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Overview

Travis N. Ridout is affiliated with Washington State University in the United States. Their research primarily contributes to the social sciences, with a focus on communication, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, gender studies, and artificial intelligence.

The scholar's main topics of work include social media and politics, media studies and communication, media influence and politics, electoral systems and political participation, gender, feminism, and media, political influence and corporate strategies, and computational and text analysis methods.

Their recent papers include:

  • Political Advertising Online and Offline, 2020, American Political Science Review
  • The Influence of Goals and Timing: How Campaigns Deploy Ads on Facebook, 2021, Journal of Information Technology & Politics
  • Spending Fast and Furious: Political Advertising in 2020, 2021, The Forum
  • Body Language and Gender Stereotypes in Campaign Video, 2022, Computational Communication Research
  • Universal Digital Ad Transparency, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ridout include:

  • Erika Franklin Fowler
  • Michael M. Franz
  • Markus Neumann
  • Jielu Yao
  • Pavel Oleinikov

Ridout has published multiple works in several venues, most notably:

  • The Forum (5 publications)
  • Computational Communication Research (2 publications)
  • Media and Communication (2 publications)
  • Harvard Dataverse (2 publications)
  • American Political Science Review (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Dialogue in American Political Campaigns? An Examination of Issue Convergence in Candidate Television Advertising

    Noah Kaplan;David K. Park;Travis N. Ridout

  • It's My Campaign I'll Cry if I Want to: How and When Campaigns Use Emotional Appeals

    Travis N. Ridout;Kathleen Searles

  • MEASURING THE EFFECTS OF TELEVISED POLITICAL ADVERTISING IN THE UNITED STATES

    Kenneth Goldstein;Travis N. Ridout

  • THE POLITICS OF PARTICIPATION: Mobilization and Turnout over Time

    Kenneth M. Goldstein;Travis N. Ridout

  • Negative, Angry, and Ubiquitous: Political Advertising in 2012

    Erika Franklin Fowler;Travis N. Ridout

  • Political Advertising in 2016: The Presidential Election as Outlier?

    Erika Franklin Fowler;Travis N. Ridout;Michael M. Franz

  • Does Political Advertising Persuade

    Michael M. Franz;Travis N. Ridout

  • Political Advertising Online and Offline

    Erika Franklin Fowler;Michael M. Franz;Gregory J. Martin;Zachary Peskowitz

  • The Persuasive Power of Campaign Advertising

    Travis N. Ridout;Michael M. Franz

  • Free Advertising: How the Media Amplify Campaign Messages

    Travis N. Ridout;Glen R. Smith

  • Political Advertising and Persuasion in the 2004 and 2008 Presidential Elections

    Michael M. Franz;Travis N. Ridout

  • Political Advertising in the United States

    Erika Franklin Fowler;Michael M. Franz;Travis N. Ridout

  • Evaluating Measures of Campaign Advertising Exposure on Political Learning

    Travis N. Ridout;Dhavan V. Shah;Kenneth M. Goldstein;Michael M. Franz

  • Separation by Television Program: Understanding the Targeting of Political Advertising in Presidential Elections

    Travis N. Ridout;Michael Franz;Kenneth M. Goldstein;William J. Feltus

  • Evaluating Measures of Campaign Tone

    Travis N. Ridout;Michael Franz

  • Local Television and Newspaper Coverage of Political Advertising

    Erika Franklin Fowler;Travis N. Ridout

  • Understanding the Effect of Political Advertising on Voter Turnout: A Response to Krasno and Green

    Michael M. Franz;Paul Freedman;Ken Goldstein;Travis N. Ridout

  • Does the Media Agenda Reflect the Candidates'Agenda?

    Travis N. Ridout;Rob Mellen

  • Advertising Trends in 2010

    Erika Franklin Fowler;Travis N Ridout

  • Coherent campaigns? Campaign broadcast and social messaging

    Leticia Bode;David S. Lassen;Young Mie Kim;Dhavan V. Shah

  • Exploring the validity of electronic newspaper databases

    Travis N. Ridout;Erika Franklin Fowler;Kathleen Searles

  • In a Different Voice? Explaining the Use of Men and Women as Voice-Over Announcers in Political Advertising

    Patricia Strach;Katherine Zuber;Erika Franklin Fowler;Travis N. Ridout

  • New Directions in Media and Politics

    Travis N. Ridout

Frequent Co-Authors

Erika Franklin Fowler
Erika Franklin Fowler Wesleyan University
Dhavan V. Shah
Dhavan V. Shah University of Wisconsin–Madison
Aseem Prakash
Aseem Prakash University of Washington

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