This book offers a comprehensive guide to political campaign communication using functional theory as a framework. An authoritative account packed with real life examples from campaigns across the globe, the book examines all of the important variables in political campaign communication. Considering campaign media from television spots and debates to candidate webpages and direct-mail advertising it looks closely at news coverage of campaigns, and examines the sources of campaign messages, the various ways of responding to scandal, the process of voter decision-making, and the ways in which...
This book offers a comprehensive guide to political campaign communication using functional theory as a framework. An authoritative account packed wit...
Complementing and extending scholarship in three areas terrorism; the media, mediated representations, and propaganda in contemporary culture; and the political and diplomatic environment post-9/11 this book articulates the role of human communication in the -war of ideas-. Drawing on contemporary research from a variety of disciplines, this book offers analyses and recommendations for people to make use of informed, inspired, and ethical communication to counter ideological support for terrorism and to promote more effective public diplomacy. This is the first book to apply human...
Complementing and extending scholarship in three areas terrorism; the media, mediated representations, and propaganda in contemporary culture; and the...
Why are some crimes identified as acts of terrorism, while others are not? How are critical terms like "terrorism" and "mass shooting" defined and understood in the 21st century? What are some of the causes of the unique American epidemic of mass shootings and gun violence? Terrorizing the Masses considers the invisible role that the media play in shaping the way we think about terrorism, gun violence, fear, and identity. This book explores media coverage of five mass shootings over a 20-year period, examining the role that race, religion, and gender play in framing some of the most...
Why are some crimes identified as acts of terrorism, while others are not? How are critical terms like "terrorism" and "mass shooting" defined and ...
Perhaps no other presidential candidate or sitting president has attracted as much attention from rhetorical critics as Barack Obama. This book provides rhetorical critics an opportunity to revisit their published work on Obama in light of events that have occurred since its publication.
Perhaps no other presidential candidate or sitting president has attracted as much attention from rhetorical critics as Barack Obama. This book provid...
Perhaps no other presidential candidate or sitting president has attracted as much attention from rhetorical critics as Barack Obama. This book provides rhetorical critics an opportunity to revisit their published work on Obama in light of events that have occurred since its publication.
Perhaps no other presidential candidate or sitting president has attracted as much attention from rhetorical critics as Barack Obama. This book provid...
This volume analyzes selected speeches delivered by Benigno `Noynoy' Simeon C. Aquino III, President of the Republic of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016.
This volume analyzes selected speeches delivered by Benigno `Noynoy' Simeon C. Aquino III, President of the Republic of the Philippines from 2010 to 2...
This volume analyzes selected speeches delivered by Benigno `Noynoy' Simeon C. Aquino III, President of the Republic of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016.
This volume analyzes selected speeches delivered by Benigno `Noynoy' Simeon C. Aquino III, President of the Republic of the Philippines from 2010 to 2...
This collection of essays and studies covers the 2016 presidential campaign and the first year of the Trump presidency and is suitable for communication and political science students and scholars.
This collection of essays and studies covers the 2016 presidential campaign and the first year of the Trump presidency and is suitable for communicati...
