· Professor of Mass Communication, University of Sharjah (2023-Present).
· Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information Technology & Politics (2020-current).
· Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and Professor, University of Louisville (2022-2023).
· Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Duke Kunshan University (2021-2022).
· Residente Académico, Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad de Puerto Rico (2022).
· Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Louisville (2020-2021).
· Professor, University of Louisville (2016-2021).
· Associate Professor, University of Louisville (2011-2015).
· Visiting Professor, Eurasian National University (2014).
· Assistant Professor, University of Louisville (2006-2011).
· Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi (2005-2006).
· Visiting Instructor, Southern Illinois University (2004-2005).
· Lecturer, University of Florida (2002-2004).
Wagner. Kevin M., and Jason Gainous. 2022. “Trending Politics: How the Internet has Changed Political News Coverage.” In Electoral Campaigns, Media, and the New World of Digital Politics, edited by David Taras and Richard Davis, University of Michigan Press, 44-59.
· Gainous, Jason and Kevin M. Wagner. 2021. “‘Tweeting to Power,’ Reconsidered: Information Control and Congressional Campaigns.” In The Internet and the 2020 Campaign, edited by Terri L. Towner and Jody Baumgartner, Lexington Books, 85-100.
· Warner, Dane, and Jason Gainous. 2020. “Ambivalence in Political Decision Making.” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Decision Making, edited by David P. Redlawsk. Oxford University Press.
· Gainous, Jason, and Kevin M. Wagner. 2014. “MENA and the Internet: Technology and the Democratic Divide.” In Assessing MENA Political Reform, Post-Arab Spring: Mediators and Microfoundations, edited by Brian Calfano and Emile Sahliyeh, Lexington Books, 185-197.
· Martinez, Michael D., Jason Gainous, and Stephen C. Craig. 2012. “Measuring Ambivalence about Government in the 2006 ANES Pilot Study.” In Improving Public Opinion Surveys: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American National Election Studies, edited by Kathleen M. McGraw and John H. Aldrich, Princeton University Press, 238-259.
· Gainous, Jason, and Michael D. Martinez. 2005. “What Happens When We Simultaneously Want Opposite Things? Ambivalence about Social Welfare.” In Ambivalence, Politics, and Public Policy, edited by Stephen C. Craig and Michael D. Martinez, Palgrave, 47-62.
· Martinez, Michael D., Stephen C. Craig, James G. Kane, and Jason Gainous. 2005. “Ambivalence and Value Conflict: A Test of Two Issues.” In Ambivalence, Politics, and Public Policy, edited by Stephen C. Craig and Michael D. Martinez, Palgrave, 63-82.
Other Publications
· Gainous, Jason, and Kevin M. Wagner. 2019. Review of Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes America by Jaime E. Settle in the International Journal of Press/Politics.
· Gainous, Jason, and Kevin M. Wagner. 2015. “Big Theory for Understanding a Complex Political Media Environment.” Review of The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power by Andrew Chadwick in the Journal of Politics.
Books
· Gainous, Jason, Rongbin Han, Andrew W. MacDonald, and Kevin M. Wagner. 2024. Directed Digital Dissidence in Autocracies: How China Wins Online. New, York, NY: Oxford University Press.
· Gainous, Jason, and Kevin M. Wagner. 2014. Tweeting to Power: The Social Media Revolution in American Politics. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
· Gainous, Jason, and Kevin M. Wagner. 2011. Rebooting American Politics: The Internet Revolution. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Articles
· Gainous, Jason, Mayra Velez Serrano, and Kevin M. Wagner. 2023. “Protesting with Feeling in Puerto Rico: Twitter and El Verano del 19.” Political Research Quarterly 76 (2): 465-480.
· Gainous, Jason, and Kevin M. Wagner. 2023. “Surfing to the Political Extremes: Digital Media, Social Media, and Policy Attitude Polarization.” Social Science Quarterly 104 (4): 547-558.
· Gainous, Jason, Mayra Velez Serrano, and Kevin M. Wagner. 2023. “Protesting with Feeling in Puerto Rico: Twitter and El Verano del 19.” Political Research Quarterly 76 (2): 465-480.
