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The fourth year of the series is also the 30th anniversary of the C-SPAN Archives' online Video Library, created to help educators use the vast programming for teaching and research. Among topics of this year's 14 research papers are communication as a economic tool and constitutive force: Chairman Greenspan's talk about uncertainties in future US conditions, treatment or gun control: congressional discourse on mental illness and violence, Donald Trump meets the ubiquitous presidency, selecting C-SPAN video clips for creative collaborative learning, and C-SPAN in changing spaces of political communications. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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C-SPANis the network of record for US political affairs, broadcasting livegavel-to-gavel proceedings of the House of Representatives and the Senate, andto other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided––withoutediting, commentary, or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points ofview. TheC-SPAN Archives, located adjacent to Purdue University, is thehome of the online C-SPAN Video Library. The Archives has copied all ofC-SPAN's television content since 1987. Extensive indexing, captioning, and otherenhanced online features provide researchers, policy analysts, students, teachers,and public officials with an unparalleled chronological and internallycross-referenced record for deeper study. The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research presents the finest interdisciplinary researchutilizing tools of the C-SPAN Video Library. Each volume highlights recentscholarship and comprises leading experts and emerging voices in politicalscience, journalism, psychology, computer science, communication, and a varietyof other disciplines. Each section within each volume includes responses from expertdiscussants. Developed in partnership with the Brian Lamb School ofCommunication and with support from the C-SPAN Education Foundation, C-SPANInsights is guidedby the ideal that all experimental outcomes, including those from our Americanexperiment, can be best improved by directed study driving richer engagementand better understanding. The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research—Volume 4, edited by Robert X. Browning, advancesour understanding of the framing of mental health, HIV/AIDS, policing, and publichealth, and explores subjects such as audience reactions in C-SPAN covered debates,the Twitter presidency of Donald Trump, and collaborative learning using the C-SPANVideo Library.
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