President Trump’s First Term

Robert X. Browning

Description

C-SPAN is the network of record for US political affairs, broadcasting live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided––without editing, commentary, or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view.

The C-SPAN Archives, located adjacent to Purdue University, is the home of the online C-SPAN Video Library. The Archives has recorded all of C-SPAN's television content since 1987. Extensive indexing, captioning, and other enhanced online features provide researchers, policy analysts, students, teachers, and public officials with an unparalleled chronological and internally cross-referenced record for deeper study.

Books in this series present the finest interdisciplinary research utilizing tools of the C-SPAN Video Library. Each volume highlights recent scholarship and comprises leading experts and emerging voices in political science, journalism, psychology, computer science, communication, and a variety of other disciplines. Each section within each volume includes responses from expert discussants. Developed in partnership with the Center for C-SPAN Scholarship & Engagement in the Purdue University Brian Lamb School of Communication with support from the C-SPAN Education Foundation, this volume is guided by the ideal that research based on C-SPAN video can increase our understanding of American politics and democracy based on the ideals of our American experiment.

The fifth volume of the C-SPAN Archives research focuses primarily on the Trump presidency in the first term. Chapters address his moral language, his rhetoric on climate change, and African American support for Trump. Other chapters use the C-SPAN Archives to study congressional influence on immigration policy, nonverbal cues in congressional speeches, and local and national perspectives on congressional debates.

FOREWORD

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART 1: C-SPAN AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Edited by Kathryn Cramer Brownell

CHAPTER 1: Congressional Election Debates: Between the

National and the Local, by Stephen M. Llano

CHAPTER 2: Political Gaslighting in the Climate Change Discourse

Surrounding the 2016 Election

Farah Latif

CHAPTER 3: Exploring the Oral Histories of African Americans

Who Support Donald Trump, by Ray Block Jr. and Christina S. Haynes

PART 2: USING THE C-SPAN VIDEO LIBRARY TO STUDY CONGRESSIONAL RHETORIC, Edited by Logan Strother

CHAPTER 4: Congress and Immigration Policy: Use of Moral Language Surrounding the Trump Presidency, by Jennifer Hoewe and Mohammed Ziny

CHAPTER 5: Building the Border Wall: Congressional Efforts to Support Trump’s Immigration Legacy, by Carly Schmitt and Matthew L. Bergbower

CHAPTER 6: Using the Judiciary: C-SPAN, Judicial Activism, and the

Constitutive Function of Law in the Trump Era, by Joseph Sery

PART 3: C-SPAN IN CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP, Edited by Diana Zulli

CHAPTER 7: Talking Half Answers: Examining President Donald Trump’s Joint Press Conference Equivocation During His First Year, by Nichole A. Russell, Alexandra Johnson, and Patrick A. Stewart

CHAPTER 8: Ignore the Hoaxsters and Unleash American Energy:

President Trump’s Rhetoric on Climate Change, by Heather W. Cann and Janel Jett

CHAPTER 9: Nonverbal Cues in Congressional Speeches: A Wink and a Nod to Twitter Engagement, by Amber Williams Lusvardi and Terri L. Towner

CONCLUSION

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Sujets

• Political Process
• Political Science
• Communication studies
• United States Congress
• Media

Informations

• Publié par: Purdue University Press
• Date de parution: 15 février 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781612496184
• Langue: English

