David Domke
Biographic Data
| ID | 280476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Domke |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Domke |
| SIGNATURE | DOMKE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 452 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Accruing Masculinity Capital
Scholarship in political communication and gender studies notes that concepts of presidential leadership and masculinity are deeply entwined in one another. Work is needed, though, on how performances of masculinity allow for the accrual of what we call masculinity capital, a linguistic form of masculinity that seems to become particularly significant and useful during times of threat and crisis in the United States. With this in mind, we underto…
America, America
In their public messages, United States politicians often invoke America in an attempt to unite citizens and build electoral coalitions. Such an emphasis is particularly common in presidential debates, which are climactic “media events” late in campaigns for the White House, when candidates take questions from journalists and citizens while addressing millions of voters. We analyzed the connection between (a) candidates' highlighting of national …
God and Country
Overt love of God and country have seemingly been prerequisites to be president in the United States in recent decades, if not always. Indeed, the 2008 presidential race was replete with campaign messages showcasing such perspectives—that Barack Obama and John McCain were religiously faithful and deeply patriotic. Scholarship demonstrates the potential political power of explicit appeals to America and Christianity; however, little research has e…
Terrorism's cause and cure
Political actors and commentators in the global ‘West’ have often used two key rhetorical approaches to explain terrorism. On the one hand, they ascribe attacks to terrorists' violent hatred and resentment of democracy. On the other hand, they assert that democracy is the essential panacea for terrorism. These two approaches are linked through a process of discursive ‘articulation’ that inhibits public debate and disagreement. Specifically, the i…
The God Strategy
Religion has always been a part of American politics, but something profound has changed in recent decades. This book demonstrates that, beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980, US politicians have employed religion as a partisan weapon, using it in a no-holds-barred calculus designed to attract voters, identify enemies, and solidify power. The book reveals this political approach by identifying four crucial religious si…
The Something We Can Do
Horns and Halos , produced and directed by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky
This is a documentary with a past, both literally and figuratively. It focuses on the saga of Fortunate Son, a biography of George W. Bush authored by J. H. Hatfield and published by St. Martin's P
Going Public, Crisis after Crisis
Political leaders craft public communications in a strategic manner and attempt to use mass media as a political resource. With this in mind, we argue that during summer and autumn 2002 President George W. Bush extended the September 11 crisis through emphasis in public communications on internal "homeland" security and an external "war on terror"—discourses into which Iraq was carefully inserted over time. These strategic communications allowed …
Masculinity as Political Strategy
Scholars have demonstrated the centrality of masculinity as an ideology in the American presidency, but have devoted insufficient attention to the manner in which political leaders can emphasize masculine themes to gain strategic advantage, and how media organizations can be encouraged to adopt such themes in news coverage. With this in mind, in this research we analyze (1) President George W. Bush's public communications prior to and immediately…
Petitioners or Prophets? Presidential Discourse, God, and the Ascendancy of Religious Conservatives
This research examines similarities and variance in modern U.S. presidential religious language and how such patterns might be connected to broader political movements, particularly the contemporary influence of Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals. We analyzed presidents’ Inaugural and State of the Union addresses from Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 to George W. Bush in 2005 for the presence of “God talk” and emphasis on freedom and liberty, t…
Going Public as Political Strategy
Research suggests that political elites excel at controlling political and media information environments, particularly in times of national crisis, such as the events and aftermath of September 11. This study examines the creation and passage of the Patriot Act, which was proposed by the Bush administration following the terrorist attacks and quickly passed with strong support by the U.S. Congress. We argue that (a) the public communications of …
U.S. National Identity, Political Elites, and a Patriotic Press Following September 11
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001, U.S. government and military leaders often articulated distinctly pro-American themes in their public communications. We argue that this national identity discourse was at the heart of the U.S. government's attempt to unite the American public and to mobilize support for the ensuing "war on terrorism." With this perspective, we content analyzed …
No Shades of Gray
Binary communications represent the world as a place of polar opposites. Such conceptions of reality, although not uncommon in Western thought, take on a heightened importance when political leaders employ them in a concerted, strategic discourse in a mass media environment. With this in mind, this research offers a conception of binary discourse and uses this as a foundation to examine (a) the use of binaries by U.S. President George W. Bush in …
Insights Into U.S. Racial Hierarchy
The events of September 11, 2001, seem likely to have reverberating implications for U.S. race relations, in particular the relative hierarchy of differing racial and ethnic groups. With this in mind, in this study the researchers focused on the manner in which “racial profiling” was talked about—by government and societal leaders, nongovernment opinion leaders, and average citizens—in several leading U.S. news outlets for the 5 months prior to S…
