Routledge, 2016. — 412 p. In an increasing number of countries around the world, populist leaders, political parties and movements have gained prominence and influence, either by electoral successes on their own or by influencing other political parties and the national political discourse. While it is widely acknowledged that the media and the role of communication more...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 275 p. Foundations Staples Thesis and Medium Theory Time, Space, and Medium Theory Political Economy, Medium Theory, and Existentialism Media and Scholarship Media and Public Opinion Wilbur Schramm Meets Innis Beginnings Media Process and Effects Media History, Education, Free Press, Democracy Chomsky and Innis Meet Meet Noam Chomsky Visions and...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. - 273 p. Objections to concentrated ownership of the mass media arewidespread. Often, however, critics merely point to the fact of huge and growing media conglomerates without explaining precisely why this is bad. This book fills the gap in the critique of concentration. Firmly rooting its argument in democratic and economic theory, the book...
Palgrave, 2011. — 304 p. — ISBN 978–0–230–24335–4. This book explores the changing relationship between politics, the media and citizens. Based on comparative evidence from the UK and the Netherlands it provides new insights into the dynamics of political communication in post-modern democracy, which is characterized by uncertainty about the location of politics and an erosion...
Philo Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin und Bodenheim bei Mainz, 1999, ISBN: 3-8257-0123-9 - 256 p. Noam Chomsky, der weltbekannte Sprachtheoretiker und streitbare Gesellschaftskritiker wurde am 7. Dezember 1998 siebzig Jahre alt. Zu diesem Anlass hat der Philo Verlag einen Gratulationsband herausgebracht, der das Spannungsfeld von Chomskys Denken zwischen Sprache und Politik...
Europa Verlag GmbH Hamburg, März 2003, ISBN: 3-201-76015-0 - 267 p. "Bürger demokratischer Gesellschaften sollten Kurse für geistige Selbstverteidigung besuchen, um sich gegen Manipulation und Kontrolle wehren zu können." In Chomskys Analyze sind die Medien einerseits – ohne direkter staatlicher Kontrolle zu unterliegen – Propagandainstrumente der Außenpolitik, andererseits...
Despite the impact that influential American political bloggers have had on public policies and the mainstream media agenda in recent years, very little research is currently available on the most widely read political bloggers. Through a survey of 66 top American political bloggers, the present study examines this elite group by analyzing their initial and current motivations...
Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2017. — 228 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5011-5496-6, 978-1-5011-5499-7. New York Times bestselling author and veteran Washington Times columnist explains how the United States can beat China, Russia, Iran, and ISIS in the coming information-technology wars. America is at war, but most of its citizens don't know it. Covert information warfare is being waged by world...
Image Bite Politics is the first book to systematically assess the visual presentation of presidential candidates in network news coverage of elections and to connect these visual images with shifts in public opinion. Presenting the results of a comprehensive visual analysis of general election news from 1992-2004, encompassing four presidential campaigns, the authors highlight...
SAGE Publications Ltd, London, 2014. — 1640 p. The Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics explores how the rise of social media is altering politics both in the United States and in key moments, movements, and places around the world. Its scope encompasses the disruptive technologies and activities that are changing basic patterns in American politics and the amazing...
Intellect Ltd., 2007. — 204 p. Long before a politician opens his mouth to speak in public, his words have been filtered through a team of public relations experts, communications consultants, and campaign assistants. When did politicians speeches stop being their own? And who are these professional communicators who fine-tune messages to suit the demands of electoral strategy?...
Routledge, 2008. — 560 p. This volume brings together the major thrusts of contemporary research and theory in political communication. The approach stresses theoretical overviews and research synthesis with the goal of each chapter to provide an overview of the major lines of research, theory and findings for that topic. Lynda Kaid brings together top scholars to explore the...
Palgrave Pivot, 2018. — 141 p. — ISBN10: 3319977121, 13 978-3319977126. This book combines political theory with media and communications studies in order to formulate a theory of post-truth, concentrating on the latter's preconditions, context, and functions in today's societies. Contrary to the prevalent view of post-truth as primarily manipulative, it is argued that...
Palgrave Pivot, 2018. — 132 p. — ISBN10: 3319977121, 13 978-3319977126. This book combines political theory with media and communications studies in order to formulate a theory of post-truth, concentrating on the latter's preconditions, context, and functions in today's societies. Contrary to the prevalent view of post-truth as primarily manipulative, it is argued that...
Springer, 2014. — 239 p. Political Communication and Cognition draws on a range of theories from communication psychology to explain how citizens receive communication about politics, how communication might make a citizen think and importantly what stimulates political participation, whether simply paying attention, chatting online or going to vote.
Routledge, 2011. — 226 p. An Introduction to Political Communication introduces students to the complex relationship between politics, the media and democracy in the United Kingdom, United States and other contemporary societies. Brian McNair examines how politicians, trade unions, pressure groups, NGOs and terrorist organisations make use of the media. Individual chapters look...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 185 p. What is Lying? The Inventory of International Lies. Lying between States. Fearmongering. Strategic Cover-ups. Nationalist Myths. Liberal Lies. The Downside of Telling International Lies.
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 186 p. — ISBN10: 0-19-975873-5. In Why Leaders Lie, Mearsheimer provides the first systematic analysis of lying as a tool of statecraft, identifying the varieties, the reasons, and the potential costs and benefits. Drawing on a trove of examples, he argues that leaders often lie for good strategic reasons, so a blanket condemnation is...
New York: Taylor & Francis, 2014. — 489 p. What impact do news and political advertising have on us? How do candidates use media to persuade us as voters? Are we informed adequately about political issues? Do 21st-century political communications measure up to democratic ideals? The Dynamics of Political Communication: Media and Politics in a Digital Age explores these issues...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 282 p. Richard A. Primus examines three crucial periods in American history (the late eighteenth century, the Civil War and the 1950s and 1960s) in order to demonstrate how the conceptions of rights prevailing at each of these times grew out of reactions to contemporary social and political crises. His innovative approach sees rights language...
Wiley, 2013. — 1638 p. Comprehensive, authoritative, interdisciplinary, and up-to-date, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements contains over 400 entries across three volumes, exploring social and political movements and related collective phenomena throughout the world. Brings together a prestigious editorial team drawn from ten countries and from...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 141 p. Introduction: WikiLeaks as a New Form of Activism Information Abundance and Media Credibility in a Fragmented Public Sphere Lessons from Collateral Murder The Non-revelations of Cablegat Emerging Affinities: WikiLeaks in the Context of a Legitimation Crisis WikiLeaks’ American Moment: The DNC Emails, Russiagate and Beyond
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. — 328 p. — ISBN10: 0691180903; ISBN13: 978-0691180908 From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy — and what can be done about it. As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social...
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