Media Agenda-Setting and Dynamics:
Political Communication Methodology:
Barberá, Pablo, Amber E. Boydstun, Suzanna Linn, Ryan McMahon, and Jonathan Nagler. 2020. “Automated Text Classification of News Articles: A Practical Guide.” Political Analysis: 1–24.
Boydstun, Amber E., Shaun Bevan, and H.F. Thomas III. 2014. “The Importance of Attention Diversity and How to Measure It.” Policy Studies Journal. 42 (2): 173-196.
Glazier, Rebecca A. and Amber E. Boydstun. 2013. “A Two-Tiered Method for Identifying Trends in Media Framing of Policy Issues: The Case of the War on Terror.” Policy Studies Journal. 41 (4): 706-735.
Jurka, Timothy P., Loren Collingwood, Amber E. Boydstun, Emiliano Grossman, and Wouter van Atteveldt. 2013. “RTextTools: A Supervised Learning Package for Text Classification.” The R Journal, 5 (1): 6-12.
>>>Download RTextTools and documentation here.>>>
Barberá, Pablo, Amber E. Boydstun, Suzanna Linn, Ryan McMahon, and Jonathan Nagler. 2020. “Automated Text Classification of News Articles: A Practical Guide.” Political Analysis: 1–24.
Boydstun, Amber E., Shaun Bevan, and H.F. Thomas III. 2014. “The Importance of Attention Diversity and How to Measure It.” Policy Studies Journal. 42 (2): 173-196.
Glazier, Rebecca A. and Amber E. Boydstun. 2013. “A Two-Tiered Method for Identifying Trends in Media Framing of Policy Issues: The Case of the War on Terror.” Policy Studies Journal. 41 (4): 706-735.
Jurka, Timothy P., Loren Collingwood, Amber E. Boydstun, Emiliano Grossman, and Wouter van Atteveldt. 2013. “RTextTools: A Supervised Learning Package for Text Classification.” The R Journal, 5 (1): 6-12.
>>>Download RTextTools and documentation here.>>>
Policy Frames Project (using machine learning to track media tone and framing):
Working Codebook
Card, Dallas, Justin H. Gross, Amber E. Boydstun, and Noah A. Smith. 2016. “Analyzing Framing Through the Casts of Characters in the News.” In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
Card, Dallas, Amber E. Boydstun, Justin H. Gross, Philip Resnik and Noah A. Smith. 2015. “The Media Frames Corpus: Annotations of Frames Across Issues.” In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (ACL).
Working Codebook
Card, Dallas, Justin H. Gross, Amber E. Boydstun, and Noah A. Smith. 2016. “Analyzing Framing Through the Casts of Characters in the News.” In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
Card, Dallas, Amber E. Boydstun, Justin H. Gross, Philip Resnik and Noah A. Smith. 2015. “The Media Frames Corpus: Annotations of Frames Across Issues.” In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (ACL).
Donald Trump and Celebrity Politics:
Boydstun, Amber E., and Regina G. Lawrence. 2019. "When Celebrity and Political Journalism Collide: Reporting Standards, Entertainment, and the Conundrum of Covering Donald Trump’s 2016 Campaign." Perspectives on Politics: 1-16.
Boydstun, Amber E., and Peter Van Aelst. 2018. "New rules for an old game? How the 2016 US election caught the press off guard." Mass Communication and Society 21.6: 671-696.
Van Aelst, Peter, Rens Vliegenthart, and Amber E. Boydstun. 2018. "The whole world is watching: Comparing European and United States news coverage of the US 2008 and 2016 elections." International Journal of Communication 12: 23.
Lawrence, Regina G. and Amber E. Boydstun. 2017. "The Trump Conundrum." Columbia Journalism Review. Fall.
Lawrence, Regina G. and Amber E. Boydstun. 2017. “Celebrities as Political Actors and Entertainment as Political Media.” In Van Aelst, Peter and Stefaan Walgrave (eds.), How Political Actors Use the Media. New York: Palgrave.
Lawrence, Regina G. and Amber E. Boydstun. 2017. “What We Should Really Be Asking About Media Attention to Trump.” Political Communication: The Forum 34 (1): 150-153.
Boydstun, Amber E., and Regina G. Lawrence. 2019. "When Celebrity and Political Journalism Collide: Reporting Standards, Entertainment, and the Conundrum of Covering Donald Trump’s 2016 Campaign." Perspectives on Politics: 1-16.
Boydstun, Amber E., and Peter Van Aelst. 2018. "New rules for an old game? How the 2016 US election caught the press off guard." Mass Communication and Society 21.6: 671-696.
Van Aelst, Peter, Rens Vliegenthart, and Amber E. Boydstun. 2018. "The whole world is watching: Comparing European and United States news coverage of the US 2008 and 2016 elections." International Journal of Communication 12: 23.
Lawrence, Regina G. and Amber E. Boydstun. 2017. "The Trump Conundrum." Columbia Journalism Review. Fall.
Lawrence, Regina G. and Amber E. Boydstun. 2017. “Celebrities as Political Actors and Entertainment as Political Media.” In Van Aelst, Peter and Stefaan Walgrave (eds.), How Political Actors Use the Media. New York: Palgrave.
Lawrence, Regina G. and Amber E. Boydstun. 2017. “What We Should Really Be Asking About Media Attention to Trump.” Political Communication: The Forum 34 (1): 150-153.
Frame Stickiness:
Boydstun, Amber E., Alison Ledgerwood, and Jehan Sparks. 2017. "A Negativity Bias in Reframing Shapes Political Preferences Even in Partisan Contexts." Social Psychological and Personality Science 10 (1): 53-61.
