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Media and Political Engagement
Citizens, Communication and Democracy
Häftad, 2009
404 kr
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One of the most difficult problems facing Western democracy today is the decline in citizens' political engagement. There are many elements that contribute to this, including fundamental socio-cultural changes. This book summarizes these contexts and situates itself within them, while focusing on …
The Making of a European Public Sphere
Media Discourse and Political Contention
Av Ruud Koopmans, Paul Statham
Häftad, 2010
553 kr
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This book investigates an important source of the European Union's recent legitimacy problems. It shows how European integration is debated in mass media, and how this affects democratic inclusiveness. Advancing integration implies a shift in power between governments, parliaments, and civil …
The Winning Message
Candidate Behavior, Campaign Discourse, and Democracy
Häftad, 2002
439 kr
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This study investigates candidate behavior in American electoral campaigns. It centers on a question of equal importance to citizens and scholars: how can we produce better political campaigns? The project takes an innovative approach to answering this question by bringing together critical and …
Digital Divide
Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Av Pippa Norris, W. Lance Bennett m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
502 kr
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There is widespread concern that the growth of the Internet is exacerbating inequalities between the information rich and poor. Digital Divide examines access and use of the Internet in 179 nations world-wide. A global divide is evident between industrialized and developing societies. A social …
Media, Markets, and Democracy
Av C. Edwin Baker, W. Lance Bennett m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
553 kr
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Government interventions in media markets are often criticized for preventing audiences from getting the media products they want. A free press is often asserted to be essential for democracy. The first point is incorrect and the second is inadequate as a policy guide. Part I of this book shows …
Communication and Democratic Reform in South Africa
Häftad, 2006
641 kr
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The book examines the reform of the communication sector in South Africa as a detailed and extended case study in political transformation - the transition from apartheid to democracy. The reform of broadcasting, telecommunications, the state information agency and the print press from …
New Television, Old Politics
The Transition to Digital TV in the United States and Britain
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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This book examines the economic, political, and technological forces that are shaping the future of broadcasting in advanced industrialized nations by comparing the transition from analog to digital TV in the US and Britain. Digital TV involves a major reordering of the broadcast sector that …
News Frames and National Security
Covering Big Brother
Av Douglas M. McLeod, Dhavan V. Shah
Inbunden, 2014
1351 kr
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Did media coverage contribute to Americans' tendency to favor national security over civil liberties following the 9/11 attacks? How did news framing of terrorist threats support the expanding surveillance state revealed by Edward Snowden? Douglas M. McLeod and Dhavan V. Shah explore the power of …
News Frames and National Security
Covering Big Brother
Av Douglas M. McLeod, Dhavan V. Shah
Häftad, 2014
429 kr
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Did media coverage contribute to Americans' tendency to favor national security over civil liberties following the 9/11 attacks? How did news framing of terrorist threats support the expanding surveillance state revealed by Edward Snowden? Douglas M. McLeod and Dhavan V. Shah explore the power of …
Cycles of Spin
Strategic Communication in the U.S. Congress
Häftad, 2009
422 kr
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How do politicians try to shape their news coverage? Sellers examines strategic communication campaigns in the U.S. Congress. He argues that these campaigns create cycles of spin: leaders create messages, rank-and-file legislators decide whether to promote those messages, journalists decide whether …
Collective Action in Organizations
Interaction and Engagement in an Era of Technological Change
Av Bruce Bimber, Andrew Flanagin m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
452 kr
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Challenging the notion that digital media render traditional, formal organizations irrelevant, this book offers a new theory of collective action and organizing. Based on extensive surveys and interviews with members of three influential and distinctive organizations in the United States - The …
The Making of a European Public Sphere
Media Discourse and Political Contention
Av Ruud Koopmans, Paul Statham
Inbunden, 2010
911 kr
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This book investigates an important source of the European Union's recent legitimacy problems. It shows how European integration is debated in mass media, and how this affects democratic inclusiveness. Advancing integration implies a shift in power between governments, parliaments, and civil …
Collective Action in Organizations
Interaction and Engagement in an Era of Technological Change
Av Bruce Bimber, Andrew Flanagin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1237 kr
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Challenging the notion that digital media render traditional, formal organizations irrelevant, this book offers a new theory of collective action and organizing. Based on extensive surveys and interviews with members of three influential and distinctive organizations in the United States - The …
After Broadcast News
Media Regimes, Democracy, and the New Information Environment
Av Bruce A. Williams, Michael X. Delli Carpini
Häftad, 2011
569 kr
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The new media environment has challenged the role of professional journalists as the primary source of politically relevant information. After Broadcast News puts this challenge into historical context, arguing that it is the latest of several critical moments, driven by economic, political, …
Cosmopolitan Communications
Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World
