THE MEDIA AND POLITICS presents a fascinating, insightful analysis of the mass media's critical role in politics. Placing media in a political systems context, author Dean Alger begins by laying the crucial foundations of democratic theory, elements of public opinion, socialization and information processing, and the nature of communication and the mass media. Exercises and case studies, key visuals, and reviews of principal research methods used in the field develop readers' analytic abilities. Interviews with leading journalists provide unique insights into media practices. This edition features coverage of media and government relations, media in elections, and the media and politics in other nations.

The Media and Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

Alger, Dean E.

Social Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

The most comprehensive portrait of a presidential campaign in more than a decade, Crosstalk focuses on the 1992 U.S. presidential race and looks at how citizens use information in the media to make their voting decisions and how politicians and the media interact to shape that information.Examining political advertisements, news coverage, ad watches, and talk shows in Los Angeles, Boston, Winston-Salem, and Fargo/Moorhead, the authors chart the impact of different information environments on citizens and show how people developed images of candidates over the course of the campaign. Crosstalk presents persuasive evidence that campaigns do matter, that citizens are active participants in the campaign process, and their perceptions of a candidate's character is the central factor in the voting process.This innovative study contributes significantly to our understanding of the 1992 presidential campaign and of campaigns in general, and shows how election campaigns can play an important role in the long-term vitality of democracy.

Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign (Volume 1996) (American Politics and Political Economy Series)

Cook, Timothy E.

Just, Marion R.

Crigler, Ann N.

Politics & Government

University of Chicago Press

The most comprehensive portrait of a presidential campaign in more than a decade, Crosstalk focuses on the 1992 U.S. presidential race and looks at how citizens use information in the media to make their voting decisions and how politicians and the media interact to shape that information. Examining political advertisements, news coverage, ad watches, and talk shows in Los Angeles, Boston, Winston-Salem, and Fargo/Moorhead, the authors chart the impact of different information environments on citizens and show how people developed images of candidates over the course of the campaign. Crosstalk presents persuasive evidence that campaigns do matter, that citizens are active participants in the campaign process, and their perceptions of a candidate's character is the central factor in the voting process. This innovative study contributes significantly to our understanding of the 1992 presidential campaign and of campaigns in general, and shows how election campaigns can play an important role in the long-term vitality of democracy.

THE MEDIA AND POLITICS presents a fascinating, insightful analysis of the mass media's critical role in politics. Placing media in a political systems context, author Dean Alger begins by laying the crucial foundations of democratic theory, elements of public opinion, socialization and information processing, and the nature of communication and the mass media. Exercises and case studies, key visuals, and reviews of principal research methods used in the field develop readers' analytic abilities. Interviews with leading journalists provide unique insights into media practices. This edition features coverage of media and government relations, media in elections, and the media and politics in other nations.

Sociology

Cengage Learning'

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The Media and Politics

Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign (Volume 1996) (American Politics and Political Economy Series)

Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign (Volume 1996) (American Politics and Political Economy Series)

The Media and Politics