Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)
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Mass Media Politics & Democracy
Paperback Edition: 2
Media coverage of politics seems to celebrate the trivial over the serious, the sexual scandal over the social crisis. Meanwhile, the internet is opening up whole new ways of organizing social movements and communicating political ideas, allowing opponents of globalization or of genetically modified foods
to meet, apparently spontaneously and unbidden by any 'ringleaders', to trash city centres or trample fields.Truly international in scope, Mass Media, Politics and Democtracy casts a critical eye over these developments and the arguments they provoke. It provides a systematic assessment of all aspects of the representation of politics by the media and of media involvement in politics. In the face of globalization and new technologies both politics and mass media are changing, with major implications for the distribution of power and operation of democracy. John Street's book provides a lively and readable guide to media politics at the start of the twenty-first century. (extract from cover of 1st edition)
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Pages : 352
Publisher : Palgrave
Publication date : 2010-10
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the USA, Humanities, Social Sciences, Sociology, Media Studies