Political Communication and Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9780415547123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 200 str.

Aeron Davis

Opis

Suitable for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies, this book challenges the traditional scholarship on various issues such as: comparative political and media systems; theories of democracy, representation and the public sphere; and, political party communication, marketing and elections.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures  Preface and Acknowledgements  1. In Search of the ‘Good’ Democracy: Comparing Political and Media Systems  2. Citizens, Political Representation and Parliamentary Public Spheres  3. Professionalised Parties, the Electoral Mechanism and the New Wave of Party Leaders: The Rise of David Cameron  4. The Production of Policy and News: Liquid Politics and the Working Cultures of the New Capitalism  5. Journalist-Source Relations, Mediated Reflexivity and the Politics of Politics  6. Celebrity Politics, Symbolic Communication and Media Capital in the Political Field  7. New Media and Fat Democracy: The Paradox of Online Participation  8. Politics and Communication Between the National and the Global: Determining the Boundaries and Significance of ‘International Political Communication’  9. Foreign Policy-Making, War and the Disembedding of Cosmopolitan Elite Networks: The Case of Iraq 2003  10. The ‘Crisis’ of Politics and Communication in Ageing Democracies  List of Interviewees  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Aeron Davis is a Reader and Director of the MA in Political Communication in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, London. He is the author of Public Relations Democracy (2002) and The Mediation of Power (2007).