Communicating Politics in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9780230000292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 280 str.

Karen Sanders

Opis

From propaganda to protests, this book provides an in depth study of politics and the media today. Using historical and contemporary examples, Sanders covers the essential theory and key research in the field. Topical and comprehensive, this book covers everything students need to know about the global world of political communication.

Spis treści

List of Figures and Tables.- Introduction.- PART I: ISSUES, CONCEPTS, DEBATES.- Introducing the Field of Political Communication.- Media Democracies.- Symbolic Politics: 'All the World's a Stage'.- Political Marketing: The Death of Conviction?.- PART II: THE COMMUNICATORS.- Communicating Government.- Communication in Opposition, Protest and Violence.- The Political Persuasion Industry: Lobbyists, Pressure Groups and Think Tanks.- Global Political Communication. -PART III: GETTING THE MESSAGE.- The People: Opinion, Polls and Participation.- Political campaigns.- Campaign effects: Is Anyone Ever Persuaded?.- Political News and Comment.- Creating the Conditions for Conversation: Ethics and Political Communication.- References.- Index.

O autorze

KAREN SANDERS is Professor of Journalism at CEU San Pablo University and Associate Professor at the IESE business school. In 2008 she co-founded the Asociación de Comunicación Política. Her books include Ethics and Journalism and Morality Tales: Political Scandals in Britain and Spain in the 1990s.