  Service and experiential learning data collection
  Collected data from all faculty members, spring & fall. Compiled data and wrote a report.
- Sept 2014 to Present Committee Member
  
  Scholarship Committee
  Review dozens of student applications and make recommendations for various department scholarships.
- Sept 2013 to Present Committee Member
  
  Liberal Arts Research Committee
- Sept 2018 to May 2020 Committee Chair
  
  Academic Standards
- Sept 2017 to May 2020 Committee Member
  
  Graduate Assembly
  Attended meetings of the Graduate Assembly representing the College of Liberal Arts from Sept. 2017 to May 2020. Also served as chair of program review subcommittee, Fall of 2018.
- Sept 2018 to Dec 2018 Committee Member
  
  Search Committee - Communication Studies position
  Conducting phone interviews with numerous applications, reviewing application, meetings with 3 finalists brought to campus.
- Sept 2014 to Aug 2018 Committee Member
  
  Academic Standards
- Sept 2017 to May 2018 Program Organizer
  
  ACES/Spotlight Planning Committee
  This committee organized a College of Liberal Arts event to Spotlight student research and creative work. I served as program chair, reviewing and selecting student applications and organizing sessions for the event.
- Sept 2017 to May 2018 Committee Member
  
  Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee
- Sept 2015 to Dec 2017 Committee Member
  
  Archer Center Graduate Program Selection Committee
  Primary responsibility is to interview, with the committee, each graduate student who applies for the Archer graduate fellowship.

Service to the Profession

- May 2020 to Aug 2020
  Reviewer, Journal Article
  Social Movement Studies Journal
  Peer review for one research article.
- Sept 2019 to Nov 2019
  Reviewer, Journal Article
  Social Media and Society Journal
  Peer review for one research article. Also reviewed the revised and resubmitted version.
- May 2019 to Aug 2019
  Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer
  Tenure Dossier External Evaluator for Virginia Tech Department of Communication
  Read and evaluated the research of a candidate for promotion at VA Tech and wrote a report as an external reviewer.
- Past to Aug 2019
  Reviewer, Journal Article
  Journalism Studies
- Feb 2019 to May 2019
  Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer (San Francisco, CA, USA)
  Program Committee, International Workshop on Misinformation, Computational Fact-checking and Credible Web, The Web Conference
  Read and reviewed academic papers submitted to the Web Conference.
- Past to Jan 2019
  Reviewer, Journal Article
  Journal of Data and Information Quality
- Mar 2018 to May 2018
  Reviewer, Journal Article
  Journal of Data and Information Quality
- Jan 2018 to May 2018
  Reviewer, Book
  Grawemeyer World Order award
  Read and review a book nominated for the Grawemeyer World Order award
- Dec 2017 to Jan 2018
  Reviewer, Journal Article
  Journal of Communication
- Nov 2017 to Dec 2017
  Reviewer, Journal Article
  Mass Communication and Society
- Oct 2017 to Nov 2017
  Reviewer, Journal Article
  Social Media and Society

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Mark W Tremayne

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