Democracy and the Media

Robert X. Browning is a professor of political science and communication at Purdue University. He is the founder and executive director of the C-SPAN Archives, which received a George Foster Peabody Award in 2010 for its online Video Library of over 265,000 hours of C-SPAN content. He is the author of Politics and Social Welfare Policy in the United States and articles on redistricting. He is the editor of the series The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, published annually by Purdue University Press.

FOREWORD PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS EVALUATING CANDIDATES FAST AND SLOW: CAN INITIAL IMPRESSIONS BE SOCIALLY INFLUENCED?, by Julie Grandjean, Jeffrey Hunter, and Erik P. Bucy READ THE ROOM: THE EFFECT OF CAMPAIGN EVENT FORMAT ON THE USE OF EMOTIONAL LANGUAGE, by Zachary A. Scott CONSTRUCTING 21ST-CENTURY CITIZENS: CONGRESSIONAL DISCOURSES IN U.S. CITIZENSHIP POLICY SPEECHES, by Alison N. Novak TALKIN' AND TESTIFYING: BLACK CONGRESSWOMEN'S RESPONSE TO COVID-19, by Nadia E. Brown, Jasmine C. Jackson, and Michael Strawbridge TOEING THE LINE IN POLARIZED TIMES: CONGRESSIONAL ATTACKS ON THE MEDIA, by Carly Schmitt CONGRESS AS COMEDY AUDIENCE: A DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS OF LATE-NIGHT COMEDY CITED IN CONGRESSIONAL DEBATES, by Stephanie Brown GENDER SCHEMA AND POLITICS: A COGNITIVE STUDY ON GENDER ISSUES IN POLITICS, by Zachary Isaacs and Cassidy Hansen PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS AND THE HEALTH SECURITY TASK FORCE: USING C-SPAN TO UNDERSTAND PERCEPTIONS OF EXPERTISE, by Bo Blew BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL: C-SPAN2 AND SENATE LEADERS' VIEWS OF TELEVISION COVERAGE, by Douglas B. Harris EXAMINING ECONOMIC REALITY AND MEDIA SPECTACLE AT TRUMP CAMPAIGN RALLIES, by Timothy Betts DONALD TRUMP'S CRUCIBLE: ANALYZING THE C-SPAN VIDEO ARCHIVE OF WISCONSIN TRUMP RALLIES, by David A. Frank A COMPUTATIONAL EXPLORATION OF THE EVOLUTION OF GOVERNMENTAL POLICY RESPONSES TO EPIDEMICS BEFORE AND DURING THE ERA OF COVID-19, by Philip D. Waggoner CONCLUSION CONTRIBUTORS INDEX