Trump and the Spiral of Silence

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dc.contributor.advisorMadrid-Morales, Daniel
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCamaj, Lindita
dc.contributor.committeeMemberArcher, Allison M. N.
dc.creatorRoberts, Dustin Shane
dc.creator.orcid0000-0001-9597-9028
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-29T03:29:00Z
dc.date.available2022-12-29T03:29:00Z
dc.date.createdMay 2022
dc.date.issued2022-05-12
dc.date.updated2022-12-29T03:29:01Z
dc.description.abstractThis study explores how 14 conservative college students managed their political expressions on campus during and after the 2020 U.S. presidential election with Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann’s theory of the spiral of silence. Through conducting in-depth qualitative interviews with conservative students or alumni from the University of Houston and Texas A&M University, it was found that several participants from the University of Houston felt strong social pressure to censor their political expressions while most of the sample from Texas A&M University did not. Students in the sample reported experiencing social pressure in two primary domains: classrooms and greater campus. This paper contributes to theory by considering the role that institutions can play in peoples’ political expressions. Findings suggested a possible association between two-step flow theory and the spiral of silence theory in some outcomes. Affective social interactions with professors and other students, or “episodes” are discussed.
dc.description.departmentCommunication, Jack J. Valenti School of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10657/13154
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).
dc.subjectDonald Trump
dc.subjectTrump
dc.subjectSpiral of Silence
dc.subjectFreedom of Speech
dc.subjectSilent Majority
dc.subjectConservative
dc.subjectCollege Campus
dc.subjectUniversity of Houston
dc.subjectTexas A&M
dc.subject
dc.titleTrump and the Spiral of Silence
dc.type.dcmiText
dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
thesis.degree.departmentCommunication, Jack J. Valenti School of
thesis.degree.disciplineCommunication
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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