Faculty

Tamas Bodor

Assistant Professor
- Media Studies -

tbodor@uwsp.edu
Phone: 715.346.
Office: CAC 325

Focus

• M.A. Degree in Sociology: 1999 -Pázmány Péter Catholic University
• M.A. Degree in History: 1999 - Pázmány Péter Catholic University
• M.A. Degree in Communication: 2004 - State University of New York at Albany
• Ph.D. Degree in Sociology/Communication: 2009(expected) - State University of New York at Albany
• Ph.D. Dissertation: The Multi-level Political Communication Context of the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election: An Inquiry into the 2004 Exit Poll Error and the Spiral of Silence

Courses Taught

• Comm 101: Oral Communication
• Comm 300: Introduction to Communication Research
• Comm 321: Intermediate Journalism: Newswriting and Reporting II
• Comm 392: Communication Ethics

Research

Political Communication: mass media effects on political communication, public opinion, and political behavior; public opinion theory

Quantitative research methods: polling methodology

Biography

Tamás Bodor has worked in various areas of applied communication research in Hungary and the United States. His academic research interest centers around the origins and nature of public opinion. As an extension to this research focus, he currently investigates how survey methodological and contextual political communication factors (e.g. mass media coverage of the campaign) may interact and contribute to the inaccuracy of pre-election and exit poll forecasts in U.S. and comparative contexts. For his research on the 2002 Hungarian polling disaster he received the 2008 Elizabeth H. Nelson Prize of the World Association for Public Opinion Research.