Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>The topic for this thesis examines the utilization of senatorial websites by United States Senators as a new communication tool. Three different areas of content will be examined: informational content, interactive content and audio-visual content. Those three areas will be used to examine the differences between Senators in several different ways: gender and race, party affiliation, length of service in the senate, region of the country they represent, urban and rural states, and age of the Senators. The results showed 6 significant findings in the areas of content: Democrats had more informational content; Northern Senators had the best and Midwestern Senators had the least audio-visual content; newer Senators in the senate had more informational content; and younger Senators had more informational, interactive, and total content.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- MS
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Reed College of Media
- Year dc:date.available
- 1999
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Gwilliam, Melody Kay
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Ralph E. Hanson.
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/895
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:researchrepository.wvu.edu:etd-1898