2022
DOI: 10.1002/poi3.313
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Immigrants, deviants, and drug users: A rhetorical analysis of President Trump's fear‐driven tweets during the 2019 government shutdown

Abstract: Social media platforms are widely used by numerous political officials to quickly disseminate information and/or obtain influence. Yet, little emphasis has been placed on analyzing how the dissemination of contentious messages is propagated using these e‐platforms. The purpose of this study is to examine President Donald J. Trump's political rhetoric about immigration policies during the 2018–2019 government shutdown. In doing so, we qualitatively coded 1411 of Trump's tweets from October 1, 2018, to February … Show more

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“…It is also one of the few policy studies that explore emotions using a comprehensive list. Whereas many studies might analyze one emotion in isolation, such as fear (Bustinza & Witkowski, 2022; Pierce, 2021) this study analyzed twelve of them. Ultimately, by highlighting the role of emotional expressions in public policy discourse, this paper paints a more complete picture of the way that actors engage in debate on conflictual issues and express their beliefs—it highlights the emotional contours of public deliberation, and potentially how we can understand and influence them in positive way as far as public policy is concerned.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is also one of the few policy studies that explore emotions using a comprehensive list. Whereas many studies might analyze one emotion in isolation, such as fear (Bustinza & Witkowski, 2022; Pierce, 2021) this study analyzed twelve of them. Ultimately, by highlighting the role of emotional expressions in public policy discourse, this paper paints a more complete picture of the way that actors engage in debate on conflictual issues and express their beliefs—it highlights the emotional contours of public deliberation, and potentially how we can understand and influence them in positive way as far as public policy is concerned.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%