Little
About: Alexia (Lexie) Little is a PhD candidate specializing in mass communication. Her research interests center around media history, specifically how media construct and negotiate conceptions of collective memory, culture, and celebrity. Broadly, she is interested in cultural and critical studies using primarily qualitative and historical/archival methods. Her published work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Journalism History and American Journalism.
Lexie is a past recipient of the Robert Lance Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper and Wally Eberhard Award for the Outstanding Paper on Media and War presented by the American Journalism Historians Association, Top Student Paper issued by the AEJMC History Division, and William Randolph Hearst Foundation Journalism Award for Personality/Profile Writing. She was named a McGill Fellow in 2021.
She teaches Reporting 1 and History of Mass Media in the United States. In 2025, she earned a University of Georgia Outstanding Teaching Assistant (OTA) award for superior instructional skills. She previously served as faculty assistant for the International Mass Communication study abroad program in Croatia and has guest lectured both at Grady and at other universities.
Prior to her doctoral studies, Lexie worked as a magazine feature writer and sports columnist before joining the staff at Vanderbilt University, where she ran strategic communications for the Top 5-ranked School of Medicine.
Education
M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia
B.S. in Journalism and Electronic Media, College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Refereed Journal Publications
Little, A. (Spring 2025). “The Reality of a Pseudo-Event: Gone With the Wind Premiere, 1939,” Journalism History. DOI: 10.1080/00947679.2025.2481383
Little, A. (Fall 2022). “Cementing Their Heroes: Historical Newspaper Coverage of Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Confederate Monuments,” Journalism History 48(3): pp. 199-221 [Finalist, 2023 Sweeney Award for the Most Outstanding Article published in Journalism History].
Little, A. (Spring 2022). “The Flag Unfurled: The Negotiation of Civil War Memory in Confederate Displays,” American Journalism 39(2): pp. 169-195. [Finalist, 2022 American Journalism Best Article Award].
Invited Peer-Reviewed Journal Essays
Little, A. & Lanosga, G. (Spring 2024). “Addressing the Problem(s) of Journalism History,” Journalism History, 50(1): pp. 11-19.
Lanosga, G., Little, A.., Fears, L. Carter-Olson, C. (Winter 2022). “Identifying Research Gaps and Opportunities as Journal’s Fiftieth Anniversary Nears,” Journalism History 48(4): pp. 269-282.
Lanosga, G. and Little, L. (Fall 2022). “Journalism History Analyzes Diversity Coverage as 50th Year Approaches,” Journalism History 48(3): pp. 181-183.
Book Chapters
Pjesivac, I. & Little, A. (2025) “Effects of Misinformation and Disinformation on Democratic Processes: Theoretical Approach to the Roles of Digital Democracy and the Public Sphere,” in Melissa Zimdars (ed.) The Impact of Disinformation and Misinformation on a Democratic Society (1st edition) (New York: Routledge).
Refereed Conference Papers & Presentations
Little, A. “Knowledgeable Women Everywhere: Letters to the Editor and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1977,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco, California, August 2025, Refereed Paper. [The study earned the top student paper in the History Division’s annual paper competition, scoring highest across both student and faculty entries].
Little, A. “Unconquering the Banner: The Negotiation of Civil War Memory in Confederate Displays,” American Journalism Historians Association, Virtual, October 2021, Refereed Paper. [The study earned both the Robert Lance Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper and the Wally Eberhard Award for the Outstanding Paper on Media and War].
Little, A. “Cementing Their Heroes: Historical Newspaper Coverage of Confederate Monuments,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Virtual, August 2021, Refereed Paper. [The study earned second place honors in the History Division’s top student paper competition].
Little, A. “The Reality of a Pseudo-Event: Gone With the Wind Premiere, 1939,” American Journalism Historians Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 2024, Refereed Paper. [The study earned the Robert Lance Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper].
Pjesivac, I., Park, S. & Little, A. “Video Catalyzing Misinformation Online: Modality and Source Effects on Credibility, Health Attitudes and Behaviors,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 2024, Refereed Paper. [The study earned the top faculty paper in the Visual Communication Division’s annual paper competition].
Pjesivac, I., Little, A. & Park, S. “Not in the Textbook: Media Literacy and Young Adults,” International Media Literacy Research Symposium, the Azores, Portugal, June 2024, Roundtable.
Lough, K., Assaf, C. & Little, A. “75 years of metajournalistic visual discourse on the cover of News Photographer magazine,” International Communication Association, Gold Coast, Australia, June 2024, Refereed Poster.
Pjesivac, I. & Little, A. “Effects of Misinformation and Disinformation on Democratic Processes: Theoretical Approach to the Roles of Digital Democracy and the Public Sphere,” Broadcast Educators Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2024, part of the 2024 Research Symposium.
Pjesivac, I., Little, A. & Petrov, A. “Media War Discourse: Examinations of the Use of Modifiers in the Coverage of the War in Ukraine,” Broadcast Educators Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2024, Poster Presentation. Research in Progress.
Conference Panel Presentations
“The State of Diversity in Journalism History,” Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, Detroit, Michigan, Aug. 2022, Refereed Panel Presentation, History Division. [with Gerry Lanosga].
“Re-Collecting Collective Memory of the American Presidency,” American Political History Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, June 2024, Refereed Panel Presentation
Research Awards and Recognitions
Top Student Paper, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication History Division, 2025.
Robert Lance Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper presented by the American Journalism Historians Association in 2024.
Top faculty paper of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Visual Communication Division’s 2024 annual paper competition.
Wally Eberhard Award for the Outstanding Paper on Media and War presented by the American Journalism Historians Association in 2021.
Robert Lance Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper presented by the American Journalism Historians Association in 2021.
Second place honors, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication History Division Top Student Paper competition in 2021.
Teaching Awards
Received the University of Georgia Outstanding Teaching Assistant (OTA) Award for superior instructional skills, 2025
