Apprehending Politics: News Media and Individual Political Development

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SUNY Press, 01‏/01‏/2005 - 285 من الصفحات
This groundbreaking book examines the significance of the news media for the political beliefs and behavior of contemporary Americans. Relying on original, in-depth interviews with members of the group known as Generation X, Marco Calavita analyzes the memories and understandings of these individuals political development dating back to childhood. Specifically, he focuses on the developmental significance of news media engagement in the context of institutions and phenomena like family, peers, schooling, and popular culture. Calavita succeeds where others have failed at exploring the inevitably contextualized and ecological nature of individual political development, and the specific roles of news media in that development. Apprehending Politics illuminates the subtle but fundamental power of news media in who we are politically, and how we got that way.

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المحتوى

Contemporary American Political Culture and News Media
17
Portraits of Individual Political Development
57
The Ecology of Individual Political Development
127
The Contours of Ideology and Orientation
189
Recontextualizing Politics and News Media
223
Appendix One Methodological Issues
233
Appendix Two Questionnaire For Participants
243
Appendix Four Gauging Political Values and Beliefs
249
References
255
Index
275
حقوق النشر

طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات

عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة

نبذة عن المؤلف (2005)

Marco Calavita is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Sonoma State University.

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