Kate Marian Kenski

Kate Marian Kenski (* before 2000) is a communications scientist and professor at the University of Arizona . She teaches political communication, public opinion formation and scientific research practice at the Institute for Communication, Government and Public Policy. She is the author of over 70 articles in several professional journals and co-author of the award-winning biography "The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election".

Professional background

Prior to teaching at the University of Arizona, Kate Kenski was a senior analyst at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She was also employed as an editor for the “International Journal of Public Opinion Research” and is currently co-editor of the “ Public Opinion Quarterly ”.

In 2011 she was Chair of the Political Communication Department of the National Communication Association (NCA). Since 2010 she has been the secretary of the same department at the American Political Science Association (APSA).

Kenski is currently doing research in the following areas of communication science: social media and disrespectful behavior, gender and politics, the development of online platforms to support the logical thinking behavior and opinion-forming of users, as well as multimedia online teaching methods to avoid cognitive dissonances .

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The best known and most successful work of the communication scientist is her co-author of the biography "The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election" from 2010. Together with Bruce W. Harley and Kathleen Hall Jamieson describes and she analyzes the circumstances and career advancement of the former US President Barack Obama .

This publication has won awards such as the “ICA Outstanding Book Award 2011”, the “NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award 2012”, the “NCA Political Communication Dicision Roderick P. Hart Outstanding Book Award 2012”, and the “PROSE Award for Best Book in Government and Politics 2010 ”, honored.

Furthermore, Kate Kenski is co-author of "The National Annenberg Election Survey" from 2004, as well as, together with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, co-editor of "The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication".

Kenski has already published over 70 articles in such journals as “ American Behavioral Scientist ”, “The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science”, “Communication Research”, “The International Journal of Public Opinion Research”, “The Journal of Applied Social Psychology ”and“ Public Opinion Quarterly ”.

In her articles, the author mainly deals with topics of civil participation and behavior in political campaigns as well as political communication and the role of different influencing factors and media channels in it.

Selected monographs

• The Oxford handbook of political communication. New York, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-979347-6 , ISBN 978-0-19-979347-1
• The Obama victory: How media, money, and message shaped the 2008 election. New York, 2010, Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539956-1
• Capturing campaign dynamics 2000 & 2004: The National Annenberg Election Survey. Philadelphia, 2006, University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-1944-9 , ISBN 978-0-8122-1944-9
• Capturing campaign dynamics: The National Annenberg Election Survey: Design, Method, and Data. New York, 2004, Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516504-3 , ISBN 0-19-516504-7

Selected journal publications

• Kenski, K., Filer, C., & Conway-Silva, BA (2018). Lying, liars, and lies: Incivility in 2016 presidential candidate and campaign tweets during the invisible primary. American Behavioral Scientist.
• Rossini, P., Stromer-Galley, J., Kenski, K., Hemsley, J., Zhang, F., & Dobreski, B. (2018). The relationship between race competitiveness, standing in the polls, and social media communication strategies during the 2014 US gubernatorial campaigns. Journal of Information Technology & Politics.
• Rains, SA, Kenski, K., Coe, K., & Harwood, J. (2017). Incivility and political identity on the internet: Intergroup factors as predictors of incivility in discussions of news online. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
• Pitts, MJ, Kenski, K., Smith, S., & Pavlich, C. (2017). Focus group discussions as sites for public deliberation, sensemaking, and civic engagement following shared political documentary viewing. Journal of Public Deliberation.
• Kenski, K., Filer, C., & Conway-Silva, BA (2017). Communicating party labels and names on Twitter during the 2016 presidential invisible primary and primary campaigns. Journal of Political Marketing.
• Shaw, A., Kenski, K., Stromer-Galley, J., Martey, R., Clegg, BA, Lewis, JE, Folkestad, JE, and Strzalkowski, T. (2016, May). Serious efforts at bias reduction: The effects of digital games and avatar customization on three cognitive biases. Journal of Media Psychology. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000174
• Conway, BA, Kenski, K., & Wang, D. (2015). The rise of Twitter in the political campaign: Searching for intermedia agenda-setting effects in the presidential primary. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 15, 363-380. doi: 10.1111 / jcc4.12124 Coe, K., Kenski, K., & Rains, S. (2014). Online and uncivil? Patterns and determinants of incivility in newspaper website comments. Journal of Communication, 64, 658-679. doi: 10.1111 / jcom.12104
• Stroud, NJ, & Kenski, K. (2007). From agenda setting to refusal setting: Survey nonresponse as a function of media coverage across the 2004 election cycle. Public Opinion Quarterly, 71 (4), 539-559.
• Falk, E., & Kenski, K. (2006). Sexism vs. partisanship: A new look at the question of whether America is ready for a woman president. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 54 (7/8), 413-428.
• Kenski, K., & Stroud, NJ (2006). Connections between internet use and political efficacy, knowledge, and participation. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 50 (2), 173-192.

Web links

• Interview with Christopher Conover on "All politics is local" , June 23, 2010. (Accessed June 21, 2020)
• Interview with Bill Buckmaster on "The Obama victory." , August 17, 2010. (Accessed June 21, 2020)
• Scholar.google.com , collection of all publications (Retrieved June 21, 2020)
• Arizona.edu , Kate-kenski (Retrieved June 21, 2020)
• sgpp.arizona.edu , Kate-kenski (Retrieved June 21, 2020)
• CV Kate-kenski (Retrieved June 21, 2020)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} sgpp.arizona.edu
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3. ↑ global.oup.com