Department: Communication Studies
Areas of expertise:
- Media and Politics
- Campaigns
- Social Media and Politics
- Political Stagecraft
Currently researching undecided voters using dial testing, political communications professor, Dan Schill, worked with CNN to dial-test undecided voters in crucial swing states for each of the presidential and vice-presidential debates. Schill’s expertise also includes media and politics, social media and political stagecraft–or how the candidates’ appearances during events affect viewers.
He received his doctorate and his master's from the University of Kansas, and his bachelor's from the University of North Dakota.
Media contact: Eric Gorton, gortonej@jmu.edu
In the news
- Ted Cruz to Skip Obama's Final State of the Union Address (The Christian Post)
- CNN Revs Up Dial Testing Focus Groups for Presidential Primaries (Dialsmith.com)
- Why Do Politicians Prefer Old Media? (Governing.com)
- Stagecraft and Statecraft: Advance and Media Events in Political Communication (Lexington Studies in Political Communication)
- Communication and Midterm Elections: Media, Message, and Mobilization (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Political Communication in Real Time (Routledge)
- The Optics of Political Communication (Communication Currents)
- Presidential Campaigning and Social Media: An Analysis of the 2012 Campaign (Oxford University Press)
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