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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"2008 Presidential Election"”.
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A Discourse Analysis of Political Campaign Websites during the 2008 Presidential Election
… of political campaign websites during the 2008 presidential election to determine what rhetorical strategies website designers used to appeal to undecided female voters.
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Social networking sites and intent to vote in the 2008 presidential election.
… sites and the users' intent to vote in the 2008 presidential election. By surveying a group of undergraduate students, most of whom are users, if not frequent users of social networking sites, the study attempts to find out what students feel is influencing whether or not they vote in this …
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Searching for the President: Analysis of Search Engine Results from the 2008 Presidential Election
… as a source of political information during the 2008 political campaign (Smith, 2009). Although past communication research has focused on the characteristics of messages presented on political candidate Web sites, it has not looked at third-party sources, such as newspaper sites, and scholars …
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Teaching Politics: A Study of High School Government Courses and the 2008 Presidential Election
A multiple case study method was used, and data were collected through classroom observations, formal interviews with teachers and students, artifact analysis, and student surveys. Based on these data sources, I discovered that the inclusion of political events and methods for teaching politics is …
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INDECISION 2008: REAPPROPRIATION AS POLITICAL ARGUMENT IN THE DAILY SHOW'S COVERAGE OF THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart uses humor to explore, analyze, and criticize current media and political trends, politicians, and campaigns. Reappropriation uses video as an argument against the original producers of that content, one of the tools used to highlight the problems with the political …
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The politics of election coverage : a content analysis of Indiana's two largest newspapers during the 2008 presidential election
The goal of this study was to investigate the 2008 presidential election coverage of Indiana's two largest news publications - The Indianapolis Star and The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - and determine if any statistically significant differences exist. Utilizing the theories of framing and …
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Liberalizing American Voting Laws: Institutionally Increasing Voter Turnout
… voting laws have on voter turnout in national elections in the United States. I analyzed voter turnout in the 2008 Presidential Election and the 2010 off year election in all fifty states to see if voting restrictions declined turnout. My results show evidence that the further away from …
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“The Imagined Presidency”: Political Communication as “Narrative” and “Performance” – A Case Study of Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign
… Presidency. The perception of Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign as epitomizing such shifts in the collective meaning-making processes lies at the core of this research project. The analyzes Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential election campaign with respect to its underlying communicational …
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Unburdened by Objectivity: Political Entertainment News in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
This study analyzes 2008 presidential election coverage on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report to determine how they confront the tension between the genres of news and entertainment. To this point, much of the scholarly work on political entertainment news has focused on …
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Issue Publics Gone Wild Or The End Of Narrow Interests
… such as the decision of who to vote for on election day, on issues that are particularly important to them. This subset of issues is presumed to be relatively small in quantity for most individuals, allowing them to specialize in information gathering and attention. There is reason to …
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An Item Response Unfolding Model for Graphic Rating Scales
… Survey data from the American National Election Study were used to demonstrate the application of the proposed model in studying people's opinions towards political figures or social groups in the 2008 presidential election.
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PREJUDICE TOWARD MUSLIM AMERICANS AND AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION
… Obama is a Muslim -- a salient rumor during the 2008 presidential election. I also find evidence that suggests the misperception about Barack Obama's faith was electorally consequential. This research also shows that the band of others is a powerful dynamic among Muslim Americans as well. As …
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The distinctive nature of making news online: A study of news production at latimes.com and salon.com
… to deconstruct the process of covering the 2008 Presidential election. The thesis works around Brian McNair‘s cultural chaos paradigm (2006) which explains the emergent nature of news online and the lack of control by any environmental factors that seek to affect its outcome. The thesis …
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INTERMEDIA AGENDA-SETTING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN POLITICAL BLOGS AND LEGACY NEWS MEDIA: A STUDY OF THE `OBAMA-IS-A-MUSLIM' RUMOR
… such as the "Obama-is-a-Muslim" rumor during the 2008 presidential election suggest that influential political blogs are playing a major role in setting the agenda of the legacy media. The power of the political blogosphere is forcing media practitioners, communication scholars and political …
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DEVELOPMENT OR DEPENDENCY? THE EMERGING CHINESE CULTURAL-LINGUISTIC TV MARKET AND IDOL TV DRAMA IN TAIWAN AND CHINA
… the prospects of Taiwan's pro-China party in the 2008 presidential election in Taiwan. In addition, it is not self-evident to assume that a regional cultural center definitely challenges the existing cultural dominance and that a regional cultural-linguistic market is emancipating. It requires …
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Assessment of Phonological and Orthographic Differences in Adults With Reading Disabilities
<p>There is debate surrounding how to effectively identify and distinguish reading disabilities from other deficits in college populations. Although several theories have proposed a positive relationship between nonword decoding weaknesses and higher intelligence levels, currently there is no …