Kevin Coe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Coe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Coe |
| SIGNATURE | COE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7928-7504 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 237 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
News values and the prospect of desensitization to gun violence: A content analysis of U.S. mass shooting coverage, 2013–2022
News coverage of crime is an enduring emphasis within journalism research, in part because such coverage has the potential to meaningfully shape how audiences understand crime policy and their own safety. Drawing from the literature on news values, this article uses the prospect of desensitization as a lens through which to examine crime coverage. Focusing on a particularly salient form of U.S. crime—high-casualty mass shootings—we consider compe…
College Students’ Perceptions of a Clery Timely Warning About Sexual Assault
The Clery Act requires that U.S. universities issue “timely warnings” when certain crimes happen. The present study reports the results of a survey (n = 444) that college students responded to in the aftermath of receiving a Clery alert about a reported sexual assault. We find that students perceived the alert to be informative but also upsetting, and viewed the safety tips as helpful. Variation existed based on demographic and contextual factors
Incivility in Online Discussion as a Collective Phenomenon: A Dynamic Systems Perspective Examining Sequences of Uncivil Messages
Drawing from dynamic systems theory, we examine how incivility is collectively constructed in an online discussion community. Using secondary data consisting of comments shared over a 3-week period to an online news community, we identified three sequences that reflect collective incivility practices. Whereas the persistent incivility sequence included a large proportion of uncivil comments, incivility occurred infrequently in the sporadic incivi…
Dialogue on difference: Identity and political communication
Examining the Dynamics of Uncivil Discourse Between Sub-National Political Officials and the Public on Twitter
Despite agreement about the challenges posed by incivility for democratic discourse, much remains to be learned about how incivility manifests in interactions between the public and political elites. We examine the connections between top-down and bottom-up incivility among 22 local and state elected officials and the public over an 18-month period on Twitter. Our analyses show that incivility in a tweet from an elected official significantly inc…
Exploring the Impact of Clery Sexual Assault Timely Warnings on a Campus Community
Engagement with partisan Russian troll tweets during the 2016 U.S. presidential election: A social identity perspective
Operatives working for the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) infiltrated social media with the goal of disrupting the 2016 U.S. presidential election. We investigate how these operatives or “trolls” leveraged partisan political identities in discussing presidential candidates and parties on Twitter. Adopting a social identity lens, we conceptualize retweeting troll content as a form of identity performance and examine the message properties …
Engagement with incivility in tweets from and directed at local elected officials
Although social media have created novel opportunities for the public and local elected officials representing city or state governments to interact, concerns have been raised about the tenor of their discourse. We used machine learning in this project to identify the presence of incivility in tweets (N = 38,218) made by and directed at local officials representing a metropolitan area over an 18-month period and examine its implications. Compared…
News Framing in the Aftermath of the January 6 Attacks on the U.S. Capitol: An Analysis of Labels, Definitional Uncertainty, and Contextualization
In the aftermath of a violent attack, questions of definition arise. News framing research has shown that the words chosen to define a given event can affect attitudes and decision-making, even when only a single word is varied. This study analyzes public discourse in the aftermath of the January 6 U.S. Capitol attacks to better understand which labels predominated and how different labels were explained/justified. We pair computer-assisted conte…
Social Norms and the Dynamics of Online Incivility
Online discussions are performed in the gaze of fellow users. To increase engagement, platforms typically let these users evaluate the comments made by others through rating systems (e.g., via Likes or Down/Up votes). Understanding how such ratings shape, and are shaped by, features of the underlying discussion is important for our understanding of online behavior. In this study, we focus on an increasingly concerning aspect of online discussions…
Securing the guardrails of democracy? Accountability and presidential communication in the 2020 election
The 2020 election raised critical questions about how presidents can be held accountable for their public communication. This essay focuses on how the ubiquitous presidency’s drive for attention—illustrated most recently by former President Donald Trump during the campaign and transition—led agents such as Congress, technology platforms, and the public to quickly reassess how presidential communication can be contoured to diminish threats against…
Assessing the Russian Troll Efforts to Sow Discord on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. Election
Although experts agree that the Russian Internet Research Agency deployed trolls on Twitter to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election, questions remain about the nuances of their efforts. We examined almost 350,000 original tweets made during the two-year electoral cycle to investigate the emphasis, timing, content, and partisanship of the trolls’ efforts targeting leading candidates. Despite only dedicating a fraction of their tweets to can…
Perceptions of Uncivil Discourse Online: An Examination of Types and Predictors
