Books in the Communication, Media, and Politics series

Scandals are pervasive, perplexing, and an all-too-common feature of contemporary political communication; David Dewberry explores the rhetoric of scandal from start to finish, and identifies consistent patterns in how they unfold.

News Narratives and News Framing is a revealing look at how the media's construction of news affects our political, economic, and social realities.

This updated eighth edition of Political Campaign Communication adds an essential overview of the 2016 presidential campaign. The concise update explores key issues that arose in 2016 including candidate surfacing, the changing role of advertising, social media, journalism and the rise of fake news, and issues of gender.

In Partisan Journalism, Kuypers guides readers on a journey through American journalistic history, focusing on the warring notions of objectivity and partisanship.

When Barack Obama was re-elected president in November 2012, his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, took the blame for being alternately too moderate or too conservative; his vast wealth made him unappealing to voters; and his robotic persona meant he just could not connect. How, then, did he win the nomination? This book examines mainstream media coverage of the 2012 Republican primary season to identify and examine the frames used to make sense of the candidates and the race.

Inventing a Voice is a comprehensive work on the lives and communication of twentieth-century first ladies. Using a rhetorical framework, the contributors look at the speaking, writing, media coverage and interactions, and visual rhetoric of American first ladies from Ida Saxton McKinley to Laura Bush.

Explores a number of questions about media use and its relation to democratic engagement, analyzing the effects of communication forms on the 2004 presidential elections. This book contributes to an important goal in political communication studies creating an integrated, and precise picture of how media affects democratic engagement.

Introduces and explains the dynamics of conflict and resolution particularly in ethnic, ethnopolitical, and intercultural or intergroup conflicts. This book provides an overview of the elements of group conflict, ethnicity, identity, and diasporas. It explores key ways of using communication principles to resolve conflict.

Follows George W Bush's lifelong association with the press, showing how he has developed and, over the years, modified his tactics. This book not only presents interesting stories about the president from reporters' points of view, but also raises important issues that any civically engaged citizen will want to explore.

What did President Bush say to justify American military actions in the post 9/11 world? And how did the public hear what he said, especially as it was filtered through the news media? This work shows how public perception of what the president says is shaped by media bias.

Political Communication Ethics: Theory and Practice introduces students to how political communication professionals ought to behave, and how they actually behave. The chapters by both scholars and practitioners will help students wrestle with the question of what ethical responsibilities, if any, political communications professionals have.

This volume offers a unique and detailed examination of all stages of the 2012 presidential campaign, starting with the primaries and ending with post-election insights. Each chapter focuses on the campaign's communication variables, including images, messages, and debates. Special attention is paid to the roles and functions of new technologies.

Inventing a Voice is a comprehensive work on the lives and communication of twentieth-century first ladies. Using a rhetorical framework, the contributors look at the speaking, writing, media coverage and interactions, and visual rhetoric of American first ladies from Ida Saxton McKinley to Laura Bush.

This engaging look at presidential candidate images features a wide range of essays that dissect how these images are formed and manipulated during campaigns. As more and more emphasis is placed on a candidate's persona and how it affects our voting decisions, Presidential Candidate Images provides a variety of frameworks and cases for analyzing candidate images in past, current, and future elections.

This work applies Kenneth Burke's theory of guilt-purification-redemption in a close, critical analysis of Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech, developing and examining the implications of Burke's redemption drama in contemporary public discourse.

This work applies the functional theory of political campaign discourse - analyzing how messages acclaim, attack, or defend - to several different forms of campaign communication in the 2000 US presidential primary and general election. These forms include TV talk show appearances.

This engaging look at presidential candidate images features a wide range of essays that dissect how these images are formed and manipulated during campaigns. As more and more emphasis is placed on a candidate's persona and how it affects our voting decisions, Presidential Candidate Images provides a variety of frameworks and cases for analyzing candidate images in past, current, and future elections.

With reference to eight classic American movies, this text explores the political ideologies thrumming through the American psyche during the Cold War period.

How were the American people prepared for the war on Iraq? How have political agents and media gatekeepers sought to develop public support for the first preventive war of the modern age? Bring Em On highlights the complex links between media and politics, analyzing how communication practices are modified in times of crisis to.

To become a successful political communicator (and a savvy political consumer), it is essential to know the elements of social influence, what works, and why. This text provides an introduction to persuasion, social influence, and propoganda.

Political Communication Ethics: Theory and Practice introduces students to how political communication professionals ought to behave, and how they actually behave. The chapters by both scholars and practitioners will help students wrestle with the question of what ethical responsibilities, if any, political communications professionals have.