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Stella Darby
2004 - 2005 University Scholar
Mentor: Spiro Kiousis
College of Journalism and Communications
"I applied to the USP because I wanted to accomplish the completion of a long-term project because I had never done in-depth research over a short period of time before. I wanted to learn about the scholarly method and the discipline and creativity it takes to complete such a project."
Stella is a senior majoring in political science and history and is a native of Springhill, Alabama. She has been on the President’s List and Dean’s List in her college. Stella has volunteered for Democracy for America and MoveOn.org and completed an internship with Job Corps. She enjoys traveling, gardening and playing piano.
Research Description:
Content Analysis of Political Action Committee Websites During the 2004 Presidential Race
In preparation, I will review existing literature on the broad topic of the Internet's role in politics. Based on this framework, I will develop analysis questions and categories of content that applies to political action committee (PAC) websites. After developing a coding system with which to analyze and compare these websites, I will view and code websites periodically during the 2004 presidential race between Labor Day and Election Day. My final project will detail my literature review, the methodology I used to analyze PAC websites during the given time period, the results I found, and discussion of these results and their conceptual and practical implications.
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