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Peer reviewedWarnick, Barbara – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1998
Contributes to rhetorical scholarship on political discourse by surveying Web sites relevant to the 1996 presidential campaign. Argues that parodic sites sought to entertain the reader and to expose candidates' questionable or deceptive practices but that they themselves engaged in deception. Argues that they provided the illusion of political…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Media Research, Parody
