Politics & the Media

This book examines the way social media changed how candidates campaigned in the 2008 US presidential election, how the media covered the election and how voters received information. _x000D_ It was originally published as a special issue of Mass Communication & Society...

This book examines the way social media changed how candidates campaigned in the 2008 US presidential election, how the media covered the election and how voters received information. _x005F_x000D_ It was originally published as a special issue of Mass Communication & Society...

This book examines the way social media changed how candidates campaigned in the 2008 US presidential election, how the media covered the election and how voters received information. _x000D_ It was originally published as a special issue of Mass Communication & Society...

From Daily Kos and the blogosphere to the rise of Twitter and Facebook, politics and new media have co-existed and evolved in rapid succession. At a time of collapse of the political center, extreme income inequality, rapidly changing demography, and the emergence of a second-generation online progr..

Utilizing both a critical thinking approach and a comparative perspective throughout the text, Sobel and Shiraev provide comprehensive coverage of public opinion while also teaching students the basic skills necessary for measurement, understanding, and interpreting...

This book is the first to develop new methodological approaches to understand and analyze the use of metaphor in political science and international relations...

This book examines the media in the post-authoritarian politics of twenty-first century Indonesia. It considers how the media is being transformed, its role in politics, and its potential impact in enabling or hampering the development of democracy in Indonesia...

This is the first book to analyze how the technology to alter images and rapidly distribute them can be used for propaganda and to support deception operations...

This book takes an engaged and in-depth look at the Occupy movement in Ireland and the San Francisco Bay Area in the US in order to present the most up-to-date evidence of the changing nature of popular democratic demands...

_x000D_ This interdisciplinary, international volume fills a major gap in political science and communication literature on the role of news media in public debates over immigration by providing unique insider’s perspectives on journalistic practices and bringing them into dialogue with scholars and..

_x005F_x000D_ This interdisciplinary, international volume fills a major gap in political science and communication literature on the role of news media in public debates over immigration by providing unique insider’s perspectives on journalistic practices and bringing them into dialogue with schola..

This Handbook provides the most comprehensive overview of the role of electoral advertising on TV and the new forms of advertising on the Internet and social network sites in countries from all parts of the world currently available. Thematic chapters summarize research on crosscutting issues includ..