Television news, politics and young people
Subtitle: generation disconnected
By: Mike Wayne ... [et al.]
Contributors: Wayne, Mike.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780230219359
Subjects: Television broadcasting of news -- Great Britain; Youth -- Political activity -- Great Britain; Television and youth -- Great Britain; Youth -- Great Britain -- Attitudes; Television viewers -- Great Britain
Description: "This book is an exploration of the extent to which young people in the UK are disaffected with traditional politics, and particularly the role played by televisual representations of the political process. The authors look at how television represents young people themselves, and at how young people use new forms of media to inform themselves politically"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: The Crisis of Political Representation; title: Young People, Social Change and Demonization; title: Politics, Young People and TV Journalistic Practices; title: Representing Young People in Television News; title: News Agendas, Politics and Programme Diversity; title: Television News and the Symbolic Criminalization of Young People; title: Monopoly Politics and UK Television News; title: Young Audiences, Politics and Television News; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.