TY - BOOK AU - Kelso,Tony AU - Cogan,Brian TI - Mosh the polls: youth voters, popular culture, and democratic engagement SN - 9780739122303 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - HQ799.2.P6 M66 2008 U1 - 324.08420973 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Lexington Books KW - Youth KW - Political activity KW - United States KW - Popular culture KW - Political campaigns KW - Presidents KW - Election N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword; Arthur Sanders --; Introduction; At the Intersection of Politics and Popular Culture: Over Two Hundred Years of Great Entertainment; Tony Kelso and Brian Cogan --; 1; Different Experiences of Young Adults and Other Adults in Mediated Campaigns; Robert J. Klotz --; 2; Links, Chicks, Blogs, Banners: Using the Internet for Youth Voter Mobilization; Laura Tropp --; 3; Rock the Vote: An Insider's Account of the 2004 Campaign Strategy; Aaron Teeter and Brandy Chappell --; 4; "Comic Elections and Real News?" The Daily Show, Satire, Public Discourse, and the New Voter; Brian Cogan --; 5; Lessons in Appealing to the Young Non-Voter: Michael Moore's Slackers Uprising Tour; Michael Grabowski --; 6; Screening Abu Ghraib, Reelecting the President: The Symbolic Politics of Torture in Fiction Film and Television, 2003-2005; Marco Calavita --; 7; Cast a Vote, Yo: Targeting the Hip-Hop Generation through Popular Culture; Tony Kelso --; 8; Soft News and Young Voters: Why They Tune into It and What They Get Out of It; Xiaoxia Cao --; 9; Thin Democracy/Thick Citizenry: Interactive Media and Its Lessons for Young Citizen/Consumers; Shawn McIntosh --; 10; Just Don't Bother to Vote or Die, Bitch! A Giant Douche, a Turd Sandwich, Hardcore Puppet Sex, and the Reinvention of Political (Un)Involvement; Marc Leverette ER -