The Dynamics of Political Communication: Media and Politics in a Digital Age

ISBN-13: 9780367279417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 524 str.

Richard M. Perloff

Opis

Covering communication and politics and the problematic issues that bear on the functioning of democracy in an age of partisanship, social media, and political leadership that questions media’s legitimacy, this book is ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in communication, journalism and political science programs.

Spis treści

Part 1: Foundations of Political Communication  1. Prologue  2. Introduction to Political Communication  3. Philosophy, Democracy, and Political Communication  Part 2: Political Communication Concepts and Effects  4. The Study of Political Communication  5. Media and Political Knowledge  6. Contemporary Political Socialization  7. Setting and Building the Agenda  8. Framing  9. Biases, the Beholder, and Media Effects: The Partisan Psychology of Political Communication  Part 3: Communication and the Presidential Election Campaign  10. Presidential Rhetoric from Television to Tweeting  11. Unpacking Political News Bias  12. Gender Bias in Political News  13. Political News, Polls, and the Presidential Campaign  14. Presidential Nominations in the Media Age  15. Political Advertising in Presidential Election Campaigns  16. Presidential Debates and Postscript

O autorze

Richard M. Perloff, Professor of Communication, Political Science, and Psychology at Cleveland State University, is well-known for his scholarship on the third-person effect, hostile media biases, and persuasion, including a seventh edition of The Dynamics of Persuasion. Perloff also is the author of The Dynamics of News, as well as articles in Communication Research, Communication Theory, and Mass Communication and Society. He has published many essays in The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer on topics such as news and political history, along with an essay on the 50th anniversary of the Kent State shootings in The New York Times. A dedicated teacher, Perloff has received awards for his teaching at Cleveland State.