Studying Politics Across Media

Studying Politics Across Media

Studying Politics Across Media

Studying Politics Across Media

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Overview

This book highlights the diverse methods needed to study a complex media environment, and the nuance and richness of the understanding gained by doing so, by offering examples of political communication research considering multiple platforms simultaneously.

Political communication research that considers multiple media platforms is difficult and expensive to perform, and therefore relatively rare. Yet studying media platforms in isolation ignores the realities of the varied and complicated contemporary media experience, where most individuals consume information from multiple media outlets. Media platforms, from traditional outlets such as newspapers and television to newer online platforms such as social media, have proliferated in recent years. This makes the media environment itself more complex, as classic understandings of how the media function give way to a growing recognition of the hybrid media system, where divisions between content and producers are opaque, and where information is gleaned from increasingly diverse and numerous sources.

Studying political communication across platforms allows better understanding of which types of experiences and effects are universal, and which are specific to particular platforms.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Political Communication.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780429514524
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/29/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 138
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Leticia Bode is an Associate Professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology Master’s Program at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA. Her work lies at the intersection of communication, technology, and political behavior, emphasizing the role communication and information technologies may play in the acquisition, use, effects, and implications of political information.

Emily K. Vraga is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at George Mason University, Fairfax, USA. She researches how individuals process information about contentious political, scientific, and health issues in digital media, and tests methods to correct misinformation, limit biased processing, and encourage attention to diverse content.

Table of Contents

1. Studying Politics Across Media

Leticia Bode and Emily K. Vraga

2. In Their Own Words: Political Practitioner Accounts of Candidates, Audiences, Affordances, Genres, and Timing in Strategic Social Media Use

Daniel Kreiss, Regina G. Lawrence and Shannon C. McGregor

3. Issue Consistency? Comparing Television Advertising, Tweets, and E-mail in the 2014 Senate Campaigns

Taewoo Kang, Erika Franklin Fowler, Michael M. Franz and Travis N. Ridout

4. Election Campaigning on Social Media: Politicians, Audiences, and the Mediation of Political Communication on Facebook and Twitter

Sebastian Stier, Arnim Bleier, Haiko Lietz and Markus Strohmaier

5. Learning From News on Different Media Platforms: An Eye-Tracking Experiment

Sanne Kruikemeier, Sophie Lecheler and Ming M. Boyer

6. Platforms for Incivility: Examining Perceptions Across Different Media Formats

Emily Sydnor

7. Ties, Likes, and Tweets: Using Strong and Weak Ties to Explain Differences in Protest Participation Across Facebook and Twitter Use

Sebastián Valenzuela, Teresa Correa and Homero Gil de Zúñiga

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