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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"2016 Presidential Election"”.
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The Impact of Campaign Visits on Predicted Voter Choice in the 2016 Presidential Election
… on levels of predicted voter choice within the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Data on discrete events throughout the campaign were collected to first determine the impact of particular newsworthy events on predicted voter choice. The data show that the impact of these events dissipates prior …
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How Donald Trump and the 2016 Presidential Election Eclipsed Frank Underwood’s Election in ‘House of Cards’
<p>In 2016, the U.S. faced a seismic change in national politics and the evolution of the entertainment industry. As the rise of streaming services had finally hit its stride, Netflix, the industry disruptor, had released a steady stream of critically acclaimed series, most notably beginning with …
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Going with Your Gut: A Study of Affect, Satire, and Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election
… of affect theory and emotional rhetoric in the 2016 Presidential Election, and specifically in Donald Trump’s candidacy, first through a series of rhetorical readings of Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail and after his election. The first section of this thesis focuses on Donald Trump and …
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“They’re bringing Drugs... They’re bringing Crime... They’re Rapists”: Exploring Latino Immigration, Crime, and Voting Patterns in the 2016 Presidential Election
<p>The political race for the 2016 United States President brimmed with conflict over an array of issues, notably Latino immigration from Mexico and Latin America to the U.S. The rhetoric of then Presidential Candidate Donald Trump centered around the idea that Mexico was not sending its finest …
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Birthers, Hand Signals, and Spirit Cooking: The Impact of Political Fake News Content on Facebook Engagement during the 2016 Presidential Election
Throughout the 2016 U.S. presidential election, public debate and media coverage was shaped by so called "fake news" – news articles which were intentionally false, and designed to influence opinion and policy. Although fake news itself is not a new concept, the way in which it was covered, and the …
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Higher education institutions, voter registration, voter education, and voter participation: a study of college students in the 2016 presidential and 2018 mid-term congressional elections
During both the United States 2016 Presidential Election and the 2018 Mid-term Congressional Election, voter registration and voter participation rates showed significant improvements over previous trends in voters ages 18-29. This study aimed to understand the various environmental factors, campus …
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Trending in the Right Direction: Using Google Trends Data as a Measure of Public Opinion During a Presidential Election
During the 2016 presidential election, public opinion polls consistently showed a lead in the popular vote and Electoral College for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Following Trump's surprise victory, the political pundits and public at large began to question the accuracy of modern public …
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A Transparent Hillary Clinton Through the Lens of Apologia Discourse
… communications. While being a candidate in the 2016 Presidential Election, Clinton has been under public scrutiny for lacking transparency. Clinton has had to employ strategic means in order to repair her public image. This study utilizes Benoit’s Image Restoration Theory’s typology to analyze …
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Applications of twitter emotion detection for stock market prediction
… apply our emotion classifier to tweets from the 2016 presidential election and financial tweets labeled with Twitter cashtags and evaluate the effectiveness of using finer-grained emotion categorization to predict future stock market performance.
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Minding the empathy gap : how insights into brains and behaviors are placating polarization
… bridge-building organization founded after the 2016 presidential election. The organization is committed to combating toxic polarization all over the country. On January 27, 2019, One America organized a meeting in South Jordan, Utah in which Latter-day Saints and Jews came together to foster …
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What does it all meme? : a look into gender stereotypes and traits in the 2016 presidential primary campaign.
… examines how social media memes portrayed presidential primary candidates during the 2016 United States presidential election. In the wake of Internet and social media evolutions in communications, memes of candidates have been added to the new paradigm of American political news …
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Domestic Violence and Women: A Critical Analysis of US Help & Support Websites and Traditional News Media Representation
… through mediated forums in the backdrop of the 2016 Trump Presidential campaign. The analysis reveals that communication about domestic violence encompasses the larger cultural undertones propagated during the 2016 Presidential election - those of sexism, racism, and exclusionary practices …
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The intersection of political activism and brand advertising
… visual analysis methodology in analyzing a selection of brand advertisements that qualify as political activism in brand advertising and were released between December 1, 2016 and February 1, 2018. This thesis leverages framing theory as a guide to investigate this communication phenomena and …
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By Tweet and By Speech: An Examination of Values in Donald Trump's Metaphor
… period studied includes the start of Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign up until the present. First, I discuss the central metaphor Trump uses in his remarks. Then, I classify Trump’s public speeches and tweets into separate categories, which include the ways in which his speech has affected …
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Falling in Love, or Falling in Line? Trump, Clinton, and Mobilization in the 2016 Election in Florida
The 2016 presidential election was a contentious period that exposed some of America’s deepest, most acrimonious divides. In few places was the contest more hard-fought than in Florida, a perennial swing state whose voters often play a decisive role in who occupies the White House. Previous …
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The effects of native advertisement on the U.S. news industry/
… (CRN) on the U.S. news industry, between March 2016 and February 2019. A CRN controls both the third-party ads and the house ads -- recommendations for news articles from the host publisher -- on a news publisher's website. During the 2016 presidential election, I found that 17% of ad headlines …
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Propaganda, surveillance and cyberspace: consequences of online dirty tricks
… alleged ploy of warping perception in America’s 2016 presidential election. Moreover, the FBI’s fake terrorist propaganda website that was a part of a scheme to monitor and encourage US citizens to fight in Syria. Betwixt in the multitudes of fractured realities is the individual citizen, who is …
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Explainable Argument Mining
… when tested on a corpus of debate from the US 2016 Presidential election, and comparable results to state of the art techniques when tested on widely used third-party corpora.<br/><br/>The work presented in this thesis offers two principal contributions, the development of a range of argument …