Politics & the Media

This book examines the racing-gendering process of policy making to show how relations of power and forms of inequality are discursively constructed and impact the lives of African American women...

In an era of depressed civic engagement, where access to the media by common citizens is limited, blogs have the power to change the political landscape. This book catalogs the individuals engaged in political blogging, explains why they started blogging, and examines what they hope to gain from it...

Using case studies, interviews, and empirical sources, Isa Ducke has produced an original work, analyzing the strategies and impact of Internet use by civil society actors and asks how useful it is for their work...

Cyberprotest explores the effects of the synergy between ICTs and people power, analyzing the implications for politics and social policy at both a national and a global level...

The digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically unsustainable ways. This book provides an in-depth examination of these phenomena and connects them to questions of educational reform in the US and beyond...

The digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically unsustainable ways. This book provides an in-depth examination of these phenomena and connects them to questions of educational reform in the US and beyond...

Can the Internet re-configure political participation to be a more inclusive experience for users with disabilities, enhancing their stakes in democratic citizenship? This book tackles this question by charting the unexpected digitalization of disability rights advocacy in the United Kingdom and the..

Doing News Framing Analysis provides an interpretive guide to news frames – what they are, how they can be observed in news texts, and how framing effects are uncovered and substantiated in cultural, group, and individual sites.  Taken together, the collection covers the full range of ways in which ..

Doing News Framing Analysis provides an interpretive guide to news frames – what they are, how they can be observed in news texts, and how framing effects are uncovered and substantiated in cultural, group, and individual sites.  Taken together, the collection covers the full range of ways in which ..

Using the best scientific evidence, Drugs: America's Holy War explores the impact and cost of America’s "War on Drugs" – both in tax spending and in human terms and argues that ending the war on drugs would yield enormous benefits for the public well-being...

In searching for clarification about current discrepancies between democracies and media’s distinctive structures or purposes, Four Theories of the Press: 60 Years and Counting puts forward an alternative premise: the political-media complex...

In recent years, scholars have argued that the ability of people to choose which channel they want to watch means that television news is just preaching to the choir, and doesn’t change any minds. This book shows that media coverage has large direct effects on campaign contributions, candidate’s pol..