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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- EDITORIAL -- The Merging of Public Relations and Political Marketing -- ARTICLES -- The Material Culture of US Elections: Artisanship, Entrepreneur ship, Ephemera and Two Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Exchange -- News Management and New Managerialism: Quangos and Their Media Relations -- New Labour: A Study of the Creation, Development and Demise of a Political Brand -- Political Marketing Research in the 2000 U.S. Election -- The 2000 American Presidential Election: Lessons from the Closest Contest in American History

"This book uses a multidisciplinary and multi-national approach to analyze the relationships between communication, politics, and democracy regarding the challenges and threats faced by contemporary democracies while disinformation, polarization and populism have a main role in the present hybrid communicative scenario"--

The public sphere and the Net : structure, space, and communication / Peter Dahlgren -- Promoting political engagement / William A. Gamson -- The Internet and the global public sphere / Colin Sparks -- Reporting and the push for market-oriented journalism : media organizations as businesses / Doug Underwood -- Political discourse and the politics of need : discourses on the good life in cyberspace / Don Slater -- Dividing practices : segmentation and targeting in the emerging public sphere / Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. -- Let us infotain you : politics in the new media environment / Michael X. Delli Carpini and Bruce A. Williams -- The future of the institutional media / Timothy E. Cook -- Reframing public opinion as we have known it / Robert M. Entman and Susan Herbst -- Political waves and democratic discourse : terrorism waves during the Oslo peace process / Gadi Wolfsfeld -- Monica Lewinsky and the mainsprings of American politics / John Zaller -- The big spin : strategic communication and the transformation of pluralist democracy / W. Lance Bennett and Jarol B. Manheim -- The impact of the new media / W. Russell Neuman -- Issue advocacy in a changing discourse environment / Kathleen Hall Jamieson -- Implications of rival visions of electoral campaigns / C. Edwin Baker -- Mediated electoral democracy : campaigns, incentives, and reform / Bruce I. Buchanan -- "Americanization" reconsidered : U.K.-U.S. campaign communication comparisons across time / Jay G. Blumler and Michael Gurevitch -- Citizen discourse and political participation : a survey / Roderick P. Hart -- Adapting political news to the needs of twenty-first century Americans / Doris A. Graber -- National identities and the future of democracy / Wendy M. Rahn and Thomas J. Rudolph -- Communication in the future of democracy : a conclusion / Robert M. Entman and W. Lance Bennett

In Making Sense of Media and Politics, Gadi Wolfsfeld introduces readers to the most important concepts for examining the interrelationship of media and politics. Five major principles are used to summarize the major arguments: Political power can usually be translated into power over all forms of media When the powerful lose control over the political environment, they also lose control over all forms of media Every political story that appears in every form of media is biased All forms of media are primarily dedicated to telling good stories, which can have a major impact on political processes. Many of the most important effects of the various forms of media on citizens tend to be unintentional and unnoticed. By identifying these five key principles of political communication, Wolfsfeld examines those who package and send political messages, those who transform political messages into stories, and the effects this can have on citizens and how the more active members of the public ("users") can initiate their own stories. The result is a brief, engaging guide to help make sense of the wider world of media and politics and an essential companion to more in-depths studies of the field. New to the Second Edition Up-to-date coverage of major political events in the last decade, including the landmark US elections of 2016 and 2020. Devotes more attention to the "hybrid media system" that has developed over the last decade, providing a greater balance between traditional "news" and social media in particular. Includes more cross-national research, especially in non-Western and non-democratic countries. Refines the five principles of political communication to better reflect contemporary media trends. Covers key emerging topics including misinformation and threats to democratic institutions, new forms of political engagement, and the economic base of the various forms of media.

Chapter 1. (Introduction) Election discourse in Africa: Some critical considerations -- Chapter 2. Digital rhetoric of pandemic elections: Toward multilingual multimodal information design -- Chapter 3. Metaphors and metonymies in Akosua cartoons in the Daily Guide on Ghana's electoral politics: A cognitive linguistic approach -- Chapter 4. An examination of the communicative functions of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's inaugural addresses -- Chapter 5. Political economy of vigilantism in Ghana's 2020 general election -- Chapter 6. Social media, and electoral disagreements in Ghana's election 2020 -- Chapter 7. Dialogic communication on digital platforms as public relations technique: A case of two political parties in Ghana -- Chapter 8. Direct address and ethical performance of political discourse: An analysis of Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang's inauguration speech -- Chapter 9. (Afterword) Democracy, education, and public scholarship.