Sourcebook for Political Communication Research

Erik P. Bucy (PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, 1998) is an Associate Professor of Telecommunications and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and School of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington. Bucy is the editor of Politics and the Life Sciences, and author, with Maria Grabe, of Image Bite Politics: News and the Visual Framing of Elections (Oxford, 2009). Bucy serves on the editorial boards of Human Communication Research, The Information Society, and Mass Communication and Society. He has held visiting and research appointments at the University of Michigan and Dartmouth College. R. Lance Holbert (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000) is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. He is the author of several articles on the use of structural equation modeling in the communication sciences. His most recent research has appeared in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Communication Monographs, and Media Psychology. He serves on many editorial boards, including Journal of Communication, Communication Monographs, and the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media.

• Introduction Advancing Methods and Measurement: Supporting Theory and Keeping Pace with the Modern Political EnvironmentSurvey Methodology Challenges and Opportunities of Panel Designs The Rolling Cross-Section: Design and Utility for Political Research Political Communication Survey Research: Challenges, Trends, OpportunitiesSecondary Analysis and Meta Analysis Secondary Analysis In Political Communication Viewed as Creative Act Comparing the ANES and NAES for Political Communication Research The Implications and Consequences of Using Meta-Analysis for Political CommunicationExperimental Methods Experimental Designs for Political Communication Research: Using New Technology and Online Participant Pools to Overcome the Problem of Generalizability Expressing versus Revealing Preferences in Experimental Research The Face as a Focus of Political Communication: Evolutionary Perspectives, Experimental Methods, and the Ethological Approach Multi-Stage Experimental Designs in Political Communication ResearchContent Analysis Image Bite Analysis of Political Visuals Identifying Frames in Political News Content Analysis in Political CommunicationDiscourse Analysis The Uses of Focus Groups in Political Communication Research Genealogy of Myth in Presidential RhetoricNetwork and Deliberation Analysis Methods for Analyzing and Measuring Group Deliberation Porous Networks and Overlapping Contexts: Methodological Challenges in the Study of Social Communication and Political Behavior Comparative Political Communication Mediatization of Politics: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Comparative Research International Applications of the Agenda-Setting Acapulco Typology Political Communication Across the World: Methodological Issues Involved in International ComparisonsStatistical Techniques Expanding the Use of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) in Political Communication Mediation and the Estimation of Indirect Effects in Political Communication Research Time-Series Analysis and the Study of Political CommunicationMeasurement Concept Explication in the Internet Age: The Case of Interactivity Beyond Self-Report: Using Latency Measures to Model the Question Answering Process on Web-Based Public Opinion Surveys What the Body Can Tell Us About Politics: The Use of Psychophysiological Measures in Political Communication ResearchConclusion Looking Back and Looking Forward: Observations on a Rapidly Evolving Field