Political Communication

Volume One PART ONE: THEORIES AND PRINCIPLES Media Logic and Political Communication - David L Altheide The News Media as Political Institution - Timothy E Cook Looking Backward and Looking Forward The Effects of Frames in Political Television News on Issue Interpretation and Frame Salience - Claes H De Vreese The Theory of Political Propaganda - Harold D Lasswell Gatekeeping, Indexing and Live-Event News - Steven Livingston and W Lance Bennett Is Technology Altering the Construction of News? The Political Economy of Communication and the Future of the Field - Robert W McChesney Turned-out Voters? Media Impact on Campaigns - Pippa Norris The Ethics of Political Communication - Manuel Pares I Maicas The Emotional Deficit in Political Communication - Barry Richards Notes on the Language of Politics - Lindsay Rogers The News Media as Political Institutions - Michael Schudson The Indexing Process in Communication - Percy H Tannenbaum What Voters Learn from Media - David Weaver Communication Agencies and the Volume of Propaganda - Malcolm M Willey PART TWO: WATCHING GOVERNMENT, AFFECTING POLICY Toward a Theory of Press-State Relations in the United States - W Lance Bennett None Dare Call It Torture - W Lance Bennett, Regina G Lawrence and Steven Livingston Indexing and the Limits of Press Independence in the Abu Ghraib Scandal Who Influences Whom? The President, Congress and the Media - George C Edwards III and B Dan Wood Cascading Activation - Robert Entman Contesting the White House's Frame after 9/11 The Media, the War in Vietnam and Political Support - Daniel C Hallin A Critique of the Thesis of an Oppositional Media The Movement and the Media - Corwin R Kruse Framing the Debate over Animal Experimentation Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War - Steven Kull, Clay Ramsay and Evan Lewis Humanitarian Crises and US Foreign Policy - Steven Livingston and Todd Eachus Somalia and the CNN Effect Reconsidered Bad News or Good News - Philip Lowe and David Morrison Environmental Politics and the Mass Media Bad News, Bad Governance - Thomas E Patterson Communication Patterns and the Problems of Representative Government in Non-Western Societies - Lucien W Pye Interest Groups, the Media and Policy Debate Formation - Nayda Terkildsen, Frauke I Schnell and Cristina Ling An Analysis of Message Structure, Rhetoric and Source Cues Privacy, Politics and the Press - Dennis F Thompson Entertainment or Education - Danielle C Vinson and John S Ertter How Do Media Cover the Courts? Effects of News Coverage on Policy Attention and Actions - Itzhak Yanovitzky A Closer Look at the Media-Policy Connection Volume Two PART ONE: AFFECTING THE POLITICAL PROCESS Freedom as a Value in Arab Media - Hussein Amin Perceptions and Attitudes among Journalists Community Media - Nico Carpentier, Rico Lie and Jan Servaes Muting the Democratic Media Discourse? Public Journalism and Public Knowledge - Anthony J Eksterowicz, Robert Roberts and Adrian Clark On Electronic Public Space - Susan Herbst Talk Shows in Theoretical Perspective The Television Personality in Politics - Kurt Lang and Gladys Engel Lang Some Considerations New Frontiers in Political Professionalism - Paolo Mancini Beyond Simple Exposure - Jack M McLeod and Daniel G McDonald Media Orientations and Their Impact on Political Processes Community, Communication and Participation - Jack M McLeod, Dietram A Scheufle and Patricia Moy The Role of Mass Media and Interpersonal Discussion in Local Political Participation Revisiting the Civic Duty to Keep Informed in the New Media Environment - Paula Poindexter and Maxwell E McCombs Why Conversation Is Not the Soul of Democracy - Michael Schudson Television and Authoritarianism - James Shanahan Exploring the Concept of Mainstreaming Mass Media Use, Issue Knowledge and Political Involvement - Alexis S Tan Out of the Theaters and into the Streets - David Whiteman A Coalition Model of the Political Impact of Documentary Film and Video PART TWO: PUBLIC OPINION, THE PUBLIC'S AGENDA AND THE PRESS News Frames, Political Cynicism and Media Cynicism - Joseph N Cappella and Kathleen Hall Jamieson Prime Suspects - Franklin D Gilliam and Shanto Iyengar The Influence of Local Television News on the Viewing Public Turning the Spotlight Inward - Thomas J Johnson and Timothy Boudreau with Chris Glowaki How Five Leading News Organizations Covered the Media in the 1992 Presidential Election Why