Television News, Politics and Young People Generation Disconnected?

by Henderson, Lesley; Murray, Craig; Wayne, Mike; Petley, Julian

• ISBN13: 9780230219359
• ISBN10: 0230219357
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book is an exploration of the extent to which young people in the UK are disaffected with traditional politics, and particularly the role played by televisual representations of the political process. The authors look at how television represents young people themselves, and at how young people use new forms of media to inform themselves politically.

Author Biography

Mike Wayne is Professor in Screen Media at Brunel University, UK.
Julian Petley is Professor of Screen Media and Journalism in the School of Arts, Brunel University, UK. His most recent publication is Censorship: A Beginner's Guide (2009). He is co-principal editor of the Journal of British Cinema and Television, and chair of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom.
Craig Murray has a PhD from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He has been involved in ESRC- and AHRC-funded research projects at the University of Liverpool and Brunel University in London, and is currently chief media analyst with the Norwegian media monitoring company Opoint.
Lesley Henderson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communications in the School of Social Sciences, Brunel University, UK. She has published widely on factual and fictional media production and public understandings of diverse issues. Her most recent book is Social Issues in Television Fiction (2007).

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vi
List of Figures	p. vii
List of Illustrations	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Crisis of Political Representation	p. 13
Young People, Politics and Television	p. 37
Broadcasters' Perspectives	p. 52
Content Analysis of Television News	p. 75
The Symbolic Criminalisation of Young people	p. 99
The Monopolisation of Political Discourse	p. 121
The Boundaries of Political Debate: Animal Rights	p. 144
Apathetic or Excluded? Young People, News and the Electronic Media	p. 164
Talk Back: Young Audiences and Reception	p. 185
Conclusion: Is Another Television News Paradigm Possible?	p. 212
Notes	p. 220
Bibliography	p. 223
Index	p. 233
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