Incivility in public discourse has become a pressing concern of citizens and scholars alike, but most research has focused narrowly on incivility in elite discourse. The present study examines how the lay public perceives incivility, using two surveys to track differences in perceptions of specific types of uncivil speech and identify predictors of those perceptions. The results show that different types of incivility elicit different responses. …
Is News Surveillance Related to Cancer Knowledge in Underserved Adults? Testing Three Versions of the Cognitive Mediation Model
The cognitive mediation model (CMM) proposes indirect paths to news learning such that news surveillance increases news learning through attention to the news and elaboration about the news. But there is a need for additional research that tests key postulates of the CMM especially for media targeting underserved populations. The present study tested three versions of the CMM to model ethnic newspaper learning within a low-income, Spanish-speakin…
The “Discourse of Derision” in News Coverage of Education: A Mixed Methods Analysis of an Emerging Frame
Commentators have observed a “discourse of derision” in news coverage of the US education system, but the contours of this discourse are not well understood. This article pairs quantitative content analysis with qualitative framing analysis to sharpen the conceptual and empirical focus of the discourse of derision as an object of study. We theorize four components of this discourse—tone, assessments of quality, teacher voice, and criticism of tea…
Marginalized Identity Invocation Online: The Case of President Donald Trump on Twitter
Political communication about marginalized groups takes many forms, but none are more influential in the present moment than those that circulate via social media. This article takes two steps to better understand this important form of communication. First, it offers a four-part conceptual framework for studying marginalized identity invocation. It then pairs quantitative content analysis with critical/cultural analysis to examine the census of …
Perceptions of Incivility in Public Discourse
Although concerns over incivility in public discourse are widely shared by citizens and scholars alike, there is lack of consensus over what incivility is. This chapter examines how the lay public perceives incivility in online comments, using an online survey to track differences in perceptions of specific types of uncivil speech. This chapter focuses on name-calling, vulgarity, lying accusations, pejoratives for speech, and aspersion. The autho…
Uncivil Name‐Calling in the U.S. Presidency, 1933–2018
Political incivility in the United States is a growing concern among both citizens and scholars. Prior research focusing on incivility among political elites has largely neglected the presidency, however. Thus, popular claims that Donald Trump is particularly uncivil have not yet been subjected to empirical scrutiny vis‐à‐vis presidential norms. The present study undertakes a large‐scale quantitative content analysis of modern presidential commun…
Religion in American Presidential Campaigns, 1952-2016: Applying a New Framework for Understanding Candidate Communication
The content and impact of religious communication in politics has been a topic of increasing public and scholarly interest in recent years. To provide a foundation for future research in this area, the present study theorizes five broad factors-historical trajectory, party expectations, audience religiosity, candidate attributes, and opponent strategy-that may help explain why political candidates use religious language. We employ this framework …
Presidential communication in tumultuous times: Insights into key shifts, normative implications, and research opportunities
Scholars have long been interested in the communication of America’s chief executive, but the context in which that communication takes place has undergone dramatic changes over the past several decades. Given this, the present review aims to provide a foundation for new thinking about presidential communication in the contemporary environment. We attend to presidential communication in transition—to the uncertain paths that scholars have walked …
When Social Media Become Hostile Media: An Experimental Examination of News Sharing, Partisanship, and Follower Count
This study examines whether the characteristics of those who share news articles on social media influence the hostile media effect. In an experiment, participants read a news article shared by 1 of 4 Twitter users, 2 (Republican vs. Democrat) × 2 (21 vs. 503,000 followers). Consistent with the hostile media effect, both Republicans and Democrats believed that a news article shared by a Twitter user from an opposing political party was more biase…
Presidential Communication About Marginalized Groups: Applying a New Analytic Framework in the Context of the LGBT Community
Scholars have long observed that presidential communication about a marginalized group can help shape that group's reality. Yet most analyses of such communication focus on a relatively small number of texts, making it difficult to identify important changes over time and analyze factors that might explain those changes. The present study proposes an analytic framework that specifies 4 measurable parameters of presidential communication about mar…
Incivility and Political Identity on the Internet: Intergroup Factors as Predictors of Incivility in Discussions of News Online
Although incivility is an increasing concern among scholars and the public, explanations for this phenomenon sometimes overlook the role of computer-mediated communication. Drawing from the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE), we consider incivility as a form of identity performance occurring in the visually anonymous contexts that are typical online. Specifically, we examine partisan political identities and intergroup factor…
Talk This Way: The Ubiquitous Presidency and Expectations of Presidential Communication
The American presidency is evolving, and with it public expectations of how often and where the president should communicate. The rhetorical presidency, characterized by inclusive public appeals broadcast in a few media venues, has transitioned to a ubiquitous presidency wherein accessible, personal, and pluralistic communications are the norm. Despite these changes in communication style at the presidential level, scholars have yet to document f…
