Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy

by Edited by W. Lance Bennett , Robert M. Entman

• ISBN13: 9780521789769
• ISBN10: 0521789761
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-20
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book explores the changing nature of democracy in light of dramatic changes in the media of mass communication: the Internet, the decline of network television news and the daily newspaper; the growing tendency to treat election campaigns as competing product advertisements; the blurring lines among news, ads, and entertainment. It explores such questions as: Does the Internet make it easier for citizens to find political information? Do today's highly competitive old and new mass media serve the needs of democratic citizenship? Does the new media environment produce public opinion that is more or less manipulated, or manipulated in new ways?

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xii
List of Tables	xiii
Contributors	xv
Preface	xxiii
Acknowledgments	xxvii
Mediated Politics: An Introduction	1	(32)
W. Lance Bennett
Robert M. Entman
Part 1 Democracy and the Public Sphere
The Public Sphere and the Net: Structure, Space, and Communication	33	(23)
Peter Dahlgren
Promoting Political Engagement	56	(19)
William A. Gamson
The Internet and the Global Public Sphere	75	(24)
Colin Sparks
Part 2 Citizens, Consumers, and Media in Transition
Reporting and the Push for Market-Oriented Journalism: Media Organizations as Businesses	99	(18)
Doug Underwood
Political Discourse and the Politics of Need: Discourses on the Good Life in Cyberspace	117	(24)
Don Slater
Dividing Practices: Segmentation and Targeting in the Emerging Public Sphere	141	(19)
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.
Let Us Infotain You: Politics in the New Media Environment	160	(22)
Michael X. Delli Carpini
Bruce A. Williams
The Future of the Institutional Media	182	(21)
Timothy E. Cook
Part 3 Mediated Political Information and Public Opinion
Reframing Public Opinion as We Have Known It	203	(23)
Robert M. Entman
Susan Herbst
Political Waves and Democratic Discourse: Terrorism Waves During the Oslo Peace Process	226	(26)
Gadi Wolfsfeld
Monica Lewinsky and the Mainsprings of American Politics	252	(27)
John Zaller
The Big Spin: Strategic Communication and the Transformation of Pluralist Democracy	279	(20)
W. Lance Bennett
Jarol B. Manheim
The Impact of the New Media	299	(24)
W. Russel Neuman
Part 4 Mediated Campaigns
Issue Advocacy in a Changing Discourse Environment	323	(19)
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Implications of Rival Visions of Electoral Campaigns	342	(20)
C. Edwin Baker
Mediated Electoral Democracy: Campaigns, Incentives, and Reform	362	(18)
Bruce I. Buchanan
``Americanization'' Reconsidered: U.K.--U.S. Campaign Communication Comparisons Across Time	380	(27)
Jay G. Blumler
Michael Gurevitch
Part 5 Citizens: Present and Future
Citizen Discourse and Political Participation: A Survey	407	(26)
Roderick P. Hart
Adapting Political News to the Needs of Twenty-First Century Americans	433	(20)
Doris A. Graber
National Identities and the Future of Democracy	453	(15)
Wendy M. Rahn
Thomas J. Rudolph
Communication in the Future of Democracy: A Conclusion	468	(13)
Robert M. Entman
W. Lance Bennett
Index	481