Political Communication in Postmodern Democracy: Challenging the Primacy of Politics

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures, Tables and Appendix......Page 8
Foreword: In Praise of Holistic Empiricism......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
1 Introduction: Mediatization and De-centralization of Political Communication......Page 20
Part I: New Approaches to Political Communication......Page 36
2 Audience Democracy: An Emerging Pattern in Postmodern Political Communication......Page 38
3 Representation and Mediated Politics: Representing Representation in an Age of Irony......Page 58
Part II: Mediatization: The Changing Power Game between Politics and the Media......Page 76
4 Mediatization and News Management in Comparative Institutional Perspective......Page 78
5 Spin and Political Publicity: Effects on News Coverage and Public Opinion......Page 94
6 Changes in Political News Coverage: Personalization, Conflict and Negativity in British and Dutch Newspapers......Page 111
7 A Changing Culture of Political Television Journalism......Page 130
8 A Question of Control: Journalists and Politicians in Political Broadcast Interviews......Page 145
9 The Elephant Trap: Politicians Performing in Television Comedy......Page 165
Part III: De-Centralization: New Forms of Citizenship and Political Communication......Page 184
10 Political Consumerism as Political Participation?......Page 186
11 The New Frontiers of Journalism: Citizen Participation in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands......Page 202
12 The New Cultural Cleavage: Immigration and the Challenge to Dutch Politics and Media......Page 219
13 The Mediation of Political Disconnection......Page 234
14 ‘Voting is easy, just press the red button': Communicating Politics in the Age of Big Brother......Page 250
15 What's Reality Television Got to Do with it? Talking Politics in the Net-Based Public Sphere......Page 267
Afterword......Page 284
Index......Page 292