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This two-volume set examines recent presidential and vice
presidential debates, addresses how citizens make sense of these
events in new media, and considers whether the evolution of these
forms of consumption is healthy for future presidential
campaigns-and for democracy. The presidential debates of 2016
underscored how television highlights candidates' and campaigns'
messages, which provide fodder for citizens' widespread use of new
media to "talk back" to campaigns and other citizens. Social media
will continue to affect the way that campaign events like
presidential debates are consumed by audiences and how they shape
campaign outcomes. This two-volume study is one of the first to
examine the relationship between debates as televised events and
events consumed by citizens through social media. It also assesses
the town hall debate format from 1992 to 2016, uses the lens of
civil dialogue to consider how citizens watch the debates, and
considers the growing impact of new media commentary on candidate
images that emerge in presidential and vice presidential debates.
Televised Presidential Debates in a Changing Media Environment
features contributions from leading political communication
scholars that illuminate how presidential debates are transforming
from events that are privately contemplated by citizens, to events
that are increasingly viewed and discussed by citizens through
social media. The first volume focuses on traditional studies of
debates as televised campaign events, and the second volume
examines the changing audiences for debates as they become consumed
and discussed by viewers outside the traditional channels of
newspapers, cable news channels, and campaign messaging. Readers
will contemplate questions of new forms, problems, and
possibilities of political engagement that are resulting from
citizens producing and consuming political messages in new media.
Examines research on presidential debates from 2004 to 2016, and
considers how these debates-and elections-were affected by the
changing media environment of each election season Assesses the
impact of U.S. citizens using social media to make sense of the
campaign debates Considers whether the established presidential
debate format is no longer effective for informing voters in a time
of unprecedented political polarization and voter cynicism Applies
different methods of analyzing the debates that will interest
rhetorical scholars, argumentation scholars, and political
communication scholars
Studies of Communication in the 2020 Presidential Campaign explores
a wide range of communication elements, themes, and topics of the
2020 presidential election. The introduction provides a brief
snapshot summarizing the role of more traditional elements of
campaign communication as well as the newer elements of social
media and journalistic practices that transformed the political
landscape in 2020. Each chapter serves as a stand-alone study
focusing on the role and function of communication within the
context of the chapter topics and the 2020 election.
This collection documents the efforts of the Prison Communication,
Activism, Research, and Education collective (PCARE) to put
democracy into practice by merging prison education and activism.
Through life-changing programs in a dozen states (Arizona,
Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin), PCARE works
with prisoners, in prisons, and in communities to reclaim justice
from the prison-industrial complex. Based on years of pragmatic
activism and engaged teaching, the materials in this volume present
a sweeping inventory of how communities and individuals both within
and outside of prisons are marshaling the arts, education, and
activism to reduce crime and enhance citizenship. Documenting
hands-on case studies that emphasize educational initiatives,
successful prison-based programs, and activist-oriented analysis,
Working for Justice provides readers with real-world answers based
on years of pragmatic activism and engaged teaching. Contributors
are David Coogan, Craig Lee Engstrom, Jeralyn Faris, Stephen John
Hartnett, Edward A. Hinck, Shelly Schaefer Hinck, Bryan J. McCann,
Nikki H. Nichols, Eleanor Novek, Brittany L. Peterson, Jonathan
Shailor, Rachel A. Smith, Derrick L. Williams, Lesley A. Withers,
Jennifer K. Wood, and Bill Yousman.
Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice
brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political
campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and
practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign
communication utilizing a wide range of empirical, rhetorical,
content analyses and social science methodologies as well as a
variety of foci on the practice of political campaign communication
with studies on the communication dimensions and elements of
political campaigns. It reflects the growing depth, breadth, and
maturity of the discipline and provides insight into a variety of
topics related to political campaign communication.
Presidential debates are forums designed to present and select
candidates for national office: Their purpose is to provide
opportunities for candidates to win over undecided voters, to
reinforce voters who have already made a decision about who to vote
for, and to change the minds of those who are willing to reconsider
their initial judgments concerning which candidate seems more fit
to serve as president. Edward Hinck argues that debates are not
primarily about presidential policy-making. Rather, they are
opportunities to demonstrate a candidate's ability to lead by
summarizing, in a specific test of presidential character, the
larger conflict between the candidates. Hinck develops an in-depth
rhetorical analysis of the presidential and vice presidential
debates of 1960 to 1988. The analysis of each series of debates
begins with an introduction that focuses discussion on the most
important aspects of political image for each of the candidates,
then develops a case for understanding the ways in which the
debates revealed the rhetorical strengths and weaknesses of each
candidate's performance. Hinck's neo-Aristotelian approach asserts
that debates serve both deliberative and epideictic ends because
they provide important information about the candidates that cannot
be disclosed except in the dramatic confrontation of the debate,
and because this dramatic confrontation enacts the democratic
values of rational dialogue. Enacting The Presidency is recommended
to scholars in communication and political science.
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