Insights Into U.S. Racial Hierarchy
The events of September 11, 2001, seem likely to have reverberating implications for U.S. race relations, in particular the relative hierarchy of differing racial and ethnic groups. With this in mind, in this study the researchers focused on the manner in which “racial profiling” was talked about—by government and societal leaders, nongovernment opinion leaders, and average citizens—in several leading U.S. news outlets for the 5 months prior to S…
Newspaper Editorials follow Lead of Bush Administration
This study examines the interplay among President Bush, key members of the administration and military and the news media between Sept. 11 and Oct. 7, 2002, when the U.S. military campaign began in Afghanistan. The research suggests that the administration messages influenced the editorials in The New York Times and The Washington Post
The primes of our times
Claims by political and news elites about the influence of visual images are far more common than actual evidence of such effects. This research attempts to gain insight into the ‘power’ of visual images, specifically those that accompany lexical–verbal messages in the press. We argue that the widely held notion that vivid images often drive public opinion is overly simplistic; in contrast, we posit that images most often interact with individual…
News Framing and Cueing of Issue Regimes
Journal Article News Framing and Cueing of Issue Regimes: Explaining Clinton's Public Approval in Spite of Scandal Get access DHAVAN V. SHAH, DHAVAN V. SHAH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MARK D. WATTS, MARK D. WATTS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID DOMKE, DAVID DOMKE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID P. FAN DAVID P…
The Spiral of Silence and Public Opinion on Affirmative Action
This study sought to more fully explicate the key variables involved in Noelle-Neumann's spiral of silence theory, which states that fear of isolation keeps individuals from expressing opinions perceived to be in the minority. We tested the theory in the context of public discussion about affirmative action policies, a domain seemingly ideal due to its moral and value-laden characteristics. Data from 217 randomly selected adults in October 1998 i…
Rights and Morals, Issues, and Candidate Integrity
In recent American political discourse, elections and debates tend to be presented by the news media as collisions of basic principles, with opposing parties advancing beliefs about what is right and what is wrong. When news coverage of an election campaign focuses on issues that emphasize rights and morals, voting behavior may be affected in two ways: Citizens become likely to form and make use of evaluations of the integrity of the candidates, …
Elite Messages and Source Cues
Keywords: Information Processing Political Elites Political Information Political Judgment Race Schema Source Credibility
News Media, Racial Perceptions, and Political Cognition
This study theorizes that news coverage of political issues not only influences people's thinking about the issues but also activates associated racial or ethnic stereotypes held by individuals and influences whether these perceptions are applied in politically meaningful ways, such as in the formation of issue positions or evaluations about whether certain political, economic, or legal outcomes are positive for U.S. society. To test these ideas,…
Elite Cues and Media Bias in Presidential Campaigns
Public perception of a biased news media, particularly media biased in a liberal direction, has increased over the past 3 presidential elections. To examine what might be influencing this public opinion, the authors look at shifts in public perception of media bias, press coverage of the topic of media bias, and the balance in valence coverage of presidential candidates—all during the 1988, 1992, and 1996 presidential elections. Their results sug…
News Coverage, Economic Cues, and the Public's Presidential Preferences, 1984-1996
Much research demonstrates the importance of national, rather than personal, economic conditions on voting behavior, yet relatively unexplored is how citizens develop what scholars have called "rough evaluations" of the economy. We argue that campaign news coverage about the nation's economic health provides cues to the public; in turn, these cues supply the criteria for sociotropic voting, thereby shaping presidential preferences during the cour…
The politics of conservative elites and the 'liberal media' argument
Recent evidence suggests that conservative elites' claims of a liberal media are having an impact upon public perceptions of news coverage. With this in mind, we examined two related questions in the context of the 1988, 1992, and 1996 presidential elections. First, what factors may be prompting conservative elites to make allegations of liberal media bias? Second, what factors may influence when news media report these criticisms during presiden…
News Framing and Cueing of Issue Regimes
Journal Article News Framing and Cueing of Issue Regimes: Explaining Clinton's Public Approval in Spite of Scandal Get access DHAVAN V. SHAH, DHAVAN V. SHAH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MARK D. WATTS, MARK D. WATTS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID DOMKE, DAVID DOMKE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID P. FAN DAVID P…
The primes of our times
Claims by political and news elites about the influence of visual images are far more common than actual evidence of such effects. This research attempts to gain insight into the ‘power’ of visual images, specifically those that accompany lexical–verbal messages in the press. We argue that the widely held notion that vivid images often drive public opinion is overly simplistic; in contrast, we posit that images most often interact with individual…
Media Priming Effects
In studying ‘priming effects’—the process by which activated mental constructs can influence how individuals evaluate other concepts and ideas—political communication scholars have focused primarily on the frequency and recency of construct use in the accessibility of specific cognitions; less attention has been given to the spread of activation among related cognitions. Drawing from both of these research interests, we argue that media framing o…
