1st Edition
Conservative Political Communication How Right-Wing Media and Messaging (Re)Made American Politics
Introduction 1
Sharon E. Jarvis
1 Placing Media in Conservative Culture 9
Matt Grossmann and David A. Hopkins
2 Conservatives and Race 26
Michael J. Lee
3 Conservatives and Party Labels 49
Jacob R. Neiheisel
4 Conservatives and the Tea Party 66
Joshua M. Scacco, David A. Weaver, and Eric C. Wiemer
5 Conservative Voters vs. Trump Supporters 89
Jay T. Jennings
6 Conservatives and Women 102
Lindsey Meeks
7 Conservatives and Incivility 119
Ashley Muddiman
8 Conservatives and Anger 137
Bryan T. Gervais and Irwin L. Morris
9 Conservatives and Twitter Bots 155
Michael W. Kearney
10 Conservatives and Asymmetric Polarization 166
Annelise Russell
11 Conservatives and News Feeds 177
Katherine Haenschen
12 Conservatives and Misinformation 193
Jessica R. Collier
Biography
Sharon E. Jarvis is Professor, Department of Communication Studies, and Associate Director of Research at the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t: How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It) (with Soo-Hye Han), Political Keywords: Using Language that Uses Us (with Roderick P. Hart, Deborah Smith-Howell, and William Jennings), and Talk of the Party: Political Labels, Symbolic Capital & American Life. Her research focuses on political language, partisan communication, and persuasion.
