Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Ph.D.
- Research Associate, Communication Neuroscience Lab
- Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program
O'Donnell’s research background includes corpus linguistics, natural language processing, and data mining with a focus on extracting linguistic patterns and networks from large textual databases (or corpora). He is interested in combining linguistic analyses of media language and persuasive discourse with behavioral and neuroscience approaches.
Selected Publications
Courses
- Computational Text Analysis for Communication Research (COMM 3130)
- Data Science for Communication (COMM 1280)
- Research Methods in Communication (COMM 2100)
- Talking with AI: Computational and Communication Approaches (COMM 4190)
- Talking with AI: Computational and Communication Approaches (COMM 5190)
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Four Communication Majors Present Senior Honors Theses
The subjects chosen by these 2026 honors graduates range from parasocial relationships with media figures to the rhetoric of presidential speeches.