Av Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart
Inbunden, 2009
1291 kr
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Societies around the world have experienced a flood of information from diverse channels originating beyond local communities and even national borders, transmitted through the rapid expansion of cosmopolitan communications. For more than half a century, conventional interpretations, Norris and …
The Internet and Democratic Citizenship
Theory, Practice and Policy
Av Stephen Coleman, Jay G. Blumler
Häftad, 2009
455 kr
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Relations between the public and holders of political authority are in a period of transformative flux. On the one side, new expectations and meanings of citizenship are being entertained and occasionally acted upon. On the other, an inexorable impoverishment of mainstream political communication …
Comparing Political Communication
Theories, Cases, and Challenges
Av Frank Esser, Barbara Pfetsch
Häftad, 2004
553 kr
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This volume assesses comparative political communication research and considers potential ways in which it could and should develop. Twenty experts from Europe and the United States offer a unique and comprehensive discussion of the theories, cases, and challenges of comparative research in …
Media and the Path to Peace
Av Gadi Wolfsfeld, W. Lance Bennett m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
569 kr
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This is the first book to examine in detail the roles that the news media can play in an ongoing peace process. Gadi Wolfsfeld explains how the press's role in such processes varies over time and political circumstance. He examines three major cases: the Oslo peace process between Israel and the …
Comparing Media Systems
Three Models of Media and Politics
Av Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
553 kr
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Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables which have shaped their evolution. They go on to identify three major models of media …
Consumer Democracy
The Marketing of Politics
Häftad, 2014
439 kr
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This book argues that marketing is inherent in competitive democracy, explaining how we can make the consumer nature of competitive democracy better and more democratic. Margaret Scammell argues that consumer democracy should not be assumed to be inherently antithetical to 'proper' political …
When Politicians Attack
Party Cohesion in the Media
Av Tim Groeling
Häftad, 2010
455 kr
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Fostering a positive brand name is the chief benefit parties provide for their members. They do this both by coordinating their activities in the legislative process and by communicating with voters. Whereas political scientists have generally focused on the former, dismissing partisan …
New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen
Häftad, 2005
455 kr
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The political campaign is one of the most important organizations in a democracy, and whether issue or candidate specific, it is one of the least understood organizations in contemporary political life. This book is a critical assessment of the role that information technologies have come to play …
Media Concentration and Democracy
Why Ownership Matters
Häftad, 2006
432 kr
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Firmly rooting its argument in democratic and economic theory, the book argues that a more democratic distribution of communicative power within the public sphere and a structure that provides safeguards against abuse of media power provide two of three primary arguments for ownership dispersal. It …
Evaluating Campaign Quality
Can the Electoral Process be Improved?
Av L. Sandy Maisel, Darrell M. West m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
406 kr
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For a number of years, voters and academic observers have been dissatisfied with a number of elements of American campaigns. Contemporary races are seen as too negative, too superficial, and too unfair or misleading. Based on these complaints, a variety of reform organizations have targeted …
Shaping Immigration News
A French-American Comparison
Häftad, 2014
569 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive sample of newspaper and television …
Cosmopolitan Communications
Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World
Av Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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Societies around the world have experienced a flood of information from diverse channels originating beyond local communities and even national borders, transmitted through the rapid expansion of cosmopolitan communications. For more than half a century, conventional interpretations, Norris and …
Reality Television and Arab Politics
Contention in Public Life
Häftad, 2009
439 kr
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What does it mean to be modern outside the West? Based on a wealth of primary data collected over five years, Reality Television and Arab Politics analyzes how reality television stirred an explosive mix of religion, politics, and sexuality, fuelling heated polemics over cultural authenticity, …
Cycles of Spin
Strategic Communication in the U.S. Congress
Inbunden, 2009
927 kr
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How do politicians try to shape their news coverage? Sellers examines strategic communication campaigns in the U.S. Congress. He argues that these campaigns create cycles of spin: leaders create messages, rank-and-file legislators decide whether to promote those messages, journalists decide whether …
Reality Television and Arab Politics
Contention in Public Life
Inbunden, 2009
781 kr
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What does it mean to be modern outside the West? Based on a wealth of primary data collected over five years, Reality Television and Arab Politics analyzes how reality television stirred an explosive mix of religion, politics, and sexuality, fuelling heated polemics over cultural authenticity, …
Democracy and the Media
A Comparative Perspective
Av Richard Gunther, Richard Gunther m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1693 kr
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This book presents a systematic overview and assessment of the impacts of politics on the media, and of the media on politics, in authoritarian, transitional and democratic regimes in Russia, Spain, Hungary, Chile, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States. Its …
