Biography and education
Dr. Carter is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he teaches courses in data storytelling, media design and visual communication. Dr. Carter has received the 2024 Presidential Distinction Award for Teaching and the 2021 College Achievement Award for Scholarly/Creative Activities.
In 2022, Dr. Carter co-founded Texas Community Health News, an organization that trains students to produce data-driven public health reporting. In the organization's first two years of operation, staff and student work appeared in over 80 local, state and national publications.
Dr. Carter has a PhD in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA in English Literature from The Ohio State University and a BA in Interdisciplinary Honors from the University of Texas at Austin. His research asks how technical systems such as social media platforms and web content management systems influence communication and knowledge production.
In 2022, Dr. Carter co-founded Texas Community Health News, an organization that trains students to produce data-driven public health reporting. In the organization's first two years of operation, staff and student work appeared in over 80 local, state and national publications.
Dr. Carter has a PhD in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA in English Literature from The Ohio State University and a BA in Interdisciplinary Honors from the University of Texas at Austin. His research asks how technical systems such as social media platforms and web content management systems influence communication and knowledge production.
Featured grants
- Carter, Daniel Wayne (Co-Principal), Fox, Kymberly J (Co-Principal), Bertling, Teresa S (Supporting), Blasingame, Dale C (Supporting), Hinsley, Amber Willard (Supporting). Texas Community Health News, Translational Health Research Center, Texas State University, $210000. (Funded: January 2023 - May 2024). Grant.
- Carter, Daniel Wayne. Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $8000. (Funded: 2018 - 2019). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Sussman, K. L., & Carter, D. W. (n.d.). Detecting Effects of AI-Mediated Communication on Language Complexity and Sentiment∗. In WWW Companion ’25: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2025 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1145/3701716.3717543
- Carter, D. W. (2025, March 1). ‘This Town Has Nothing’: Rural Texas’ Mental Healthcare Crisis. The Texas Observer. Retrieved from https://www.texasobserver.org/mental-health-crisis-rural-texas/
- Carter, D. W. (2024). Visualization in Literary Studies: Reconciling New Tools with Old Practices. In Cambridge Critical Concepts: Technology and Literature. Cambridge University Press.
- Stratton, C., & Carter, D. W. (2023). Locating information systems in the freedom of information process. Government Information Quarterly, 40(2).
- Carter, D. W. (2022). Constructing Structured Content on Wordpress: Emerging Paradigms in Web Content Management. Communication Design Quarterly, 11(1).
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award for Teaching, Texas State University. 2024
- Award / Honor Recipient: College Achievement Award for Scholarly/Creative Activities, Texas State University College of Fine Arts and Communication. 2021
- Award / Honor Recipient: Smallest File Award, Small File Media Festival, Simon Frasier University. 2020
- Award / Honor Recipient: Best Poster Award, iConference 2020. January 2020
- Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi National Honor Society Favorite Professor. November 2018
Featured service activities
- Member
IT Governance Committee
- Member
Technology and Facilities Committee
- Member
Graduate Program and Research Committee
- Reviewer / Referee
GeoHumanities
- Chair
Digital Media Innovation Search Committee
- Member
Minor in Data Science Implementation Working Group