Jason M Turcotte

Professor & Department Chair

Communication, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences

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About Me

Jason Turcotte (Ph.D., Louisiana State University) is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Communication Department. He received his B.A. in Communication and Political Science from Roger Williams University, and his M.A. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University. He teaches primarily in the Multimedia Journalism option, is a former faculty advisor to The Poly Post, and co-leads a Media & Politics Research Team.

Prior to teaching, Professor Turcotte spent several years working as a journalist for various print and online media. His research focuses on how the news media cover campaigns and policy issues. Of particular interest is understanding how news norms and processes influence the agenda of key campaign events, including electoral debates.

Professor Turcotte teaches:

News Practicum
Adv. News Practicum
Reporting
Survey of Mass Communication
Political Communication

Research

The following is a sample of Professor Turcotte's publications. To learn more about his research and collaborative student research teams visit Google Scholar or email jmturcotte@cpp.edu

Turcotte, J. (2023). Comedy, cameos, and campaign communication: Leveraging entertainment media to win elections and advance policy. New York: Routledge (Taylor & Francis).
Furey, L., Turcotte, J., Corrales, N. J., Frisan, E. N., Sorrell, J., & Urbina Villacorta, N. A. (2023). Miss (ing) representation: Examining how race shaped news coverage of missing women surrounding Gabby Petito’s disappearance. Journalism Practice.
Turcotte, J., & Hernandez Florez, N. (2023). How journalistic objectivity turns matters of science into matters of politics: A closer look at climate change and COVID-19 reporting. In H. Schmidt (ed.), Issues in Contemporary American Journalism. Routledge.
Turcotte, J., Furey, L., Garcia-Ortega, O., Hernandez, N., Siccion, C., & Stephenson, E. (2021). The novelty news frame: How social identity influences policy attention of minority presidential candidates. Newspaper Research Journal, 42(1), 95-110.
Turcotte, J. (2018). Enemies of the people: Elites, attacks, and news trust in the era of Trump. In A. Hayes (ed.), Communication and media in the age of Trump: Assessing campaign coverage, social media use, and political rhetoric. New York: Peter Lang.
Turcotte, J. (2017). Predicting policy: Exploring the determinants of issues-based agendas in electoral debates. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 45(5), 576-595.
Turcotte, J. (2017). Who’s citing whom? Source selection and elite indexing in electoral debates. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 94(1), 238-258.
Turcotte, J., Kirzinger, A., Dunaway, J., & Goidel, R. K. (2017). The many layers of local: Proximity and market influence on the news coverage of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Social Science Quarterly, 98(3), 993-1009.
Turcotte, J., Medenilla, K., Villasenor, K., & Lampwalla, S. (2017). All the polling (data) that’s fit to print: An analysis of online news coverage of 2016 primary polls. Communication Research Reports, 34(3), 191-200.
Turcotte, J., York, C., Scholl, R., Irving, J., & Pingree, R. (2015). News recommendations from social media opinion leaders: Effects on media trust and information seeking. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 20(5), 520-535.
Turcotte, J., & Paul, N. (2015). A case of more is less: The role of gender in US presidential debates. Political Research Quarterly, 68(4), 773-784.
Turcotte, J. (2015). The news norms and values of presidential debate agendas: An analysis of format and moderator influence on question content. Mass Communication & Society, 18(3), 239-258.
Turcotte, J., & Goidel, R. K. (2014). Political knowledge and exposure to the 2012 U.S. presidential debates. Does debate format matter? PS: Political Science & Politics, 47(2), 449-453.

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