Television Election Campaign News and Australian Politics

该项目旨在扩大我们对澳大利亚电视与选举态度和行为之间的重要且未被探索的联系的理解。在已经完成的大量组织、经验和分析工作的基础上，它将通过对1998年和2001年澳大利亚联邦选举期间电视竞选新闻报道录像的内容分析，建立两个新的数据库。结合调查数据和现有的1996年电视数据，我们的分析将产生大量关于电视内容、领导人形象、总统任期和选民决策中的电视线索的出版物——这是澳大利亚首次对这些主题进行跨时间检查。

This project seeks to expand our understanding of a vital and largely unexplored nexus -- that between television and electoral attitudes and behaviour in Australia. Building on substantial organisational, empirical and analytic work already completed, it will construct two new databases by content-analysing videotapes we recorded of the TV election campaign news coverage during the 1998 and 2001 Australian federal elections. Merged with survey data, and existing 1996 TV data, our analyses will yield a number of publications on TV content, leader images, presidentialisation, and TV cues in voter decision-making -- the first cross-time examination of these themes in Australia.