Research Topic: Political Communication

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Pictures from the primaries: Black presidential hopefuls and representation differences across…

This study explored bimodal news coverage of Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, the two leading Black candidates during the Democratic…
Agenda Setting Political Communication
May 9, 2025

Multinational and Multimodal Character Framing of Political Candidates in Online News:…

An emerging body of research generally referred to as visual politics have brought the heavy research focus on linguistic modalities…
Political Communication
March 6, 2025

The Backstory to “Swaying the Public”: Design Chronicle of Election Forecast…

A year ago, we submitted an IEEE VIS paper entitled “Swaying the Public? Impacts of Election Forecast Visualizations on Emotion,…
Political Communication

“There Was Blood Coming Out of Her Eyes . . .”:…

This study tracks the affective agendas in the media’s portrayals of the nonverbal behavior of the 2016 presidential candidates, and…
Political Communication

The Emotional Power of Partisan Media: A Computer Vision Analysis of…

Building on theories of emotional contagion and affective priming, the study assesses the emotional impact of the U.S. partisan media’s…
Political Communication

Enjoyment and Appreciation of Political Advertisements: How Voters’ Issue Involvement and…

This study investigates how voters derive pleasure and meaning from political advertisements by conducting a 3 (sponsorship) × 2 (issue)…
Political Communication
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