Political scientists have failed to recognize the political importance of the president's spouse. While the evolving role of the first lady over time from White House hostess to presidential advisor has been documented ...

This study investigates how the Indian government in 2017 uses social media to reach out to Indian citizens online. The study additionally analyzes how the Indian government leverages its digital presence to engage with ...

Presidential campaigns in the United States have become exponentially longer in the past several decades. We have also seen a great decrease in political engagement, which in turn is weakening our democratic system. I argue ...

The Deaf community has unique socializing factors, primarily linguistic, that influence their political engagement and are directly affected by political and procedural accessibility to the new media environment. The ...

This paper attempts to explain why China still allow some people to use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to bypass China’s heavily guarded Internet content censorship system, despite the assumption that the free flow of ...

This thesis applies multiple methodologies, including content analysis and framing analysis, to explore the Chinese language print media’s coverage of the 2016 Presidential Election and to investigate its influence on ...

Elections are nonlinear and consist of a series of people, companies, organizations, and money that constantly interact with and adapt to one another as circumstances change and coevolve. The political network in the 2012 ...

"Do Political Film Adaptations Affect Voter Knowledge?" examines the educational influence of films on viewing audiences. Using the film "Recount" (2008), an HBO television movie, as a case study, I conducted a multi-method ...

In his seminal work, The Rhetorical Presidency (1987), Tulis argues that a reinterpretation of the president's constitutional role in the early twentieth century legitimized the creation of the bully pulpit. With an expanded ...

This study seeks to understand how the state of race relations in America is interpreted, imagined and portrayed through modern American televisual political dramas. The recent marked increase in the number of prime-time ...