Political Communication and Digital Advocacy

John Allen Hendricks (Ph.D., The University of Southern Mississippi) is Chair of the Department of Media & Communication and Professor at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas. He has authored/edited 14 books and has received book awards from the National Communication Association (NCA) and the Broadcast Education Association (BEA).Dan Schill (Ph.D., University of Kansas) is an award-winning Professor in the School of Communication Studies at James Madison University, where he teaches courses in political communication, research methods, and media and politics. He previously worked on Capitol Hill and often conducts dial focus groups for news organizations.

• SECTION I: POLITICAL RHETORIC AND ELECTORAL ENGAGEMENTJohn Allen Hendricks and Dan Schill: “Trust, Truth, and Technology: Political Communication in Polarized Times” – Randall Fowler: “Polysyndeton, Social Media, and the Presidency: Digital Culture & Rhetorical Style in the 2020 Election” – Kalah Kemp and Myrna Roberts: “Trump and Twitter: A Study of Parasocial Interaction, Identification, and Social Presence” – Emily Sauter: “The Citizen-Fan: The Impact of Social Media and Fandom on Contemporary Political Engagement Online” SECTION II: POLITICAL MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATIONBen Wasike: “Knowledge Gaps and Misinformation: Social Media Engagement, Ideology, and Elections” – Todd R. Vogts and Jacob Groshek: “Sowing Seeds of Distrust: Investigating the Spread of Mis-and Disinformation by Exploring the Pathways for Rural Americans to News” – Tyler Martinez and Majia Nadesan: “theDonald.win: Electoral Fraud and a Nation in Crisis” SECTION III: POLITICAL PARTISANSHIP AND POLARIZATIONJacob Groshek and Sarah Krongard: “Streaming Entertainment into Political Pandemonium: Examining (Even More) Partisanship and Polarization in the 2020 Campaign” – Madeleine Montgomery, Freddie J. Jennings, Kathleen Coyle, Ariana Aquino, and Malloree Murdok: “The Influence of Partisan Cues on Social Media: Acceptance of the 2020 Presidential Election Results” – Xavier Scruggs and Benjamin R. Warner: “The Moderating Effect of Racial Resentment and Ambivalent Sexism on Partisanship and Thought Listing after Viewing the 2020 Vice Presidential Debate” SECTION IV: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGIESYanjun Zhao: “Shared Blindness in Filter Bubbles: Political Messages in Social Media” – Juliet Dee: “When Election Lies Go Viral: How Social Media Platforms Amplified Cable News Networks’ Defamatory Comments about Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic Corporation” – Christopher J. McCollough: “Normalizing New Identities in Political Roles: An Examination of the Social Media of Pete and Chasten Buttigieg” – Joseph P. Zompetti: “Hashtag Politics: #StopTheSteal as Rhetorical Strategy”