New Media and American Politics

Name: New Media and American Politics
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ISBN: 9780195120615

ISBN-10: 0195120612

ISBN-13: 9780195120615

Edition: 1998

Authors: Richard Davis, Diana Owen

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New media have a major impact on all aspects of American political life. Presidential candidates appear in "electronic town meetings"; talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy lead dedicated bands of followers; tabloids break the Monica Lewinsky scandal with alarming speed. Traditional sources of information are increasingly altered by the presence of new media. New Media and American Politics is the first survey by political scientists of this recent and still-emerging phenomenon. The book is broadly cast to cover talk radio and television, tabloid journalism both in print and on television, entertainment media, and computer networks. How much do the new media alter the…

Book details

List price: $79.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/28/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

1. Defining the New Media 2. An Environment for the New Media 3. Talking Politics 4. Showing Politics: Tabloid Journalism and Entertainment Television 5. Typing Politics: Computer Networks 6. The Audiences 7. Audience Attitudes 8. Shaping Old Media 9. Shaping Presidential Campaigns 10. Shaping the Policy Agenda 11. Popular Voice or Demagogic Tool