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Social media is changing the business of representation in the Senate. If you want to know what your senator is up to, you don't need a newspaper, just your phone. Drawing on a unique dataset of almost 200,000 senator tweets,
Tweeting is Leading offers a critical analysis of senators' communication on Twitter, the individual and constituent forces that shape it, and the agendas that result.
Table des matières
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Rhetorical Agendas: A New Framework for Senate Representation
- Chapter 3: Communicating Congressional Priorities in the Digital Age
- Chapter 4: "Short, Not-so-Sweet, and to (Some) Point": Senate Tweets in 2013 and 2015
- Chapter 5: Categorizing Senators' Tweets and Styles of Communication
- Chapter 6: Putting Policy First: Building a Reputation as a Policy Wonk
- Chapter 7: All Politics is Local: Senators Prioritize Constituent Service
- Chapter 8: Partisan Agendas: Two Parties, Two Patterns of Partisan Rhetoric
- Chapter 9: Prioritization and Representation: A Future for Social Media and Agenda-Setting
- Appendix
- References
A propos de l'auteur
Annelise Russell is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of Kentucky. She is also a faculty associate of the U.S. Policy Agendas Project and a member of the Comparative Agendas Project. Russell publishes research across political science, public policy, and communication, including in American Politics Research, Political Research Quarterly, Policy and Internet, and Policy Studies Journal.
Résumé
Social media is changing the business of representation in the Senate. If you want to know what your senator is up to, you don't need a newspaper, just your phone. Drawing on a unique dataset of almost 200,000 senator tweets, Tweeting is Leading offers a critical analysis of senators' communication on Twitter, the individual and constituent forces that shape it, and the agendas that result.
Texte suppl.
In this interesting and thoughtful book, Annelise Russell explores legislative representation from a new angle. By investigating how senators' messaging strategies on social media shape their reputations among their constituents and the expectations those constituents have of them, Russell demonstrates convincingly that their use of Twitter is more than just "cheap talk." Instead, senators effectively manage competing demands and competing priorities as they engage in the process of representation.
