Faculty Profiles

Tawiah, A., Kalinina, E. A., Chiedozie, P. A., & Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2025). Digital News and Self-Efficacy: The Role of Intentional and Incidental News Consumption in Latin America.

Higgins Joyce, V. D., Kalinina, E. A., Tawiah, A., & Chiedozie, P. A. (n.d.). Framing Immigration. In Race/Gender/Class/Media. Routledge. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-49503-8

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (n.d.). Independent but Relying on Networks: How Journalists Build Resilience during Unstable Times. Journalism & Communication Monographs. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-49503-8

Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Chacón, L. C. (n.d.). Transnational Collaboration in Hostile Latin American Environment as Safety and Press Freedom Opportunities. In Routledge Companion to Global Journalism and Media at the Borders. London, UK: Routledge.

Harlow, S., Schmitz Weiss, A., & Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2025). Trust in Exiled Nicaraguan Media: The Technology-Mediated Intersection of Journalist, Source, and Audience.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2025). Choosing news and consensus building as consequence of agenda-setting.

Higgins Joyce, V. D., & DalBen, S. F. (n.d.). They stick together: Homophily in Latin American journalism in a polarized context. Denver, CO.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2024). Digital-Native News in South America: Building Bridges with Diverse Audiences in Argentina, Brazil and Colombia. London, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-49503-8

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (n.d.). From Globo to Netflix and YouTube: how Brazilian national identities are reshaped in an era of networked global media. In Contesting Colonial Legacies: Processes of Decolonization in Media Space. London, England: Palgave Macmillan.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (n.d.). Active audience and consensus building in insecure Democracies of South America. In Congreso Medios y gobernanza en América Latina, España y Portugal: El reto de un periodismo de calidad en tiempos de precariedad y desorden informativo. Valencia, Spain: Tirant lo Blanch.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (n.d.). At the center of Latin America’s transnational journalism: consequences of Mexico’s position for exile journalism.

Higgins Joyce, V. D., Cueva Chacón, L., & Alves, R. C. (2024). Moving Barriers to Investigative Journalism in Latin America in Times of Instability and Professional Innovation. In O. Westlund, R. Krøvel, & K. Orgeret (Eds.), Journalism and Safety: An Introduction to the Field. London, UK: Routledge.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2024). They stick together: Homophily and political polarization in Latin American journalism. In Latin American  Studies Association (LASA).

Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Harlow, S. (2024). Tracing transnational journalism in Latin America. In International Communication Association Pre-conference.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2024). Digital News Building Common Ground in Insecure Democracies: An audience analysis in Argentina, Brazil and Colombia. In Congreso Medios y Gobernanza.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2024). Homophily and diversity in Latin American journalism.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (n.d.). Looking for news in South America: an Analysis of Digital native, Legacy digital and Offline News Audiences.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2023). Social Connections through Digital News in Polarized Societies in Argentina, Brazil and Colombia. Austin, TX.

Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Harlow, S. (2023). Methodological challenges and opportunities in comparative research in Latin America.

Harlow, S., Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Schmitz Weiss, A. (2023). Journalism in Flux: The Changing News Industry in Latin America, 2013-2021. Journalism Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2023.2239209

Higgins Joyce, V. M. (2023). Targeting Threats and Barriers to Journalists in Latin America Where They Increasingly are: Online, Against Female Journalists and Outside the Newsroom. Sheffield, UK.

Higgins Joyce, V. D., Galvan, I., & Shepherd, J. (2023). “Somebody Is Bound to Call You Out”: Young Latinx Youth Digital Media Use and Political Participation. In Race/Gender/Class/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and  Producers. New York, USA: Routledge.

Stroud, T., & Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2023). Content Analysis. In Research Methods in Communication (pp. 107–139). Vision Press, United States.

Straubhaar, J., Santillana, M., Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Duarte, L. G. (2022). Distinction and Cosmopolitanism: Latin American Middle-Class, Elite Audiences and Their Preferences for Transnational Television and Film. International Journal of Communication, 17(23). Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/17945/4002

Higgins Joyce, V. D., Schmitz Weiss, A., Harlow, S., & Alves, R. C. (2022). Spatial Dimensions within Hierarchy of Influences: How re-conceived notions of space in networked societies impact Latin American journalists. International Communication Gazette. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1177/17480485221130

Higgins Joyce, V. D., Alves, R. C., & Chacón, L. C. (2022). Moving Barriers to Investigative Journalism in Latin America in Times of Instability and Professional Innovation. Journalism Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2022.2062427

Straubhaar, J., Santillana, M., Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Duarte, L. (2022). Upending Global TV and Film Flows through Transverse Transnationalism: Targeting Individual Audience Members by Genre Preferences Across Cultural Boundaries.

