Fellows & Partners

The Media Impact Project is a hub for research that advances the field of media measurement and helps organizations assess the impact of media. We aim to serve as a convener -- both online and offline -- and to prioritize the dissemination of our research and case studies through our own networks of thought leaders and practitioners and with our partner organizations.
The MIP Research Fellowship is designed to support individuals conducting research across the areas of interest to our funders and project partners. Below is a list of our current and past Fellows. 

2020 FELLOWS

Heidi Boisvert

Heidi Boisvert (PhD) is a new media artist, experience designer, creative technologist, researcher, and writer who creates groundbreaking games, web interactive, augmented reality and transmedia storytelling experiences for social change, as well as large-scale networked performances in dance and theatre using bio-expressive technology. Read more. 

Beth Karlin

Beth Karlin, PhD, is founder and CEO of the See Change Institute. Her current projects include investigating climate communication, documentary film, digital activism, and science engagement. In addition to her role at the Lear Center, Beth works with government, private, and non-profit organizations on strategy, implementation, and evaluation of behavioral programs, and lectures regularly on Transformational Media and the Psychology of Sustainability.

Patricia Riley

Patricia Riley, PhD, is a specialist in organizational communication and internationally known for her work on institutional politics and organizational culture change. Her most recent research focuses on the role of communication infrastructure in knowledge management processes and on the role of communication and information technologies in organizational change and transformation. She has a new grant funded by the DOD to help develop and evaluate virtual training. Read more.

PAST FELLOWS

Jessica Clark

Jessica Clark -- journalist, researcher, media futurist and founder of Dot Connector Studios -- explores the future of storytelling, the changing relationship between the physical and the digital and how evaluation practices can be applied to public interest media. Learn more about Jessica and read her first blog post, Tracking Impact at the Cusp of the Physical and the Digital.  

Kevin Davis

Kevin Davis is the principal of KLJD Consulting, a strategic revenue and development practice specializing in assisting independent news & information companies and their leadership. Davis was formerly the inaugural CEO and Executive Director of the Investigative News Network (INN), now known as the Institute for Nonprofit News, a consortium of 100+ nonprofit newsrooms in the U.S.  For the organization’s first five years of operation, Davis oversaw efforts to promote the sustainability of its member organizations, and increase the impact of the public service reporting through collaboration and digital distribution.

John Fraser

John Fraser, PhD, AIA, is a psychologist, architect, educator, and President and CEO of NewKnowledge. He is Adjunct Professor at Indiana University (IUPUI) at the Center for Urban Public Health, Secretary of the American Psychology Association’s Division 34: Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology, Editor-in-Chief of Curator: The Museum Journal, served on the founding editorial board of Museums & Social Issues, and the development of Visitor Studies. Read more.

OUR PARTNERS

Below is a partial list of our partners and funders.
The Norman Lear Center's Media Impact Project researches how entertainment and news influence our thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, knowledge and actions. We work with researchers, the film and TV industry, nonprofits, and news organizations, and share our research with the public. We are part of the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.