· Rodionov, Adil, Zhaxylyk Sabitov, Jason Gainous, Kevin M. Wagner, Amanzhol Bekmagambetov, and Kamilya Rodionova. 2023. “The Feminization of Political Science in Kazakhstan: A Leaky Pipeline?” Europe-Asia Studies 75 (1): 110-130.
· Wagner, Kevin M., Jason Gainous, Allison Warnersmith, and Dane Warner. 2023. “Is the MENA Surfing to the Extremes? Digital and Social Media, Echo Chambers/Filter Bubbles, and Attitude Extremity.” International Journal of Communication 17: 405-425.
· Abbott, Jason P., Jason Gainous, and Kevin M. Wagner. 2023. “Social Media and Protest Behavior in a Restrictive Traditional Media Environment: The Case of the Philippines.” International Journal of Communication 17: 345-364.
· Enders, Adam M., Jason Gainous, and Kevin M. Wagner. 2022. “Say It Again With Feeling: Issue Ownership and Candidate Communication Using Twitter.” Social Science Quarterly 103 (4): 959-974.
· Craig, Stephen C., Angela Farizo McCarthy, and Jason Gainous. 2022. “Question Wording and Attitudinal Ambivalence: COVID, the Economy, and Americans’ Response to a Real‐Life Trolley Problem.” Social Science Quarterly 103 (1): 18-30.
· Gainous, Jason, and Melissa K. Merry. 2022. “Climate Change as a National Security Issue: Examining Framing Effects across Party.” American Politics Research 50 (2): 199–212.
Ph.D. Dissertations
· Committee Member, Trevor Leach, “Characterizing Majority Rule on Various Discrete Models of Consensus.” Department of Mathematics (2019).
· Committee Member, Eric Vorst, “Trolling Twitter.” Department of Political Science, University of Missouri – St. Louis. (2017).
· Committee Member, Sarah Schulz King, “Extending Differences of Votes Rules on Three voting Models.” Department of Mathematics (2017).
· Committee Member, Neal Turpin, “Structure, Spending, and Democracy: A Study of Municipal Governments.” Department of Urban and Public Affairs (2016).
· Committee Member, Lucas Hoots, “Strong Quota Systems and May’s Theorem on Median Semilattices.” Department of Mathematics (2015).
· Committee Member, Doddy Aditya Iskander, “Power and Planning in the Deconstruction of Urban Freeway: A Case Study of San Francisco and Milwaukee.” Department of Urban and Public Affairs (2014).
· Committee Member, Joshua D. Ambrosius, “Religion and Regionalism: Congregants, Culture, and City county Consolidation in Louisville, Kentucky.” Department of Urban and Public Affairs (2010).
· Committee Member, Jeff Osgood, “Exurban Dynamics: An analysis of migration, policy, and territorial scale.” Department of Urban and Public Affairs (2008-2009).
Master’s Theses
· Chair, Brianna Berry, “Incidental Exposure, Political Activity & Perceived Trust.” (Spring 2021).
· Chair, Kevin C. Orr, “The Rise of the Nones: Religion, Leaners, and their Connection with Partisanship in America.” (Spring 2021)
· The Trustees Award, University of Louisville. The award recognizes faculty who have had an extraordinary impact on students (2021).
· Student Champion, University of Louisville. A student nominated award (2021).
· College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Graduate Mentor (2019).
· Robert L. Lineberry Award for the best article in Social Science Quarterly for “Civic Education and Democratic Capacity: How do Teachers Teach and What Works?” with Allison M. Martens (2014).
· University of Louisville President’s Distinguished Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity in the Social Sciences (2014).
· University of Louisville Arts & Sciences Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity Award in Social Sciences (2014).
· Trio Student Support Services Faculty of the Year Award (2014).
· Political Research Quarterly’s 2012 Outstanding Reviewer Award (2013).
· David Hughes Award for the best paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Political Science Association (2012).
· David Hughes Award for the best paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Political Science Association (2010).
· Faculty of the Year Award, University of Louisville, Disability Resource Center (2008).
· American Political Science Association best paper presented at 2004 APSA on State Politics and Policy for “Winners, Losers, and Perceived Mandates: Voter Explanations of the 1998 Gubernatorial and 2000 Presidential Elections in Florida.” With coauthors Stephen C. Craig, Michael D. Martinez, and Jim G. Kane (2004).