Extrait

“For almost 25 years I have watched the C-SPAN Video Library evolve into the nonpareil of data on congressional institutional behavior. Most instructors of the legislative process have utilized the C-SPAN’s material in the classroom with great success. Here, in this volume, Robert X. Browning once again demonstrates the myriad ways scholars can advance conventional wisdom on the U.S. Congress and institutions with the C-SPAN Video Library’s seemingly unlimited data. Debates, hearings, and floor speeches are just a few fascinating resources that are brilliantly used in this volume. These research studies offer several exiting new directions for scholars to consider in the future.”
—Jonathan S. Morris, Department of Political Science, East Carolina University
“The value of the C-SPAN Video Library as an incredibly rich research resource shines through in the breadth of analysis and insight on display in this latest collection of studies in the Year in C-SPAN Archives Research series. The range of congressional, presidential, and procedural footage of American political life available in the library is simply unparalleled in its depth and scope. What researchers make of these archives, and the insights they continue to yield, is only limited by their collective imagination and analytical ingenuity. Series editor and archives maestro Robert X. Browning must be commended for his tireless efforts to make these materials accessible to the wider research community.”
—Erik P. Bucy, Marshall and Sharleen Formby Regents Professor of Strategic Communication, Texas Tech University, coauthor of Image Bite Politics: News and the Visual Framing of Elections
PRESIDENT
TRUMP’S
FIRST TERM
THE YEAR IN C-SPAN ARCHIVES RESEARCH
Robert X. Browning, Series Editor
The C-SPAN Archives, located adjacent to Purdue University, is the home of the online C-SPAN Video Library, which has copied all of C-SPAN’s television content since 1987. Extensive indexing, captioning, and other enhanced online features provide researchers, policy analysts, students, teachers, and public officials with an unparalleled chronological and internally cross-referenced record for deeper study. The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research presents the finest interdisciplinary research utilizing tools of the C-SPAN Video Library. Each volume highlights recent scholarship and comprises leading experts and emerging voices in political science, journalism, psychology, computer science, communication, and a variety of other disciplines. Developed in partnership with 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.
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
edited by Robert X. Browning
Purdue University Press • West Lafayette, Indiana
Copyright 2020 by Robert X. Browning.
Individual contributions are copyright of their respective authors.
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
Paper ISBN: 978-155753-882-6
ePDF ISBN: 978-161249-619-1
ePUB ISBN: 978-161249-618-4
Cover: National Archives Building (Png-Studio/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images)
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART 1: C-SPAN AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Edited by Kathryn Cramer Brownell
CHAPTER 1
Congressional Election Debates: Between the National and the Local
Stephen M. Llano
CHAPTER 2
Political Gaslighting in the Climate Change Discourse Surrounding the 2016 Election
Farah Latif
CHAPTER 3
Exploring the Oral Histories of African Americans Who Support Donald Trump
Ray Block Jr. and Christina S. Haynes
PART 2: USING THE C-SPAN VIDEO LIBRARY TO STUDY CONGRESSIONAL RHETORIC
Edited by Logan Strother
CHAPTER 4
Congress and Immigration Policy: Use of Moral Language Surrounding the Trump Presidency
Jennifer Hoewe and Mohammed Ziny
CHAPTER 5
Building the Border Wall: Congressional Efforts to Support Trump’s Immigration Legacy
Carly Schmitt and Matthew L. Bergbower
CHAPTER 6
Using the Judiciary: C-SPAN, Judicial Activism, and the Constitutive Function of Law in the Trump Era
Joseph Sery
PART 3: C-SPAN IN CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP
Edited by Diana Zulli
CHAPTER 7
Talking Half Answers: Examining President Donald Trump’s Joint Press Conference Equivocation During His First Year
Nichole A. Russell, Alexandra Johnson, and Patrick A. Stewart
CHAPTER 8
Ignore the Hoaxsters and Unleash American Energy: President Trump’s Rhetoric on Climate Change
Heather W. Cann and Janel Jett
CHAPTER 9
Nonverbal Cues in Congressional Speeches: A Wink and a Nod to Twitter Engagement
Amber Williams Lusvardi and Terri L. Towner
CONCLUSION
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
FOREWORD
With the publication of this fifth collection of essays whose video analysis and data are derived from the C-SPAN Archives, we have the opportunity to once again appreciate and assess the contribution the Archives has made to our understanding of the political process, as well as to appreciate the changes that have occurred over time. As with the creation of the C-SPAN networks themselves, the nation and the scholarly community are indebted to the vision of Brian Lamb. Lamb recognized the potential of archiving C-SPAN programming and the power of making the archive available to the public. He presented his idea to Professor David Berg, the then head of the Department of Communication at Purdue University, who consulted with me, and we agreed that Professor Robert Browning, a specialist on Congress, would be an excellent fit to meet with Lamb and a group of Purdue faculty. At the time, I daresay none of us realized that Lamb’s successful recruitment of Browning as a willing collaborator would result in not only the enormous growth and success of the Archives but also a more than 30-year partnership.
The C-SPAN Video Library began within the Purdue University School of Liberal Arts in 1987 under the leadership of Dr. Browning, who sought a way to archive and index the thousands of hours of congressional coverage produced by the network every year. In the early days of the archive, because of the nature of the technology of the time, this meant physically inserting and ejecting each videotape and tagging the contents for future retrieval. Currently, the Video Library records all three C-SPAN networks 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. The digitalization of video recording has dramatically transformed the recording, encoding, retrieval, and distribution processes, with the result that hundreds of thousands of hours of video have been made available to the public and the database of C-SPAN programming has become an unparalleled chronological resource on Congress and governmental affairs, with more than 250,000 digital hours of recording available. As of this writing, in this year alone more than 35 million videos have been viewed. C-SPAN’s achievements have not gone unrecognized. In 2010, following Peabody Awards in 1992 for its “ongoing service” of “providing access to information indispensable to an intelligent citizenry” and in 2000 for the series American Presidents: Life Portraits , C-SPAN received a third Peabody Award, this one for the Video Library.
Reviewing the contributions to this volume and the four previous volumes, one cannot help but be impressed by the variety of scholarship included. The volumes feature contributions on discovery, learning, and engagement. Authors from a wide variety of epistemological approaches and disciplines employ the Video Library to explore an extraordinary range of subjects—for example, presidential debates, climate change, gender, judicial appointments, immigration, and crises—in a wide variety of contexts, floor debates, committee hearings, and town halls. And they do so with the full panoply of methodological approaches: traditional discourse analysis, linguistic text analysis, video bite analysis, experiments, framing, and media effects, among others. This latest volume is no exception, and it very nicely illustrates the contribution that the C-SPAN Video Library brings to the analysis of these issues. The linguistic analysis of debate, discussion, and presentation can be and is linked with visual cues, which enables much deeper dialogue about the role of emotion and the impact of video communication. The Archives has already produced much knowledge that would not have been possible without it. As new computational social science and visual data analysis tools are developed and applied to this rich resource, even greater advances in our understanding of government and public policymaking will emerge, and we can anticipate that the C-SPAN Archives will continue not only to provide the base video but also to assist scholars in the exploitation of this remarkable resource.
Michael Stohl
Professor of Communication, Political Science, and Global Studies University of California, Santa B