Ledgerwood, Alison and Amber E. Boydstun. 2014. “Sticky Prospects: Loss Frames are Cognitively Stickier than Gain Frames.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 143 (1): 376-385.
Boydstun, Amber E., Alison Ledgerwood, and Jehan Sparks. 2017. "A Negativity Bias in Reframing Shapes Political Preferences Even in Partisan Contexts." Social Psychological and Personality Science 10 (1): 53-61.
Ledgerwood, Alison and Amber E. Boydstun. 2014. “Sticky Prospects: Loss Frames are Cognitively Stickier than Gain Frames.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 143 (1): 376-385.
Candidate Agenda-Setting:
Website for React Labs: Educate project, which used a smartphone app to track real-time citizen responses to the 2012 presidential debates
Acree, Brice D., Gross, Justin H., Smith, Noah A., Sim, Yanchuan, & Boydstun, Amber E. 2018. "Etch-a-sketching: Evaluating the post-primary rhetorical moderation hypothesis." American Politics Research: 48 (1): 99-131.
Boydstun, Amber E., Rebecca A. Glazier, Matthew T. Pietryka, and Philip Resnik. 2014. “Real-Time Reactions to a 2012 Presidential Debate A Method for Understanding Which Messages Matter.” Public Opinion Quarterly, 78: 330-343.
Boydstun, Amber E., Jessica Feezell, Rebecca A. Glazier, Timothy P. Jurka, and Matthew T. Pietryka. 2014. “Colleague Crowdsourcing: A Method for Incentivizing National Student Engagement and Large-N Data Collection.” PS: Political Science & Politics, 47 (4): 829-834.
Pietryka, Matthew and Amber E. Boydstun. 2013. “The Benefits of Going Maverick: How Candidates Can Use Agenda-Setting to Influence Citizen Motivations and Offset Unpopular Issue Positions.” Political Behavior. 34 (4): 428-446.
Boydstun, Amber E., Rebecca A. Glazier, and Matthew Pietryka. 2013. “Playing to the Crowd: Agenda Control in Presidential Debates.” Political Communication, 30 (2): 254-277.
Boydstun, Amber E., Rebecca A. Glazier and Claire Phillips. 2013. “Agenda Control in the 2008 Presidential Debates.” American Politics Research. 41 (5): 863-899.
Website for React Labs: Educate project, which used a smartphone app to track real-time citizen responses to the 2012 presidential debates
Acree, Brice D., Gross, Justin H., Smith, Noah A., Sim, Yanchuan, & Boydstun, Amber E. 2018. "Etch-a-sketching: Evaluating the post-primary rhetorical moderation hypothesis." American Politics Research: 48 (1): 99-131.
Boydstun, Amber E., Rebecca A. Glazier, Matthew T. Pietryka, and Philip Resnik. 2014. “Real-Time Reactions to a 2012 Presidential Debate A Method for Understanding Which Messages Matter.” Public Opinion Quarterly, 78: 330-343.
Boydstun, Amber E., Jessica Feezell, Rebecca A. Glazier, Timothy P. Jurka, and Matthew T. Pietryka. 2014. “Colleague Crowdsourcing: A Method for Incentivizing National Student Engagement and Large-N Data Collection.” PS: Political Science & Politics, 47 (4): 829-834.
Pietryka, Matthew and Amber E. Boydstun. 2013. “The Benefits of Going Maverick: How Candidates Can Use Agenda-Setting to Influence Citizen Motivations and Offset Unpopular Issue Positions.” Political Behavior. 34 (4): 428-446.
Boydstun, Amber E., Rebecca A. Glazier, and Matthew Pietryka. 2013. “Playing to the Crowd: Agenda Control in Presidential Debates.” Political Communication, 30 (2): 254-277.
Boydstun, Amber E., Rebecca A. Glazier and Claire Phillips. 2013. “Agenda Control in the 2008 Presidential Debates.” American Politics Research. 41 (5): 863-899.
Identity Politics:
Boydstun, Amber E., Jessica T. Feezell, and Rebecca A. Glazier. 2018. "In the wake of a terrorist attack, do Americans’ attitudes toward Muslims decline?." Research & Politics 5 (4).
Feezell, Jessica T., Rebecca A. Glazier, and Amber E. Boydstun. 2019. "Framing, identity, and responsibility: do episodic vs. thematic framing effects vary by target population?." Politics, Groups, and Identities: 1-22.
Boydstun, Amber E., Jessica T. Feezell, and Rebecca A. Glazier. 2018. "In the wake of a terrorist attack, do Americans’ attitudes toward Muslims decline?." Research & Politics 5 (4).
Feezell, Jessica T., Rebecca A. Glazier, and Amber E. Boydstun. 2019. "Framing, identity, and responsibility: do episodic vs. thematic framing effects vary by target population?." Politics, Groups, and Identities: 1-22.
Framing Effects in the Case of the Death Penalty:
Baumgartner, Frank R., Suzanna L. De Boef, and Amber E. Boydstun. 2008. The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Dardis, Frank E., Frank R. Baumgartner, Amber E. Boydstun, Suzanna De Boef and Fuyuan Shen. 2008. “Media Framing of Capital Punishment and Its Impact of Individuals’ Cognitive Responses.” Mass Communication and Society 11 (2): 115-140.
Baumgartner, Frank R., Suzanna Linn, and Amber E. Boydstun. 2009. “The Decline of the Death Penalty: How Media Framing Changed Capital Punishment in America.” In Schaffner, Brian F. and Patrick Sellers (eds), Winning with Words: The Origins and Impact of Framing. New York, NY: Routledge. |