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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"2008 presidential campaign"”.
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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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A Rhetorical Examination of the Barack Obama Phenomenon in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
… and elucidating Obama’s rhetoric during the 2008 Presidential Campaign by closely examining four speeches, their contexts within the campaign, and the commentary surrounding them to give a richer account of what exactly could be called Obama’s “rhetoric.” Moving from an Aristotelian reading …
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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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After the honeymoon: The Obama effect on political attitudes and participation
… attitudes and behaviors of Obama supporters from 2008. Defining the Obama Effect as the extraordinary enthusiasm surrounding Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, I argue that a <em>short term</em> Obama Effect was clearly present in 2008 based on Obama’s electoral success, fundraising prowess, and …