Aeron Davis

Political Communication and Social Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Political Communication and Social Theory presents an advanced, challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and the role of media in democracies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780415547123
• ISBN-10: 0415547121
• Artikelnr.: 29932339

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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