Political Rhetoric and the Media

Description

This volume of The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research features analyses of the C-SPAN Video Library, a digital collection of 275,000 hours of indexed videos, texts, and spoken words. Included in this volume are papers on Rev. Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign, rhetorical analysis of agriculture policy, and an examination of Senator Edward Kennedy’s positions on health care. The text also contains analysis of the “spectacle of committee hearings” and a look at the visuals used in the second Trump impeachment trial.
FOREWORD

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. SHIFTING TELEVISION NEWS VALUES IN CABLE AMERICA, by Kathryn Cramer Brownell

2. TELEVISION, CHAOS, AND REFORM: REVISITING THE MCGOVERN CAMPAIGN VIA THE C-SPAN VIDEO LIBRARY, by Heather Hendershot

3. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF C-SPAN: TELEVISION AND THE JESSE JACKSON CAMPAIGNS, by Allison Perlman

4. SAME MESSENGER, NEW MESSAGE: SENATOR TED KENNEDY AND THE FRAMING OF HEALTH REFORM, by Jennifer Hopper

5. VISUALIZING THE INCITEMENT OF INSURRECTION: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF VISUAL SYMBOLS USED IN DONALD J. TRUMP’S SECOND IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, by Stephanie Wideman, Whitney Tipton, and Laura Merrifield Wilson

6. CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE HEARINGS AS PUBLIC SPECTACLE, by Joshua Guitar, Sheri Bleam, Jenna Thomas, Madeline Studebaker, and Matthew George

7. STRONG MEN, CARING WOMEN? HOW GENDER SHAPES EMOTIONAL POLITICAL RHETORIC, by Jared McDonald and Zachary Scott

8. CRACKING THE GLASS CEILING IN THE NEWSROOM: A HISTORICAL EXAMINATION OF WOMEN JOURNALISTS’ PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER IN THE MEDIA, by Newly Paul

10. MORAL SENTIMENTS OF U.S. CONGRESS’S FARM BILL DEBATES, 2012–2021, by Jacob A. Miller-Klugesherz

11. DETECTING NONVERBAL AGGRESSION IN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: A DEMONSTRATION AND RATIONALE FOR A CCSE DATA CO-OP, by Erik P. Bucy, Dhavan V. Shah, Zhongkai Sun, William A. Sethares, Porismita Borah, Sang Jung Kim, and Zening Duan

