The Future of Political Communication Research: Reflections on the Occasion of Steve Chaffee's Retirement from Stanford University

In response to the theme of today's panel, I have outlined just a few of many changes in the nature of the work that we do that are either currently on the horizon or already in progress.These are ways that the study of political communication today strikes me as quite different from when I was being trained as a graduate student of Steve's more than 10 years ago.Many of the issues and questions I pose here also form the bulk of my own "to-do" list with respect to areas where I think our field is in need of further research.