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A comprehensive, trusted core text on media's impact on attitudes, behavior, elections, politics, and policymaking,
Mass Media and American Politics is known for its readable introduction to the literature and theory of the field, and for staying current with each new edition on issues of new and social media, media ownership, the regulatory environment, infotainment, and war-time reporting.
List of contents
Part I Media Purpose and Structure
1 Media Power and Government Control
2 Ownership, Regulation, and Guidance of Media
3 News-Making and Reporting Routines
4 News and Politics in the Changing Media Landscape
Part II Who and What Makes the News?
5 News from the Presidency
6 Media Coverage of Congress and the Courts
7 State and Local News
8 Foreign Affairs Coverage
9 Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in Media and Politics
Part III Media Effects
10 Political Socialization and Learning
11 Persuasion, Campaigns, and Advertising
12 Incivility, Negativity, and Bias in the Media
13 Media Effects: Then and Now
Part IV Current Trends and Future Directions
14 Current Trends and Future Directions
About the author
Johanna Dunaway is associate professor of communication at Texas A&M University and a recent Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. She has written extensively on the relationship between the structural and contextual features of media outlets and election news content. Within this research program, she has examined news coverage of political campaigns, immigration, and events such as the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Her current research examines the impact of the changing media environment across individuals, communities, and the news industry. In addition to these primary research agendas, she has published in numerous other areas, including public opinion, political behavior, and political advertising. Her work appears in journals such as the Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Journalism Studies and Social Science Quarterly.
Doris A. Graber is professor emeritus of political science and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has written and edited numerous articles and books on the news media, public opinion, and information-processing. They include Media Power in Politics, Sixth Edition (2010), The Power of Communication: Managing Information in Public Organizations (2003), a prize-winning book about Processing Politics: Learning from Television in the Internet Age (2001), and On Media and Making Sense of Politics (2012), a comparative study of learning about politics from entertainment broadcasts.
