Words that matter : how the news and social media shaped the 2016 presidential campaign / Leticia Bode, Ceren Budak, Jonathan M. Ladd, Frank Newport, Josh Pasek, Lisa O. Singh, Stuart N. Soroka, Michael W. Traugott.

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"The 2016 presidential election campaign might have seemed to be all about one man. He certainly did everything possible to reinforce that impression. But to an unprecedented degree the campaign also was about the news media and its relationships with the man who won and the woman he defeated. The a...

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Main Authors: Bode, Leticia (Author)
Budak, Ceren (Author)
Ladd, Jonathan M., 1978- (Author)
Newport, Frank (Author)
Pasek, Josh (Author)
Singh, Lisa O. (Author)
Soroka, Stuart Neil, 1970- (Author)
Traugott, Michael W. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Presidents > United States > Election > 2016.
Political campaigns > Press coverage > United States.
Press and politics > United States.
Journalism > Political aspects > United States.
Social media > Political aspects > United States.
Journalism > Political aspects.
Presidents > Election.
Press and politics.
Social media > Political aspects.
United States.
2016
Physical Description:ix, 262 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The Changed Information Environment of Presidential Campaigns
  • What Might Have Made News: Big Issues, Historic Candidates, and Hillary Clinton's Strange Email Scandal
  • What the Media Covered, Journalists Tweeted, and the Public Heard about the Candidates
  • The August 2015 Republican Debate: A Study of Information Flow in the 2015-2016 Republican Nomination Contest
  • The Language and Tone of the 2016 Campaign
  • The Things People Heard about Trump and Clinton
  • Public Attention to Events in the 2016 Election: What Mattered?
  • Fake News Production and Consumption
  • Conclusions: Determining What (Words) Mattered.