New Media and Politics

by Barrie Axford

• ISBN13: 9780761961994
• ISBN10: 0761961992
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-08
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

Exploring the theme of the putative transformation of political modernity under the impact of "new" media, this book adopts a questioning approach to the ways in which cultural and technological factors are affecting the temper of political life, and reflects the variety of normative thinking about and empirical research on the changing character of politics in mediatized cultures. New Media and Politics examines: the extent to which commercial populism now dominates electoral and other political discourses; the ways in which the functions of leadership, government and political parties are modified by different forms of both old and new media; the democratic or undemocratic import of such changes; and the ways in which the dominant territorial paradigm of politics is challenged by the space and time devouring capacities of electronic media.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
List of Contributors	x
The Transformation of Politics or Anti-Politics?	1	(29)
Barrie Axford
The Transformation of Political Communication?	30	(34)
Sandra Moog
Jeff Sluyter-Beltrao
The Transformation of Democracy?	64	(25)
Peter Dahlgren
The Transformation of the Public Sphere?	89	(20)
Sinikka Sassi
The Transformation of Citizenship?	109	(18)
Stephen Coleman
The Transformation of the Political Audience?	127	(24)
Richard Huggins
The Transformation of Governance?	151	(21)
Ken Newton
The Transformation of Political Leadership?	172	(19)
Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
The Transformation of Political Parties?	191	(19)
Dominic Wring
Ivan Horrocks
The Transformation of Political Modernity?	210	(15)
John Street
Index	225