Religious rhetoric meets the target audience: Narrowcasting faith in presidential elections
Research documents politicians’ use of religious rhetoric and its effects on the public, but little work has investigated the considerations influencing the decision to use religious rhetoric in the first place. We theorize that politicians’ use of religious rhetoric is determined by four considerations: the alignment between the speaker’s and audience’s religiosity, the acceptability of the speaker’s denomination to the audience, the speaker’s r…
Going Public as Political Strategy: The Bush Administration, an Echoing Press, and Passage of the Patriot Act
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 …
Priming Patriots: Social Identity Processes and the Dynamics of Public Support for War
Journal Article Priming Patriots: Social Identity Processes and the Dynamics of Public Support for War Get access Scott L Althaus, Scott L Althaus Address correspondence to Scott L. Althaus, University of Illinois, Cline Center for Democracy, 2001 South First Street, Suite 207, Champaign, IL 61820-7461, USA; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kevin Coe Kevin Coe Search for other…
Incivility and Political Identity on the Internet: Intergroup Factors as Predictors of Incivility in Discussions of News Online
Although incivility is an increasing concern among scholars and the public, explanations for this phenomenon sometimes overlook the role of computer-mediated communication. Drawing from the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE), we consider incivility as a form of identity performance occurring in the visually anonymous contexts that are typical online. Specifically, we examine partisan political identities and intergroup factor…
Social Norms and the Dynamics of Online Incivility
Online discussions are performed in the gaze of fellow users. To increase engagement, platforms typically let these users evaluate the comments made by others through rating systems (e.g., via Likes or Down/Up votes). Understanding how such ratings shape, and are shaped by, features of the underlying discussion is important for our understanding of online behavior. In this study, we focus on an increasingly concerning aspect of online discussions…
Masculinity as Political Strategy: George W. Bush, the “War on Terrorism,” and an Echoing Press
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…
Religious rhetoric meets the target audience: Narrowcasting faith in presidential elections
Research documents politicians’ use of religious rhetoric and its effects on the public, but little work has investigated the considerations influencing the decision to use religious rhetoric in the first place. We theorize that politicians’ use of religious rhetoric is determined by four considerations: the alignment between the speaker’s and audience’s religiosity, the acceptability of the speaker’s denomination to the audience, the speaker’s r…
Going Public, Crisis after Crisis: The Bush Administration and the Press from September 11 to Saddam
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 …
The Other Closet: Atheists, Homosexuals and the Lateral Appropriation of Discursive Capital
Previous studies have considered different forms of economic and/or cultural appropriation between status-unequal groups, for example young, White, middle-class people cashing in on the music of urban, African-American culture. In this paper, however, we are interested in what we call ‘lateral appropriation’, the process whereby the discursive capital of one marginalized group is usurped by another similarly marginalized group. In particular, dra…
The Major Addresses of Modern Presidents: Parameters of a Data Set
Research that undertakes longitudinal analysis of presidential discourse inevitably wrestles with a difficult issue: which presidential speeches should be analyzed? Surprisingly, there has been essentially no interrogation of this issue. Studies vary in the speeches they analyze: some focus on inaugural addresses, others on State of the Union addresses, yet others focus on some broader body of speeches, often with limited discussion of the criter…
The Language of Freedom in the American Presidency, 1933‐2006
Freedom is the most familiar symbol in American political culture, but little is known about how presidents have employed this symbol in their discourse. This study uses quantitative and qualitative analysis to examine the language of freedom in more than seventy years worth of presidential speeches. The findings reveal a presidential narrative of freedom that has been remarkably constant over time. However, within this broad narrative, president…
When Social Media Become Hostile Media: An Experimental Examination of News Sharing, Partisanship, and Follower Count
This study examines whether the characteristics of those who share news articles on social media influence the hostile media effect. In an experiment, participants read a news article shared by 1 of 4 Twitter users, 2 (Republican vs. Democrat) × 2 (21 vs. 503,000 followers). Consistent with the hostile media effect, both Republicans and Democrats believed that a news article shared by a Twitter user from an opposing political party was more biase…
Presidents as Priests: Toward a Typology of Christian Discourse in the American Presidency
This study contributes to the scholarship on political and religious communication by deriving from key theoretical works a typology of Christian discourse. We employ this typology in a computer-assisted content analysis of presidential communication across 3 decades. Developing an argument about the manner in which changing religious identification in America might influence presidential discourse, we expect and find that presidents prefer abstr…
Obama on the Stump: Features and Determinants of a Rhetorical Approach
From the moment Barack Obama entered the national political scene in 2004, his formidable rhetorical skills were a central component of his public persona and his political success. Not surprisingly, a growing body of research has examined Obama's rhetorical techniques. Thus far, however, these studies have consisted almost entirely of qualitative analyses of single speeches, making it difficult to generalize about the broader features of Obama's…
