Drop-in Hours

Spring 2025: Mondays 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Wednesdays 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, or by appointment

What is Brian’s story? 

Brian has three primary areas of research: digital media production, algorithmic personalization, and disparities in scholarly knowledge production.

Brian teaches several courses that prepare students to be better consumers and producers of digital and social media. He has professional experience as a software trainer, instructional technologist, and video producer.

Brian is the director of the Center for Publics, Platforms & Personalization, an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to studying the relationship between personalization algorithms and society.

Courses

• JMC:1500 - Introduction to Social Media
• JMC:2020 - Multimedia Storytelling
• JMC:2500 - Community Media
• JMC:3650 - Video Production
• JMC:6200 - Humanistic Approaches to Media Communication
• JMC:6333 - Seminar in Media Communication, Global Digital Cultures

Recent Publications

• Ibrahim, A. A., & Ekdale, B. (2025). Political campaign responses to information disorder: A case study of the 2023 Nigerian presidential elections. International Journal of Press/Politics. Advanced online publication
• Biddle, K., Ekdale, B., High, A., Stoldt, R., & Maragh-Lloyd, R. (2025). Beyond ‘lulz’ and ‘keyboard warriors’: Exploring the relationship between trolling and radicalization. Information, Communication & Society, 27(16), 2817–2833.
• Asuman, M., Ibrahim, A. A., Cohen, M. S., & Ekdale, B. (2025). Geographic tokenism on editorial boards: A content analysis of highly ranked Communication journals. Online Media and Global Communication, 4(1): 35–59.
• Ekdale, B., & Aidoo, E. (2024). Navigating platform work through solidarity and hustling: The case of ride-hailing drivers in Nairobi. Online Media and Global Communication, 3(3), 395–417.
• Asuman, M., & Ekdale, B. (2024). Where is and isn’t digital journalism studies: A meta-analysis of an emerging field. In S. A. Eldridge II, D. Cheruiyot, S. Banjac, & J. Swart (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies, 2nd edition, (pp. 11–21). New York: Routledge.
• Stoldt, R., Maragh-Lloyd, R., Havens, T., Ekdale, B., & High, A. (2023). Using racial discourse communities to audit personalization algorithms. Communication, Culture & Critique, 13(3), 158–165.
• Peterson, A., High, A., Maragh- Lloyd, R., Stoldt, R., & Ekdale, B. (2022). Trust in online search results during uncertain times. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 66(5), 751–771.
• Ekdale, B., Biddle, K., Tully, M., Asuman, M., & Rinaldi, A. (2022). Global disparities in knowledge production within journalism studies: Are special issues the answer? Journalism Studies, 23(15), 1942–1961.
• Ekdale, B., Rinaldi, A., Ashfaquzzaman^, M., Khanjani, M., Matanji, F., Stoldt, R., & Tully, M. (2022). Geographic disparities in knowledge production: A big data analysis of peer-reviewed Communication publications from 1990 to 2019. International Journal of Communication, 12, 2498–2525.