Janis L Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janis L Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janis L |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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"The 2008 Gendered Campaign and the Problem with "Hillary Studies
The 2008 Gendered Campaign and the Problem with "Hillary Studies" Janis L. Edwards (bio) Almost Madam President: Why Hillary Clinton "Won" in 2008. By Nichola D. Gutgold. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009; pp xi + 119. $60.00 cloth, $26.95 paper. Hillary Clinton's Race for the White House: Gender Politics & the Media on the Campaign Trail. By Regina G. Lawrence and Melody Rose. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010; pp xii + 275. $65.00 clo…
Reading Hillary and Sarah
The 2008 presidential campaign was noteworthy for heightening the profile of women candidates, although neither Sarah Palin nor Hillary Clinton won her race. The authors study political cartoons as texts that sharply illuminate gendered aspects of political representation. However, the findings suggest that formulaic and stereotypical representations of Palin and Clinton are subsumed by both ideological and image differences between these two wom…
Web campaigning - by Kristen A. Foot & Steven M. Schneider
Since the incipient use of the Internet by a few political campaigns in 1994, the Internet has rapidly become a central site of discourse in the political sphere by grassroots organizations, the media, and official campaign organizations. Candidate Web sites have evolved over recent election cycles into significant fund raising and recruitment sites, especially for new citizen participants in electoral politics. As campaign strategies and expense…
Drawing Politics in Pink and Blue
Assessing the current condition of editorial cartooning invites engagement in a number of potential perspectives: Cartoons may be positioned as journalism, artistic expression, entertaining satire, and political and historical record. A rhetorical perspective examines cartoons as expressions of political discourse positioned within the wider culture that defines, constructs, and frames larger social ideologies as a backdrop to events of the day. …
Representing the Public in Campaign Media
Although voters are central to the processes of democracy, scholarly attention to voters, with few exceptions, is limited to statistical analysis of decision-making and opinionformation processes, treating voters as a mass audience or audience segment. This article argues for more nuanced interpretations of voter representations in the media. Citing key studies of news media representation, the authors explore visual representation of voters in p…
Running in the Shadows in Campaign 2000
Editorial cartoons contribute to candidate image development by offering condensed and simplified metaphoric portrayals. This study identifies the rhetorical fantasia advanced by cartoonists in their metaphors about Al Gore and George Bush through five themes of leadership during the early months of Campaign 2000: character, competence, viability, independence, and charisma. The cartoons reflected overall campaign strategies by attaching characte…
The very model of a modern major (media) candidate
In the surfacing stage of the 1995 Presidential campaign, media attention was focused on a non‐candidate, Retired General Colin Powell. This study examines the media's justification for such attention, in light of the absence of Powell's public instigation of a campaign. Coverage of Powell as a potential candidate reflects current media practice with regard to speculative reporting and the assertion of objectivity. Application of Burke's pentad t…
Television is a Funny Business’ (1946)
Running in the Shadows in Campaign 2000
Editorial cartoons contribute to candidate image development by offering condensed and simplified metaphoric portrayals. This study identifies the rhetorical fantasia advanced by cartoonists in their metaphors about Al Gore and George Bush through five themes of leadership during the early months of Campaign 2000: character, competence, viability, independence, and charisma. The cartoons reflected overall campaign strategies by attaching characte…
Representing the Public in Campaign Media
Although voters are central to the processes of democracy, scholarly attention to voters, with few exceptions, is limited to statistical analysis of decision-making and opinionformation processes, treating voters as a mass audience or audience segment. This article argues for more nuanced interpretations of voter representations in the media. Citing key studies of news media representation, the authors explore visual representation of voters in p…
Drawing Politics in Pink and Blue
Assessing the current condition of editorial cartooning invites engagement in a number of potential perspectives: Cartoons may be positioned as journalism, artistic expression, entertaining satire, and political and historical record. A rhetorical perspective examines cartoons as expressions of political discourse positioned within the wider culture that defines, constructs, and frames larger social ideologies as a backdrop to events of the day. …
