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American democracy is in a period of striking tumult. The clash of
a rapidly changing socio-technological environment and the
traditional presidency has led to an upheaval in the scope and
standards of executive leadership. Yet research on the presidency,
although abundant, has been slow to adjust to changing realities
associated with digital technologies, diverse audiences, and new
elite practices. Meanwhile, journalists and the public continue to
encounter and shape emerging presidential efforts in deeply
consequential ways. Joshua Scacco and Kevin Coe bring needed
insight to this complex situation by offering the first
comprehensive framework for understanding contemporary presidential
communication in relation to the current socio-technological
environment. They call this framework the "ubiquitous presidency."
Scacco and Coe argue that presidents harness new opportunities in
the media environment to create a nearly constant and highly
visible presence in political and nonpolitical arenas. They do this
by trying to achieve longstanding presidential goals, namely
visibility, adaptation, and control. However, in an environment
where accessibility, personalization, and pluralism are omnipresent
considerations, the strategies presidents use to achieve these
goals are very different from what we once knew. Using this novel
framework as a conceptual anchor, The Ubiquitous Presidency
undertakes one of the most expansive analyses of presidential
communication to date. Scacco and Coe employ a wide variety of
approaches-ranging from surveys and survey-experiments, to
large-scale automated content and network analyses, to qualitative
textual analysis-to uncover new aspects of the intricate
relationship between the president, news media, and the public.
Focusing on the presidency since Ronald Reagan, and devoting
particular attention to the cases of Barack Obama and Donald Trump,
the book uncovers remarkable shifts in communication that test the
institution of the presidency and, consequently, democratic
governance itself.
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.
The Rhetoric of Official Apologies: Critical Essays focuses on the
many challenges associated with performing a speech act on behalf
of a collective and the concomitant issues of rhetorically tackling
the multiple political, social, and philosophical issues at stake
when a collective issues an official apology to a group of victims.
Contributors address questions of whether collective remorse is
possible or credible, how official apologies can be evaluated, who
can issue apologies on behalf of whom, and whether there are
certain kinds of wrongdoing that simply can't be addressed in the
form of an official apology. Collectively, the book speaks to the
relevance of conceptualizing official apologies more broadly as
serving multiple rhetorical purposes that span ceremonial and
political genres and represent a potentially powerful form of
collective self-reflection necessary for political and social
advancement.
Contemporary Christian Culture: Messages, Missions, and Dilemmas
studies Christian media, its meanings, and its impact on social
perceptions and lived experiences in a multicultural context and
from within a communication framework. This interdisciplinary
collection expands the dialogue surrounding race, culture, and
Christian messages and provides a valuable resource for
researchers, educators, and church practitioners who are interested
in understanding how racial and cultural identity are impacted by
religious media products.
This volume offers a timely and dynamic study of the rise of
religion in American politics, examining the public messages of
political leaders over the past seventy-five years. The authors
show that U.S. politics today is defined by a calculated,
deliberate, and partisan use of faith that is unprecedented in
modern politics. Beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan in
1980, America has seen a no-holds-barred religious politics that
seeks to attract voters, identify and attack enemies, and solidify
power. Domke and Coe identify a set of religious signals sent by
both Republicans and Democrats in speeches, party platforms,
proclamations, visits to audiences of faith, and even celebrations
of Christmas. The updated edition of this ground-breaking book
includes a new preface, an updated analysis of the last Bush
administration, as well as a new final chapter on the Jeremiah
Wright controversy, the candidacies of Mike Huckabee and Sarah
Palin, and Barack Obama's victory.
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