<p>The new media environment has challenged the role of professional journalists as the primary source of politically relevant information. After Broadcast News puts this challenge into historical context, arguing that it is the latest of several critical moments, driven by economic, political, cultural, and technological changes, in which the relationship among citizens, political elites, and the media has been contested. Out of these past moments, distinct "media regimes" eventually emerged, each with its own seemingly natural rules and norms, and each the result of political struggle with clear winners and losers. The media regime in place for the latter half of the twentieth century has been dismantled, but a new regime has yet to emerge. Assuring this regime is a democratic one requires serious consideration of what was most beneficial and most problematic about past regimes and what is potentially most beneficial and most problematic about today's new information environment.</p>

After Broadcast News: Media Regimes, Democracy, and the New Information Environment (Communication, Society and Politics)

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Delli Carpini, Michael X.

Williams, Bruce A.

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Cambridge University Press

Public Opinion

Public Opinion is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of public opinion formation and change. Here, the authors explore the nature of political and social attitudes in the United States and how these attitudes are shaped by various institutions, with an emphasis on mass media. The book draws on the wide range of scholarship in Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Communications in order to help undergraduates understand public opinion in America.The book surveys the public opinion field, but it also serves as a provocative starting point for the discussion of citizen moods, political participation, and voting behavior. The authors present data about public attitudes on important social issues, but also explore the intellectual and social history of public opinion. Multiple sidebars, illustrations, tables, and figures enable students to explore all aspects of the elusive phenomenon we call public opinion.

Politics & Social Sciences

Shapiro, Robert Y.

Herbst, Susan

Glynn, Carroll J.

O'keefe, Garrett

O'Keefe, Garret

O′Keefe, Garrett J.

Social Sciences

Westview Press

The New Media Environment: An Introduction

Media Studies examines the new and rapidly developing field of media studies to discover what insights it has to offer students and general readers as they negotiate their way through the new - and thoroughly saturated - media environment.  Explores how recent changes in our media affect the way we watch older media like television, movies, and radio, and offer up rich new interactive media, like video games and the internet The perfect introduction to the field of media studies Chronicles the recent dramatic changes in communication technologies, arguing that most of life itself is now experienced as 'mediated' Discusses the development of cable and satellite television, VCRs, DVDs, the internet and personal computers Emphasizes the broader political, social, and economic context within which these important new technologies have developed

Press, Andrea L.

Wiley/Blackwell

<i>Media Studies</i> examines the new and rapidly developing field of media studies to discover what insights it has to offer students and general readers as they negotiate their way through the new - and thoroughly saturated - media environment. <ul>
<li>Explores how recent changes in our media affect the way we watch older media like television, movies, and radio, and offer up rich new interactive media, like video games and the internet</li> <li>The perfect introduction to the field of media studies</li> <li>Chronicles the recent dramatic changes in communication technologies, arguing that most of life itself is now experienced as 'mediated'</li> <li>Discusses the development of cable and satellite television, VCRs, DVDs, the internet and personal computers</li> <li>Emphasizes the broader political, social, and economic context within which these important new technologies have developed</li> </ul>

Press, Andrea

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