A collection of 22 papers by American and European scholars who debated and discussed issues at workshops funded by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (University of Pennsylvania) and held in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The public sphere and the Net : structure, space, and communication / Peter Dahlgren -- Promoting political engagement / William A. Gamson -- The Internet and the global public sphere / Colin Sparks -- Reporting and the push for market-oriented journalism : media organizations as businesses / Doug Underwood -- Political discourse and the politics of need : discourses on the good life in cyberspace / Don Slater -- Dividing practices : segmentation and targeting in the emerging public sphere / Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. -- Let us infotain you : politics in the new media environment / Michael X. Delli Carpini and Bruce A. Williams -- The future of the institutional media / Timothy E. Cook -- Reframing public opinion as we have known it / Robert M. Entman and Susan Herbst -- Political waves and democratic discourse : terrorism waves during the Oslo peace process / Gadi Wolfsfeld -- Monica Lewinsky and the mainsprings of American politics / John Zaller -- The big spin : strategic communication and the transformation of pluralist democracy / W. Lance Bennett and Jarol B. Manheim -- The impact of the new media / W. Russell Neuman -- Issue advocacy in a changing discourse environment / Kathleen Hall Jamieson -- Implications of rival visions of electoral campaigns / C. Edwin Baker -- Mediated electoral democracy : campaigns, incentives, and reform / Bruce I. Buchanan -- "Americanization" reconsidered : U.K.-U.S. campaign communication comparisons across time / Jay G. Blumler and Michael Gurevitch -- Citizen discourse and political participation : a survey / Roderick P. Hart -- Adapting political news to the needs of twenty-first century Americans / Doris A. Graber -- National identities and the future of democracy / Wendy M. Rahn and Thomas J. Rudolph -- Communication in the future of democracy : a conclusion / Robert M. Entman and W. Lance Bennett.
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Explores the changing media environments in contemporary democracy: the Internet, the decline of network news and the daily newspaper; the growing tendency to treat election campaigns as competing product advertisements; and the blurring lines between news, ads and entertainment.
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Communication in politics.
Communication-- Political aspects.
Democracy.
Communication-- Aspect politique.
Communication politique.
Démocratie.
Aufsatzsammlung
Communication en politique.
Communication in politics.
Communication in politics.
Communication-- Political aspects.
Communication-- Political aspects.
Democracy.
Democracy.
Democratie.
Demokratie
Internet-- Aspect politique.
Kommunikation
Massenmedien
Médias et politique.
Nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication-- Aspect politique.