Americans Don't Trust the Media - David A Jones A Preliminary Analysis The Press and Public Opinion - Walter Lippmann The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media - Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw Setting the Agenda of Attributes in the 1996 Spanish General Election - Maxwell McCombs, Esteban Lopez-Escobar and Juan Pablo Llamas Media Framing of a Civil Liberties Conflict and Its Effect on Tolerance - Thomas E Nelson, Rosalee A Clawson and Zoe M Oxley What Moves Public Opinion? - Benjamin I Page, Robert y Shapiro and Glenn R Dempsey Media, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy - Stuart N Soroka The Agenda-Setting Effects of International News Coverage - Wayne Wanta and Y W Hu An Examination of Differing News Frames Volume Three PART ONE: CAMPAIGNS AND ELECTIONS Can the Press Monitor Campaign Advertising? An Experimental Study - Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar Messages Received - Larry M Bartels The Political Impact of Media Exposure Criteria for Evaluating Political Campaign Webpages - Pamela J Benoit and William L Benoit Voters, Candidates and Campaigns in the New Information Age - Michael X Delli Carpini An Overview and Assessment Voter Learning in the 2004 Presidential Election - Dan Drew and David Weaver Did the Media Matter? A Spot Check - Stephen E Finkel and John G Greer Casting Doubt on the Demobilizing Effect of Attack Advertising Why Are American Presidential Election Campaign Polls So Variable When Votes Are So Predictable? - Andrew Gelman and Gary King Talking Tough - Elisabeth Gidengil and Joanna Everitt Gender and Reported Speech in Campaign News Coverage Presidential Performance Criteria - Doris A Graber and David Weaver The Missing Element in Election Coverage Sound Bite News - Daniel C Hallin Television Coverage of Elections 1968-1988 Public Opinion in Television Election News - Stephanie Greco Larson Beyond Polls Voting Alone - Carolyn Marvin and Peter Simonson The Decline of Bodily Mass Communication and Public Sensationalism in Presidential Elections From Contest to Content - Judy McGregor, Susan Fountaine and Margie Comrie The Impact of Public Journalism on New Zealand Election Campaign Coverage Political Image Makers and the Mass Media - Dan Nimmo Does the Watchdog Bite? Newspaper Ad Watch Articles and Political Attack Ads - Patrick B O'Sullivan and Seth Geiger The Press and the Local Candidate - David Rosenbloom The Journalism of Opinion - Catherine A Steele and Kevin G Barnhurst Network News Coverage of US Presidential Campaigns Volume Four PART ONE: GLOBAL CONVERSATION Understanding International Discourse - Anantha S Babbili Political Realism and the Non-Aligned Nations Political Communication as an Instrument of Foreign Policy - W Phillips Davison An Outline for the Study of International Political Communications - W Phillips Davison and Alexander L George Framing US Coverage of International News - Robert Entman Contrasts in Narratives of the KAL and Iran Air Incidents Global Communication and Foreign Policy - Eytan Gilboa The Barriers to Media Opening in Latin America - Sallie Hughes and Chappell Lawson Excavating Concealed Tradeoffs - Ellen Mickiewicz How Russians Watch the News The 'Americanization' of Political Communication - Ralph Negrine and Stylianos Papathanassopoulos A Critique Political Communication Culture in the United States and Germany - Barbara Pfetsch Media Discourse on Globalization and Terror - Andrew Rojecki Framing European Politics - Holli A Semetko and Patti M Valkenburg A Content Analysis of Press and Television News International Political Communication - Hans Speier Elite versus Mass PART TWO: THE RISE OF NEW MEDIA Patterns of Internet and Traditional News Media Use in a Networked Community - Scott L Althaus and David Tewksbury The New Media and Our Political Communication Discontents - Jay Blumer and Michael Gurevitch Democratizing Cyberspace The Internet, Public Spheres and Political Communication - Peter Dahlgren Dispersion and Deliberation Cyberspace and the End of Politics - Vincent Mosco and Derek Foster 'Connecting' and 'Disconnecting' with Civic Life - Dhavan V Shah, Nojin Kwak and R Lance Holbert Patterns of Internet Use and the Production of Social Capital A Not-So World Wide Web - Geoffry Taubman The Internet, China and the Challenges to Non-Democratic Rule Virtual Soundbites - Howard Tumber and Michael Bromley Political Communication in Cyberspace