Bøger i Frontiers in Political Communication serien

Branding Democracy

Investigates the tensions between politics and aesthetics by exploring the ways in which various arts are mobilized in the service of political repression and human emancipation.

This book examines the ways that hatred comes alive in language and discourse. The author looks at the discourses of hate produced in these seminal texts in order to identify a homology of exclusion that unites the forms of right-wing extremism, giving them a common frame of reference when confronting social and political challenges.

This collection brings together established and emerging scholars in communication studies to examine the relationship between communication and the economy in contemporary society. Through concrete case studies and theoretically informed essays, the chapters explore a range of important disciplinary topics - from the rhetoric of economics to the role of language in mediating financial crises.

Communication in the 2008 U.S. Election

The Internet's explosive growth over the past decade is nowhere more visible than in Asia. This book provides an in-depth look at the impact of social media on political engagement among young citizens in this rapidly changing region of the world.

Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric brings together critical essays on the cultural and political rhetoric of American indigenous communities.

The 2016 US election was ugly, divisive, maddening, and influential. In this provocative new book, Booth, Davisson, Hess, and Hinck explore the effect that everyday people had on the political process.

With research that spans multiple election cycles across nearly a decade, and data drawn from a national panel study that allows for cross-generational comparison, this book provides the most comprehensive and in-depth examination of youth political socialization that exists to date.

With research that spans multiple election cycles across nearly a decade, and data drawn from a national panel study that allows for cross-generational comparison, this book provides the most comprehensive and in-depth examination of youth political socialization that exists to date.

This book illustrates the conservative right's strategies - termed structural mechanisms - through four cases: PC discourse; a cultural politic of economic resentment; and the two parallel struggles over the authority to define reality pivoting around academic freedom and global warming.

Entertaining Fear

Entertaining Fear

Complementing and extending scholarship in three areas ¿ terrorism; the media, mediated representations, and propaganda in contemporary culture; and the political and diplomatic environment post-9/11 ¿ this book articulates the role of human communication in the «war of ideas». Drawing on contemporary research from a variety of disciplines, this book offers analyses and recommendations for people to make use of informed, inspired, and ethical communication to counter ideological support for terrorism and to promote more effective public diplomacy. This is the first book to apply human communication concepts and theories ¿ and to offer potential solutions ¿ to the communication problems encountered by nations, communities, and individuals, and in doing so moves beyond critiques of failed U.S. communication campaigns and strategies in the «war on terror».

Analyzes the expansion of propaganda and promotional activities in leading post-industrial states under regime of neoliberalism. This book discuss the ways in which elite uses of propaganda have radically transformed media and information systems, political and public culture, conduct of war and foreign relations, and overall behavior of state.

Examines how rhetorical theory can be applied to political activity across a range of media technologies. In this title, Warnick and Heineman study the web as a public sphere, touching on how websites, social media, viral video, and web-based anti-institutional practices such as hacktivism impact something from electoral politics to activism.

This edited volume features essays derived from presentations delivered at the 15th Biennial Public Address Conference held at Syracuse University in October 2016, as well as additional material.

This edited volume features essays derived from presentations delivered at the 15th Biennial Public Address Conference held at Syracuse University in October 2016, as well as additional material.