One of the most important things leaders do is communicate. Though research on leaders'
communication has been active for half a century, to date there has been little effort to review …

Dominant narratives-from the Cold War consensus to the War on Terror-have often served
as the foundation for debates over national security. Weaving current challenges, past …

“Doing News Framing Analysis is a treasure trove for almost anything that the graduate
student or seasoned scholar would want to know about the burgeoning cross-disciplinary …

Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate
strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds …

I was recently talking with one of my graduate students about framing analysis. When I
mentioned rhetorical framing analysis, the student expressed surprise: she was unaware of …

The Pursuit of Public Journalism is an engaging introduction to the theoretical foundations
and practices of the journalistic reform movement known as' public journalism.'Public …

It has become somewhat of a truism that each new medium of communication is heralded as
a radical departure from preexisting ones. From the telegraph to television, the advent of …

The topic of political rhetoric concerns the strategies used to construct persuasive arguments
in political debate. The study of political rhetoric therefore spans a range of academic …

Criticism of the news media's performance in the months before the 2003 Iraq War has been
profuse. Scholars, commentators, and journalists themselves have argued that the media …

Observers commonly argue that emotional appeal is critical for persuasive communication in
mass media, science and social policy hearings, social problem advocacy, and politics. This …