CONCLUSION

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Sujets

• Political Process
• Political Science
• Media studies
• C-SPAN
• Media

Informations

• Publié par: Purdue University Press
• Date de parution: 15 décembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781612498225
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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POLITICAL RHETORIC AND THE MEDIA
THE YEAR IN C-SPAN ARCHIVES RESEARCH
The C-SPAN Archives houses the online C-SPAN Video Library, which has recorded all of C-SPAN s television content since 1987. Extensive indexing, captioning, and other enhanced online features provide an unparalleled chronological and internally cross-referenced record for deeper study. The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research series presents the finest interdisciplinary research utilizing tools of the C-SPAN Video Library. Developed in partnership with the Center for C-SPAN Scholarship Engagement (CCSE) in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and with support from the C-SPAN Education Foundation, this series is guided by the ideal that all experimental outcomes, including those from our American experiment, can be best improved by directed study driving richer engagement and better understanding.
SERIES EDITOR
Robert X. Browning
Faculty Director, Center for C-SPAN Scholarship Engagement, Purdue University, and Executive Director of the C-SPAN Archives
OTHER TITLES IN THIS SERIES
The C-SPAN Archives: An Interdisciplinary Resource for Discovery, Learning, and Engagement
Exploring the C-SPAN Archives: Advancing the Research Agenda Advances in Research Using the C-SPAN Archives
The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research: Volume 4
President Trump s First Term: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 5
The Evolution of Political Rhetoric: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 6
Democracy and the Media: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 7
POLITICAL RHETORIC AND THE MEDIA
THE YEAR IN C-SPAN ARCHIVES RESEARCH
Volume 8
edited by
Robert X. Browning
Purdue University Press West Lafayette, Indiana
Copyright 2023 by Robert X. Browning.
Individual contributions are copyright of their respective authors.
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
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Cover image: SeanPavonePhoto/iStock via Getty images
This book is dedicated to all my C-SPAN colleagues, who everyday help build the C-SPAN Video Library
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1. SHIFTING TELEVISION NEWS VALUES IN CABLE AMERICA
Kathryn Cramer Brownell
2. TELEVISION, CHAOS, AND REFORM: REVISITING THE MCGOVERN CAMPAIGN VIA THE C-SPAN VIDEO LIBRARY
Heather Hendershot
3. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF C-SPAN: TELEVISION AND THE JESSE JACKSON CAMPAIGNS
Allison Perlman
4. SAME MESSENGER, NEW MESSAGE: SENATOR TED KENNEDY AND THE FRAMING OF HEALTH REFORM
Jennifer Hopper
5. VISUALIZING THE INCITEMENT OF INSURRECTION: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF VISUAL SYMBOLS USED IN DONALD J. TRUMP S SECOND IMPEACHMENT TRIAL
Stephanie Wideman, Whitney Tipton, and Laura Merrifield Wilson
6. CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE HEARINGS AS PUBLIC SPECTACLE
Joshua Guitar, Sheri Bleam, Jenna Thomas, Madeline Studebaker, and Matthew George
7. STRONG MEN, CARING WOMEN? HOW GENDER SHAPES EMOTIONAL POLITICAL RHETORIC
Jared McDonald and Zachary Scott
8. CRACKING THE GLASS CEILING IN THE NEWSROOM: A HISTORICAL EXAMINATION OF WOMEN JOURNALISTS PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER IN THE MEDIA
Newly Paul
9. MORAL SENTIMENTS OF U.S. CONGRESS S FARM BILL DEBATES, 2012-2021
Jacob A. Miller-Klugesherz
10. DETECTING NONVERBAL AGGRESSION IN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: A DEMONSTRATION AND RATIONALE FOR A CCSE DATA CO-OP
Erik P. Bucy, Dhavan V. Shah, Zhongkai Sun, William A. Sethares, Porismita Borah, Sang Jung Kim, and Zening Duan
CONCLUSION
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
FOREWORD
S peaking at the 1984 Hackers Conference in Marin County, California, technology guru Stewart Brand famously asserted that information wants to be free While Brand s pithy phrase has been widely cited in the subsequent (and ongoing) digital revolution, relatively few people place his quote in the context in which it appeared (note my careful use of ellipses). Brand s full quote, as cited in Levy (2014), was
On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other. *
Brand was pointing out a growing paradox in technology in which the societal value of information continued to be as high as ever, but the cost of its redistribution was dropping dramatically. Focusing on the value of information has often led some in society to try to lock it down tightly to maximize their own benefit. Others have focused on maximizing society s overall benefit and argued that as information becomes cheaper to distribute, it should be spread as widely as possible.
Since its founding a few years after Brand spoke, the C-SPAN Archives has come to exemplify this latter approach: In the decades since its founding in 1987, Robert X. Browning and his team, initially at Purdue and now as part of C-SPAN, have worked to ensure that scholars and the public could better interrogate the statements and actions of their elected representatives. Especially since the debut of the C-SPAN Video Library in 2007, the network has been committed to spreading its video resources as widely as possible online, including digitizing its massive back catalog of recordings. Today, C-SPAN is joined by the Purdue Center for C-SPAN Scholarship Engagement (CCSE), which encourages research and teaching using the C-SPAN Video Library and which sponsored the conference on which this book is based.
Like many other scholars, I have used the C-SPAN Video Library extensively in my research and teaching. As the 10 essays in this volume demonstrate, a wide variety of academic projects can be supported by this information infrastructure, including studies focusing on gender, oral histories, campaign and election coverage, rhetoric and framing of important public debate, journalism, visual symbols, and nonverbal communication.
However, the amazing success of C-SPAN s Video Library is demonstrated not only by the essays in this volume-and the countless other academic studies that have relied on data gleaned from the C-SPAN Archives-but also from all of the use it has seen from those outside of academia. With a collection now approaching 300,000 videos, the Archives reports more than a quarter billion views of its videos and counting. For a project focused first and foremost on the inner workings of government, that is a truly staggering reach.
It seems especially appropriate that this archive was created by a professor at Purdue-a public university. Higher education institutions-especially public universities-are funded by the public to create and spread knowledge. Especially in the case of land-grant universities like Purdue, a key part of their founding mission was to provide service to their communities.
The C-SPAN Archives has embodied that mission with the high quality, professionalism, and wide accessibility of its project. This sentiment was echoed by the committee that presented the Archives with a George Foster Peabody Award in 2010 for creating an enduring archive of the history of American policymaking, and for providing it as a free, user-friendly public service. In this case, at least, Brand s paradox has been solved by a dedicated team who have taken this tremendously valuable information and worked tirelessly to make it available to the public for free.
Tim Groeling
UCLA Department of Communication
Director, UCLA Communication Archive Digitization Project

* Levy, S. (2014). Hackers at 30: Hackers and information wants to be free. Wired . https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-at-30-hackers-and-information-wants-to-be-free/
PREFACE
T his eighth volume in The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research series is a blend of historical and rhetorical studies. Each essay uses the C-SPAN Video Library as the basis for analysis and advances our understanding of politics, communication, and history. The result is insights into a wide range of topics based on C-SPAN s video coverage. Together these eight volumes illustrate both different approaches to studying politics, but also different conclusions about political and communication phenomena.
The book begins with three studies by historians who each examine a portion of the media coverage of politics and campaigns. Katheryn Cramer Brownell begins by looking at the history of cable as it expanded its news coverage against the backdrop of the three major broadcast networks. It was during this period that C-SPAN was created, followed by the growth of Ted Turner s CNN. She uses a congressional hearing on early network projections to tell the story of cable and broadcast competition, with Turner holding a dollar sign to counter the broadcast networks claims that they provide a public service.
Heather Hendershot then uses the 1972 Democratic Convention that nominated Senator George McGovern to illustrate the three themes of her title: television, chaos, and reform. Rather than the carefully orchestrated television conventions of modern day, the 1972 convention was unruly and not on time. McGovern s keynote speech did not air until the following morning, thus missing the guaranteed primetime audiences that conventions were designed to deliver to. The reforms of the McGovern-Fraser Commission meant that many amateurs rather than party regulars were delegates and those managing the convention had much less experience.
Jesse Jackson s 1984 and especially his 1988 campaign are the subject of Allison Perlman s historical essay. She contrasts Jackson s coverage on nascent network C-SPAN with that of the other news networks. The latter treated Jackson as the Black candidate and gave him limited coverage. C-SPAN covered Jackson as one of the candidates and gave him equal coverage. She praises C-SPAN for its balance and candidate coverage in this early stage of