Little
About: Alexia (Lexie) Little is a PhD student specializing in journalism. Her research interests center around media history, specifically how media have constructed conceptions of collective memory, culture, and celebrity. Broadly, she is interested in cultural and critical studies using primarily qualitative methods. Her published work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals like 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 (second place) 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.
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. (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 Journal Essays
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.
Little, A. & Lanosga, G. (Spring 2024). “Addressing the Problem(s) of Journalism History,” Journalism History, 50(1): pp. 11-19.
Refereed Conference Papers & Presentations
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
BOOK Chapters
Pjesivac, I. & Little, A. “Effects of Misinformation and Disinformation on Democratic Processes: Theoretical Approach to the Roles of Digital Democracy and the Public Sphere,” in The Impact of Disinformation and Misinformation on a Democratic Society(New York: Routledge) Forthcoming.
Research Awards and Recognitions
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’s 2021 competition for Top Student Papers.
