Political Communication in Postmodern Democracy: Challenging the Primacy of Politics

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: Mediatization and De-centralization of Political Communication....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Audience Democracy: An Emerging Pattern in Postmodern Political Communication....Pages 19-38
Representation and Mediated Politics: Representing Representation in an Age of Irony....Pages 39-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Mediatization and News Management in Comparative Institutional Perspective....Pages 59-74
Spin and Political Publicity: Effects on News Coverage and Public Opinion....Pages 75-91
Changes in Political News Coverage: Personalization, Conflict and Negativity in British and Dutch Newspapers....Pages 92-110
A Changing Culture of Political Television Journalism....Pages 111-125
A Question of Control: Journalists and Politicians in Political Broadcast Interviews....Pages 126-145
The Elephant Trap: Politicians Performing in Television Comedy....Pages 146-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Political Consumerism as Political Participation?....Pages 167-182
The New Frontiers of Journalism: Citizen Participation in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands....Pages 183-199
The New Cultural Cleavage: Immigration and the Challenge to Dutch Politics and Media....Pages 200-214
The Mediation of Political Disconnection....Pages 215-230
‘Voting is easy, just press the red button’: Communicating Politics in the Age of Big Brother....Pages 231-247
What’s Reality Television Got to Do with it? Talking Politics in the Net-Based Public Sphere....Pages 248-264
Afterword....Pages 265-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-284