MPSA

82-307 Poster Session: Media, Gender and Elections
Fri at 1:15 pm
Post. 12 Showing their Softer Side: Analyzing the Soft
Media Strategies of Statewide Campaigns in
Texas and Arkansas
Mark T Hickey, Hendrix College
HickeyMT@hendrix.edu
Post. 13 Hockey Moms and Abortion Barbies: An
Examination of Gender Differences in News
Media Coverage
Karen R Bjerre, Sewanee-The University of the
South
bjerrkr0@sewanee.edu
Post. 14 Breaking Bias: Media’s Press-Ideology
Parallelism and Its Influence on Voter Turnout in
the United States
Brooke Nelson, Hendrix College
nelsonbt@hendrix.edu
Post. 15 Social Media Usage by Congressional Campaigns
in 2016
Michael Vasiliou, University of Chicago
mvasiliou@uchicago.edu
Post. 16 Mean Tweets: An Analysis of Average Negativity
in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign
Aaron Michael Chesler, University of Colorado
Boulder
aaronchesler123@gmail.com
Post. 17 Bloody Difficult Woman and Crooked Hillary:
Sexism, Social Media, and Women Running for
Executive Office
Madison Shumway, Idaho State University
shummadi@isu.edu
Post. 18 A Democracy in Full: Balancing Men’s and
Women’s Attendance by Altering Deliberative
Settings
Gabriel Murray, Denison University
murray_g6@denison.edu
Post. 19 Gendered Media Coverage of Female Politicians
Chelsey Rogers*, Columbus State University
rogers_chelsey@columbusstate.edu
Disc. Victoria A Dounoucos, Duke University
vad11@duke.edu
Patrick Meehan, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
pjmeeh@umich.edu
82-308 Poster Session: Media, Public Opinion and Politics
Fri at 1:15 pm
Post. 20 Consequences of Media-Framing of Hezbollah in
Israel, France, Lebanon, and United States
Michael Ephrem Karam, University of
Pennsylvania
karamm@sas.upenn.edu
Post. 21 Predicament or Profit? A Study on the Parallel
Rates of Officer Involved Shootings and Print
News Media Coverage in New York City, Los
Angeles, and Chicago
jacob A Bertone*, University of Mount Union
bertonja@mountunion.edu
Post. 22 The Effect of Socioeconomic Factors on African
American News Media Source Preference and
Political Knowledge
Jasmine Cherice Jackson*, Jackson State
University
jcj121694@gmail.com
Post. 23 Social Media and News Processing
Kirk A. Bado, Belmont University
kirkbado@gmail.com
Post. 24 News That (Still) Matters: The Millennials Edition
Matt B Ramirez, Hendrix College
ramirezmb@hendrix.edu
Post. 25 A Matter of Trust: How Lack of Faith in
Government Institutions Leads to Populism
Amber E Woodland, Brigham Young University-
Hawaii
awoodland29@go.byuh.edu
Post. 26 The Youth Vote and Political Engagement: The
Impact of Polarization on the Youth Vote Over
Time
Abby A Oliver, Grand Valley State University
oliveabi@mail.gvsu.edu
Post. 27 Reactionary Effect on Self-Identity as a
"Feminist"
Rebecca Vigoren, Brigham Young University-
Hawaii
rebeccavig@msn.com
Disc. Jin Woo Kim, University of Pennsylvania
jkim@asc.upenn.edu
Michael James Ritter, University of Iowa
michael-ritter@uiowa.edu
82-309 Poster Session: Voting, Attitudes, and Elections
Fri at 1:15 pm
Post. 28 Discrepancies in American Voter Turnout: State
Primary Elections
Sophia Jean, University of Colorado Boulder
sophia.jean@colorado.edu
Post. 29 The Mysterious Decline of Youth Voting in
Presidential Elections
Matthew Thomas Fee*, Heidelberg University
mfee@heidelberg.edu
Post. 30 Campaigning in the 21st Century: Donald
Trump's Election
Christopher J. Burgess, Bryant University
cbhockey15@gmail.com
Post. 31 Racial Appeals in Candidate Twitter
Communication in the 2016 U.S. House Elections
Emma Grundhauser, George Washington
University
emmagrundhauser@gmail.com
Post. 32 The Impact of Gender Stereotypes on Voting
Preferences: A Case Study of the 2016
Presidential Election
Liz Stark, University of Chicago
elizabethstark@uchicago.edu
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