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Kenneth Newton scrutinizes these complex questions. Recognizing that differing forms of political communication have differing effects on differing people around the world, Newton goes further to ask why this occurs, and how. The answers that he presents in Surprising News offer a deeply researched, enlightening challenge to conventional wisdom in this age of fake news, post-truth, and claims about how the new digital media have transformed politics.
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"An impressive study that brings a new and refreshing perspective to the study of the relation between media and politics.... Newton enters into a lively dialogue with some of the key authors in this field." – Marc Hooghe, Leuven University
"Would I buy it? Absolutely! It is well argued, broadly supported and highly enlightening." – Rudiger Schmitt-Beck, University of Mannheim
"This important new book draws on decades of research to address a fundamental and highly controversial question of our time: How do the media affect democratic politics? Ken Newton offers a wise, subtle, and skeptical view of media effects, based on an encyclopedic review of thousands of studies from many different disciplines and countries." – Robert Putnam, Harvard University
Pages | 271 |
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Dimensions | 229 x 152 |
Date Published | 30 May 2019 |
Publisher | Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Subject/s | Media studies   Media, information & communication industries   Communication studies   Political control & freedoms   |
- Surprising News.
- Belief Preservation.
- Partisans and Party Identifiers.
- When the Public Is Not Buying.
- Personal Knowledge and Experience.
- Political Talk.
- Trust and Distrust.
- Diffuse and Subconscious Effects.
- Public Service and Commercial TV.
- Hyper-Pluralism in the Digital Age.
- Pluralist News Diets?
- Explaining Media Political Effects.
- What Politicians Should Understand.