The Impact of News Media Favorability and Candidate Events in Presidential Campaigns

El impacto de la movilidad cognitiva y los medios de información en la participación política de los mexicanos

“…Bartels & Brady (1993) establecieron que en la campaña presidencial de 1980 en Estados Unidos, los medios de comunicación (televisión) incidieron en la aprobación del desempeño del presidente Carter. A partir de un análisis diario en los medios norteamericanos, Shaw (1999) encontró que los noticieros tuvieron cierta relevancia en el cambio de las preferencias electorales durante las elecciones presidenciales de 1992 y 1996. Por lo tanto, existe una extensa literatura que presenta evidencia empírica respecto de cómo los medios afectan las decisiones políti-cas del electorado (Bennett & Entman, 2001;Eveland & Hively, 2009;Shah, Cho, Eveland & Kwak, 2005).…”

Young Citizens, ICTs and Learning

“…At first this might seem to be quite an encompassing view, but not in practice. A survey of the articles within the research field's dominating periodical Political communication makes that obvious: among the articles we find for instance a special issue on the American election of president (Bimber, 2002), an article on knowledge gaps in the same election (Holbrook, 2002), an article on the citizens' perceptions on the fairness in the news media's reporting (Earl et al, 2001), a text on male and female political candidates presentation of self on the internet (Niven & Zilber, 2001) and another article on gaps in knowledge and varying participation in political life due to the various uses of news media and -finally -a text on the classical theme on whether the news media can impact the turn out of a political election (Shaw, 1999).…”

The Calculus of Concession

“…Although much of the existing literature on media effects in campaigns has focused on the influence that journalists' coverage has on voters' information about candidates and issues (Bartels, 1988;Just et al, 1996;Weaver & Drew, 1995), some recent research has demonstrated that campaign events, and the news coverage of those events, can significantly affect candidates' chances of electoral success (Holbrook, 1994(Holbrook, , 1996Shaw, 1999;Shaw & Roberts, 2000), thus making press coverage an important resource for candidates. But despite this work, there has been less systematic analysis given to the specific impact that news coverage may have on candidate strategic decisions (but see Flowers et al, 2003;Norrander, 1996).…”