Political communication / edited by Philip Seib.

Volume One: -- Part One. Theories and Principles -- Media Logic and Political Communication / David L Altheide -- The News Media as Political Institution / Timothy E Cook Looking Backward and Looking Forward -- The Effects of Frames in Political Television News on Issue Interpretation and Frame Salience / Claes H De Vreese -- The Theory of Political Propaganda / Harold D Lasswell -- Gatekeeping, Indexing and Live-Event News: Is Technology Altering the Construction of News? / Steven Livingston and W Lance Bennett -- The Political Economy of Communication and the Future of the Field / Robert W McChesney -- Turned-out Voters? Media Impact on Campaigns / Pippa Norris -- The Ethics of Political Communication / Manuel Pares I Maicas -- The Emotional Deficit in Political Communication / Barry Richards -- Notes on the Language of Politics / Lindsay Rogers -- The News Media as Political Institutions / Michael Schudson -- The Indexing Process in Communication / Percy H Tannenbaum -- What Voters Learn from Media / David Weaver -- Communication Agencies and the Volume of Propaganda / Malcolm M Willey -- Part Two. Watching Government, Affecting Policy -- Toward a Theory of Press-State Relations in the United States / W Lance Bennett -- None Dare Call It Torture: Indexing and the Limits of Press Independence in the Abu Ghraib Scandal / W Lance Bennett, Regina G Lawrence and Steven Livingston -- Who Influences Whom? The President, Congress and the Media / George C Edwards III and B Dan Wood -- Cascading Activation: Contesting the White House's Frame after 9 /11 / Robert Entman -- The Media, the War in Vietnam and Political Support: A Critique of the Thesis of an Oppositional Media / Daniel C Hallin -- The Movement and the Media: Framing the Debate over Animal Experimentation / Corwin R Kruse -- Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War / Steven Kull, Clay Ramsay and Evan Lewis -- Humanitarian Crises and US Foreign Policy: Somalia and the CNN Effect Reconsidered / Steven Livingston and Todd Eachus -- Bad News or Good News: Environmental Politics and the Mass Media / Philip Lowe and David Morrison -- Bad News, Bad Governance / Thomas E Patterson -- Communication Patterns and the Problems of Representative Government in Non-Western Societies / Lucien W Pye -- Interest Groups, the Media and Policy Debate Formation: An Analysis of Message Structure, Rhetoric and Source Cues / Nayda Terkildsen, Frauke I Schnell and Cristina Ling -- Privacy, Politics and the Press / Dennis F Thompson -- Entertainment or Education: How Do Media Cover the Courts? / Danielle C Vinson and John S Ertter -- Effects of News Coverage on Policy Attention and Actions: A Closer Look at the Media-Policy Connection / Itzhak Yanovitzky --

Volume Two: -- Part One. Affecting the Political Process -- Freedom as a Value in Arab Media: Perceptions and Attitudes among Journalists / Hussein Amin -- Community Media: Muting the Democratic Media Discourse? / Nico Carpentier, Rico Lie and Jan Servaes -- Public Journalism and Public Knowledge / Anthony J Eksterowicz, Robert Roberts and Adrian Clark -- On Electronic Public Space: Talk Shows in Theoretical Perspective / Susan Herbst -- The Television Personality in Politics: Some Considerations / Kurt Lang and Gladys Engel Lang -- New Frontiers in Political Professionalism / Paolo Mancini -- Beyond Simple Exposure: Media Orientations and Their Impact on Political Processes / Jack M McLeod and Daniel G McDonald -- Community, Communication and Participation: The Role of Mass Media and Interpersonal Discussion in Local Political Participation / Jack M McLeod, Dietram A Scheufle and Patricia Moy -- Revisiting the Civic Duty to Keep Informed in the New Media Environment / Paula Poindexter and Maxwell E McCombs -- Why Conversation Is Not the Soul of Democracy / Michael Schudson -- Television and Authoritarianism: Exploring the Concept of Mainstreaming / James Shanahan -- Mass Media Use, Issue Knowledge and Political Involvement / Alexis S Tan -- Out of the Theaters and into the Streets: A Coalition Model of the Political Impact of Documentary Film and Video / David Whiteman -- Part Two. Public Opinion, the Public's Agenda and the Press -- News Frames, Political Cynicism and Media Cynicism / Joseph N Cappella and Kathleen Hall Jamieson -- Prime Suspects: The Influence of Local Television News on the Viewing Public / Franklin D Gilliam and Shanto Iyengar -- Turning the Spotlight Inward: How Five Leading News Organizations Covered the Media in the 1992 Presidential Election / Thomas J Johnson and Timothy Boudreau with Chris Glowaki -- Why Americans Don't Trust the Media: A Preliminary Analysis / David A Jones -- The Press and Public Opinion / Walter Lippmann -- The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media / Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw -- Setting the Agenda of Attributes in the 1996 Spanish General Election / Maxwell McCombs, Esteban Lopez-Escobar and Juan Pablo Llamas -- Media Framing of a Civil Liberties Conflict and Its Effect on Tolerance / Thomas E Nelson, Rosalee A Clawson and Zoe M Oxley -- What Moves Public Opinion? / Benjamin I Page, Robert y Shapiro and Glenn R Dempsey -- Media, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy / Stuart N Soroka -- The Agenda-Setting Effects of International News Coverage: An Examination of Differing News Frames / Wayne Wanta and Y W Hu --

