Surprising News

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-62637-766-0
Verlag: Lynne Rienner

Buch, Englisch, 265 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

What role do the media play in influencing political life and shaping public opinion and behavior? Do they support—or undermine—our democratic beliefs and institutions? Claims about the media’s powerful influence are frequently made, but where is the evidence? The author scrutinizes these complex questions. Recognizing that differing forms of political communication have differing effects on differing people around the world, the author goes further to ask why this occurs, and how. The answers that the author presents in Surprising News offer a deeply researched, enlightening challenge to conventional wisdom in this age of fake news, post-truth, and claims about how the new digital media have transformed politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newton, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Surprising News. Belief Preservation. Partisans and Party Identifiers. When the Public Is Not Buying. Personal Knowledge and Experience. Political Talk. Trust and Distrust. Diffuse and Subconscious Effects. Public Service and Commercial TV. Hyper-Pluralism in the Digital Age. Pluralist News Diets? Explaining Media Political Effects. What Politicians Should Understand.

Über Autor(innen)

Kenneth Newton is professor emeritus of comparative politics at the University of Southampton. He is the co-author (with Jan W. Van Deth) of Foundations of Comparative Politics.