Encouraging Identification with the Larger Campaign Narrative: Grassroots Organizing Texts in Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign
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DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2017.1378242
Abstract: Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign motivated thousands of people to train, organize, and recruit volunteers to get involved at the grassroots level. In this essay, I study a set of training manuals used during the… read more here.
Keywords: obama 2008; barack obama; obama; campaign ... See more keywords
Meaning-Making in Emerging Adults’ Narratives About the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
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DOI: 10.1177/2167696817698879
Abstract: The study aimed to explore narratives of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election to describe the ways emerging adults constructed the meaning of the self when narrating what the historical event meant. Using life story theory,… read more here.
Keywords: emerging adults; meaning making; narratives 2008; 2008 presidential ... See more keywords