Volume Three: -- Part One. Campaigns and Elections -- Can the Press Monitor Campaign Advertising? An Experimental Study / Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar -- Messages Received: The Political Impact of Media Exposure / Larry M Bartels -- Criteria for Evaluating Political Campaign Webpages / Pamela J Benoit and William L Benoit -- Voters, Candidates and Campaigns in the New Information Age: An Overview and Assessment / Michael X Delli Carpini -- Voter Learning in the 2004 Presidential Election: Did the Media Matter? / Dan Drew and David Weaver -- A Spot Check: Casting Doubt on the Demobilizing Effect of Attack Advertising / Stephen E Finkel and John G Greer -- Why Are American Presidential Election Campaign Polls So Variable When Votes Are So Predictable? / Andrew Gelman and Gary King -- Talking Tough: Gender and Reported Speech in Campaign News Coverage / Elisabeth Gidengil and Joanna Everitt -- Presidential Performance Criteria: The Missing Element in Election Coverage / Doris A Graber and David Weaver -- Sound Bite News: Television Coverage of Elections 1968-1988 / Daniel C Hallin -- Public Opinion in Television Election News: Beyond Polls / Stephanie Greco Larson -- Voting Alone / Carolyn Marvin and Peter Simonson The Decline of Bodily Mass Communication and Public Sensationalism in Presidential Elections -- From Contest to Content: The Impact of Public Journalism on New Zealand Election Campaign Coverage / Judy McGregor, Susan Fountaine and Margie Comrie -- Political Image Makers and the Mass Media / Dan Nimmo -- Does the Watchdog Bite? Newspaper Ad Watch Articles and Political Attack Ads / Patrick B O'sullivan and Seth Geiger -- The Press and the Local Candidate / David Rosenbloom -- The Journalism of Opinion: Network News Coverage of US Presidential Campaigns / Catherine A Steele and Kevin G Barnhurst --

Volume Four: -- Part One. Global Conversation -- Understanding International Discourse: Political Realism and the Non-Aligned Nations / Anantha S Babbili -- Political Communication as an Instrument of Foreign Policy / W Phillips Davison -- An Outline for the Study of International Political Communications / W Phillips Davison and Alexander L George -- Framing US Coverage of International News: Contrasts in Narratives of the KAL and Iran Air Incidents / Robert Entman -- Global Communication and Foreign Policy / Eytan Gilboa -- The Barriers to Media Opening in Latin America / Sallie Hughes and Chappell Lawson -- Excavating Concealed Tradeoffs: How Russians Watch the News / Ellen Mickiewicz -- The 'Americanization' of Political Communication: A Critique / Ralph Negrine and Stylianos Papathanassopoulos -- Political Communication Culture in the United States and Germany / Barbara Pfetsch -- Media Discourse on Globalization and Terror / Andrew Rojecki -- Framing European Politics: A Content Analysis of Press and Television News / Holli A Semetko and Patti M Valkenburg -- International Political Communication: Elite versus Mass / Hans Speier -- Part Two. The Rise of New Media -- Patterns of Internet and Traditional News Media Use in a Networked Community / Scott L Althaus and David Tewksbury -- The New Media and Our Political Communication Discontents: Democratizing Cyberspace / Jay Blumer and Michael Gurevitch -- The Internet, Public Spheres and Political Communication: Dispersion and Deliberation / Peter Dahlgren -- Cyberspace and the End of Politics / Vincent Mosco and Derek Foster -- 'Connecting' and 'disconnecting' with Civic Life: Patterns of Internet Use and the Production of Social Capital / Dhavan V Shah, Nojin Kwak and R Lance Holbert -- A Not-So World Wide Web: The Internet, China and the Challenges to Non-Democratic Rule / Geoffry Taubman -- Virtual Soundbites: Political Communication in Cyberspace / Howard Tumber and Michael Bromley.