Jennifer is a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Dept. of Life Sciences Communication. Her research focuses on food and nutrition issues as they are portrayed in the media or in varying public spheres. Previous work includes the framing of controversial food technologies by the media as in the cases of irradiation and lean finely textured beef ("pink slime"). She also has done work in the area of global health communications regarding the Zika virus and discussions on social media.
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