Straubhaar, J., Santillana, M., Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Duarte, L. (2022). Class Divisions: How Netflix and Other Sources of U.S. TV and Film Grow in Latin America.

Harlow, S., Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Schmitz Weis, A. (2022). Understanding Latin American Journalism in Times of Crisis: 2013, 2017, 2021.

Straubhaar, J., Santillana, M., Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Duarte, L. (2021). From Telenovelas to Netflix: Transnational, Transverse Television in Latin America. England: Palgrave MacMillan. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-77470-7

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2021). News Organizations in Colombia Building Consensus through Social Media: A Case of Digital-Native La Silla Vacía. Journalism and Media, 2(1), 62–76. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia2010005

Rao, S., Carter, D. W., Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Jeong, E. (2021). User Engagement and Activism on the DACA Hashtag: An Analysis of Tweets. Norteamérica, Revista Académica Del CISAN-UNAM, 17(1). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.22201/cisan.24487228e.2022.1.498

Rao, S., Carter, D. W., Higgins Joyce, V., & Lee, E. J. (2021). User Engagement and Activism on the DACA Hashtag: An Analysis of Tweets. Norteamérica, Revista Académica Del CISAN-UNAM, 17(1). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.22201/cisan.24487228e.2022.1.498

Higgins Joyce, V. D., Wallace, R., Chacon, L., & Alves, R. C. (2021). New Challenges and Networks of Learning: Transnational Journalistic Collaborations Across Latin America.

Harlow, S., Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Wallace, R. (2021). Navigating Networks with a User’s Manual or Code of Ethics? Exploring the Influence of Social Media Policies on Latin American Journalism.

Straubhaar, J., Santillana, M., Duarte, L. G., & Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2021). Streaming Television, Netflix, and Transverse Transnationalism.

Straubhaar, J., Higgins Joyce, V. M., Spence, J., & Duarte, L. G. (2021). Multilayered Identities and Coexistence of Preferences for National and US Television. In The Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Globalization. United States: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Digital-Media-and-Globalization/Jin/p/book/9780367415792?utm_source=cjaffiliates&utm_medium=referral&cjevent=acb805093f0b11eb827c00950a1c0e14

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2021). Review of Digital Journalism Special issue on Latin America. MILab Journal Adventures in Media Innovation. San Marcos, United States: MiLab. Retrieved from https://www.masscomm.txstate.edu//media-innovation/milabjournal/djlatinamerica_special.html

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2020). Spatial Journalism and inovation. Rizoma. Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.17058/rzm.v8i2.16462

Harlow, S., Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Wallace, R. (n.d.). Navigating Networks with a User’s Manual or Code of Ethics? Exploring the Influence of Social Media Policies on Latin American Journalism. Digital Journalism.

Schmitz Weiss, A., Higgins Joyce, V. D., Harlow, S., & Calmon Alves, R. (2020). Defining Journalism Innovation in Latin America: Exploration into Perceptions among Educators, Students and Journalists. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 75. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/1077695820935327

Higgins Joyce, V. D., Wallace, R., Alves, R. C., & Harlow, S. (2020). ¿En quién confían los periodistas latinoamericanos? La evolución de la percepción de la fuente en las redes sociales. XV Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación (ALAIC).Medellín, Colombia, June 2020.

Higgins  Joyce, V. de M. (2020). Are we all in this together? News media consensus building in Latin America in times of COVID-19. Agenda Setting Journal  Virtual Conference. Boulder, CO. Boulder, CO.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2020). Running blindfolded?  Challenges and opportunities for media ethics education in  the Global South. AEJMC Panel, San Francisco 2020.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2020). Have a Seat! How Digital-native News Organization in Colombia Built Consensus on the Topic of Venezuela Through Social Media. Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Virtual.

Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Lubianco, J. (2020, May 13). COVID-19 pandemic forces Latin American journalism professors to adapt curriculum and learning tools to teaching online. Austin, Texas, USA: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. Retrieved from https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-21816-covid-19-pandemic-forces-latin-american-journalism-professors-adapt-curriculum-and-lea

Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Harlow, S. (2020). Seeking Transnational, Digital-native Entrepreneurial News from Latin America: An Audience Analysis through the Lens of Social Capital. Journalism Studies, 21(9), 1200–1219. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2020.1734858

Harlow, S., Higgins Joyce, V. D., Schmitz Weiss, A., & Alves, R. C. (2019). Practice and Perception of Journalism in Brazil in Times of Crises: 2013-2017. Brazil-US Colloquium on Communication Studies, Austin, TX. 2020.

Schmitz Weiss, A., Harlow, S., & Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2019). Defining journalism innovation in Latin America: Exploration into perceptions among educators, students and journalists. Global Fusion, Austin, TX. 2019.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2019). Latin American Emergent News Media Building Consensus on Perceptions of Venezuela on Social Media. Global Fusion, Austin, TX.  October 2019..

Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Khani, Z. (2019). Consensus building on trust in government: contrasting media and neighborhood effects. The Agenda Setting Journal: Theory, Practice, Critique, 3(2), 165–185. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1075/asj.18011.mac

Higgins Joyce, V. D., Harlow, S., & Schmitz Weiss, A. (2019). Spatial Dimensions of Latin American Journalists’ Role Perceptions: A Hierarchy of Influence Analysis. AEJMC Toronto, Canada.  August, 2019.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2019, August). Journalism Without Profit: Making News When the Market Fails, by Magda Konieczna. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. SAGE. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/1077695819869483

Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Alves, R. C. (2019). Evolving barriers to investigative journalism in Latin America: an intra-regional analysis of influences. IAMCR, Madrid, Spain. July 2019.

Higgins Joyce, V. D., Galvan, I., & Shepherd, J. (2019). “Somebody is bound to call you out”:  Young Latinos’ Digital Media Use and Political Participation. In R. A. Lind (Ed.), Race/Gender/Class/Media 4.0: Considering Diversity, Across Audiences, Content, and Producers (pp. 64–68). Taylor and Francis.

Rosas-Moreno, T. C., Higgins Joyce, V. D., Straubhaar, J. D., & Pinha, D. (n.d.). The Creative Intersection of Brazilian Film, Television and New Streaming Services. In Routledge Handbook of Communication and Media in the Global South. Routledge.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2018). Arrested but Influential: Network agenda building of former Brazilian president Lula on twitter.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2018). Independent Voices of Entrepreneurial News: Setting a New Agenda in Latin America. Palabra Clave: Revista de Comunicación, 21, 710–739. https://doi.org/10.5294/pacla.2018.21.3.4

Schmitz Weiss, A., Higgins Joyce, V. D., Harlow, S., & Alves, R. C. (2018). Innovation and Sustainability: A Relationship Examined Among Latin American Entrepreneurial News Organizations. Cuadernos.Info, 42, 87–100. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.42.1266

Saldaña, M., Higgins Joyce, V. D., Schmitz Weiss, A., & Alves, R. C. (2017). Sharing the Stage. Analysis of social media adoption by Latin American journalists. Journalism Practice, 11(4), 396–416. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2016.1151818

Higgins Joyce, V. D., Saldaña, M., Schmitz Weiss, A., & Alves, R. C. (2017). Ethical perspectives in Latin America’s journalism community: a comparative analysis of acceptance of controversial practice for investigative reporting. International Communication Gazette, 79(5), 459–482. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048516688131

Schmitz Weiss, A., Higgins Joyce, V. D., Alves, R. C., & Saldaña, M. (2017). Latin American Investigative Journalism Education: Learning Practices, Learning Gaps. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 72, 334–348. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077695817711611

Higgins Joyce, V. D., James, J. L., & Khani, Z. (2017). TV and Web Cultivating Health Perceptions among older Latinos in Texas.

Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Devlin, M. B. (2017). Transnational media in a resurgent nationalist movement era: the role of identity in audience’s national and transnational media evaluation.

Higgins Joyce, V. (Chair), Alves, R. C., Schmitz Weiss, A., & Harlow, S. (2016). Entrepreneurial journalism in Latin America: Innovation, disruption and press freedom. Monterrey, Mexico: Panel proposed to WAPOR Latin America.

Higgins Joyce, V. (2016). Entrepreneurial News as Independent Voices: Setting a New Agenda in Latin America. Monterrey, Mexico: Proposed for panel to WAPOR Latin America.

Straubhaar, J., Sinta, V., Spence, J., & Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2016). Changing Class Formation and Changing Television Viewing: The New Middle Class, Television and Pay Television in Brazil and Mexico, 2003-2014. To Les Enjeux de l’ Information et La Communication, 17(2), 207–223. Retrieved from http://lesenjeux.u-grenoble3.fr/2016-dossier/14-Straubharr/

Schmitz Weiss, A., Higgins Joyce, V. D., Harlow, S., & Alves, R. C. (2016). Innovation and Sustainability Examined Among Latin American Entrepreneurial News Organizations.

Straubhaar, J. D., Higgins Joyce, V., Spence, J., & Sinta (DST), V. (2016). Why Audiences Stay Loyal to National Broadcast Television. Fukuoka, Japan: International Communication Association.

Garcia-Perdomo (DST), V., Higgins Joyce, V., Straubhaar, J. D., & Mora (DST), A. (2016). Second Screening in Latin America: a window for added engagement with TV industry. International Communication Association in Fukuoka, Japan.

