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Women, politics, and power: The media's construction of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
(1999)
From the beginning, their open political partnership was hotly discussed and debated in the media. Media attention and concern centered on Rodham Clinton's political power and influence. With her appointment to head the ...
No time for reason: Deliberation, status, and democracy in the modern society.
(2005)
Economic use of time (efficiency) and democracy are common features in many modern western societies. However, a strong egalitarian democracy requires equal participation in the social construction of meaning, reason and ...
Looking beyond the hijab: An analysis of Muslim adaptation to French culture.
(2006)
*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation).
The language of emotion in televised political advertising: Presidential spots, 1960--1996.
(2000)
Through computerized lexical analysis of 1,209 televised political commercials aired by the Democratic and Republican party's presidential nominees during general elections from 1960 to 1996, this study discerns which words ...
(Re)engaging the other half of America in electoral politics :
(2001)
This dissertation outlines both qualitative and quantitative methods to address the underlying phenomenon. Specifically, 22 focus groups and 54 in-depth personal interviews were conducted to address the causes and solutions ...
Intermedia agenda-setting in the 2000 presidential campaign: The influence of candidates' websites on traditional news media.
(2002)
In addition, the two path models indicated that candidate website agenda in the campaign initial phase had some significant direct agenda-setting impact on the public's agenda, and the agenda-setting impact persisted ...
The spirit of the Patriot Act: A hermeneutic analysis of patriotism as argument during House Judiciary Committee debate .
(2007)
The purpose of this project is to explore the symbolic meaning of ''patriot'' by bracketing the way in which it is negotiated during the policymaking process utilized to authorize, oversight, and reauthorize the Patriot ...
Questions to the First Minister of Scotland.
(2003)
Political communication research traditionally has focussed on media coverage of politics. At the same time, a rhetorical perspective has informed most scholarship on the subject of direct politician discourse. The present ...
Sex and the political process: An analysis of sex stereotypes in 1998 senatorial and gubernatorial campaigns.
(2000)
By triangulating quantitative content analysis of political ads and newspaper coverage with qualitative interviews of political candidates significant and interesting results are revealed concerning candidates, stereotypes, ...
Mediated citizens: Mass media depictions of citizens and the influence of those depictions on individual perceptions of what it means to be a democratic citizen.
(2007)
The survey portion of this study found that overall media use had a weak impact on perceptions of what it means to be a democratic citizen. However, while media use did not strongly influence individual perceptions of what ...