Overview
What is the purpose of talk in a democratic society? Do the American people interact with their government in distinctive ways? Are the nation's mass media helpful or harmful to the democratic experience? In this text, contributors present work on how politics is transacted in American society and how public communication affects those transactions. They also lay out directions for future research, thereby putting fresh ideas on the scholarly agenda. The authors ask whether the American president is genuinely powerful, if lawsuits have become a way of changing the nations politics, whether public opinion polling is really objective, and whether politics can be distinguished from pop culture.
Full Product Details
Author: Roderick P. Hart ,
Bartholomew Sparrow ,
Vanessa Beasley ,
David Crockett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9780742500709
ISBN 10: 0742500705
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 20 June 2001
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
Hart and Sparrow bring together some of the best young minds on political communication, resulting in a series of essays that are provocative and original in their insights. The authors challenge many aspects of conventional understanding and show how outlets from presidential town meetings to talk shows have important political ramifications. -- Darrell M. West, Brown University This richly rewarding volume, authored by a bevy of promising young scholars, presents novel insights into the complex interplay of political discourse and cultural forces. It's fun to read, stimulating to ponder, and bound to spark fruitful new approaches to political communication research. -- Doris Graber, University of Illinois at Chicago The contributors collectively reach beyond simple models of media effects. . . . These fresh perspectives on the complexity and significance of political communications offer much food for scholarly discussion. * CHOICE * A splendid collection of diverse personal agendas. * Political Communication * This is an edgy book, setting for itself the goals of understanding the political agendas of politicians, journalists, and citizen activists in a new century and of pushing fellow scholars into new conceptual territories. Both goals are fulfilled splendidly. -- Bruce Gronbeck, University of Iowa
Hart and Sparrow bring together some of the best young minds on political communication, resulting in a series of essays that are provocative and original in their insights. The authors challenge many aspects of conventional understanding and show how outlets from presidential town meetings to talk shows have important political ramifications.--Darrell M. West
Author Information
Roderick P. Hart is Shivers Chair in Communication and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation. Bartholomew Sparrow is associate professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin.
