Kathleen Hall Jamieson
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Basic Books/New Republic Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Examines the way politics are played out, using examples from late twentieth-century presidential campaigns, covering the content and effects of campaigns, candidate advertising, issue-advocacy advertising, and the influence of news.
2) Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know
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English
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The question of how Donald Trump won the 2016 election looms over his presidency. In particular, were the 78,000 voters who gave him an Electoral College victory affected by the Russian trolls and hackers? Trump has denied it. So too has Vladimir Putin. Others cast the answer as unknowable. Drawing on path-breaking work in which she and her colleagues isolated significant communication effects in the 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns, the eminent...
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English
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The founders of FactCheck.org teach you how to identify and debunk spin, hype, and fake news in this essential guide to informed citizenship in an age of misinformation. Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media is often too intimidated, too partisan, or too overworked to keep up with these deceptions. unSpun is the secret decoder ring for...