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The political communication reader /

The political communication reader / edited by Ralph Negrine and James Stanyer. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2007. - xvii, 318 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Media and democracy. Public opinion / Walter Lippmann --
Rich media, poor democracy / Robert McChesney --
A critical review and assessment of Herman and Chomsky's 'Propaganda Model' / Jens Klaehn --
Media theory after the fall of European communism: Why the old models from East and West won't do anymore / Colin Sparks --
Rethinking media and democracy / James Curran --
'Mediatization' of politics: A challenge for democracy? / Giampietro Mazzoleni and Winfried Schulz --
The political-media complex at 50 / David Swanson --
The third age of political communication: Influences and features / Jay Blumler and Dennis Kavanagh --
2. Media and political advocates. Politicians and the press: An essay on role relationships / Jay Blumler and Michael Gurevitch --
Governing with the news: The news media as a political institution / Timothy Cook --
We keep America on top of the world / Daniel Hallin --
Reporting crime: The media politics of criminal justice / Philip Schlesinger and Howard Tumber --
Media and political conflict: News form the Middle East / Gadi Wolsfeld --
Beyond agenda setting: Information subsidies and public policy / Oscar Gandy --
Strategic public diplomacy and American foreign policy: The evolution of influence / Jarol Manheim 3. Election campaigns. Platform and windows: Broadcasting's role in election campaigns / Elihu Katz --
The formation of campaign agendas / Holli Semetko,...[et al.] --
Packaging the presidency: A history and criticism of presidential campaign advertising / Kathleen Hall Jamieson --
The wisdom of the war room: U.S. campaigning and Americanization / Margaret Scammell --
The 'Americanization' of political communication: a critique / Ralph Negrine and Stylianos Papathanassopoulos --
Politics, media and modern democracy: An international study of innovations in electoral campaigning and their consequences / David Swanson and Paolo Mancini --
A virtuous circle: Political communications in postindustrial societies / Pippa Norris --
4. Marketing politics. The new public: Professional communication and the means of social influence / Leon Mayhew --
New frontiers in political professionalism / Paolo Mancini --
Professionalization: Of what? Since when? By whom? / Darren Lilleker and Ralph Negrine --
Parties and campaign professionals in a digital age: Political consultants in the United States and their counterparts overseas / David Farrell, Robin Kolodny and Stephen Medvic --
Global political campaigning: A wor[l]dwide analysis of campaigning professionals and their practices / Fritz Plasser with Gunda Plasser --
The politics of marketing the labour party / Dominic Wring --
Political marketing : Issues for political science / Margaret Scammell 5. Media effects. The reinforcement effect / Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson and Hazel Gaudet --
The effects of newspapers / Pippa Norris,...[et al.] --
The agenda-setting function of mass media / Maxwell E. McCombs and Donald L. Shaw --
Images/ issues/ impact: The media and campaign '92 / Justin Lewis, MIchael Morgan and Andy Ruddock --
Cognitve bases for framing effects / Joseph N. Capella and Kathleen Hall Jamieson --
Effects of framing on attributions of responsibility for crime and terrorism / Shanto Iyengar --
The 'landslide effect' / Elihu Katz and Daniel Dayan --
6. The media and political engagement. Technology and mass media / Robert D. Putnam --
The long campaign: The politics of tedium / Thomas E. Patterson --
Talking news, talking politics / David Buckingham --
Audience engagement with 'Politically incorrect' / Jeffery P. Jones --
Public access broadcasting in the UK: a history / Brian McNair, Matthew Hibberd and Philip Schlesinger --
Media participation: A legitimizing mechanism of mass democracy / Erik P. Bucy and Kimberly S. Gregson 7. Personalisation. The evolution of celebrityhood / Darrell M. West and John Orman --
Cultural struggle, the new news, and the politics of popularity in the age of Jesse 'the body" Ventura / Kevin Glynn --
The man f[r]om hope: Hyperreal intimacy and the invention of Bill Clinton / Shawn J. Parry-Giles and Trevor Parry-Giles --
Out of order / Larry J. Sabato, Mark Stencel and S. Robert Lichter --
The nature of political scandal / John B. Thompson --
What happened to sex scandals? Politics and peccadilloes, Jefferson to Kennedy / John H. Summers --
8. New media, new politics? Communicating global activism: Strengths and vulnerabilities of networked politics / W. Lance Bennett --
Smart mobs: The power of the mobile many / Howard Rheingold --
Networking dissent: Cyber activists use the internet to promote democracy in Burma / Tiffany Danitz and Warren P. Strobel --
Buzz, blogs, and beyond: The internet and the national disclosure in the fall of 2004 / Michael Cornfield,...[et al.] --
Democratisation, parties and the net: Mexico-model or aberration? / Darren Wallis --
How the net will not contribute to democracy / Michael Margolis and David Resnick. TOC

This book gathers together key writings on political communication from a range of leading authors, examining both conventional approaches and the newer realities of mediated political communication in advanced industrial democracies.--[book cover]



9780415359351 (hbk. : alk. paper) 041535935X (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780415359368 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415359368 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2006038496


Mass media--Political aspects.
Communication--Political aspects.

P95.8 / .P643 2007

302.23 / POL 2007