Politics & the Media Books

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1. Military Media Management: Negotiating the Frontline

   By Sarah Maltby

   This book argues that we are moving towards an increasingly ‘Mediated War’, where the practice of war is enacted through, involves, and is dependent upon media reportage, from the strategic and political justification of a war campaign to the tactical ways in which it is actually conducted....

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58005-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Neo-Materialism: From Bio Power to Social Movements

   By Graeme Chesters, Ian Welsh

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-45053-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Media and Democratic Transition in South Korea

   By Ki-Sung Kwak

   This book focuses on the changing role of media in the more democratised political landscape of South Korea. It contributes to debates about the emerging role of the media in democratic transition, especially in relation to approaches that go beyond traditional Western constructs of media freedom...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-55714-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Political Public Relations

   Edited by Jesper Strömbäck, Spiro Kiousis

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-87381-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Moral Panic and the Politics of Anxiety

   Edited by SEAN HIER

   Moral Panic and the Politics of Anxiety presents a set of original essays written by some of the world's leading social scientists. The purpose of the collection is to generate complimentary insights into the importance of moral panic as a routine feature of everyday life, and to develop an...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-55556-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. New Media and Human Rights in Southeast Asia

   Edited by Mike Hayes, James Gomez

   The rapid development of human rights standards and protection mechanisms in South East Asia for the past decade has caused a number of tensions. Among the most significant of these is in the area of new media, where many governments have had to reassess, or even invent, new controls in a medium...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-56111-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Hollywood and the CIA: Media, Defense and Subversion

   By Oliver Boyd Barrett, David Herrera, James Baumann

   This book analyses representations in Hollywood film of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As probably the best known of the many different intelligence agencies of the US, the CIA is an exceptionally well known national and international icon or even “brand,” one that exercises a...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-78006-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. An Introduction to Political Communication, 5th Edition

   By Brian McNair

   In this classic textbook, Brian McNair examines how politicians, trade unions, pressure groups, NGOs and terrorist organisations make use of the media. Separate chapters look at the theory of political communication and its role in a democracy; the political media and their effects; political...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59644-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Political Campaigning, Elections and the Internet: Comparing the US, UK, France and Germany

   By Darren Lilleker, Nigel Jackson

   The Internet first played a minor role in an election in the 1992 U.S. Presidential election, and has gradually increased in importance so that it is central to election campaign strategy. This book offers an in-depth, comparative analysis of how interactive Web 2.0 online tools, including...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57218-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Making Sense of Media and Politics: Five Principles in Political Communication

    By Gadi Wolfsfeld

    Politics is above all a contest, and the news media are the central arena for viewing that competition. Political coverage does not occur in a vacuum, however. One of the central concerns of political communication has to do with the myriad ways in which politics has an impact on the news media and...

    January 2011 | 978-0-415-88523-2 | Paperback (Routledge)