SECTION I: POLITICAL RHETORIC AND ELECTORAL ENGAGEMENT
John Allen Hendricks and Dan Schill: "Trust, Truth, and Technology: Political Communication in Polarized Times" - Randall Fowler: "Polysyndeton, Social Media, and the Presidency: Digital Culture & Rhetorical Style in the 2020 Election" - Kalah Kemp and Myrna Roberts: "Trump and Twitter: A Study of Parasocial Interaction, Identification, and Social Presence" - Emily Sauter: "The Citizen-Fan: The Impact of Social Media and Fandom on Contemporary Political Engagement Online"
SECTION II: POLITICAL MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION
Ben Wasike: "Knowledge Gaps and Misinformation: Social Media Engagement, Ideology, and Elections" - Todd R. Vogts and Jacob Groshek: "Sowing Seeds of Distrust: Investigating the Spread of Mis-and Disinformation by Exploring the Pathways for Rural Americans to News" - Tyler Martinez and Majia Nadesan: "theDonald.win: Electoral Fraud and a Nation in Crisis"
SECTION III: POLITICAL PARTISANSHIP AND POLARIZATION
Jacob Groshek and Sarah Krongard: "Streaming Entertainment into Political Pandemonium: Examining (Even More) Partisanship and Polarization in the 2020 Campaign" - Madeleine Montgomery, Freddie J. Jennings, Kathleen Coyle, Ariana Aquino, and Malloree Murdok: "The Influence of Partisan Cues on Social Media: Acceptance of the 2020 Presidential Election Results" - Xavier Scruggs and Benjamin R. Warner: "The Moderating Effect of Racial Resentment and Ambivalent Sexism on Partisanship and Thought Listing after Viewing the 2020 Vice Presidential Debate"
SECTION IV: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES
Yanjun Zhao: "Shared Blindness in Filter Bubbles: Political Messages in Social Media" - Juliet Dee: "When Election Lies Go Viral: How Social Media Platforms Amplified Cable News Networks' Defamatory Comments about Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic Corporation" - Christopher J. McCollough: "Normalizing New Identities in Political Roles: An Examination of the Social Media of Pete and Chasten Buttigieg" - Joseph P. Zompetti: "Hashtag Politics: #StopTheSteal as Rhetorical Strategy"