Intimate Politics - Publicity, Privacy Personal Lives of Politicians in Media Saturated

Informationen zum Autor James Stanyer is senior lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Loughborough University. Klappentext It is often remarked that politicians' private lives are becoming a feature of political communication in many advanced industrial democracies. However, there have so far been no genuinely comparative studies examining the personalized nature of political communication. Intimate Politics provides for the first time a systematic comparative analysis of such developments in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK and the US. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, it assesses the extent to which the private lives of politicians have become a feature of political communication in each democracy. The book provides a comprehensive account of the shifting boundaries between the public and private, and whether any developments are universal or more advanced in some democracies than others, and seeks to explain why this might be. Intimate Politics will be of great value for students and scholars of communication and media studies and political science and is required reading for anyone who wants a fuller understanding of the transformation of mediated politics in advanced industrial democracies. Zusammenfassung * An innovative study that examines the personalised nature of political communication. * A comprehensive account of the shifting boundaries between the public and private. * International in scope, the book draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of figures and tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Politicians' Personal Lives in the Media Spotlight 1. Soft Focus: Leaders' Personal Lives Close-up 2. Digging for Dirt: Publicizing Politicians' Sex Lives 3. Changing Exposure: Critical Moments and the Uncovering of Politicians' Infidelity 4. Transnational Revelations: Flows, Access and Control in a Global News Environment 5. Drawing Conclusions: Intimization and Democratic Politics Appendix: Notes on Research Methods and Indicators References Endnotes...

Product details

• Authors: J Stanyer, James Stanyer, James (University Of Loughborough) Stanyer, Stanyer James
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.10.2012
• EAN: 9780745644776
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-4477-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: CPC - Contemporary Political Communication; PCPC - Polity Contemporary Political Communication Series; Pcpc - Polity Contemporary Pol; CPC - Contemporary Political Communication; Contemporary Political Communication; Contemporary Political Communi
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Soziologie, Politikwissenschaft, Politik, Sociology, Political Science, Mediensoziologie, Communication & Media Studies, Kommunikation u. Medienforschung, Allg. Kommunikation u. Medienforschung, Politik u. Medien, Politics & the Media, Sociology of the Media