Thank you, Prof. McCombs

I recently got an interesting Google Scholar alert for a citation for my previous research findings. 

It updated me about this book from 2017: Setting Agendas in Cultural Markets by P. Bantimaroudis, and that my work was cited by Prof. Emeritus Maxwell McCombs in the prolog (introduction) for this book. 

I’m truly honored, lucky and grateful.

Prof. McCombs is the founding father of the Agenda-Setting theory. Our meeting at the University of Texas at Austin on May 14^th, 2013, was crucial to my research on the tech agenda. 

The thought-provoking discussion with him was the reason I added network analysis to my research (to examine the Network Agenda Setting model).

I appreciate it greatly and can’t thank him enough for his ongoing support. 

The pictures were taken at the Belo Center for New Media, Moody College 

of Communication, the University of Texas at Austin. 
Left: May 2013. Right: February 2019.