Publicity and the Canadian State : Critical Communications Perspectives / Kirsten Kozolanka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kozolanka, Kirsten, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government publicity--Canada.

Government publicity.

Communication in public administration--Canada.

Communication in public administration.

Communication in politics--Canada.

Communication in politics.

Public relations and politics--Canada.

Public relations and politics.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation Publicity pervades our political and public culture, but little has been written that critically examines the basis of the modern Canadian "publicity state." This collection is the first to focus on the central themes in the state's relationship with publicity practices and the "permanent campaign," the constant search by politicians and their strategists for popular consent. Central to this political popularity contest are publicity tools borrowed from private enterprise, turning political parties into sound bites and party members into consumers. Publicity and the Canadian State is the first sustained study of the contemporary practices of political communication, focusing holistically on the tools of the publicity state and their ideological underpinnings: advertising, public opinion research, marketing, branding, image consulting, and media and information management, as well as related topics such as election law and finance, privacy, think-tank lobbying, and non-election communication campaigns. Bringing together contemporary Canadian analysis by scholars in a number of fields, this collection will be a welcome new resource for academics, public relations and policy professionals, and government communicators at all levels

Contents:

Introduction Communicating for Hegemony: The Making of the Publicity State in Canada / Kirsten Kozolanka

Part One Political Communication: Media, State, Public Introduction. 1 Journalism, Corporate Media, and Democracy in the Digital Era / Frederick J. Fletcher

2 In Whose Interest? Government Communication and Public Accountability / Kirsten Kozolanka

3 Publics without Politics: Surplus Publicity as Depoliticization / Darin Barney.

Part Two Publicity and the State Introduction. 4 The War on Ideas: From Hayek to Harper / Donald Gutstein

5 The Politics of Public Opinion / Paul Nesbitt-Larking

6 Taming the Untameable? Constraints and Limits on Government Advertising / Jonathan Rose

7 Political Funding Regimes and Political Communication / Robert Macdermid

8 Domestic Brand Politics and the Modern Publicity State / Richard Nimijean

9 Managing Information: Too Much Publicity, Not Enough Public Disclosure / Ken Rubin and Kirsten Kozolanka

10 Tracing and Tracking Privacy Discourses: The Audience as Commodity / Leslie Regan Shade and Tamara Shepherd.

Part Three Beyond the Publicity State. Introduction

11 The Permanent Campaign Online: Platforms, Actors, and Issue-Objects / Greg Elmer, Ganaele Langlois, and Fenwick Mckelvey

12 The Role of Social Movements and Interest Groups / Miriam Smith

13 Reality Check: The Counterpublicity of Alternative Media / Herbert Pimlott

14 Publicity State or Democratic Media? Strategies for Change / Kathleen A. Cross, Robert A. Hackett and Steve Anderson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-6931-4

1-4426-6930-6

OCLC:

872601081