Straubhaar, J., Spence, J., Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Duarte, L. (2015). Television Audience Trends: An Analysis of 10 years of TGI Latin America (2004-2014). Latin American Media Trends Series, Volume 1.

Stroud, N. J., & Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2015). Content analysis. In S. Zhou & W. D. Sloan (Eds.), Research Methods in Communication (3rd ed., pp. 119–139). Vision Press.

Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Oskam, J. B. (2015). Texas State University MIPPA Project Report. County of Travis, State of Texas: Department of Aging and Disability Services.

Straubhaar, J., Higgins Joyce, V. M., McConnell (DST), C., Sinta (DST), V., & Spence (DST), J. (2015). Changing Class Formations and Changing Television Viewing: The New Middle Class, Television and Pay Television in Brazil and Mexico, 2003-2013. San Juan, Puerto Rico: International Communication Association Conference.

Saldaña (DST), M., Higgins Joyce, V. D., Schmitz Weiss, A., & Alves, R. C. (2015). Sharing the Stage. Analysis of social media adoption by Latin American journalist. San Juan, Puerto Rico: International Communication Association Conference.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2014). Consensus-Building Function of Agenda Setting in Times of Crisis: Substantive and Affective Dimensions. In T. Johnson (Ed.), Agenda Setting in a 2.0 World: New Agendas in Communication. (pp. 230–255). Routledge.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2014). Framing Theory. In S. Attardo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Humor Studies (Vol. 1, pp. 248–250). SAGE Publications Inc.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2014). Uses and Gratification. In S. Attardo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Humor Studies (Vol. 2, pp. 780–782). SAGE Publications Inc.

Alves, R. C., Higgins Joyce, V. M., Schmitz Weiss, A., & Saldaña (DST), M. (2014). Investigative Journalism in Latin America: Perceptions from the Newsroom. Montréal, Canada: Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication Convention.

Higgins Joyce, V. M. (2012). TV from the Americas to America: Impact of Transnational news from Brazil on US Latino Community. Orlando FL: 98th Annual Conference of the National Communication Association.

Stroud, N. J., & Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2011). Content analysis. In S. Zhou & W. D. Sloan (Eds.), Research Methods in Communication (2nd ed., pp. 123–143). Vision Press.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2011). Transnational News Media Role in Building Consensus about Communities. Journal of Global Mass Communication, 4(1–4), 110–132.

Higgins Joyce, V. M. (2010). Transnational News Media Role in Building Consensus about Muslim Communities in the EU. Denver, CO: Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication Convention.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2010, March). What’s new in cross-national comparative communication research. The Newsletter of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. AEJMC.

Stroud, N. J., & Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2009). Content analysis. In S. Zhou & W. D. Sloan (Eds.), Research Methods in Communication (pp. 123–144). Vision Press.

Schmitz Weiss, A., & Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2009). Compressed dimensions in digital media occupations: Journalists in transformation. Journalism, 10(5), 587–603. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884909106534

Higgins Joyce, V. D., Correa, T., Flores, M., & Meraz, S. (2008). Women and the news: Latin America and the Caribbean. In P. Poindexter, S. Meraz, & A. Schmitz Weiss (Eds.), Women, Men, and News: Divided and Disconnected in the News Media Landscape (pp. 239–266). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Straubhaar, J., Spence, J., Gustoffsen, K., Rios, M., Ferreira, F., & Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2008). Comparative analysis of information society discourse and public policy responses in the United States and Brazil. Revista Logos: Comunicação e Universidade, 15(28), 84–104.

Higgins, V. M., & Valenzuela, S. (2008). News media: actors for social inclusion through consensus building in Brazil and Chile. Mexico City, Mexico: Congress of the Americas II, co-sponsored by International Communication Association.

Higgins, V. (2007). Brazil’s gender gap in news consumption, coverage, and employment. Washington, D.C.: Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication Convention.

Higgins, V., & Schmitz Weiss, A. (2007). Online focus group as a method for comparative communication research across borders. San Francisco, CA: International Communication Association Pre-conference on “Methodologies of Comparative Research in a Global Sphere".

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2006). Foreign perspectives of Brazil: A textual analysis of American newspaper coverage. Brazilian Journalism Research, 2(1), 175–194.

Higgins, V. (2006). Foreign perspectives of Brazil: a textual analysis of American newspaper coverage. Dresden, Germany: 56th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association.

Schmitz Weiss, A., & Higgins, V. (2006). Compressed dimensions: Globalization impact on online journalism. Dresden, Germany: 56th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association.

Higgins Joyce, V. D. (2005). Crime coverage in Brazilian media. Media Tenor Forschungsbericht, 150(2. Quartal), 94–97.

Higgins, V. (2005). Crime coverage by Brazilian media: An agenda-setting influence of selective news. New York, NY: 55th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association.