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1 online resource (378 pages) |
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Communication, Society and Politics |
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Communication, society, and politics
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| Contents |
Cover; After Broadcast News; Communication, Society and Politics; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Is There a Difference Between Tina Fey and Katie Couric? Policing the Boundaries Between News and Entertainment; The Strange Media Odyssey of Sarah Palin; Changing Sources of Political Information; The Inherent Arbitrariness of the News-versus-Entertainment Distinction; Going Forward; 2 Media Regimes and American Democracy; Media Regimes in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century: The Decline of the Party Press and the Rise of Realism |
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Who Is the Father of Our Country? Lessons from the Dark Ages of American JournalismThe Emergence of the Penny Press: Media as Public Conversation; Newspapers, Novels, and Poetry: Realism and the News; The Complex and Contested Nature of Objectivity; The Progressive Era and the Modern Common Sense about Political Communication: News, Journalism, Entertainment, and Citizenship; Walter Lippmann and the Model of the Modern Media Professional; Conclusion; 3 And That's the Way It (Was); The Emergence and Institutionalization of the Age of Broadcast News; News versus Entertainment |
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Fact versus OpinionDemocratic Elitism; The Rise of Television News; Gatekeeping and Agenda Setting in the Age of Broadcast News; The End of the Age of Broadcast News; A New World Order: From the Cold War to Culture Wars; Technological Developments and the Changing Discursive Environment; The Shifting Relationship among Media, Politics, and Everyday Life; Conclusion; 4 Political Reality, Political Power, and Political Relevance in the Changing Media Environment; Making Sense of the New Media Environment: Hyperreality and Multiaxiality; Redefining Politically Relevant Media |
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Defining Who "We" Are in the New Discursive EnvironmentConclusion; 5 Politics in the Emerging New Media Age; Hyperreality: The Clinton Scandals as a Media Event; Politics in a Multiaxial Media Environment; Lessons from the Clinton Scandals; Conclusion: Media and Politics since the Clinton Scandals; The Transformation of Day-to-Day Politics; The Double-Edged Sword of the New Media Environment; The Political Uses of Scandal (and Rumor and Conspiracy); Politics in the New Media Environment Is Unstable but Not Random; 6 When the Media Really Matter |
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Journalists React: A Professions Own State of FearUnclear Truth Claims; Confidence in the Methods of Professional Journalists; Boundary Maintenance; Serious Media Addresses (or Not) a Serious Issue: How Well Does Mainstream Media Cover Environmental Issues?; Is Very Little Coverage Still Too Much? The Quality of Environmental Coverage during the Age of Broadcast News; Why Isn't the Environment News?; The Limits of Balance as a News Value; Beyond the "News"; Policing the Boundaries between News and Entertainment in Environmental Coverage; Potentials and Pitfalls of the New Media Environment |
| Summary |
After Broadcast News challenges the role of professional journalists as the primary source of politically relevant information |
| Notes |
Paths toward Improving Coverage: Intertextuality, Social Practices, and Media Literacy |
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Print version record |
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Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States
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Broadcast journalism -- Political aspects -- United States
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Press and politics -- United States
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Popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States
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Democracy -- United States
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Broadcast journalism -- Political aspects.
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Democracy.
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Mass media -- Political aspects.
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Popular culture -- Political aspects.
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Press and politics.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Delli Carpini, Michael X
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| ISBN |
9781139188340 |
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1139188348 |
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128338258X |
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9781283382588 |
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9780511846366 |
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0511846363 |
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