Join us today as we catch up with Dr. Lauren Reichart Smith, an associate professor in the Media School at Indiana University. We cover so much territory in this conversation, but it kicks off with Lauren telling us about what she does when she isn't conducting research and teaching courses--she's an Ironman! That means she swims 2.4 miles, bikes 112 miles, and runs 26.2 miles all in the same day, and she's done it several times.  But, after we move on from that super fun conversation, we learn more about how Lauren got her start in academia, including working in television on the production side before figuring out graduate school might be the right place for her.  Much of her research looks at the way athletes are portrayed in the media and how we as viewers then respond to those representations.  Her work broadly fits into the psychological effects of media content and the different ways we as viewers engage with that content.  This is such a fun conversation, and it was really exciting to learn more about what she does inside and outside of the research lab and classroom.
To learn more about Dr. Smith, check out this link: https://mediaschool.indiana.edu/people/profile.html?p=ls35
To learn more about her upcoming Ironman, check out this link: https://www.ironman.com/im-indiana
To follow her on Twitter, follow her @LaurnSmith
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