She conducts research on media use, public opinion, as well as civic and political engagement. Her two meta-analysis pieces are among the top five most read pieces in in Information, Communication & Society (2015) and Political Communication (2009) with over 25,000 downloads to date. In 2013, she won the Best Paper award from the Communication and Information Technologies section of the American Sociological Association for her paper on media use in the 2008 American presidential election. She will be presenting a paper titled "Comparing Online and Offline Participation", which will challenge the civic-political typology of engagement, examine the theoretical claims of alternative typologies, summarize existing research on online participation, and compare online activities to their offline counterparts.