ISBN:
0761949208
,
0761949216
,
9780761949206
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 210 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Media and the Restyling of Politics : Consumerism, Celebrity and Cynicism
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Politics and culture
;
Press and politics
;
Mass media Political aspects
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Within media research and cultural studies, the mediation of politicians and the play-off between versions of high and low politics are attracting increasing interest. Media and the Restyling of Politics brings together the work of leading academics in media and cultural studies to pursue an agenda of research, analysis and debate about the changing nature of political culture and its mediation. The contributors question the ways in which emerging forms of political style relate not only to new conventions of celebrity and publicity but to ideas about representation, citizenship and the democr
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Table of Contents; 1 - Introduction: The Re-Styling of Politics; 2 - Democracy's Inner Voice: Political Style as Unintended Consequence of Political Action; 3 - Aesthetic Representation and Political Style: Re-Balancing Identity and Difference in Media Democracy; 4 - Mediated Persona and Political Culture; 5 - The Celebrity Politician: Political Style and Popular Culture; 6 - 'After Dallas and Dynasty we have ... Democracy': Articulating Soap, Politics and Gender; 7 - Citizen Consumers: Towards a New Marketing of Politics?
Description / Table of Contents:
8 - Lifestyle Politics and Citizen-Consumers: Identity, Communication and Political Action in Late Modern Society9 - Reconfiguring Civic Culture in the New Media Milieu; 10 - Popular Culture and Mediated Politics: Intellectuals, Elites and Democracy; 11 - Marked Bodies: Environmental Activism and Political Semiotics; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://sk.sagepub.com/books/media-and-the-restyling-of-politics
URL:
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