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Overview"Even as more and more communications avenues open up, are Americans losing their political IQ? Some democratic theorists bemoan citizen apathy, ignorance, and incapacity to make sound political judgments. Renowned media scholar Doris Graber contends that such assessments are based on impractical and outmoded models of measuring citizen awareness and engagement. Using what she calls reality-based research methods and a sensitivity to contemporary trends, Graber finds that average people understand many political issues and can think about them in complex ways. She reports her new research on learning from entertainment offerings, emphasizing its novel aspects, including experiments, interviews, message board analyses, and stimulus dramas. The book includes companion studies carried out in the Netherlands and Greece designed to test whether the American findings are culture-specific or hold true across cultural settings. A capstone reflection by a communications authority, ""On Media"" offers new approaches to timeworn topics and projects an emerging image of public political knowledge that is at once encouraging, inspirational, and fascinating in its contour and detail." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Doris A. GraberPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Paradigm Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.249kg ISBN: 9781594514753ISBN 10: 1594514755 Pages: 201 Publication Date: 29 June 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Can Average Americans Make Sense of Politics? 2 The Adequacy of the News Supply 3 Television Dramas as News Sources 4 Insights about Television Dramas: What Americans Told Us 5 Learning from Television Dramas: What Europeans Told Us with Tereza Capelos 6 Looking back and looking forward Appendix A: The Interviewer Protocol Appendix B: Directions for Analyzing Message Boards Appendix C: Directions for Coders of LexisNexis Notes References Index About the AuthorReviewsAuthor InformationDoris A. Graber is a professor of political science at the University of Illinois–Chicago. She is most recently the author of Media Power in Politics (2010). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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