The Tea Party Movement: Grassroots Advocacy at its Finest, or Highly-Disguised Astroturfing?
abstract: Using models identified by communications scholars Herbert W. Simons and Charles J. Stewart, a rhetorical analysis was conducted on contemporary Tea Party Movement (TPM) artifacts in an attempt to gauge the movement's authenticity as it relates to grassroots advocacy versus astroturfi...
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| Format: | Dissertation |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14464 |