New media and politics / edited by Barrie Axford and Richard Huggins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Axford, Barrie.

Huggins, Richard

Class of 1939 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet in public administration.

Communication--Political aspects.

Communication.

Information technology--Political aspects.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

ix, 229 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1939 Fund.

ISBN:

076196200X

OCLC:

44185173