David Fan, PhD

Research Techniques:

Computer methods, mathematical modeling

Research Interests:

Computer content analysis of text; grapical data analysis; mathematical time trend modeling of the impact of persuasive information on public knowledge, attitudes and behaviors in any domain for which secondary data are available; prior studies have included data from the news media, the internet, advertising, population surveys, and logs of calls to hotlines in domains ranging as broadly as the political, the economic, and those in public health.

Selected Publications:

Bengston, David N., Fan, David P., Reed, Patrick, and Goldhor-Wilcock, Ashley.  Rapid issue tracking: a method for taking the pulse of the public discussion of environmental policy,  Environmental Communication (accepted pending minor revisions), 2009.

Wiersma, Jochum, Stuthman, Deon, Fan, David, Duvick, Donald, and Konde, Victor.Hybrid Corn, in Comstock, Gary, ed. Life Science Ethics, 2nd Ed. Springer,New York, 2009 (in press).

Johnson, Jayne Fingerman, Bengston, David N. and Fan, David P. US Policy Response to the Wildfire Fuels Management Problem: An Analysis of the News Media Debate about the Healthy Forests Initiative and the Healthy Forests Restoration Act, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 11:1-14, 2009.

Fan, David P. Cumulative media effects. in Donsbach, Wolfgang, ed. The International Encyclopedia of Comunication, John Wiley & Sons, NY, 2008.

Fan, David P. Predicting the Bush/Gore Election from the Press: The Cost to George W. Bush of his November Surprise of an Old Arrest. in Alvey, Wendy and Scheuren, Fritz eds. Elections and Exit Polling, John Wiley & Sons, NY, 2008.

Webb, Trevor J., Bengston, David N., and Fan, David P. Forest value orientations in Australia: an application of computer content analysis, Environmental Management, 41:52-63, 2008.

AUTHOR= "Fingerman Johnson, J., Bengston, D.N. Fan, D.P., and Nelson, K.C.",
TITLE= "U.S. policy response to the fuels management problem: An analysis of the public debate about the Healthy Forests Initiative and the Healthy Forests Restoration Act.",
EDITOR= "Andrews, Patricia L. and Butler, Bret W.",
JOURNAL= "Fuels Managemtns-How to Measure Success: Conference Proceedings",
PAGES= "59-66",
DATE= "28-30, March 2006",

AUTHOR= "Fingerman Johnson, Jayne, Bengston, David N., Nelson, Kristin C., and Fan, David P.",
TITLE= "Defensible Space in the News: Public Discussion of a Neglected Topic",
EDITOR= "McCaffrey, Sarah M.",
JOURNAL= "The public and wildland fire management: social science findings for managers. General Technical Report",
PAGES= "169-174",
YEAR= "2006",

AUTHOR= "Fan, David P.",
TITLE= "(Contributor)",
EDITOR= "Best, Samuel J. and Radcliff, Benjamin",
BOOKTITLE= "Polling America: an encyclopedia of public opinion",
PUBLISHER= "Greenwood Press",
ADDRESS= "Westport, CT",
YEAR= "2005",

AUTHOR= "Bengston, David N. and Potts, Robert S. and Fan, David P. and Goetz, Edward G.",
TITLE= "An analysis of the public discourse about urban sprawl in the United States: Monitoring concern about a major threat to forests",
JOURNAL= "Forest Policy and Economics",
VOLUME= "7",
PAGES= "745-756",
YEAR= "2005",

AUTHOR= "Fan, David P. and Kemming, Samantha and Neibergall, Betsy Anderson",
TITLE= "Even negative news can raise awareness of terrorists' causes",
EDITOR= "Grusin, Elinor Kelley and Utt, Sandra H.",
BOOKTITLE= "Media in an American crisis: Studies of September 11, 2001",
PUBLISHER= "University Press of America",
ADDRESS= "Lanham, MD",
YEAR= "2005",

AUTHOR= "Witson, Jean C. and Fan, David P. and Harwood, Eileen M. and Wagenaar, Alexander C.",
TITLE= "Media advocacy and underage drinking policies: A study of Louisiana print media from 1994 through 2003",
JOURNAL= "Health Promotion Practice",
VOLUME= "6",
PAGES= "246-257",
YEAR= "2005",

AUTHOR= "Jasperson, Amy E. and Fan, David P.",
TITLE= "The News as Molder of Campaign Ad Effects",
JOURNAL= "International Journal of Public Opinion Research",
VOLUME= "16",
PAGES= "417-436",
YEAR= "2004",

AUTHOR= "Kemming, Samantha and Moore, Jensen and Neibergall, Betsy and Fan, David P.",
TITLE= "Effects of {S}eptember 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on {U.S.} Press Coverage",
JOURNAL= "Newspaper Review Journal Special Reader, accepted for publication September 2003",
YEAR= "2004",

AUTHOR= "Bengston, David N and Webb, Trevor J. and Fan, David P.",
TITLE= "Shifting Forest Value Orientations in the United States, 1980-2001:
A Computer Content Analysis",
JOURNAL= "Environmental Values",
VOLUME= "13",
PAGES= "373-392",
YEAR= "2004",

AUTHOR= "Fan, David P. and Cook, R. Dennis",
TITLE= "A Differential Equation Model for Predicting Public Opinions and Behaviors from Persuasive Information: Application to the Index of Consumer Sentiment",
JOURNAL= "Journal of Mathematical Sociology",
VOLUME= "27",
PAGES= "1-23",
YEAR= "2003",
 

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