Mediated Politics

Communication in the Future of Democracy

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Edited by W. Lance Bennett and Robert M. Entman

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published October 2000, 518 pages, paper

ISBN 0521789761

This book explores the changing nature of democracy in light of dramatic changes in the media of mass communication: the Internet, the decline of network television news and the daily newspaper; the growing tendency to treat election campaigns as competing product advertisements; the blurring lines among news, ads, and entertainment. It explores such questions as: Does the Internet make it easier for citizens to find political information? Do today's highly competitive old and new mass media serve the needs of democratic citizenship? Does the new media environment produce public opinion that is more or less manipulated, or manipulated in new ways?

Contributors: W Lance Bennett, Robert M. Entman, Peter Dahlgren, William A. Gamson, Colin Sparks, Doug Underwood, Don Slater, Oscar Gandy, Michael X. Delli Carpini, Bruce A. Williams, Timothy E. Cook, Susan Herbst, Gadi Wolfsfeld, John Zaller, Jarrol B. Manheim, W Russell Neuman, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, C. Edwin Baker, Bruce Buchanan, Jay G. Blumler, Michael Gurevitch, Roderick P Hart, Doris A. Graber, Wendy M. Rahn, Thomas J. Rudolph