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Author Williams, Bruce Alan.

Title After broadcast news : media regimes, democracy, and the new information environment / Bruce A. Williams, Michael X. Delli Carpini
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 361 pages) : illustrations
Series Communication, society and politics
Communication, society, and politics.
Contents Is there a difference between Tina Fey and Katie Couric?: policing the boundaries between news and entertainment -- Media regimes and American democracy -- And that's the way it (was): the rise and fall of the age of broadcast news -- Political reality, political power and political relevance in the changing media environment -- Politics in the emerging new media age: hyperreality, multiaxiality, and 'the Clinton scandals' -- When the media really matter: coverage of the environment in a changing media environment -- 9/11 and its aftermath: constructing a political spectacle in the new media environment -- Shaping a new media regime
Summary "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, cultural and technological changes, in which the relationship among citizens, political elites and the media has been contested. Out of these past moments, distinct 'media regimes' eventually emerged, each with its own seemingly natural rules and norms, and each the result of political struggle with clear winners and losers. The media regime in place for the latter half of the twentieth century has been dismantled, but a new regime has yet to emerge. Assuring this regime is a democratic one requires serious consideration of what was most beneficial and most problematic about past regimes and what is potentially most beneficial and most problematic about today's new information environment."-- Provided by publisher
"Most people assume that professional jounalists are the ligitimate source for political information and the role of "good" citizens is to watch, read or listen to the news. In After the News we show that this particular model is only one among several that have existed in the United States; that while it had some valuable aspects, it also had very narrow notions of what kind of information was politically relevant and what the role of citizen should be; and that the new information environment (from the internet to The Daily Show) make these strengths and limitations clear"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States
Broadcast journalism -- Political aspects -- United States
Press and politics -- United States
Popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States
Democracy -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
Broadcast journalism -- Political aspects -- United States.
Press and politics -- United States.
Popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States.
Democracy -- United States.
Broadcast journalism -- Political aspects
Democracy
Mass media -- Political aspects
Popular culture -- Political aspects
Press and politics
Massenmedien
Nachrichtensendung
Neue Medien
Politische Berichterstattung
Politische Kommunikation
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
Author Delli Carpini, Michael X., 1953-
ISBN 9781139186049
1139186043
9781139190947
1139190946
9780511846366
0511846363
9786613382580
6613382582