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Ralph Negrine and James Stanyer

INTRODUCTION: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION TRANSFORMED?


SECTION 1 -- Media and democracy -- 11
  • 1 -- Walter Lippmann -- PUBLIC OPINION -- 13
  • 2 -- Robert McChesney -- RICH MEDIA, POOR DEMOCRACY -- 14
  • 3 -- Jens Klaehn -- A CRITICAL REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT OF HERMAN AND CHOMSKY'S 'PROPAGANDA' MODEL -- 18
  • 4 -- Colin Sparks -- MEDIA THEORY AFTER THE FALL OF EUROPEAN COMMUNISM: WHY THE OLD MODELS FROM EAST AND WEST WON'T DO ANYMORE -- 23
  • 5 -- James Curran -- RETHINKING MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY -- 27
  • 6 -- Gianpietro Mazzoleni and Winfried Schulz II. -- 'MEDIATIZATION' OF POLITICS: A CHALLENGE FOR DEMOCRACY? -- 32
  • 7 -- David Swanson -- THE POLITICAL-MEDIA COMPLEX AT 50 -- 37
  • 8 -- Jay Blumler and Dennis Kavanagh -- THE THIRD AGE OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION: INFLUENCES AND FEATURES -- 41
SECTION 2 -- Media and political advocates 47
  • 9 -- Jay Blumler and Michael Gurevitch -- POLITICIANS AND THE PRESS: AN ESSAY ON ROLE RELATIONSHIPS -- 49
  • 10 -- Timothy Cook -- GOVERNING WITH THE NEWS: THE NEWS MEDIA AS A POLITICAL INSTITUTION -- 54
  • 11 -- Daniel Hallin -- WE KEEP AMERICA ON TOP OF THE WORLD -- 59
  • 12 -- Philip Schlesinger and Howard Tumber -- REPORTING CRIME: THE MEDIA POLITICS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE -- 64
  • 13 -- Gadi Wolsfeld -- MEDIA AND POLITICAL CONFLICT: NEWS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST -- 69
  • 14 -- Oscar Gandy -- BEYOND AGENDA SETTING: INFORMATION SUBSIDIES AND PUBLIC POLICY -- 75
  • 15 -- Jarol Manheim -- STRATEGIC PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND AMERICAN FOREIGN I POLICY: THE EVOLUTION OF INFLUENCE -- 78
SECTION 3 -- Election campaigns 83
  • 16 -- Elihu Katz -- PLATFORM AND WINDOWS: BROADCASTING'S ROLE IN ELECTION CAMPAIGNS -- 85
  • 17 -- Holli Semetko, Jay Blumler, Michael Gurevitch, I David Weaver, Steve Barkin and G. Cleveland Wilhoit -- THE FORMATION OF CAMPAIGN AGENDAS -- 89
  • 18 -- Kathleen Hall Jamieson -- PACKAGING THE PRESIDENCY: A HISTORY AND CRITICISM OF PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ADVERTISING -- 93
  • 19 -- Margaret Scammell -- THE WISDOM OF THE WAR ROOM: US CAMPAIGNING AND AMERICANIZATION -- 98
  • 20 -- Ralph Negrine and Stylianos Papathanassopoulos -- 41 THE 'AMERICANIZATION' OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION: A CRITIQUE -- 102
  • 21 -- David Swanson and Paolo Mancini -- POLITICS, MEDIA AND MODERN DEMOCRACY: AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY OF INNOVATIONS IN ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNING AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES -- 106
  • 22 -- Pippa Norris -- A VIRTUOUS CIRCLE: POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS IN A POSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES III -- 110
SECTION 4 -- Marketing politics 117
  • 23 -- Leon Mayhew -- THE NEW PUBLIC: PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION AND THE MEANS OF SOCIAL INFLUENCE -- 119
  • 24 -- Paolo Mancini NEW FRONTIERS IN POLITICAL PROFESSIONALISM -- 124
  • 25 -- Darren Lilleker and Ralph Negrine -- PROFESSIONALIZATION: OF WHAT? SINCE WHEN? BY WHOM? -- 128
  • 26 -- David Farrell, Robin Kolodny and Stephen Medvic -- REIGN PARTIES AND CAMPAIGN PROFESSIONALS IN A DIGITAL AGE: POLITICAL CONSULTANTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR COUNTERPARTS OVERSEAS -- 132
