Mediated Politics: Communication in the

This book explores the changing nature of democracy in light of dramatic changes in the media of mass communication: the Internet, the decline of network television news and the daily newspaper; the growing tendency to treat election campaigns as competing product advertisements; the blurring lines among news, ads, and entertainment. It explores such questions as: Does the Internet make it easier for citizens to find political information? Do today's highly competitive old and new mass media serve the needs of democratic citizenship? Does the new media environment produce public opinion that is more or less manipulated, or manipulated in new ways?

List of Figures

xii

List of Tables

xiii

Contributors

xv

Preface

xxiii

Acknowledgments

xxvii

Mediated Politics: An Introduction

1

(32)

W. Lance Bennett

Robert M. Entman

Part 1 Democracy and the Public Sphere

The Public Sphere and the Net: Structure, Space, and Communication

33

(23)

Peter Dahlgren

Promoting Political Engagement

56

(19)

William A. Gamson

The Internet and the Global Public Sphere

75

(24)

Colin Sparks

Part 2 Citizens, Consumers, and Media in Transition

Reporting and the Push for Market-Oriented Journalism: Media Organizations as Businesses

99

(18)

Doug Underwood

Political Discourse and the Politics of Need: Discourses on the Good Life in Cyberspace

117

(24)

Don Slater

Dividing Practices: Segmentation and Targeting in the Emerging Public Sphere

141

(19)

Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.

Let Us Infotain You: Politics in the New Media Environment

160

(22)

Michael X. Delli Carpini

Bruce A. Williams

The Future of the Institutional Media

182

(21)

Timothy E. Cook

Part 3 Mediated Political Information and Public Opinion

Reframing Public Opinion as We Have Known It

203

(23)

Robert M. Entman

Susan Herbst

Political Waves and Democratic Discourse: Terrorism Waves During the Oslo Peace Process

226

(26)

Gadi Wolfsfeld

Monica Lewinsky and the Mainsprings of American Politics

252

(27)

John Zaller

The Big Spin: Strategic Communication and the Transformation of Pluralist Democracy

279

(20)

W. Lance Bennett

Jarol B. Manheim

The Impact of the New Media

299

(24)

W. Russel Neuman

Part 4 Mediated Campaigns

Issue Advocacy in a Changing Discourse Environment

323

(19)

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Implications of Rival Visions of Electoral Campaigns

342

(20)

C. Edwin Baker

Mediated Electoral Democracy: Campaigns, Incentives, and Reform

362

(18)

Bruce I. Buchanan

``Americanization'' Reconsidered: U.K.--U.S. Campaign Communication Comparisons Across Time

380

(27)

Jay G. Blumler

Michael Gurevitch

Part 5 Citizens: Present and Future

Citizen Discourse and Political Participation: A Survey

407

(26)

Roderick P. Hart

Adapting Political News to the Needs of Twenty-First Century Americans

433

(20)

Doris A. Graber

National Identities and the Future of Democracy

453

(15)

Wendy M. Rahn

Thomas J. Rudolph

Communication in the Future of Democracy: A Conclusion

468

(13)

Robert M. Entman

W. Lance Bennett

Index

481

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