The Role of Twitter in the 2016 US Election

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This book assembles six chapters by respected and emerging scholars in political science and communication to produce a first sustained look at Twitter's role in the 2016 US Presidential Election. While much attention has already been paid to Trump's use of Twitter as a phenomenon—how it helps drive news cycles, distracts attention from other matters, or levies attacks against rivals, the news media, and other critics—there has been little scholarly analysis of the impact Twitter played in the actual election. These chapters apply an impressive diversity of theoretical explanations and methodological approaches to explore how this new technology shaped an American election, and what impact it could have in the future. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction: Politics in 140 Characters or Less (Christopher J. Galdieri, Jennifer C. Lucas, Tauna S. Sisco)....Pages 1-5 Less Is More Ideological: Conservative and Liberal Communication on Twitter in the 2016 Race (Morgan Marietta, Tyler Cote, Tyler Farley, Paul Murphy)....Pages 7-20 Tweet You Very Much: An Analysis of Candidate Twitter Usage from the 2016 Iowa Caucus to Super Tuesday (J. Scott Granberg-Rademacker, Kevin Parsneau)....Pages 21-44 Candidate Image: When Tweets Trump Tradition (Kim Hixson)....Pages 45-62 Tweeting on the Campaign Trail: The When, How, and What of Donald Trump’s Tweets (Luke Perry, Paul Joyce)....Pages 63-74 Donald Trump, Naturally: Revisionist Environmental Policy, Global Warming Tweets, and the Unexpected Emphasis on Climate Change in the 2016 Campaign (Mark J. O’Gorman)....Pages 75-95 Can We at Least All Laugh Together Now? Twitter and Online Political Humor During the 2016 Election (Todd L. Belt)....Pages 97-117 Back Matter ....Pages 119-121