  • 27 -- Fritz Plasser with Gunda Plasser -- GLOBAL POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING: A WORDWIDE ANALYSIS OF CAMPAIGNING PROFESSIONALS AND THEIR PRACTICES -- 138
  • 28 -- Dominic Wring -- THE POLITICS OF MARKETING THE LABOUR PARTY -- 145
  • 29 -- Margaret Scammell -- POLITICAL MARKETING: ISSUES FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE -- 150
SECTION 5 -- Media effects -- 157
  • 30 -- Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson and Hazel Gaudet -- THE REINFORCEMENT EFFECT 159
  • 31 -- Pippa Norris, John Curtice, David Sanders, Margaret Scammell and Holli A. Semetko -- THE EFFECTS OF NEWSPAPERS -- 164
  • 32 -- Maxwell E. McCombs and Donald L. Shaw -- THE AGENDA-SETTING FUNCTION OF MASS MEDIA -- 170
  • 33 -- Justin Lewis, Michael Morgan and Andy Ruddock -- IMAGES/ISSUES/IMPACT: THE MEDIA AND CAMPAIGN '92 -- 176
  • 34 -- Joseph N. Capella and Kathleen Hall Jamieson -- COGNITIVE BASES FOR FRAMING EFFECTS -- 181
  • 35 -- Shanto Iyengar -- EFFECTS OF FRAMING ON ATTRIBUTIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR CRIME AND TERRORISM -- 187
  • 36 -- Elihu Katz and Daniel Dayan -- THE 'LANDSLIDE EFFECT' -- 195
SECTION 6 -- The media and political engagement -- 201
  • 37 -- Robert D. Putnam -- TECHNOLOGY AND MASS MEDIA -- 203
  • 38 -- Thomas E. Patterson -- THE LONG CAMPAIGN: THE POLITICS OF TEDIUM -- 209
  • 39 -- David Buckingham -- TALKING NEWS, TALKING POLITICS -- 214
  • 40 -- Jeffery P. Jones -- AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT WITH POLITICALLY INCORRECT -- 220
  • 41 -- Brian McNair, Matthew Hibberd and Philip Schlesinger -- PUBLIC ACCESS BROADCASTING IN THE UK: A HISTORY -- 225
  • 42 -- Erik P. Bucy and Kimberly S. Gregson -- MEDIA PARTICIPATION: A LEGITIMIZING MECHANISM OF MASS DEMOCRACY -- 230
SECTION 7 -- Personalisation 237
  • 43 -- Darrell M. West and John Orman -- THE EVOLUTION OF CELEBRITYHOOD 239
  • 44 -- Kevin Glynn -- CULTURAL STRUGGLE, THE NEW NEWS, AND THE POLITICS OF POPULARITY IN THE AGE OF JESSE "THE BODY" VENTURA -- 245
  • 45 -- Shawn J. Parry-Giles and Trevor Parry-Gilesret -- THE MAN FOM HOPE: HYPERREAL INTIMACY AND THE INVENTION OF BILL CLINTON -- 250
  • 46 -- Larry J. Sabato, Mark Stencel and S. Robert Lichter -- OUT OF ORDER -- 256
  • 47 -- John B. Thompson -- THE NATURE OF POLITICAL SCANDAL -- 261
  • 48 -- John H. Summers -- WHAT HAPPENED TO SEX SCANDALS? POLITICS AND PECCADILLOES, JEFFERSON TO KENNEDY -- 266
SECTION 8 -- New media, new politics? -- 275
  • 49 -- W. Lance Bennett -- COMMUNICATING GLOBAL ACTIVISM: STRENGTHS AND VULNERABILITIES OF NETWORKED POLITICS -- 277
  • 50 -- Howard Rheingold -- SMART MOBS: THE POWER OF THE MOBILE MANY -- 284
  • 51 -- Tiffany Danitz and Warren P. Strobel -- NETWORKING DISSENT: CYBER ACTIVISTS USE THE INTERNET TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY IN BURMA -- 290
  • 52 -- Michael Cornfield, Jonathan Carson, Alison Kalis 214 and Emily Simon -- BUZZ, BLOGS, AND BEYOND: THE INTERNET AND THE NATIONAL DISCOURSE IN THE FALL OF 2004 -- 296
  • 53 -- Darren Wallis -- DEMOCRATISATION, PARTIES AND THE NET: MEXICO-MODEL OR ABERRATION? -- 306
  • 54 -- Michael Margolis and David Resnick -- HOW THE NET WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO DEMOCRACY -- 312



Communications 3340 -- Political Communication
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