Understanding the unprecedented 2016 campaign: two historical candidacies yield an unexpected result / Benjamin R. Warner and Dianne G. Bystrom -- Selective exposure and homophily during the 2016 presidential campaign / Natalie Jomini Stroud and Jessica Collier -- What mobilizes partisans?: exploring the underlying pathways between partisan media and political participation / Heesook Choi, Benjamin R. Warner, and Freddie J. Jennings -- Media event influence in the 2016 race: the debates, Trump groping tape, and the last-minute FBI announcement / Esther Thorson, Samuel Tham, Weiyue Chen and Vamsi Kanuri -- The rhetoric of impossible expectations: media coverage of Hillary Clinton's 2016 general election campaign / Kristina Horn Sheeler -- Depends on who is asking: an endorsement experiment during the 2016 presidential election / Kalyca Becktel and Kaye D. Sweetser -- Attributions of incivility in presidential campaign news / Ashley Muddiman -- Fact-checking and the 2016 presidential election: news media's attempts to correct misleading information from the debates / Daniela V. Dimitrova and Kimberly Nelson -- "I'm about to be president; we're all going to die": Baldwin, Trump, and the rhetorical power of comedic presidential impersonation / Will Howell and Trevor Parry-Giles -- Processing the political: presidential primary debate "live-tweeting" as information processing / Josh C. Bramlett, Mitchell S. McKinney, and Benjamin R. Warner -- Donald Trump and the rejection of the norms of American rhetoric and politics / Robert C. Rowland -- "The greatest country on Earth": the evolution of Michelle Obama's American dream / Ryan Neville-Shepard and Meredith Neville-Shepard -- Loss of faith: a realignment of religion on the campaign trail / Brian Kaylor -- Late night with Donald Trump: an exploration of the combined effects of political comedy and political advertising / Freddie J. Jennings, Calvin R. Coker, Josh C. Bramlett, Joel Lansing Reed, and Joshua P. Bolton -- Going on defense: the "unprecedented" use of defensive appeals in 2016 U.S. presidential debates / Corey B. Davis -- Gender and videostyle in 2016: advertising in mixed-gender races for the U.S. house / Kelly L. Winfrey and Jim Schnoebelen -- From interactivity to incitement: ubiquitous communication and elite calls for participatory action / Joshua M. Scacco, Kevin Coe, and Delaney Harness -- Corn Belt controversy: intraparty divisions and political cynicism at the 2016 Iowa caucuses / Joel Lansing Reed, Sopheak Hoeun, Josh C. Bramlett, Molly Greenwood, and Grace Hase -- Exploring and explaining communication, knowledge, and well-being sex differences related to the 2016 U.S. presidential primary season / R. Lance Holbert, Esul Park, and Nicholas W. Robinson -- Gender and the vote in the 2016 presidential election / Kate Kenski -- Election/Elecciïon: Latino twitter users and reactions to presidential political gaffes / Samantha Hernandez -- Analyzing tweets about the 2016 U.S. presidential "blunder" election / Michael W. Kearney -- Understanding the authoritarian voter in the 2016 presidential election / Sumana Chattopadhyay -- Social dominance, sexism, and the lasting effects on political communication from the 2016 election / Mary C. Banwart and Michael W. Kearney.