Jason M Turcotte

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.