An Introduction to Political Communication introduces students to the complexrelationship between politics, the media and democracy in the United Kingdom,United States and other contemporary societies. Brian McNair examines how politicians, trade unions, pressure groups, NGOs and terrorist organisations makeuse of the media. Individual chapters look at political media and their effects, the work of political advertising, marketing and public relations, and thecommunicative practices of organizations at all levels, from grass-root campaigning through to governments and international bodies. This fifth edition hasbeen revised and updated to include: the 2008 US presidential election, and the first two years of Barack Obama's term the MPs' expenses scandal in Britain, and the 2010 UK election campaign the growing role of bloggers and online pundits such as Guido Fawkes in the political agenda setting process the emergence of social media platforms such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, and their destabiising impact on the management of political crises all over the world, including the Iranian pro-reform protests of July 2009 and the Israeli atack on the anti-blockade flotilla of May 2010 the growing power of Wikileaks and other online information sources to challenge state control of classified information INDICE: List of illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgements. Preface to the Fifth Edition Part 1: Politics in the Age of Mediation 1. Politics in the Age of Mediation 2. Politics, Democracy and the Media 3. The Effects of Political Communication 4. The Political Media 5. The Media as Political Actors Part 2: Communicating Politics 6. Party Political Communication I: Advertising 7. Party Political Communication II: Political Public Relations 8. Pressure-Group Politics and the Oxygen of Publicity 9. Political Communication in a GlobalisedWorld 10. Conclusion: Performance Politics and the Democratic Process. Notes.Bibliography. Index
- ISBN: 978-0-415-59644-2
- Editorial: Routledge
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 08/03/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés