Consuming politics
Subtitle: Jon Stewart, branding, and the youth vote in America
By: Dan Cassino and Yasemin Besen-Cassino.
Contributors: Besen-Cassino, Yasemin.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780838641453
Subjects: Youth -- United States -- Political activity; Politics and culture -- United States; Mass media and world politics -- United States; Mass media and young adults -- United States
Description: In this book, the authors use a combination of methods to understand how young people in the early twenty-first century see the political world, and why they are choosing not to be engaged in it. Special attention is paid to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the one political outlet that young people of all political stripes can agree on. Minimizing academic jargon and translating statistics into plain language, Consuming Politics is accessible to anyone who wants to know what happened to the angry youth and what can be done about it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Work, politics and the making of apathy; title: Republicans; title: Democrats; title: Independents; title: The Daily Show; title: What does tomorrow hold?; title: Conclusion.