Ian Sheinheit is a Lecturer at Lehman College, City University of New York.
The crux of his research agenda is on voice and discourse in the public sphere and its hybrid media system. His focus is on the changes and impacts of digital communication technologies on politics, media, professionalism, journalism, and news content. Specifically, he analyzes the ways in which different news media content producers, during particular historical and contemporary moments, report political events and wars, claim authority and legitimacy, construct reality, and impact political campaigns. This interdisciplinary research is at the nexus of media and cultural studies, digital media technologies, political sociology, communication theory, science and technology studies, and theories of deliberation and democracy. Methodologically, he combines a quantitative systematic content analysis, media event reconstruction, and a qualitative discourse, narrative, and textual analysis. Utilizing these methodological techniques, he has published in Sociological Forum, Mass Communication and Society, and PS: Political Science and Politics.