Studying Politics Across Media
This book highlights the diverse methods needed to study a complex media environment, and the nuance and richness of the understanding gained by doing so, by offering examples of political communication research considering multiple platforms simultaneously.
Political communication research that considers multiple media platforms is difficult and expensive to perform, and therefore relatively rare. Yet studying media platforms in isolation ignores the realities of the varied and complicated contemporary media experience, where most individuals consume information from multiple media outlets. Media platforms, from traditional outlets such as newspapers and television to newer online platforms such as social media, have proliferated in recent years. This makes the media environment itself more complex, as classic understandings of how the media function give way to a growing recognition of the hybrid media system, where divisions between content and producers are opaque, and where information is gleaned from increasingly diverse and numerous sources.
Studying political communication across platforms allows better understanding of which types of experiences and effects are universal, and which are specific to particular platforms.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Political Communication.
Leticia Bode is an Associate Professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology Masters Program at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA. Her work lies at the intersection of communication, technology, and political behavior, emphasizing the role communication and information technologies may play in the acquisition, use, effects, and implications of political information.
Emily K. Vraga is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at George Mason University, Fairfax, USA. She researches how individuals process information about contentious political, scientific, and health issues in digital media, and tests methods to correct misinformation, limit biased processing, and encourage attention to diverse content.
Studying Politics Across Media
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Leticia Bode and Emily K. Vraga
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Contents
Leticia Bode and Emily K. Vraga
Daniel Kreiss, Regina G. Lawrence, and Shannon C. McGregor
Taewoo Kang, Erika Franklin Fowler, Michael M. Franz, and Travis N. Ridout
Sebastian Stier, Arnim Bleier, Haiko Lietz, and Markus Strohmaier
Sanne Kruikemeier, Sophie Lecheler, and Ming M. Boyer
Emily Sydnor
Sebastin Valenzuela, Teresa Correa, and Homero Gil de Ziga
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Political Communication, volume 35, issue 1 (January 2018). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Studying Politics Across Media
Leticia Bode and Emily K. Vraga
Political Communication, volume 35, issue 1 (January 2018) pp. 17
Chapter 2
In Their Own Words: Political Practitioner Accounts of Candidates, Audiences, Affordances, Genres, and Timing in Strategic Social Media Use
Daniel Kreiss, Regina G. Lawrence and Shannon C. McGregor
Political Communication, volume 35, issue 1 (January 2018) pp. 831
Chapter 3
Issue Consistency? Comparing Television Advertising, Tweets, and E-mail in the 2014 Senate Campaigns
Taewoo Kang, Erika Franklin Fowler, Michael M. Franz and Travis N. Ridout
Political Communication, volume 35, issue 1 (January 2018) pp. 3249
Chapter 4
Election Campaigning on Social Media: Politicians, Audiences, and the Mediation of Political Communication on Facebook and Twitter
Sebastian Stier, Arnim Bleier, Haiko Lietz and Markus Strohmaier
Political Communication, volume 35, issue 1 (January 2018) pp. 5074
Chapter 5
Learning From News on Different Media Platforms: An Eye-Tracking Experiment
Sanne Kruikemeier, Sophie Lecheler and Ming M. Boyer
Political Communication, volume 35, issue 1 (January 2018) pp. 7596
Chapter 6
Platforms for Incivility: Examining Perceptions Across Different Media Formats
Emily Sydnor
Political Communication, volume 35, issue 1 (January 2018) pp. 97116
Chapter 7
Ties, Likes, and Tweets: Using Strong and Weak Ties to Explain Differences in Protest Participation Across Facebook and Twitter Use
Sebastin Valenzuela, Teresa Correa and Homero Gil de Ziga
Political Communication, volume 35, issue 1 (January 2018) pp. 117134
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Arnim Bleier is a Postdoctoral Researcher at GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany.
Leticia Bode is an Associate Professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology Masters Program at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA.
Ming M. Boyer is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna, Austria.
Teresa Correa is an Associate Professor in the College of Communication and Literature at Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.
