Title: New media and politics /
Authors: Axford, Barrie.; Huggins, Richard.
Date: 2001
Publisher: SAGE,
Physical description: ix, 229 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: J
Abstract: "Exploring the theme of the putative transformation of political modernity under the impact of 'new' media, this book adopts a questioning approach to the ways in which cultural and technological factors are affecting the temper of political life, and reflects the variety of normative thinking about and empirical research on the changing character of politics in mediatized cultures." "New Media and Politics examines: the extent to which commercial populism now dominates electoral and other political discourses; the ways in which the functions of leadership, government and political parties are modified by different forms of both old and new media; the democratic or undemocratic import of such changes; and the ways in which the dominant territorial paradigm of politics is challenged by the space and time devouring capacities of electronic media."--Jacket.
Contents: The Transformation of Politics or Anti-Politics? / Barrie Axford -- The Transformation of Political Communication? / Sandra Moog and Jeff Sluyter-Beltrao -- The Transformation of Democracy? / Peter Dahlgren -- The Transformation of the Public Sphere? / Sinikka Sassi -- The Transformation of Citizenship? / Stephen Coleman -- The Transformation of the Political Audience / Richard Huggins -- The Transformation of Governance? / Ken Newton -- The Transformation of Political Leadership? / Jennifer Stromer-Galley and Kathleen Hall Jamieson -- The Transformation of Political Parties? / Dominic Wring and Ivan Horrocks -- The Transformation of Political Modernity? / John Street.
Subject headings (LCSH): Communication--Political aspects; Information technology--Political aspects.; Internet in public administration.; Mass media--Political aspects.; Politics and culture.