Political Communication Division

Perusing Candidate Web Sites: The Effects of Viewing Selected Content on Candidate Reports

The Internet plays an important role in political campaigns, but little is known about the effects of citizen exposure to candidate web sites. This experiment tests whether time spent

Assessing the Role of Television News and Newspapers in the Development of Issue Centered Electorates: A Multilevel Longitudinal Analysis of Moderating Effects

This research is an examination of television news viewing, newspaper reading, and candidate issue knowledge (IK) across nine presidential elections (1972-2004). Postulates are

How Print News Frames Voters and Why it Matters for Young Americans

Electoral participation is a defining characteristic of a democratic state. To date, however, scholars have yet to track how voters are discussed in the United States and assess the effects of such