The very model of a modern major (media) candidate
In the surfacing stage of the 1995 Presidential campaign, media attention was focused on a non‐candidate, Retired General Colin Powell. This study examines the media's justification for such attention, in light of the absence of Powell's public instigation of a campaign. Coverage of Powell as a potential candidate reflects current media practice with regard to speculative reporting and the assertion of objectivity. Application of Burke's pentad t…
"The 2008 Gendered Campaign and the Problem with "Hillary Studies
The 2008 Gendered Campaign and the Problem with "Hillary Studies" Janis L. Edwards (bio) Almost Madam President: Why Hillary Clinton "Won" in 2008. By Nichola D. Gutgold. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009; pp xi + 119. $60.00 cloth, $26.95 paper. Hillary Clinton's Race for the White House: Gender Politics & the Media on the Campaign Trail. By Regina G. Lawrence and Melody Rose. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010; pp xii + 275. $65.00 clo…
Reading Hillary and Sarah
The 2008 presidential campaign was noteworthy for heightening the profile of women candidates, although neither Sarah Palin nor Hillary Clinton won her race. The authors study political cartoons as texts that sharply illuminate gendered aspects of political representation. However, the findings suggest that formulaic and stereotypical representations of Palin and Clinton are subsumed by both ideological and image differences between these two wom…
Television is a Funny Business’ (1946)
The very model of a modern major (media) candidate
In the surfacing stage of the 1995 Presidential campaign, media attention was focused on a non‐candidate, Retired General Colin Powell. This study examines the media's justification for such attention, in light of the absence of Powell's public instigation of a campaign. Coverage of Powell as a potential candidate reflects current media practice with regard to speculative reporting and the assertion of objectivity. Application of Burke's pentad t…
Running in the Shadows in Campaign 2000
Editorial cartoons contribute to candidate image development by offering condensed and simplified metaphoric portrayals. This study identifies the rhetorical fantasia advanced by cartoonists in their metaphors about Al Gore and George Bush through five themes of leadership during the early months of Campaign 2000: character, competence, viability, independence, and charisma. The cartoons reflected overall campaign strategies by attaching characte…
Representing the Public in Campaign Media
Although voters are central to the processes of democracy, scholarly attention to voters, with few exceptions, is limited to statistical analysis of decision-making and opinionformation processes, treating voters as a mass audience or audience segment. This article argues for more nuanced interpretations of voter representations in the media. Citing key studies of news media representation, the authors explore visual representation of voters in p…
Drawing Politics in Pink and Blue
Assessing the current condition of editorial cartooning invites engagement in a number of potential perspectives: Cartoons may be positioned as journalism, artistic expression, entertaining satire, and political and historical record. A rhetorical perspective examines cartoons as expressions of political discourse positioned within the wider culture that defines, constructs, and frames larger social ideologies as a backdrop to events of the day. …
Web campaigning - by Kristen A. Foot & Steven M. Schneider
Since the incipient use of the Internet by a few political campaigns in 1994, the Internet has rapidly become a central site of discourse in the political sphere by grassroots organizations, the media, and official campaign organizations. Candidate Web sites have evolved over recent election cycles into significant fund raising and recruitment sites, especially for new citizen participants in electoral politics. As campaign strategies and expense…
Reading Hillary and Sarah
The 2008 presidential campaign was noteworthy for heightening the profile of women candidates, although neither Sarah Palin nor Hillary Clinton won her race. The authors study political cartoons as texts that sharply illuminate gendered aspects of political representation. However, the findings suggest that formulaic and stereotypical representations of Palin and Clinton are subsumed by both ideological and image differences between these two wom…
"The 2008 Gendered Campaign and the Problem with "Hillary Studies
The 2008 Gendered Campaign and the Problem with "Hillary Studies" Janis L. Edwards (bio) Almost Madam President: Why Hillary Clinton "Won" in 2008. By Nichola D. Gutgold. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009; pp xi + 119. $60.00 cloth, $26.95 paper. Hillary Clinton's Race for the White House: Gender Politics & the Media on the Campaign Trail. By Regina G. Lawrence and Melody Rose. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010; pp xii + 275. $65.00 clo…
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