The European Union and the Public Sphere

A Communicative Space in the Making?

Edited by John Erik Fossum, Philip R. Schlesinger

The European Union is often attacked for its ‘democratic deficit’, namely its deficiencies in representation, transparency and accountability, as well as its lack of popular...

Published June 10th 2008 by Routledge.

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Sociology through the Projector

By Bulent Diken, Carsten Bagge Laustsen

Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of how contemporary film can help answering the general, abstract but still urgent question: what is...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.

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Television, Democracy and Elections in Russia

By Sarah Oates

Sarah Oates gives a detailed examination on a central theme in political science: the relationship between democracy and the mass media. This significant book contains a wealth...

Published January 18th 2008 by Routledge.

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Mass Media and Political Communication in New Democracies

Edited by Katrin Voltmer

This book examines how political communication and the mass media have played a central role in the consolidation of emerging democracies around the world.

Covering a...

Published October 15th 2007 by Routledge.

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Terrorism and the Politics of Naming

Edited by Michael Bhatia

Previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, this volume assesses the nature, power, role and function of names in global politics and...

Published August 30th 2007 by Routledge.

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Laughing Matters

Humor and American Politics in the Media Age

Edited by Jody Baumgartner, Jonathan S. Morris

This book examines the role of humor in modern American politics.

Written by a wide range of authors from the fields of political science and communication,...

Published August 22nd 2007 by Routledge.

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Young Citizens and New Media

Learning for Democratic Participation

Edited by Peter Dahlgren

This book integrates four distinct topics: young people, citizenship, new media, and learning processes. When taken together, these four topics merge to define an arena...

Published June 22nd 2007 by Routledge.

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Politics Online

Blogs, Chatrooms, and Discussion Groups in American Democracy

By Richard Davis

Despite the growth of various forms of online discussion, their impact on American political life is only beginning to be examined systematically. In Politics Online...

Published July 26th 2005 by Routledge.

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Cyberprotest

New Media, Citizens and Social Movements

Edited by Wim van de Donk, Brian D. Loader, Paul G. Nixon, Dieter Rucht

Ever since the anti-globalisation protests in Seattle in 1999 the adoption of new information and communications technologies (ICTs) by social movement activists has offered the...

Published May 27th 2004 by Routledge.

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International Encyclopedia of Propaganda

Edited by Robert Cole

The International Encyclopedia of Propaganda addresses in a comprehensive manner those forms of communication -- mass communication in particular -- that are intended to produce...

Published March 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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