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This major international text introduces the key themes, issues and theoretical approaches in the field. A central concern is to put the politics back into the study of communication by posing key critical questions about power and ideology: what is being communicated, by whom, how, in whose interests, and with what effects and implications?
List of contents
Introduction.- 1. What is political about political communication?.- 2. Why does political communication matter?.- 3. Who are the audience/s?.- 4. How do governments and politicians communicate?.- 5. How is news communicated politically?.- 6. How is politics communicated beyond the news?.- 7. How is politics communicated beyond the nation state?.- 8. How do citizens communicate politically?.- Conclusion: Politics and Power.
About the author
Heather Savigny is Associate Professor in Politics & Gender at Bournemouth University, UK. Her most recent publication is in Feminist Media Studies (2016) and she has published and co-edited books with Palgrave, Continuum and Ashgate.
Summary
This major international text introduces the key themes, issues and theoretical approaches in the field. A central concern is to put the politics back into the study of communication by posing key critical questions about power and ideology: what is being communicated, by whom, how, in whose interests, and with what effects and implications?
