Book Review: Coming Out of the Closet: Exploring LGBT Issues in Strategic Communication with Theory and Research, edited by Natalie T. J. Tindall and Richard D. Waters

2014 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-195
Author(s):  
Tiffany Derville Gallicano
2021 ◽  
pp. 81-96
Author(s):  
Annelise Russell

Senators get to decide how to buttress their reputation with their rhetorical agendas, reflecting lawmakers’ diverse interests. The challenge is understanding what leads senators to adopt the communication styles that they do and to explain the individual patterns of these rhetorical agendas. This chapter offers a typology of senators’ rhetorical agendas on Twitter and details what it means for representation when senators adopt policy, constituent, and partisan styles of communication. Senators make the decision to connect with constituents as a policy wonk, a constituent servant, or a partisan warrior. The chapter details the collection and systematic coding of more than 180,000 tweets, using this data set to examine what leads senators to the priorities that drive their strategic communication. Senators have added capacity to influence the narratives coming out of Congress, and that influence over the supply of information affects both the framing and substance of congressional communication.


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