Question Design and President-Press Relations
Led by Prof. Steven Clayman.
When: Friday, May 16, 2008, 1:30 p.m.
Where: Phelps 2536, UCSB.
Cost: Free
Age limit: Not available
Categories: Lectures
Description: Question design is a neglected resource for research into the evolution of president-press relations. This paper applies a multidimensional system for analyzing the aggressiveness of journalists' questions, grounded in prior conversation analytic research, to five decades of presidential news conferences (1953-2000). Presidential journalism is known to have grown substantially more aggressive over this time period, but a definitive explanation for this trend remains elusive. This study disentangles these various factors and assesses their relative success in explaining the vagaries of journalistic conduct in the postwar era.
Phone: 805-893-3137
Event posted April 18, 2008
Last updated April 18, 2008
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