The Politics of Conservative Elites and the “Liberal Media” Argument
Recent evidence suggests that conservative elites' claims of a liberal media are having an impact upon public perceptions of news coverage. With this in mind, we examined two related questions in the context of the 1988, 1992, and 1996 presidential elections. First, what factors may be prompting conservative elites to make allegations of liberal media bias? Second, what factors may influence when news media report these criticisms during presiden…
Moral Referendums
Relatively unexplored in political communication research are the mental processes involved when political issues, particularly those framed by news media in moral terms, interact with individuals personal values in an electoral context. This study explored how the process of candidate choice is influenced by interactions between (1) individuals values and (2) news framing of issues in terms of contending values. Subjects were presented simulated…
Going Public as Political Strategy
Research suggests that political elites excel at controlling political and media information environments, particularly in times of national crisis, such as the events and aftermath of September 11. This study examines the creation and passage of the Patriot Act, which was proposed by the Bush administration following the terrorist attacks and quickly passed with strong support by the U.S. Congress. We argue that (a) the public communications of …
News Coverage, Economic Cues, and the Public's Presidential Preferences, 1984-1996
Much research demonstrates the importance of national, rather than personal, economic conditions on voting behavior, yet relatively unexplored is how citizens develop what scholars have called "rough evaluations" of the economy. We argue that campaign news coverage about the nation's economic health provides cues to the public; in turn, these cues supply the criteria for sociotropic voting, thereby shaping presidential preferences during the cour…
Masculinity as Political Strategy
Scholars have demonstrated the centrality of masculinity as an ideology in the American presidency, but have devoted insufficient attention to the manner in which political leaders can emphasize masculine themes to gain strategic advantage, and how media organizations can be encouraged to adopt such themes in news coverage. With this in mind, in this research we analyze (1) President George W. Bush's public communications prior to and immediately…
God and Country
Overt love of God and country have seemingly been prerequisites to be president in the United States in recent decades, if not always. Indeed, the 2008 presidential race was replete with campaign messages showcasing such perspectives—that Barack Obama and John McCain were religiously faithful and deeply patriotic. Scholarship demonstrates the potential political power of explicit appeals to America and Christianity; however, little research has e…
Going Public, Crisis after Crisis
Political leaders craft public communications in a strategic manner and attempt to use mass media as a political resource. With this in mind, we argue that during summer and autumn 2002 President George W. Bush extended the September 11 crisis through emphasis in public communications on internal "homeland" security and an external "war on terror"—discourses into which Iraq was carefully inserted over time. These strategic communications allowed …
Elite Messages and Source Cues
Keywords: Information Processing Political Elites Political Information Political Judgment Race Schema Source Credibility
Newspaper Editorials follow Lead of Bush Administration
This study examines the interplay among President Bush, key members of the administration and military and the news media between Sept. 11 and Oct. 7, 2002, when the U.S. military campaign began in Afghanistan. The research suggests that the administration messages influenced the editorials in The New York Times and The Washington Post
Rights and Morals, Issues, and Candidate Integrity
In recent American political discourse, elections and debates tend to be presented by the news media as collisions of basic principles, with opposing parties advancing beliefs about what is right and what is wrong. When news coverage of an election campaign focuses on issues that emphasize rights and morals, voting behavior may be affected in two ways: Citizens become likely to form and make use of evaluations of the integrity of the candidates, …
America, America
In their public messages, United States politicians often invoke America in an attempt to unite citizens and build electoral coalitions. Such an emphasis is particularly common in presidential debates, which are climactic “media events” late in campaigns for the White House, when candidates take questions from journalists and citizens while addressing millions of voters. We analyzed the connection between (a) candidates' highlighting of national …
Terrorism's cause and cure
Political actors and commentators in the global ‘West’ have often used two key rhetorical approaches to explain terrorism. On the one hand, they ascribe attacks to terrorists' violent hatred and resentment of democracy. On the other hand, they assert that democracy is the essential panacea for terrorism. These two approaches are linked through a process of discursive ‘articulation’ that inhibits public debate and disagreement. Specifically, the i…
The politics of conservative elites and the 'liberal media' argument
Recent evidence suggests that conservative elites' claims of a liberal media are having an impact upon public perceptions of news coverage. With this in mind, we examined two related questions in the context of the 1988, 1992, and 1996 presidential elections. First, what factors may be prompting conservative elites to make allegations of liberal media bias? Second, what factors may influence when news media report these criticisms during presiden…
The Something We Can Do
The Black Press in the “Nadir” of African Americans
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid DomkeDavid Domke is a doctoral candidate in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. He would like to thank Hazel Dicken-Garcia and Nancy Roberts, at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and Joe Trotter, Carnegie-Mellon University, for comments and suggestions on earlier drafts.
“To Thine Own Self Be True”
This article builds on multidisciplinary research on framing, motivation, and decision making to examine the relationships among media frames, individual interpretations of issues, and voter decision making. Chosen for an experimental study were two research populations, evangelical Christians and undergraduate students, who were expected to differ in their values and priorities. Subjects were presented simulated newspaper articles about an elect…
Media Priming Effects
In studying ‘priming effects’—the process by which activated mental constructs can influence how individuals evaluate other concepts and ideas—political communication scholars have focused primarily on the frequency and recency of construct use in the accessibility of specific cognitions; less attention has been given to the spread of activation among related cognitions. Drawing from both of these research interests, we argue that media framing o…
Moral Referendums
Relatively unexplored in political communication research are the mental processes involved when political issues, particularly those framed by news media in moral terms, interact with individuals personal values in an electoral context. This study explored how the process of candidate choice is influenced by interactions between (1) individuals values and (2) news framing of issues in terms of contending values. Subjects were presented simulated…
News Media, Racial Perceptions, and Political Cognition
This study theorizes that news coverage of political issues not only influences people's thinking about the issues but also activates associated racial or ethnic stereotypes held by individuals and influences whether these perceptions are applied in politically meaningful ways, such as in the formation of issue positions or evaluations about whether certain political, economic, or legal outcomes are positive for U.S. society. To test these ideas,…
Elite Cues and Media Bias in Presidential Campaigns
Public perception of a biased news media, particularly media biased in a liberal direction, has increased over the past 3 presidential elections. To examine what might be influencing this public opinion, the authors look at shifts in public perception of media bias, press coverage of the topic of media bias, and the balance in valence coverage of presidential candidates—all during the 1988, 1992, and 1996 presidential elections. Their results sug…
News Coverage, Economic Cues, and the Public's Presidential Preferences, 1984-1996
Much research demonstrates the importance of national, rather than personal, economic conditions on voting behavior, yet relatively unexplored is how citizens develop what scholars have called "rough evaluations" of the economy. We argue that campaign news coverage about the nation's economic health provides cues to the public; in turn, these cues supply the criteria for sociotropic voting, thereby shaping presidential preferences during the cour…
The politics of conservative elites and the 'liberal media' argument
Recent evidence suggests that conservative elites' claims of a liberal media are having an impact upon public perceptions of news coverage. With this in mind, we examined two related questions in the context of the 1988, 1992, and 1996 presidential elections. First, what factors may be prompting conservative elites to make allegations of liberal media bias? Second, what factors may influence when news media report these criticisms during presiden…
The Politics of Conservative Elites and the “Liberal Media” Argument
Recent evidence suggests that conservative elites' claims of a liberal media are having an impact upon public perceptions of news coverage. With this in mind, we examined two related questions in the context of the 1988, 1992, and 1996 presidential elections. First, what factors may be prompting conservative elites to make allegations of liberal media bias? Second, what factors may influence when news media report these criticisms during presiden…
Rights and Morals, Issues, and Candidate Integrity
In recent American political discourse, elections and debates tend to be presented by the news media as collisions of basic principles, with opposing parties advancing beliefs about what is right and what is wrong. When news coverage of an election campaign focuses on issues that emphasize rights and morals, voting behavior may be affected in two ways: Citizens become likely to form and make use of evaluations of the integrity of the candidates, …
Elite Messages and Source Cues
Keywords: Information Processing Political Elites Political Information Political Judgment Race Schema Source Credibility
The Spiral of Silence and Public Opinion on Affirmative Action
This study sought to more fully explicate the key variables involved in Noelle-Neumann's spiral of silence theory, which states that fear of isolation keeps individuals from expressing opinions perceived to be in the minority. We tested the theory in the context of public discussion about affirmative action policies, a domain seemingly ideal due to its moral and value-laden characteristics. Data from 217 randomly selected adults in October 1998 i…
The primes of our times
Claims by political and news elites about the influence of visual images are far more common than actual evidence of such effects. This research attempts to gain insight into the ‘power’ of visual images, specifically those that accompany lexical–verbal messages in the press. We argue that the widely held notion that vivid images often drive public opinion is overly simplistic; in contrast, we posit that images most often interact with individual…
