The Ubiquitous Presidency

Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times

Joshua M. Scacco, Kevin Coe (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2021
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-752063-5 (ISBN)

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American democracy is in a period of striking tumult. The clash of a rapidly changing socio-technological environment and the traditional presidency has led to an upheaval in the scope and standards of executive leadership. Yet research on the presidency, although abundant, has been slow to adjust to changing realities associated with digital technologies, diverse audiences, and new elite practices. Meanwhile, journalists and the public continue to encounter and shape emerging presidential efforts in deeply consequential ways.

Joshua Scacco and Kevin Coe bring needed insight to this complex situation by offering the first comprehensive framework for understanding contemporary presidential communication in relation to the current socio-technological environment. They call this framework the "ubiquitous presidency." Scacco and Coe argue that presidents harness new opportunities in the media environment to create a nearly constant and highly visible presence in political and nonpolitical arenas. They do this by trying to achieve longstanding presidential goals, namely visibility, adaptation, and control. However, in an environment where accessibility, personalization, and pluralism are omnipresent considerations, the strategies presidents use to achieve these goals are very different from what we once knew.

Using this novel framework as a conceptual anchor, The Ubiquitous Presidency undertakes one of the most expansive analyses of presidential communication to date. Scacco and Coe employ a wide variety of approaches--ranging from surveys and survey-experiments, to large-scale automated content and network analyses, to qualitative textual analysis--to uncover new aspects of the intricate relationship between the president, news media, and the public. Focusing on the presidency since Ronald Reagan, and devoting particular attention to the cases of Barack Obama and Donald Trump, the book uncovers remarkable shifts in communication that test the institution of the presidency and, consequently, democratic governance itself.

Joshua M. Scacco is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida. He is an expert on political communication and news media, having published more than 50 academic articles, book chapters, and public research papers as well as provided commentary for national and local news outlets. Kevin Coe is a Professor of Communication at the University of Utah. He has published more than 50 academic articles and chapters, and is the coauthor of The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America.

Preface
1. The Ubiquitous Presidency: A Conceptual Framework
2. The Ubiquitous Presidency in Its Contexts
3. Expectations of the Ubiquitous Presidency
4. Barack Obama: Ubiquity Through Adaptation
5. Donald Trump: Ubiquity Through Visibility and Control
6. The Ubiquitous Presidency and Democratic Possibility
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2021
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	243 x 160 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-752063-4 / 0197520634
ISBN-13	978-0-19-752063-5 / 9780197520635
Zustand	Neuware