Since its development shaped by the turmoil of the World Wars and suspicion of new technologies such as film and radio, political communication has become a hybrid field largely devoted to connecting the dots among political rhetoric, politicians and leaders, voters' opinions, and media exposure to better understand how any one aspect can affect the others. -- -- In The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication, Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson bring together leading scholars, including founders of the field of political communication Elihu Katz, Jay Blumler, Doris Graber, Max McCombs, and Thomas Paterson. The contributors review the major findings about subjects ranging from the effects of political advertising and debates and understandings and misunderstandings of agenda setting, framing, and cultivation to the changing contours of -- social media use in politics and the functions of the press in a democratic system. The essays in this volume reveal that political communication is a hybrid field with complex ancestry, permeable boundaries, and interests that overlap with those of related fields such as political sociology, public opinion, -- rhetoric, neuroscience, and media psychology. -- -- This comprehensive review of the political communication literature is an indispensible reference for scholars and students interested in the study of how, why, when, and with what effect humans make sense of symbolic exchanges about sharing and shared power. The sixty-two chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication contain an overview of past scholarship while providing critical reflection of its relevance in a changing media landscape and offering agendas for future -- research and innovation. |
| INTRODUCTION 1. Political Communication: Then, Now, and Beyond - Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania and Kate Kenski, University of Arizona CONTEXTS FOR VIEWING THE FIELD OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION 2. Creating the Hybrid Field of Political Communication: A Five-Decade-Long Evolution of the Concept of Effects - Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania 3. The Shape of Political Communication - Jay G. Blumler, University of Maryland 4. A Typology of Media Effects - Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University 5. The Power of Political Communication - Michael Tesler, Brown University, and John Zaller, University of California, Los Angeles 6. Nowhere to Go: Some Dilemmas of Deliberative Democracy - Elihu Katz, University of Pennsylvania 7. How to Think Normatively about News and Democracy - Michael Schudson, Columbia University POLITICAL DISCOURSE: HISTORY, GENRES, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING 8. Not a Fourth Estate but a Second Legislature - Roderick P. Hart, University of Texas at Austin, and Rebecca LaVally, California State University, Sacramento 9. Presidential Address - Kevin Coe, University of Utah 10. Political Messages and Partisanship - Sharon E. Jarvis, University of Texas at Austin 11. Political Advertising - Timothy W. Fallis, University of Pennsylvania 12. Political Campaign Debates - David S. Birdsell, Baruch College (CUNY) 13. Niche Communication in Political Campaigns-Laura Lazarus Frankel, Duke University, and D. Sunshine Hillygus, Duke University 14. The Functional Theory of Political Campaign Communication - William L. Benoit, Ohio University 15. The Political Uses and Abuses of Civility and Incivility, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Allyson Volinsky and Ilana Weitz, University of Pennsylvania, and Kate Kenski, University of Arizona 16. The Politics of Memory - Nicole Maurantonio, University of Richmond MEDIA AND POLITICAL COMMUNICATION Political Systems, Institutions, and Freedom of the Press: Theories and Realities - Doris Graber, University of Illinois at Chicago 18. Press-Government Relations in a Changing Media Environment - W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington 19. News Media as Political Institutions - Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Victor Pickard, New York University 20. Measuring Spillovers in Markets for Local Public Affairs Coverage - James T. Hamilton, Stanford University 21. Comparative Political Communication Research - Claes de Vreese, University of Amsterdam 22. Media Responsiveness During Times of Crisis - Carol Winkler, Georgia State University 23. The U.S. Media, Foreign Policy, and Public Support for War - Sean Aday, George Washington University 24. Journalism and the Public-Service Model: In Search of an Ideal - Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds Construction and Effects 25. The Gatekeeping of Political Messages - Pamela J. Shoemaker, Syracuse University, Philip R. Johnson, Syracuse University, and Jaime R. Riccio, Syracuse University 26. The Media Agenda: Who (or What) Sets It? - David H. Weaver, Indiana University and Jihyang Choi 27. Game versus Substance in Political News - Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard University 28. Going Institutional: The Making of Political Communications - Lawrence R. Jacobs, University of Minnesota 29. Theories of Media Bias - S. Robert Lichter, George Mason University 30. Digital Media And Perceptions Of Source Credibility In Political Communication - Andrew J. Flanagin, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Miriam J. Metzger, University of California, Santa Barbara 31. Candidate Traits and Political Choice - Bruce W. Hardy, University of Pennsylvania 32. Political Communication, Information Processing, and Social Groups - Nicholas Valentino, University of Michigan, and L. Matthew Vandenbroek, The Mellman Group 33. Civic Norms and Communication Competence: Pathways to Socialization and Citizenship - Dhavan V. Shah, University of Wisconsin, Kjerstin Thorson, University of Southern California, Chris Wells, University of Wisconsin, Nam-jin Lee, College of Charleston, and Jack McLeod, University of Wisconsin 34. Framing Inequality in Public Policy Discourse: The Nature of Constraint - Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., University of Pennsylvania 35. Political Communication: Insights from Field Experiments - Donald P. Green, Columbia University, Allison Carnie, Yale University, and Joel Middleton, New York University Political Communication and Cognition 36. Communication Modalities and Political Knowledge - William P. Eveland, Jr., The Ohio State University, and R. Kelly Garrett, The Ohio State University 37. Selective Exposure Theories - Natalie Jomini Stroud, University of Texas at Austin 38. The Hostile Media Effect - Lauren Feldman, Rutgers University 39. Public and Elite Perceptions of News Media in Politics - Yariv Tsfati, University of Haifa 40. The Media and the Fostering of Political (Dis)Trust - Michael Barthel, University of Washington, and Patricia Moy, University of Washington 41. Cu... |