Archive: politics
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Democracy: Armageddon
The latest Rasmussen report finds that only five percent of "Likely U.S. Voters" rate the job Congress is doing as good or excellent. When Mike Huckabee went on Fox and Friends last month he noted th
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Continental Comparisons: How Well Did We Really Fare in 2011?
On the evening of January 24th, 2012, as millions of Americans were glued to their television screens watching President Obama’s third State of the Union, another topic was on the mind of citizens in
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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A Return to Partisan Press?
Although the “Partisan Press” era, during which newspapers were controlled by individuals or organizations who could advance their own agendas and views, was prominent over 200 years ago, the media l
Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog
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Two-Step Tweets: Teaching an Old Framework New Tricks
As media effects scholarship has evolved over the decades, media has always been understood to perform an important and influential function in society. Questions of whom media influence, with what e
Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog
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You Are the Ad: The Facebook "Like"
Before I went to see George Clooney’s The Ides of March, I checked the movie’s score at Rotten Tomatoes. Eighty or so percent, I thought. Sounds good. I then noticed some interactive features I didn’
Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog
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Private Lives in Politics: How Far is Too Far?
As the Republican primary race drags on into the Fall, the issues that will shape both the primaries and the general election in 2012 become clearer by the day. The economy, jobs, taxes and foreign
Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog
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Apathetic toward Apathy?
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Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog
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Democracy, Divides and (not so) Deep Pockets
Recently, as I was pillaging my husband’s stack of political magazines, I started flipping through a copy of Roll Call, a publication that has covered the happenings on Capitol Hill since the 1950’s.
Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog
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Parking Lott: The Role of Web logs in the Fall of Sen. Trent Lott
Abstract: In December 2002, Republican Senate leader Trent Lott said that if Strom Thurmond had been elected president in 1948 on a segregationist platform, "we wouldn't have had all these problems ov
Categories: Earlier to 2006, Journal