Marginalized Identity Invocation Online: The Case of President Donald Trump on Twitter
Political communication about marginalized groups takes many forms, but none are more influential in the present moment than those that circulate via social media. This article takes two steps to better understand this important form of communication. First, it offers a four-part conceptual framework for studying marginalized identity invocation. It then pairs quantitative content analysis with critical/cultural analysis to examine the census of …
Uncivil Name‐Calling in the U.S. Presidency, 1933–2018
Political incivility in the United States is a growing concern among both citizens and scholars. Prior research focusing on incivility among political elites has largely neglected the presidency, however. Thus, popular claims that Donald Trump is particularly uncivil have not yet been subjected to empirical scrutiny vis‐à‐vis presidential norms. The present study undertakes a large‐scale quantitative content analysis of modern presidential commun…
Religion in American Presidential Campaigns, 1952-2016: Applying a New Framework for Understanding Candidate Communication
The content and impact of religious communication in politics has been a topic of increasing public and scholarly interest in recent years. To provide a foundation for future research in this area, the present study theorizes five broad factors-historical trajectory, party expectations, audience religiosity, candidate attributes, and opponent strategy-that may help explain why political candidates use religious language. We employ this framework …
Video News Releases and the Public: The Impact of Source Labeling on the Perceived Credibility of Television News
Journal Article Video News Releases and the Public: The Impact of Source Labeling on the Perceived Credibility of Television News Get access David Tewksbury, David Tewksbury 1Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jakob Jensen, Jakob Jensen 2Department of Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2098, …
Is News Surveillance Related to Cancer Knowledge in Underserved Adults? Testing Three Versions of the Cognitive Mediation Model
The cognitive mediation model (CMM) proposes indirect paths to news learning such that news surveillance increases news learning through attention to the news and elaboration about the news. But there is a need for additional research that tests key postulates of the CMM especially for media targeting underserved populations. The present study tested three versions of the CMM to model ethnic newspaper learning within a low-income, Spanish-speakin…
Engagement with incivility in tweets from and directed at local elected officials
Although social media have created novel opportunities for the public and local elected officials representing city or state governments to interact, concerns have been raised about the tenor of their discourse. We used machine learning in this project to identify the presence of incivility in tweets (N = 38,218) made by and directed at local officials representing a metropolitan area over an 18-month period and examine its implications. Compared…
News Framing in the Aftermath of the January 6 Attacks on the U.S. Capitol: An Analysis of Labels, Definitional Uncertainty, and Contextualization
In the aftermath of a violent attack, questions of definition arise. News framing research has shown that the words chosen to define a given event can affect attitudes and decision-making, even when only a single word is varied. This study analyzes public discourse in the aftermath of the January 6 U.S. Capitol attacks to better understand which labels predominated and how different labels were explained/justified. We pair computer-assisted conte…
Assessing the Russian Troll Efforts to Sow Discord on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. Election
Although experts agree that the Russian Internet Research Agency deployed trolls on Twitter to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election, questions remain about the nuances of their efforts. We examined almost 350,000 original tweets made during the two-year electoral cycle to investigate the emphasis, timing, content, and partisanship of the trolls’ efforts targeting leading candidates. Despite only dedicating a fraction of their tweets to can…
Presidential communication in tumultuous times: Insights into key shifts, normative implications, and research opportunities
Scholars have long been interested in the communication of America’s chief executive, but the context in which that communication takes place has undergone dramatic changes over the past several decades. Given this, the present review aims to provide a foundation for new thinking about presidential communication in the contemporary environment. We attend to presidential communication in transition—to the uncertain paths that scholars have walked …
Talk This Way: The Ubiquitous Presidency and Expectations of Presidential Communication
The American presidency is evolving, and with it public expectations of how often and where the president should communicate. The rhetorical presidency, characterized by inclusive public appeals broadcast in a few media venues, has transitioned to a ubiquitous presidency wherein accessible, personal, and pluralistic communications are the norm. Despite these changes in communication style at the presidential level, scholars have yet to document f…
Toward a Fuller Understanding of the Echoing Press: Presidential Addresses and the New York Times , 1933-2013
This study seeks to extend and clarify Domke’s (2004) theory of the “echoing press.” Developing a conceptual argument about the interrelationships among several key theories of the U.S. president–press relationship, we analyze news coverage of major presidential addresses in the New York Times from 1933 to 2013. Our analysis clarifies the consistent but modest echoing effect that has occurred over the past 8 decades, and broadens the theory to en…
Television News, Public Opinion, and the Iraq War: Do Wartime Rationales Matter?
