Osabuohien P. Amienyi

Work place: Arkansas State University, Department of Media, Jonesboro, 72467, USA

E-mail: osami@astate.edu

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Biography

Osabuohien P. Amienyi is Professor and Chair of Media Department at Arkansas State University in the U.S. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Bowling Green University, Ohio, USA. He was a film producer and videographer in Nigeria and worked in radio and television in the U.S. His research on national development has appeared in a variety of national and international publications. He is author of the book, Communicating National Integration: Empowering Development in African Countries (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005), and received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach and conduct research at The University of Malawi - The Polytechnic in 2005.  He became chair of the Department of Radio-Television in 2007.

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Mining for Focus and Priorities in Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s Daily Tweets during the 2016 U.S. General Elections

By John N. Malala Osabuohien P. Amienyi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2018.03.01, Pub. Date: 8 Mar. 2018

This study presents the results of a content analysis of 2476 tweets posted by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election following their official nomination by their respective political parties. The study sought to determine whether the candidates used a focused campaign strategy in their tweets, and whether the tweets revealed priorities based on their focus and the time of the day they were posted. The results show that Clinton posted more tweets, had a more focused campaign than Trump during the same time frame.

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