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Overview

Erik P. Bucy is affiliated with Texas Tech University in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the social sciences, with a total of 41 publications. Bucy's work spans various subfields including sociology and political science, communication, artificial intelligence, political science and international relations, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's research topics focus on media studies and communication, social media and politics, misinformation and its impacts, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, media influence and politics, and populism and right-wing movements.

Erik P. Bucy has published several papers, including:

  • Performing populism: Trump's transgressive debate style and the dynamics of Twitter response, 2020, New Media & Society
  • Editors' Introduction: Visual Politics, Grand Collaborative Programs, and the Opportunity to Think Big, 2020, The International Journal of Press/Politics

Frequent coauthors in Bucy's research include Dhavan V. Shah, Zhongkai Sun, Patrick A. Stewart, Jungseock Joo, and Sang Jeong Kim. These collaborations reflect a consistent network in the fields of communication and political science.

Regarding publication venues, Bucy has contributed multiple papers to the Journal of Visual Political Communication, New Media & Society, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Visual Communication Quarterly, and The International Journal of Press/Politics.

In addition to journal articles, Erik P. Bucy has authored a book titled Political Rhetoric and the Media, published in 2022 by Purdue University Press.

Best Publications

  • Image Bite Politics: News and the Visual Framing of Elections

    Maria Elizabeth Grabe;Erik Page Bucy

  • The sourcebook for political communication research: Methods, measures, and analytical techniques

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  • Interactivity in Society: Locating an Elusive Concept

    Erik P. Bucy

  • Media Credibility Reconsidered: Synergy Effects between On-Air and Online News:

    Erik P. Bucy

  • Social Access to the Internet

    Erik P. Bucy

  • Image Bite Politics

    Maria Elizabeth Grabe;Erik Page Bucy

  • Media Participation A Legitimizing Mechanism of Mass Democracy

    Erik P. Bucy;Kimberly S. Gregson

  • The Mediated Moderation Model of Interactivity

    Erik P. Bucy;Chen-Chao Tao

  • Taking Television Seriously: A Sound and Image Bite Analysis of Presidential Campaign Coverage, 1992–2004

    Erik P. Bucy;Maria Elizabeth Grabe

  • Formal features of cyberspace: relationships between Web page complexity and site traffic

    Erik P. Bucy;Annie Lang;Robert F. Potter;Maria Elizabeth Grabe

  • Emotional and Evaluative Consequences of Inappropriate Leader Displays

    Erik P. Bucy

  • The Interactivity Paradox: Closer to the News but Confused

    Erik P. Bucy

  • Media Access : Social and Psychological Dimensions of New Technology Use

    Erik P. Bucy;John E. Newhagen

  • Second Generation Net News: Interactivity and Information Accessibility in the Online Environment

    Erik P. Bucy

  • The emotional appropriateness heuristic: processing televised presidential reactions to the news

    Erik P. Bucy;John E. Newhagen

  • Presidential Expressions and Viewer Emotion: Counterempathic Responses to Televised Leader Displays:

    Erik P. Bucy;Samuel D. Bradley

  • Conceptualizing Media Stimuli in Experimental Research: Psychological Versus Attribute‐Based Definitions

    Chen-Chao Tao;Erik P. Bucy

  • Living in the Information Age: A New Media Reader

    Erik Page Bucy

  • Performing populism: Trump’s transgressive debate style and the dynamics of Twitter response:

    Erik P. Bucy;Jordan M. Foley;Josephine Lukito;Larissa Doroshenko

  • Conferring Resistance to Digital Disinformation: The Inoculating Influence of Procedural News Knowledge

    Michelle A. Amazeen;Erik P. Bucy

  • The Power of Television Images in a Social Media Age Linking Biobehavioral and Computational Approaches via the Second Screen

    Dhavan V. Shah;Alex Hanna;Erik P. Bucy;Chris Wells

  • Emotion, Presidential Communication, and Traumatic News Processing the World Trade Center Attacks

    Erik P. Bucy

  • The micro‐ and macrodrama of politics on television: Effects of media format on candidate evaluations

    Erik P. Bucy;John E. Newhagen

  • Self-esteem moderates the influence of self-presentation style on Facebook users’ sense of subjective well-being

    Wonseok (Eric) Jang;Erik P. Bucy;Janice Cho

  • Dual Screening During Presidential Debates: Political Nonverbals and the Volume and Valence of Online Expression

    Dhavan V. Shah;Alex Hanna;Erik P. Bucy;David S. Lassen

  • Interpreting Images of Fracking: How Visual Frames and Standing Attitudes Shape Perceptions of Environmental Risk and Economic Benefit

    Amber Krause;Erik P. Bucy

  • “Happy warriors” revisited Hedonic and agonic display repertoires of presidential candidates on the evening news

    Erik P. Bucy;Maria Elizabeth Grabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Dhavan V. Shah
Dhavan V. Shah University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jon C. Pevehouse
Jon C. Pevehouse University of Wisconsin–Madison
William A. Sethares
William A. Sethares University of Wisconsin–Madison
Carl Senior
Carl Senior Aston University
Annie Lang
Annie Lang Indiana University
Nick Lee
Nick Lee University of Warwick
Caroline Haythornthwaite
Caroline Haythornthwaite Syracuse University

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