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The Othering of Donald Trump and His Supporters

Communications Faculty Research (2018)

Stephen D. Cooper

The 2016 presidential election was extraordinary in many respects. One was the way in which the Republican candidate and his ...

George W. Bush, the American Press, and the Initial Framing ...

Communications Faculty Research (2012)

Stephen D. Cooper, Jim A. Kuypers and Matthew T. Althouse

President George W. Bush's speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations on November I 0, 200 I, marks ...

A Detailed Case Study of Unusual Routines

Communications Faculty Research (2010)

Stephen D. Cooper

Everyone working in organizations will, from time to time, experience frustrations and problems when trying to accomplish tasks that are ...

The Opppositional Framing of Bloggers

Communications Faculty Research (2010)

Stephen D. Cooper

As a new feature of the media system, the blogosphere is an extremely interesting subject for scholarly inquiry. One might ...

The President and the Press: The Framing of George W ...

Communications Faculty Research (2008)

Stephen D. Cooper, Jim Kuypers and Matt Althous

In this essay, we provide a brief overview of how frames work, discuss the relationship of frames to the news ...

A Concise History of the Fauxtography Blogstorm in the 2006 ...

Communications Faculty Research (2007)

Stephen D. Cooper

Whatever the other consequences of the kinetic war between Israel and Hezbollah in the summer of 2006, it gave rise ...

Social Issues in America

Communications Faculty Research (2006)

Stephen D. Cooper

One of the more contentious issues in social science at this time is the question of media bias. Both the ...

Watching the Watchdog: Bloggers as the Fifth Estate

Communications Faculty Research (2006)

Stephen D. Cooper

This author is inclined to think that social structures which evolve through the voluntary interactions and exchanges among people, such ...

A Comparative Framing Analysis of Embedded and Behind-the-Lines Reporting on ...

Communications Faculty Research (2005)

Jim A. Kuypers and Stephen D. Cooper

Although a contested position, we believe that reporters and editors frame the news in a way that reflects their personal ...

Bringing Some Clarity to the Media Bias Debate

Communications Faculty Research (2005)

Stephen D. Cooper

Jim A. Kuypers’ recent book, Press Bias and Politics, has made a significant advance in the methodology of inquiring into ...

Connecting the Dots: Implicit Commonalities Among Cultural Morphogenesis, Structuration, and ...

Communications Faculty Research (2004)

Stephen D. Cooper

Perhaps the central foundational issue of our time is the relationship of human agency and social structure. If human actors ...

Embedded Versus Behind-the-Lines Reporting on the 2003 Iraq War

Communications Faculty Research (2004)

Stephen D. Cooper

A 2003 study by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that “Most Americans (53%) believe ...

Press Controls in Wartime: The Legal, Historical, and Institutional Context

Communications Faculty Research (2003)

Stephen D. Cooper

News coverage of warfare poses a dilemma for social systems with a free press, such as the United States. In ...

Collaborative Musical Expression and Creativity Among Academics: When Intellectualism Meets ...

Communications Faculty Research (2002)

Gary P. Radford, Stephen D. Cooper, Robert W. Kubey, David S. McCurry, et al.

The Professors are a blues, rock, and sometime heavy metal band made up of communication professors from a number of ...

An Effect of the Medium in News Stories: “The Pictures ...

Communications Faculty Research (2000)

Stephen D. Cooper

This study used an experimental design to test for a channel effect in news stories. Four television news stories were ...

Common Law, and Privacy in Computer-Mediated Environments

Communications Faculty Research (1997)

Stephen D. Cooper

Computer-mediated environments pose a special challenge to our legal and cultural protections of privacy. These environments are unprecedented in the ...

Military Control Over War News: The Implications of the Persian ...

Communications Faculty Research (1996)

Stephen D. Cooper

News coverage of warfare poses a difficult problem for political systems with a free press, such as ours in the ...

Privacy and the News Media

Communications Faculty Research (1995)

Stephen D. Cooper

The right of the public to know and the right of the individual to be let alone are inherently in ...

News Media Objectivity: How Do We Ask the Questions?

Communications Faculty Research (1994)

Stephen D. Cooper

There is a lively and often public debate in progress concerning the objectivity of the news media, or the lack ...