Jim A. Kuypers

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Jim A. Kuypers is an American academic specializing in communication studies.^[1] A professor at Virginia Tech, he has written on the news media, rhetorical criticism and presidential rhetoric, and is particularly known for his work in political communication which explores the qualitative aspects of framing analysis and its relationship to presidential communication and news media bias.

Kuypers graduated with a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Arts from Florida State University. He earned a Ph.D. in communication studies from Louisiana State University.

Kuypers has taught at Virginia Tech since 2005. Previously, he was a senior lecturer in rhetoric and oratory at Dartmouth College and taught at Louisiana State University, Florida State University, and Florida Atlantic University.

[edit] Selected publications

• Bush’s War: Press Bias and Framing of the War on Terror (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, October 2006). ISBN 0-7425-3653-X

• "A Comparative Framing Analysis of Embedded and Behind-the-Lines Reporting on the 2003 Iraq War". Qualitative Research Reports in Communication 6.1 (2005): 1-10. Jim A. Kuypers and Stephen Cooper

• The Art of Rhetorical Criticism (Boston: AllynBacon, 2005). ISBN 0-2053-7141-8

• Compassionate Conservatism: The Rhetorical Reconstruction of Conservative Rhetoric, The American Communication Journal 6.4 (2003).

• Press Bias and Politics: How the Media Frame Controversial Issues. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002). ISBN 0-2759-7759-5

• Twentieth-Century Roots of Rhetorical Studies (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001). Jim A. Kuypers and Andrew King, eds. ISBN 0-2759-6420-5

• Presidential Crisis Rhetoric and the Press in the Post-Cold War World, (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997). 2002. ISBN 0-2759-5721-7

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[edit] See also

• media bias
• media bias in the United States
• War on Terrorism