The 2016 Trump campaign held more than 300 rallies. Our research examines whether
these rallies and Trump's rhetoric served as opportunities for the spread of hate. We …

Although there is widespread agreement in the literature that the media play an instrumental
role in furthering or limiting the spread of right-wing populism, there are few studies that …

Prior research determines whether politicians at rallies make programmatic, clientelist or
personalist appeals. We argue that this reductive approach obscures the variety of meaning …

ABSTRACT US journalists covering Donald Trump's presidential campaign and early
administration submitted to unprecedented abuse while normalizing and legitimizing his …

Journalists play a part in the public's perception of issues through priming, framing, and
agenda setting media effects (McCombs, 2014; Power et al., 1996; Quinsaat, 2014) …

Journalists' and publics' relationship with truth-telling is so messy because the term “truth”
holds multitudes of competing senses that are rarely acknowledged in journalism discourse …

This paper is trying to explore the Uses and Gratification hypothesis, as it applies to Twitter
political debates. The findings show that the level of ideological segregation online may be …

Statistics are widely acknowledged as an essential part of journalism. Yet despite repeated
investigations showing that routine news coverage involving statistics leaves much to be …

This review of three introductory textbooks in the field of popular culture published in 2018
and 2019 focuses on the different perspectives they provide on such culture, as a means for …

Donald Trump has enjoyed a nearly 30-year relationship with World Wrestling Entertainment
as a business partner, fan, in-ring performer and 2013 Hall of Fame Inductee. Noting this …