Media Power in Politics

I. PUTTING MASS MEDIA EFFECTS IN PERSPECTIVE 1. How Information Shapes Political Institutions - Bruce Bimber 2. Documenting the Persuasive Power of the News Media - Jonathan McDonald Ladd and Gabriel S. Lenz 3. Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press - Michael Schudson 4. Political Communication - Old and New Media Relationships - Michael Gurevitch, Stephen Coleman, and Jay G. Blumler 5. Losing the News: The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy - Alex S. Jones 6. What Amateur Journalism Means for International Affairs - Steven Livingston, Kaye Sweetser Tramell and David D. Perlmutter II. SHAPING THE POLITICAL AGENDA AND PUBLIC OPINION 7. What Moves Public Opinion? - Benjamin I. Page, Robert Y. Shapiro, and Glenn R. Dempsey 8. Disdaining the Media: The American Public's Changing Attitudes toward the News - Paul Gronke and Timothy Cook 9. How Soft News Brings Policy Issues to the Inattentive Public - Matthew A. Baum 10. News Coverage Effects on Public Opinion about Crime - Frank D. Gilliam Jr. and Shanto Iyengar 11. Wanted, Dead or Alive: Media Frames, Frame Adoption, and Support for the War in Afghanistan - Jill A. Edy and Patrick C. Meirick 12. Audience Fragmentation and Political Inequality in the Post-Broadcast Media Environment - Markus Prior III. INFLUENCING ELECTION OUTCOM 13. News and the Visual Framing of Elections - Maria Elizabeth Grabe and Erik Page Bucy 14. Learning about the Candidates - Darrell M. West 15. The Miscast Institution - Thomas E. Patterson 16. New Media and the Revitalisation of Politics - Rachel Gibson 17. Electing the President 2008: The Insiders' View - Nicolle Wallace and Anita Dunn 18. Open Season: How the News Media Cover Presidential Campaigns in the Age of Attack Journalism - Larry J. Sabato IV. CONTROLLING MEDIA POWER: POLITICAL ACTORS VERSUS THE PRESS 19. The Struggle over Shaping the News - Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter 20. Going Public as Political Strategy: The Bush Administration, an Echoing Press, and Passage of the Patriot Act - David Domke, Erica S. Graham, Kevin Coe, Sue Lockett John, and Ted Coopman 21. Manipulating the Message in the U.S. Congress - Patrick J. Sellers 22. Strategies of the American Civil Rights Movement - Doug McAdam 23. The Al Jazeera Effect: How the New Global Media Are Reshaping World Politics - Philip Seib 24. A Symbiotic Relationship: Bloggers and Journalists - Richard Davis V. GUIDING PUBLIC POLICIES 25. The Politics of Uncertainty: Lobbyists and Propaganda in Early Twentieth-Century America - Christopher M. Loomis 26. Mediating the Public's Influence on Foreign Policy - Robert M. Entman 27. The Real War Will Never Get on Television: An Analysis of Casualty Imagery - Sean Aday 28. Local Media, Public Opinion, and State Legislative Policies: Agenda Setting at the State Level - Yue Tan and David H. Weaver 29. The Soap Opera Path to Health Policy Goals - May G. Kennedy, Ann O'Leary, Vicki Beck, Katrina Pollard, and Penny Simpson 30. End of Television and Foreign Policy - Monroe E. Price VI. REGULATING AND MANIPULATING MEDIA EFFECTS 31. What Makes a Communications Regulator Independent and Why It Matters - Irene Wu 32. Communications Policy and the Public Interest - Patricia Aufderheide 33. The Watchdog Role of the Press - W. Lance Bennett and William Serrin 34. Terrorism, Censorship, and the First Amendment - Doris A. Graber 35. The News Shapers: Strategic Communication as a Third Force in Newsmaking - Jarol B. Manheim 36. The Internet and Public Policy - Helen Z. Margetts