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9780415359368

The Political Communication Reader

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415359368

  • ISBN10:

    0415359368

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2007-06-22
  • Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Gathering together key writings and many single-authored essays in to a handy one-volume resource, this is the only Reader currently available on political communication. The selected texts and articles have been included for their significant contribution to our understanding of the issues under considerations, are grouped into thematic sections, each introduced by the editors, and the contributors cover such areas as: the exercise of power, media and democracy the media and elections media effects political participation and the media the personalization of politics new technologies and the reshaping of political communication. Available as a companion Reader to Brian McNair's Introduction to Political Communication textbook, students will find The Political Communication Reader a valuable resource in this popular subject area.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Media and Democracy
Public Opinion
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
The ''Propaganda Model''
Media Theory after the Fall of European Communism
Rethinking Media and Democracy
The ''Mediatization'' of Politics
The Political-Media Complex at 50
The Third Age of Political Communication
Media and Political Advocates
Politicians and the Press
The News Media as a Political Institution
We Keep America on Top of the World
The Media Politics of Criminal Justice
Media and Political Conflict
Beyond Agenda Setting: Information Subsidies and Public Policy
Strategic Public Diplomacy
Elections and Campaigning
Platforms and Windows
The Formation of Campaign Agendas
Packaging the Presidency
The Wisdom of the War Room
The ''Americanization'' of Political Communication
Politics, Media and Modern Democracy
Political Communications in Postindustrial Societies
Marketing Politics
Professional Communication and the Means of Social Influence
New Frontiers in Political Professionalism
Professionalization: Of What? Since When? By Whom?
Parties and Campaign Professionals in a Digital Age
Global Political Campaigning
The Politics of Marketing the Labour Party
Political Marketing: Issues for Political Science
Media Effects
The Reinforcement Effect
The Effects of Newspapers
The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media
Images/Issues/Impact: The Media and Campaign ''92
Cognitive Bases for Framing Effects
Effects of Framing on Attributions of Responsibility for Crime and Terrorism
The Audience is a Crowd, the Crowd is a Public: Latter-Day Thoughts on Lang and Lang''s ''MacArthur Day in Chicago''
Media and Political Engagement
Technology and Mass Media
The Long Campaign: The Politics of Tedium
Talking News, Talking Politics
Audience Engagement with Politically Incorrect
Public Access Broadcasting in the UK: A History
Media Participation: A Legitimizing Mechanism of Mass Democracy
Personalization
The Evolution of Celebrityhood
Cultural Struggle, the New News, and the Politics of Popularity in the Age of Jesse ''the Body'' Ventura
The Man from Hope: Hyperreal Intimacy and the Invention of Bill Clinton
Out of Order
The Nature of Political Scandal
What Happened to Sex Scandals? Politics and Peccadilloes, Jefferson to Kennedy
New Media, New Politics?
Communicating Global Activism: Strengths and Vulnerabilities of Networked Politics
Smart Mobs: The Power of the Mobile Many
Networking Dissent: Cyber Activists Use the Interne
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