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This article provides an overview and critical assessment of the ways in which political communication scholarship has sought to understand and explain the importance of news media vis-a-vis war and international politics. It reviews existing approaches that have shaped debates over the last 30 years and critically evaluates the significance of new communication technologies and organised persuasive communication in this context. The central objective is to assess both the extent to which the orthodox elite-driven paradigm remains relevant to the 21st century and the major questions now facing attempts to theorise the relationship between war and media. It is argued that existing theoretical accounts retain significant purchase, despite the emergence of the Internet-based contemporary media environment, and that greater academic attention needs to be paid to organised persuasive communication. Adapted from the source document.

Since objective news coverage is vital to democracy, captured media can seriously distort collective decisions. The current paper develops a voting model where citizens are uncertain about the welfare e¤ects induced by alternative policy options and derive information about those e¤ects from the mass media. The media might however secretly collude with interest groups in order to in uence the public opinion. In the case of voting over the level of a productivity-enhancing public bad, it is shown that an increase in the concentration of rm ownership makes the occurrence of media bias more likely. Although media bias is not always welfare worsening, conditions for it to raise welfare are restrictive.

This article reflects upon the ways television changed the political landscape and considers how far new media, such as the Internet, are displacing television or reconfiguring the political communications ecology. The analysis explores opportunities and challenges facing media producers, politicians, and citizens. The authors conclude by suggesting that the television-politics relationship that emerged in the 1960s still prevails to some extent in the digital era but faces new pressures that weaken the primacy of the broadcast-centered model of political communication. The authors identify five new features of political communication that present formidable challenges for media policy makers. They suggest that these are best addressed through an imaginative, democratic approach to nurturing the emancipatory potential of the new media ecology by carving out within it a trusted online space where the dispersed energies, self-articulations, and aspirations of citizens can be rehearsed, in public, within a process of ongoing feedback to the various levels and centers of governance. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]

While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociological theory can provide an alternative way forward.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Foundations of the Mulata and Mulatta in the United States and Brazil -- 2 Framing Blackness and Mixedness: The Politics of Racial Identity in the Celebrity Texts of Jennifer Beals, Halle Berry, and Camila Pitanga -- 3 The Morena and the Mulata in Brazilian Telenovelas: Containing Blackness in a Racial Democracy -- 4 Reinventing the Mulatta in the United States for the 2000s: Celebrating Diversity amid the Haunting of Blackness -- 5 Remixing Mixedness: U.S. Media Imaginings of Brazil and Brazil's Bid for Rio 2016 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.

THIS PAPER ANALYZES REPRESENTATIONS IN THE PRESS OF THE LAME-DUCK PHENOMENON OF INCUMBENT PRESIDENTS. BECAUSE INCUMBENTS ARE OLD NEWS, LITTLE ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO THEIR POLICIES, AND PRESIDENTIAL ACTS TO MAINTAIN THEIR POWER ARE DEPICTED AS PITIFUL. THE JOHNSON-NIXON, FORDCARTER, AND CARTER-REAGAN TRANSITIONS ARE FOCUSED ON. THIS PORTRAYAL OF LAME DUCK PRESIDENTS INDICATES THAT THE PROBLEM DOES EXIST, AND THE AUTHOR WONDERS IF CALLS TO SHORTEN THE TRANSITION PERIODS SHOULDNT BE HEEDED.

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