Tweeting scared : Congress's crisis of communication / Annelise Russell.
| Author/creator | Russell, Annelise author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | xi, 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Congress's crisis of communication |
| Series | Oxford studies in digital politics Oxford studies in digital politics. ^A1031253 |
| Contents | A crisis framework for Congressional communication -- A history of playing catch-up in Congressional communication -- Organizing a press office in Congress -- Crisis implications : asymmetric resources and constrained capacity -- Crisis implications : partisan pressures and political incentives for digital -- The future and implications of a digital Congress. |
| Abstract | "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. I explain 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 Twitter and digital media has fueled the very same power asymmetries we expected new media to disrupt. The power of reputation-building online and rapid response has elevated Twitter in a way that ultimately constrains what little capacity lawmakers already had and makes the average member of Congress resource-dependent in terms of both policy and communication"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Russell, Annelise Tweeting scared New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2026 9780197808320 |
| LCCN | 2025035066 |
| ISBN | 9780197808313 |
| ISBN | 019780831X paperback |
| ISBN | 9780197808306 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0197808301 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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