TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jarvis,Sharon E.
AU  - Han,Soo-Hye
TI  - Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation. Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t: How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It) 
T2  - Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
SN  - 9780271082905
U1  - 324.973 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Voting research
KW  - Voting
KW  - History
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - elections
KW  - electoral participation
KW  - elite interviews with journalists
KW  - experiment
KW  - focus groups
KW  - journalists
KW  - longitudinal content analysis
KW  - news coverage
KW  - presidential elections
KW  - print news
KW  - voters
KW  - voting
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Journalists and Voters --; 1 Portraying the Voter --; 2 Discounting the Voter --; 3 Positioning the Voter --; 4 Influencing the Voter --; 5 Struggling with the Voter --; 6 Spinning for the Voter --; Appendix --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - For decades, journalists have called the winners of U.S. presidential elections—often in error—well before the closing of the polls. In Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t, Sharon E. Jarvis and Soo-Hye Han investigate what motivates journalists to call elections before the votes have been tallied and, more importantly, what this and similar practices signal to the electorate about the value of voter participation.Jarvis and Han track how journalists have told the story of electoral participation during the last eighteen presidential elections, revealing how the portrayal of voters in the popular press has evolved over the last half century from that of mobilized partisan actors vital to electoral outcomes to that of pawns of political elites and captives of a flawed electoral system. The authors engage with experiments and focus groups to reveal the effects that these portrayals have on voters and share their findings in interviews with prominent journalists. Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t not only explores the failings of the media but also shows how the story of electoral participation might be told in ways that support both democratic and journalistic values. At a time when professional strategists are pressuring journalists to provide favorable coverage for their causes and candidates, this book invites academics, organizations, the press, and citizens alike to advocate for the voter’s place in the news
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271082905?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271082905
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271082905/original
ER  -