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Mass Media and American Politics
Contributor(s): Graber, Doris A. (Author), Dunaway, Johanna L. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1506340237     ISBN-13: 9781506340234
Publisher: CQ Press
OUR PRICE: $94.50  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Process - Media & Internet
- Social Science | Media Studies
- Political Science | American Government - General
Dewey: 302.230
LCCN: 2017011443
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.40 lbs) 536 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
 
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Publisher Description:
This comprehensive, trusted core text on media′s impact on attitudes, behavior, elections, politics, and policymaking is known for its readable introduction to the literature and theory of the field. Mass Media and American Politics, Tenth Edition is thoroughly updated to reflect major structural changes that have shaken the world of political news, including the impact of the changing media landscape. It includes timely examples of the significance of these changes pulled from the 2016 election cycle. Written by Doris A. Graber--a scholar who has played an enormous role in establishing and shaping the field of mass media and American politics--and Johanna Dunaway, this book sets the standard.

Contributor Bio(s): Graber, Doris a.: - Doris A. Graber is professor emeritus of political science and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has written and edited numerous articles and books on the news media, public opinion, and information-processing. They include Media Power in Politics, Sixth Edition (2010), The Power of Communication: Managing Information in Public Organizations (2003), a prize-winning book about Processing Politics: Learning from Television in the Internet Age (2001), and On Media and Making Sense of Politics (2012), a comparative study of learning about politics from entertainment broadcasts.

Dunaway, Johanna L.: -

Johanna Dunaway is associate professor of communication at Texas A&M University and a recent Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. She has written extensively on the relationship between the structural and contextual features of media outlets and election news content. Within this research program, she has examined news coverage of political campaigns, immigration, and events such as the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Her current research examines the impact of the changing media environment across individuals, communities, and the news industry. In addition to these primary research agendas, she has published in numerous other areas, including public opinion, political behavior, and political advertising. Her work appears in journals such as the Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Journalism Studies and Social Science Quarterly.


 
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