News Framing and Cueing of Issue Regimes
Journal Article News Framing and Cueing of Issue Regimes: Explaining Clinton's Public Approval in Spite of Scandal Get access DHAVAN V. SHAH, DHAVAN V. SHAH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MARK D. WATTS, MARK D. WATTS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID DOMKE, DAVID DOMKE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID P. FAN DAVID P…
Insights Into U.S. Racial Hierarchy
The events of September 11, 2001, seem likely to have reverberating implications for U.S. race relations, in particular the relative hierarchy of differing racial and ethnic groups. With this in mind, in this study the researchers focused on the manner in which “racial profiling” was talked about—by government and societal leaders, nongovernment opinion leaders, and average citizens—in several leading U.S. news outlets for the 5 months prior to S…
Insights Into U.S. Racial Hierarchy
The events of September 11, 2001, seem likely to have reverberating implications for U.S. race relations, in particular the relative hierarchy of differing racial and ethnic groups. With this in mind, in this study the researchers focused on the manner in which “racial profiling” was talked about—by government and societal leaders, nongovernment opinion leaders, and average citizens—in several leading U.S. news outlets for the 5 months prior to S…
Newspaper Editorials follow Lead of Bush Administration
This study examines the interplay among President Bush, key members of the administration and military and the news media between Sept. 11 and Oct. 7, 2002, when the U.S. military campaign began in Afghanistan. The research suggests that the administration messages influenced the editorials in The New York Times and The Washington Post
U.S. National Identity, Political Elites, and a Patriotic Press Following September 11
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001, U.S. government and military leaders often articulated distinctly pro-American themes in their public communications. We argue that this national identity discourse was at the heart of the U.S. government's attempt to unite the American public and to mobilize support for the ensuing "war on terrorism." With this perspective, we content analyzed …
No Shades of Gray
Binary communications represent the world as a place of polar opposites. Such conceptions of reality, although not uncommon in Western thought, take on a heightened importance when political leaders employ them in a concerted, strategic discourse in a mass media environment. With this in mind, this research offers a conception of binary discourse and uses this as a foundation to examine (a) the use of binaries by U.S. President George W. Bush in …
Petitioners or Prophets? Presidential Discourse, God, and the Ascendancy of Religious Conservatives
This research examines similarities and variance in modern U.S. presidential religious language and how such patterns might be connected to broader political movements, particularly the contemporary influence of Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals. We analyzed presidents’ Inaugural and State of the Union addresses from Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 to George W. Bush in 2005 for the presence of “God talk” and emphasis on freedom and liberty, t…
Going Public as Political Strategy
Research suggests that political elites excel at controlling political and media information environments, particularly in times of national crisis, such as the events and aftermath of September 11. This study examines the creation and passage of the Patriot Act, which was proposed by the Bush administration following the terrorist attacks and quickly passed with strong support by the U.S. Congress. We argue that (a) the public communications of …
Horns and Halos , produced and directed by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky
This is a documentary with a past, both literally and figuratively. It focuses on the saga of Fortunate Son, a biography of George W. Bush authored by J. H. Hatfield and published by St. Martin's P
Going Public, Crisis after Crisis
Political leaders craft public communications in a strategic manner and attempt to use mass media as a political resource. With this in mind, we argue that during summer and autumn 2002 President George W. Bush extended the September 11 crisis through emphasis in public communications on internal "homeland" security and an external "war on terror"—discourses into which Iraq was carefully inserted over time. These strategic communications allowed …
Masculinity as Political Strategy
Scholars have demonstrated the centrality of masculinity as an ideology in the American presidency, but have devoted insufficient attention to the manner in which political leaders can emphasize masculine themes to gain strategic advantage, and how media organizations can be encouraged to adopt such themes in news coverage. With this in mind, in this research we analyze (1) President George W. Bush's public communications prior to and immediately…
The God Strategy
Religion has always been a part of American politics, but something profound has changed in recent decades. This book demonstrates that, beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980, US politicians have employed religion as a partisan weapon, using it in a no-holds-barred calculus designed to attract voters, identify enemies, and solidify power. The book reveals this political approach by identifying four crucial religious si…
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