Civic Hope: How Ordinary Americans Keep Democracy Alive

Howard, Charles Lattimore

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“…No known corpus of media discourses is random because of the high heterogeneity of media landscapes. Chew et al (2023), Soroka and Wlezien (2022), and Hart (2018) all used theoretically constructed samples with comparable parameters.…”

Section: Data and Methodological Triangulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A similar research design has several precedents. Hart mixed survey data with content analysis of media discourse (Hart, 2018) and political discourse (Hart, 2020). Fan (1988) and Ivanov (2016) tracked political statements at the source, during their transmission and at the destination, comparing political, media, and mass discourses.…”

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Propaganda channels and their comparative effectiveness: The case of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Oleinik,

Paniotto

2024

International Sociology

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Since Lasswell, propaganda has been considered one of three chief implements of warfare, along with military and economic pressure. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine revives public and scholarly interest in war propaganda. The Russian political leader frames the war as an imperial war. The Ukrainian political leader frames it as a war of national liberation. The discursive battle thus complements the military combat. The outcome of the discursive combat depends on the effectiveness of propaganda deployed by the parties involved. Propaganda effectiveness is the propagation of war-related messages stated by political leaders through various media with no or few distortions. The effectiveness of propaganda is compared (1) across countries, with a particular focus on two belligerents, Russia and Ukraine, (2) in the function of the medium (mass media, digital media), and (iii) using two different methods (content analysis and survey research). Data were collected during the first year of the large-scale invasion (February 2022 to February 2023). Survey data allowed measuring the degree of the target audience’s agreement with key propagated messages.

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Section: Data and Methodological Triangulationmentioning

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Section: Data and Methodological Triangulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Propaganda channels and their comparative effectiveness: The case of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Oleinik,

Paniotto

2024

International Sociology

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“…Qualitative methods have been central to understanding audience members' relationship with and attitudes towards news producers (Nord, 1995;Palmer, 2019;Toff, 2021). Letters to the editor, in particular, have been a crucial source for understanding historical news audiences (Hart 2018;Nord 1995), as well as contemporary readers (Nielsen, 2010;Wahl-Jorgensen, 2001). Although letter-writers are typically more civically engaged, more motivated, or more partisan than average readers, they do provide a discourse of attitudes about journalism.…”

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“The right to voice your opinions”: A historical case study in audience members’ emotional hostility to radio journalists

McGarr

2022

Journalism

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A focus on political consensus in the United States in the early 1950s has created a false sense of a period of national unity and of the press in that period as a trusted institution. This article uses listener hate mail to radio reporters during a divisive moment—President Harry Truman’s removal of General Douglas MacArthur from his command in the Korean War in April 1951—to identify a politically rancorous discourse, aimed at the press. This period of high emotion for Americans provides a case study in audience members’ sometimes hostile relationship with journalists and does so at an early moment in the creation of a truly mass national news audience. I analyze hundreds of unpublished, archival letters, from a time when public opinion polling was relatively new and still problematic, to rethink what our baseline measurement is for media trust and better contextualize claims about its trajectory. I find three tropes that are especially resonant in the present day and became more visible parts of the public discourse with the presidency of Donald Trump: anti-press attitudes, isolationism, and antisemitism.

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“…go undetected in surveys." Hart and colleagues (Hart, 2018;Hart et al, 2013) assert that polls often lump all those who support or oppose a policy together without accounting for the depth of assumptions or values behind them.…”

Section: Polls As a Quantitative Measure Of The Voice Of The Peoplementioning

confidence: 99%

“…and go to school board meetings and speak" (Hauser, 2007, p. 336). Still others believe opinions can be found in multiple places, including internet chat rooms (Harp & Tremayne, 2006;Shaw & Benkler, 2012), petitions and gossip (Branstetter, 2016), open-ended surveys, interviews, and focus groups (Coleman, 2012;Perrin, 2006), online comment strings (Coe et al, 2014), social media (Bennett, 2012), Twitter (McGregor, 2019, and letters to the editor (Hart, 2018). And while many of these methods of assessing public sentiment lack, in Althaus' terms (2003), representation by abandoning the random sample, each could achieve representation by identifying those opinions the people are willing to share in the places they feel most comfortable.…”

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The Qualitative Power of a Crowd: Trump’s Rallies, Public Opinion, Attention Economy

Jarvis

Park-Ozee

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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Journalists, pundits, and pollsters critiqued President Donald J. Trump’s fixation on his crowds—often suggesting they were smaller than he boasted or meaningless in connection to electoral or legislative outcomes. This project takes a qualitative rather than a quantitative stance to interpreting the meaning of Trump’s crowds. In doing so, we find messages presented his rallies as (1) engaging multiple audiences, (2) eliciting feedback from his base to sharpen his talking points, and (3) enraging his devotees to act on his behalf. These types of communications did two things that traditional polling data are unlikely to do: they garnered attention and vast recirculation in the contemporary media environment and have been linked to the insurrection of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. This article draws from scholarship on Trump, news coverage, and social media posts to advance these themes, invites a more nuanced look at crowds as a complement to traditional understandings of public opinion, and closes by posing paths for future discussions of them.

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Civic Hope: How Ordinary Americans Keep Democracy Alive

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Propaganda channels and their comparative effectiveness: The case of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Propaganda channels and their comparative effectiveness: The case of Russia’s war in Ukraine

“The right to voice your opinions”: A historical case study in audience members’ emotional hostility to radio journalists

The Qualitative Power of a Crowd: Trump’s Rallies, Public Opinion, Attention Economy

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