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Two New Reference Books on Social Movement Media, Political Communication
Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media, edited by John D. H. Downing (Sage, 2010). A one-volume encyclopedia featuring over 250 essays on the role of media in social movements in the 20th and 21st...
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Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year
Political junkies can kick back in the Annenberg Library Reading Room with BEST EDITORIAL CARTOONS OF THE YEAR, either the most recent edition (2011) or older ones going back to 1977. The series,...
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Aspen Report on Networks and Citizenship
Networks and Citizenship: Using Technology for Civic Innovation, a Report of the 2011 Aspen Institute Forum on Communications and Society (FOCAS) was published this past spring. Written by Jeffrey...
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Social Influnce Special Retrospective Issue
The journal Social Influence has put out a special online edition in honor of this election season featuring a selection of articles from previous issues exploring the psychological processes at work...
View ArticleDivinatio Asks: Is Democracy Sick of Its Own Media?
I usually point out Penn or open access resources but here’s a rare exception. A recent issue of Divinatio: Studia Culturologica Series (Volume 35, Spring-Summer 2012) poses the question: Is Democracy...
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Analysis of 2012 Candidate FB Pages in Online Information Review
You’ve heard a lot about the impact of social media on political campaigns–only a matter of time before someone did a content analysis of Obama/Romney camp Facebook posts. Online Information Review...
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Special Issue on Rhetoric and Gun Violence in R&PA
Rhetoric & Public Affairs (Volume 14, Number 4, Winter 2014) is titled “Special Issue on Civility” but it’s the title from the editors’ Introduction “Weapons and Words: Rhetorical Studies of the...
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2015 World Press Freedom Index
The news is grim from Reporters Without Borders which has just published its annual index on press freedom around the world, 2015 World Press Freedom Index. The findings are “incontestable. There...
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Special Issues of Quarterly Journal of Speech and Communication Monographs
Two NCA journals have noteworthy current issues. The Quarterly Journal of Speech (Volume 101, Issue 1, 2015) celebrates its centennial with two unique approaches for the issue. First, former journal...
View ArticleHow Millennials Get News
According to the new study by the Media Insight Project, a collaboration of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press – NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, “millennials consume news...
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Political TV Ad Archive
Last month the Internet Archive launched it’s new Political TV Ad Archive. Just in time for the kickoff of primary season. So far the site has amassed over 30,000 ad airings, each accompanied by...
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‘Tis the Season for Political Advertising Resources
Don’t forget about the Political TV Ad Archive if you are interested in searching and viewing 2016 political TV ads in select key markets. (I wrote about it in previous post in February.)...
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Election Reading Recommendation
We often forget that previous election campaigns juggled and were shaped by new media forms just like our own, albeit with different “contraptions.” Politicking and Emergent Media, US Presidential...
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Griffonage-Dot-Com’s Graphic Look at the Electoral College 1896-2016
I’m always happy to give Patrick Feaster‘s excellent blog on historical media another shout out. Today, being the day the Electoral College votes, you may be interested in this historical overview....
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