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Mosh the polls : youth voters, popular culture, and democratic engagement / edited by Tony Kelso and Brian Cogan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth--Political activity--United States.
- Youth.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Political campaigns--United States.
- Political campaigns.
- Presidents--United States--Election.
- Presidents.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The purpose of this book is to undertake an analysis from a variety of scholarly standpoints of the innovative ways in which both the political process and the entertainment industry appeal to voters under 30 and how these endeavors are received by the intended audience. Along the way, the book sheds light on the state of the modern American political system and its relationship to entertainment and popular culture.
- Contents:
- Introduction: At the intersection of politics and popular culture: over two hundred years of great entertainment / Tony Kelso and Brian Cogan
- Different experiences of young adults and other adults in mediated campaigns / Robert J. Klotz
- Links, chicks, blogs, banners: using the Internet for youth voter mobilization / Laura Tropp
- Rock the Vote: an insider's account of the 2004 campaign strategy / Aaron Teeter and Brandy Chappell
- "Comic elections and real news?" The Daily Show, satire, public discourse, and the new voter / Brian Cogan
- Lessons in appealing to the young non-voter: Michael Moore's Slackers Uprising Tour / Michael Grabowski
- Screening Abu Ghraib, reelecting the president: the symbolic politics of torture in fiction film and television, 2003-2005 / Marco Calavita
- Cast a vote, yo: targeting the hip-hop generation through popular culture / Tony Kelso
- Soft news and young voters: why they tune into it and what they get out of it / Xiaoxia Cao
- Thin democracy/thick citizenry: interactive media and its lessons for young citizens/consumers / Shawn McIntosh
- Just don't bother to vote or die, bitch! A giant douche, a turd sandwich, hardcore puppet sex, and the reinvention of political (un)involvement / Marc Leverette.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7391-3046-3
- 0-7391-2230-4
- OCLC:
- 853360767
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