Politics in Wired Nations
Subtitle: Selected Writings of Ithiel De Sola Pool
By: Ithiel de Sola Pool
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9781351291088
Subjects: Telecommunication; Social aspects; Technological innovations; Communication in politics; Information technology
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Table of contents: title: Chapter Introduction; title: part Part I: Political Communication; title: chapter Editor's Introduction; title: chapter 1 Introduction to Political Communication; title: chapter 2 Changing Images: The Role of Communications in the Process of Modernization; title: chapter 3 Newsmen's Fantasies, Audiences, and Newswriting; title: chapter 4 Deterrence as an Influence Process; title: chapter 5 Contacts and Influence; title: chapter 6 American Politics: Congress and Its Constituents; title: chapter 7 Trends in Content Analysis Today: A Summary; title: part Part II: Societal Impact; title: chapter Editor's Introduction; title: chapter 8 Foresight and Hindsight: The Case of the Telephone; title: chapter 9 Communications Technology and Land Use; title: chapter 10 The Mass Media and Politics in the Modernization Process; title: chapter 11 Four Unnatural Institutions and the Road Ahead; title: part Part III: Technology, Policy, and Freedom; title: chapter Editor's Introduction; title: chapter 12 Tracking the Flow of Information; title: chapter 13 The Public and the Polity; title: chapter 14 Citizen Feedback in Political Philosophy; title: chapter 15 Communication and Integrated Planning; title: chapter 16 Technology and Confusion: The Satellite Broadcast Controversy in the U.N.; title: chapter 17 From Gutenberg to Electronics: Implications for the First Amendment; title: chapter 18 Policies for Freedom.