After broadcast news : media regimes, democracy, and the new information environment / Bruce A. Williams, Michael X. Delli Carpini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Bruce Alan, author.

Delli Carpini, Michael X., 1953- author.

Series:

Communication, society and politics.

Communication, society and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Political aspects--United States.

Mass media.

Broadcast journalism--Political aspects--United States.

Broadcast journalism.

Press and politics--United States.

Press and politics.

Popular culture--Political aspects--United States.

Popular culture.

Democracy--United States.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 361 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The new media environment has challenged the role of professional journalists as the primary source of politically relevant information. After Broadcast News puts this challenge into historical context, arguing that it is the latest of several critical moments, driven by economic, political, cultural and technological changes, in which the relationship among citizens, political elites and the media has been contested. Out of these past moments, distinct 'media regimes' eventually emerged, each with its own seemingly natural rules and norms, and each the result of political struggle with clear winners and losers. The media regime in place for the latter half of the twentieth century has been dismantled, but a new regime has yet to emerge. Assuring this regime is a democratic one requires serious consideration of what was most beneficial and most problematic about past regimes and what is potentially most beneficial and most problematic about today's new information environment.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Is there a difference between Tina Fey and Katie Couric?: policing the boundaries between news and entertainment

Media regimes and American democracy

And that's the way it (was): the rise and fall of the age of broadcast news

Political reality, political power and political relevance in the changing media environment

Politics in the emerging new media age: hyperreality, multiaxiality, and 'the Clinton scandals'

When the media really matter: coverage of the environment in a changing media environment

9/11 and its aftermath: constructing a political spectacle in the new media environment

Shaping a new media. regime.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-17989-6

1-107-22852-2

1-283-38258-X

9786613382580

1-139-18965-4

0-511-84636-3

1-139-18834-8

1-139-19094-6

1-139-18372-9

1-139-18604-3

OCLC:

782877083