The idea that the public is swayed by the rationales for war that circulate throughout the media environment is well established in popular discourse. Research on the determinants of support for war, however, has largely ignored the role that such rationales might play. This study is the first to directly test the possibility that rationales for war present in news coverage influence public support for war. Pairing a detailed computer-assisted co…
No Shades of Gray: The Binary Discourse of George W. Bush and an Echoing Press
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: The Bush Administration, an Echoing Press, and Passage of the Patriot Act
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 …
The Other Closet: Atheists, Homosexuals and the Lateral Appropriation of Discursive Capital
Previous studies have considered different forms of economic and/or cultural appropriation between status-unequal groups, for example young, White, middle-class people cashing in on the music of urban, African-American culture. In this paper, however, we are interested in what we call ‘lateral appropriation’, the process whereby the discursive capital of one marginalized group is usurped by another similarly marginalized group. In particular, dra…
The Language of Freedom in the American Presidency, 1933‐2006
Freedom is the most familiar symbol in American political culture, but little is known about how presidents have employed this symbol in their discourse. This study uses quantitative and qualitative analysis to examine the language of freedom in more than seventy years worth of presidential speeches. The findings reveal a presidential narrative of freedom that has been remarkably constant over time. However, within this broad narrative, president…
Going Public, Crisis after Crisis: The Bush Administration and the Press from September 11 to Saddam
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: George W. Bush, the “War on Terrorism,” and an Echoing Press
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…
Hostile News: Partisan Use and Perceptions of Cable News Programming
Two trends have marked the development of U.S. cable television news in recent years: a blurring of hard and soft news and an increase in overt partisanship. This paper reports the results of 2 studies that provide insight into the nature and impact of these trends. The first study analyzes national survey data to identify the factors that lead political partisans to choose particular cable television news networks and programs. The second study …
The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America
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…
Obama on the Stump: Features and Determinants of a Rhetorical Approach
From the moment Barack Obama entered the national political scene in 2004, his formidable rhetorical skills were a central component of his public persona and his political success. Not surprisingly, a growing body of research has examined Obama's rhetorical techniques. Thus far, however, these studies have consisted almost entirely of qualitative analyses of single speeches, making it difficult to generalize about the broader features of Obama's…
International Identity in Theory and Practice: The Case of the Modern American Presidency
Scholars have devoted considerable attention to the concept of national identity. In a globalizing world, however, identity is increasingly shaped not only by one's own nation but also by foreign nations. With this in mind, this study theorizes international identity as a communicative process. We propose four features of international identity—that it is distinct, relational, contextual, and stratified—and examine these features in one crucial c…
The Major Addresses of Modern Presidents: Parameters of a Data Set
Research that undertakes longitudinal analysis of presidential discourse inevitably wrestles with a difficult issue: which presidential speeches should be analyzed? Surprisingly, there has been essentially no interrogation of this issue. Studies vary in the speeches they analyze: some focus on inaugural addresses, others on State of the Union addresses, yet others focus on some broader body of speeches, often with limited discussion of the criter…
Video News Releases and the Public: The Impact of Source Labeling on the Perceived Credibility of Television News
Journal Article Video News Releases and the Public: The Impact of Source Labeling on the Perceived Credibility of Television News Get access David Tewksbury, David Tewksbury 1Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jakob Jensen, Jakob Jensen 2Department of Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2098, …
George W. Bush, Television News, and Rationales for the Iraq War
Popular sentiment holds that President George W. Bush was able to successfully “spin” the news during the early stages of the Iraq War. Research on the president-press relationship gives some reason to believe this sentiment but leaves ample room for skepticism. This article clarifies the relationship between presidential and press rationales for the Iraq War, focusing on whether Bush's emphasis on certain rationales influenced the extent to whic…
Priming Patriots: Social Identity Processes and the Dynamics of Public Support for War
Journal Article Priming Patriots: Social Identity Processes and the Dynamics of Public Support for War Get access Scott L Althaus, Scott L Althaus Address correspondence to Scott L. Althaus, University of Illinois, Cline Center for Democracy, 2001 South First Street, Suite 207, Champaign, IL 61820-7461, USA; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kevin Coe Kevin Coe Search for other…
America in Black and White: Locating Race in the Modern Presidency, 1933-2011
Research on race in public discourse tends to fall into 1 of 2 categories: Either it focuses broadly on how media communicate about racial groups and frame political issues in racial terms or it focuses specifically on how politicians, in 1 or 2 key speeches, discuss race. This study bridges these approaches. It borrows an analytical strategy from research on race in media but applies this strategy to presidential discourse. Drawing on a content …
Television News, Public Opinion, and the Iraq War: Do Wartime Rationales Matter?
The idea that the public is swayed by the rationales for war that circulate throughout the media environment is well established in popular discourse. Research on the determinants of support for war, however, has largely ignored the role that such rationales might play. This study is the first to directly test the possibility that rationales for war present in news coverage influence public support for war. Pairing a detailed computer-assisted co…
Using a Mixed Approach to Content Analysis: The Case of Apologetic Rhetoric in the Modern Presidency
This chapter demonstrates the process and utility of an approach to content analysis that blends computer‐assisted content analysis (CCA) with traditional manual coding. It does so in the context of modern presidential rhetoric, shedding light on presidents' use of apologetic rhetoric in their public communications to audiences abroad over the past eight decades. We outline the steps that are necessary to undertake a mixed approach to content ana…
The Presidential Road Show: Public Leadership in an Era of Party Polarization and Media Fragmentation , by Diane J. Heith
Presidents as Priests: Toward a Typology of Christian Discourse in the American Presidency
This study contributes to the scholarship on political and religious communication by deriving from key theoretical works a typology of Christian discourse. We employ this typology in a computer-assisted content analysis of presidential communication across 3 decades. Developing an argument about the manner in which changing religious identification in America might influence presidential discourse, we expect and find that presidents prefer abstr…
Decision 2012: Presidential Election Analysis from the CM Café
The Communication Monographs Cafe opened its doors for the fifth time on November 6, 2012. In the previous openings of the cafe (social justice and public scholarship in Volume 78, Issue 2; communi
Accruing Masculinity Capital: Dominant and Hegemonic Masculinities in the 2004 Political Conventions
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…
Online and Uncivil? Patterns and Determinants of Incivility in Newspaper Website Comments
Incivility in public discussions has received increasing attention from academic and popular commentators in recent years. In an effort to better understand the nature and determinants of such incivility, this study examined a 3-week census of articles and comments posted to a local newspaper's website—totaling more than 300 articles and 6,400 comments. The results of the content analysis show that incivility occurs frequently and is associated w…
Toward a Fuller Understanding of the Echoing Press: Presidential Addresses and the New York Times , 1933-2013
This study seeks to extend and clarify Domke’s (2004) theory of the “echoing press.” Developing a conceptual argument about the interrelationships among several key theories of the U.S. president–press relationship, we analyze news coverage of major presidential addresses in the New York Times from 1933 to 2013. Our analysis clarifies the consistent but modest echoing effect that has occurred over the past 8 decades, and broadens the theory to en…
Religious rhetoric meets the target audience: Narrowcasting faith in presidential elections
Research documents politicians’ use of religious rhetoric and its effects on the public, but little work has investigated the considerations influencing the decision to use religious rhetoric in the first place. We theorize that politicians’ use of religious rhetoric is determined by four considerations: the alignment between the speaker’s and audience’s religiosity, the acceptability of the speaker’s denomination to the audience, the speaker’s r…
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