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  • Persuasive Attack

    Threatening Reputations in Public Discourse

    Persuasive attacks have captured public interest for centuries. These attacks uniquely span the range from high level politics to celebrity scandal. Each context highlights totally different harmful behaviors, yet key strategies are employed in consistent, and surprisingly unique, ways.This book investigates the nature of persuasive attack by examining the strategies used in various cases to ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Accounts, Excuses, and Apologies

    Image Repair Theory Extended

    Proposes a theory and case studies on repairing a damaged or threatened image or reputation.In our constantly plugged-in and connected world, image is everything. People, groups, organizations, and countries frequently come under suspicion of wrongdoing and sometimes require defense. Accounts, Excuses, and Apologies describes the image-repair strategies that may be used to help defuse these ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Communication in Political Campaigns

    Functional Analysis of Election Messages

    This book is based on the Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse. It adopts a communication perspective to campaigns for public office. It discusses medium (e.g., speeches TV spots, debates, social media), sources of campaign messages, context (e.g., primary vs. general campaign), audience (voters and how they process messages), news coverage of election campaigns, and non-presidential ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea

    Series series Korean Communities across the World
    This book deepens scholarly understandings of how digital technologies reconfigure civic engagement by examining the distinctive trajectories of online activism in the Korean context.Drawing on a diverse set of case studies-including SNS-driven political participation, the 2008 U.S. beef protests, the 2016–2017 candlelight vigils, and the #MeToo movement-the volume situates these movements within ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Presidential Campaigns in the Age of Social Media

    Clinton and Trump

    This book offers content analyses of the 2016 presidential candidate campaign messages from the primary and the general election. The chapters examine both new (Twitter, Facebook) and traditional (TV spots, debates, speeches) media employed in this contest. This allows comparison of campaign phases (primary versus general), candidates (Republican primary and Democratic primary candidates; general ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

  • Persuasive Attacks on Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Primary

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    Persuasive Attacks on Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Primary investigates the nature of persuasive attacks on Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential primary campaign. It begins by extending the Theory of Persuasive Attack to include attacks on character as well as attacks on actions. William L. Benoit & Mark J. Glantz use topical analysis to understand humor (late night television jokes; ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Political Election Debates

    Informing Voters about Policy and Character

    Political debates are an important facet of modern election campaigns. How politicians frame an argument, how the audience perceives it, and how the media decides to display it are key components in analyzing the outcome of a political debate, and ultimately, an election. Drawing mainly on the functional theory of political campaign discourse, William L. Benoit examines a wide variety of debates ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • A Functional Analysis of Political Television Advertisements

    A Functional Analysis of Political Television Advertisements examines theory and research on election advertisements. William Benoit employs the Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse to understand the nature or content of television spots in election campaigns. Beginning with a look at American presidential spots from 1952–2012, Benoit investigates the three functions—acclaims, attacks ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Political Campaign Communication

    Theory, Method, and Practice

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical, rhetorical, content analyses and social science methodologies as well as a variety of foci on the ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • Putting Image Repair to the Test

    Quantitative Applications of Image Restoration Theory

    Putting Image Repair to the Test:Quantitative Applications of Image Restoration Theory examines content analytic, attitudinal, and behavioral claims to advance current assertions made about image repair discourse, its effects, and the surrounding discourse. The contributors provide empirical data to answer research questions and to test various hypotheses in one substantive volume that builds on ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Praeger Handbook of Political Campaigning in the United States

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    Edited by William L. Benoit ...
    This work peels back the curtain on how political campaigns influence America, covering everything from social media to getting to the Oval Office.This comprehensive handbook reveals essentially everything the American public wants to know about political campaigns. The two-volume set begins with a historical overview, then goes on to investigate campaigns from a variety of perspectives that shed ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Presidential Candidate Images

    Series series Communication, Media, and Politics
    This engaging look at presidential candidate images features a wide range of essays that dissect how these images are formed and manipulated during campaigns. As more and more emphasis is placed on a candidate's persona and how it affects our voting decisions, Presidential Candidate Images provides a variety of frameworks and cases for analyzing candidate images in past, current, and future ... Read more

    $55.99 USD