Political communication in postmodern democracy : challenging the primacy of politics / edited by Kees Brants, Katrin Voltmer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: mediatization and de-centralization of political communication / Kees Brants and Katrin Voltmer -- Audience democracy: an emerging pattern in postmodern political communication / Jos de Beus -- Representation and mediated politics: representing representation in an age of irony / Stephen Coleman -- Mediatization and news management in comparative institutional perspective / Robin Brown -- Spin and political publicity: effects on news coverage and public opinion / Claes H. de Vreese and Matthijs Elenbaas -- Changes in political news coverage: personalization, conflict and negativity in British and Dutch newspapers / Rens Vliegenthart, Hajo G. Boomgaarden and Jelle W. Boumans -- A changing culture of political television journalism / Judith Stamper and Kees Brants -- A question of control: journalists and politicians in political broadcast interviews / Katrin Voltmer and Kees Brants -- The elephant trap: politicians performing in television comedy / Liesbet van Zoonen, Stephen Coleman and Anke Kuik -- Political consumerism as political participation? / Janelle Ward -- The new frontiers of journalism: citizen participation in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands / Tom Bakker and Chris Paterson -- The new cultural cleavage: immigration and the challenge to Dutch politics and media / Philip van Praag and Maud Adriaansen -- The mediation of political disconnection / Stephen Coleman, David E. Morrison and Simeon Yates -- 'Voting is easy, just press the red button': communicating politics in the age of big brother / Valentina Cardo -- What's reality television got to do with it? Talking politics in the net-based public sphere / Todd Graham.

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