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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255324603321

Autore

Hendricks John Allen

Titolo

Communication and Midterm Elections : Media, Message, and Mobilization / / by John Allen Hendricks, Dan Schill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-48801-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

320

Soggetti

Political science

Europe - Politics and government

Elections

Communication

Political Science

European Politics

Electoral Politics

Media and Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents --  List of Illustrations --  Preface --  Acknowledgments --  Part I: The 2014 Election: Issues and Agendas --  1. Media, Message, and Mobilization: Political Communication in the 2014 Election Campaigns --  2. The Cult(ure) of Analytics in 2014 --  3. The "Documented Voter": Voter ID Messaging in the 2014 Texas Midterm Election --  4. Commonsense Protections or Government Interference in Private Decisions? Competing Media Frames in the Battle over Tennessee's Abortion Amendment --  5. Political Communication and Affective Polarization in the 2014 Midterm Elections for the US Senate: The Cases of Iowa, North Carolina, and Georgia --  Part II: Media Coverage and Effects of Television, Newspapers, and Late-Night Comedy Shows in 2014 --  6. The 2014 Midterm Elections on Local Television: Frames, Sources, and Valence --  7. Visual Framing of 2014 US Senate Campaign: Conflict Bias in News Coverage --  8. The Serious Business of Late-Night Political Humor: Foreign Policy Issue Salience in



the 2014 Midterm Elections --  Part III: Technology in the Political Process --  9. The Influence of Twitter Posts on Candidate Credibility: The 2014 Michigan Midterms -- 10. Picturing the Senate Candidates: Image Building in the Twitterverse --  11. Personalization and Gender: 2014 Gubernatorial Candidates on Social Media --  Part IV: Advertising in the 2014 Political Process --  12. Campaign Advertising in Florida's 2014 Gubernatorial Election: Candidate Images, Voter Enthusiasm, and Partisanship --  13. Midterm Voters: An Investigation of the Heuristic Systematic Processing Model and Political Advertisements --  14. Blue Governors in Red States and Red Governors in Blue States --  About the Editors --  List of Contributors --  Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a comprehensive examination of midterm elections from the lens of communications and media coverage. Using a wide variety of methods, this contributed volume covers the differences, similarities, and challenges unique to midterm elections.