An unprecedented election
Subtitle: media, communication, and the electorate in the 2016 campaign
By: Benjamin R. Warner, Dianne G. Bystrom, Mitchell S. McKinney, and Mary C. Banwart, editors
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9781440860652
Subjects: Presidents; Political campaigns; Election; Communication in politics
Description: "This book will analyze the political communication content and effects of the 2016 election to assess the extent to which political polarization, gender dynamics, racial and regional division, hostility toward outgroups, incivility, and trends in political media explain and are explained by the 2016 election"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Understanding the unprecedented 2016 campaign : two historical candidacies yield an unexpected result / Benjamin R. Warner and Dianne G. Bystrom; title: Part one. Media coverage. Selective exposure and homophily during the 2016 presidential campaign / Natalie Jomini Stroud and Jessica R. Collier; title: What mobilizes partisans? : exploring the underlying pathways between partisan media and political participation / Heesook Choi, Benjamin R. Warner, and Freddie J. Jennings; title: Media event influence in the 2016 race : the debates, Trump groping tape, and the last-minute FBI announcement / Esther Thorson, Samuel M. Tham, Weiyue Chen, and Vamsi Kanuri; title: The rhetoric of impossible expectations : media coverage of Hillary Clinton's 2016 general election campaign / Kristina Horn Sheeler; title: Depends on who is asking : an endorsement experiment during the 2016 presidential election / Kalyca Becktel and Kaye D. Sweetser; title: Attributions of incivility in presidential campaign news / Ashley Muddiman; title: Fact-checking and the 2016 presidential election : news media's attempts to correct misleading information from the debates / Daniela V. Dimitrova and Kimberly Nelson; title: "I'm about to be president; we're all going to die" : Baldwin, Trump, and the rhetorical power of comedic presidential impersonation / Will Howell and Trevor Parry-Giles; title: Part two. Campaign communication. Processing the political : presidential primary debate "live-tweeting" as information processing / Josh C. Bramlett, Mitchell S. McKinney, and Benjamin R. Warner; title: Donald Trump and the rejection of the norms of American politics and rhetoric / Robert C. Rowland; title: "The greatest country on Earth" : the evolution of Michelle Obama's American dream / Ryan Neville-Shepard and Meredith Neville-Shepard; title: Loss of faith : a realignment of religion on the campaign trail / Brian Kaylor; title: Late night with Donald Trump : an exploration of the combined effects of political comedy and political advertising / Freddie J. Jennings, Calvin R. Coker, Josh C. Bramlett, Joel Lansing Reed, and Joshua P. Bolton; title: Going on defense : the unprecedented use of defensive appeals in 2016 U.S. presidential debates / Corey B. Davis; title: Gender and videostyle in 2016 : advertising in mixed-gender races for the U.S. house / Kelly L. Winfrey and James M. Schnoebelen; title: From interactivity to incitement : ubiquitous communication and elite calls for participation / Joshua M. Scacco, Kevin Coe, and Delaney Harness; title: Part three. Communication attitudes and behaviors of the electorate. Corn Belt controversy : intraparty divisions and political cynicism at the 2016 Iowa caucuses / Joel Lansing Reed, Sopheak Hoeun, Josh C. Bramlett, Molly Greenwood, and Grace Hase; title: Exploring and explaining communication, knowledge, and well-being sex differences related to the 2016 U.S. presidential primary season / R. Lance Holbert, Esul Park, and Nicholas W. Robinson; title: Gender and the vote in the 2016 presidential election / Kate Kenski; title: #election#elección : Latino twitter users and reactions to presidential political gaffes / Samantha Hernandez; title: Analyzing tweets about the 2016 U.S. presidential "blunder" election / Michael W. Kearney; title: Understanding the authoritarian voter in the 2016 presidential election / Sumana Chattopadhyay; title: Social dominance, sexism, and the lasting effects on political communication from the 2016 election / Mary C. Banwart and Michael W. Kearney.