Tweeting scared : Congress's crisis of communication /
Congress is routinely lurching from one disaster to another, but the crisis that remains constant is the communication crisis - a failure of the technology and information dissemination that enable Congress to effectively communicate. This book considers how the staff and professionals that drive th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in digital politics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Congress is routinely lurching from one disaster to another, but the crisis that remains constant is the communication crisis - a failure of the technology and information dissemination that enable Congress to effectively communicate. This book considers how the staff and professionals that drive the daily operations of Congress have adapted to meet the rapid pace of news and information, meaning the logistics of daily engagement in Congress mirror that of a disaster response. Russell explains how Congress has developed into a crisis communication operation, pairing interviews of current and former congressional communication professionals with congressional Twitter data to illustrate how digital media has fueled the very same power asymmetries that new media was expected to disrupt. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197808344 0197808344 9780197808337 0197808336 9780197808320 0197808328 |