Robert X. Browning 
Advances in Research Using the C-SPAN Archives 

This book is a guide to the latest research using the C-SPAN Archives. In this book, nine authors present original work using the video archives to study presidential debates, public opinion and Congress, analysis of the Violence Against Women Act and the Great Lakes freshwater legislation, as well as President Clinton’s grand jury testimony. The C-SPAN Archives contain over 220, 000 hours of first run digital video of the nation’s public affairs record. These and other essays serve as guides for scholars who want to explore the research potential of this robust public policy and communications resource.

Table of Content

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Congressional Process and Public Opinion Toward Congress: An Experimental Analysis Using the C-SPAN Video Library, by Jonathan S. Morris and Michael W. Joy

Chapter 2: Discursively Constructing the Great Lakes Freshwater: Theresa R. Castor

Chapter 3: Considering Construction of Conservative/Liberal Meaning: What an Extraterrestrial Might Discover About Branding Strategy in the C-SPAN Video Library, by Robert L. Kerr

Chapter 4: What Can the Public Learn by Watching Congress?, by Tim Groeling

Chapter 5 Gendered Linguistics: A Large-Scale Text Analysis of U.S. Senate Candidate Debates, by Martha E. Kropf and Emily Grassett

Chapter 6: Microanalysis of the Emotional Appropriateness of Facial Displays During Presidential Debates: C-SPAN Coverage of the First and Third 2012 Debates, by Patrick A. Stewart and Spencer C. Hall

Chapter 7: President William J. Clinton as a Practical Ethnomethodologist: A Single-Case Analysis of Successful Question-Answering Techniques in the 1998 Grand Jury Testimony, by Angela Cora Garcia

Chapter 8: C-SPAN Unscripted: The Archives as Repository for Uncertainty in Political Life, by Joshua M. Scacco

Chapter 9: Protecting (Which?) Women: A Content Analysis of the House Floor Debate on the 2012 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, by Nadia E. Brown and Sarah Allen Gershon

Chapter 10: “Working the Crowd”: How Political Figures Use Introduction Structures, by Kurtis D. Miller

Chapter 11: Representing Others, Presenting Self, by Zoe M. Oxley

Conclusion

Contributors

Index

About the author

Robert X. Browning serves as the founding director of the C-SPAN Archives and as a professor of political science and communication at Purdue University. He has designed and built one of the largest and most accessible video collections in the world, which provides citizens, teachers, students, and researchers with access to the primary public affairs record of our democracy.