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"The field of political communication has come a long way in a short time. Thirty years ago, the field had no dedicated journal. Few researchers identified primarily as political communication scholars. Most of the field's published research originated from and focused on a single country - the United States"--

De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics re-evaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness is at play in the current scope of intersectional research on race, intercultural communication, and politics. Calling for a re-centering of difference by exploring the emergence and inception of intersectionality concepts, the coeditors and contributors distinguish between the uses of intersectionality that seem inclusive versus those that actually enact inclusion by demonstrating how to re-conceptualize intersectionality in ways that explicate, elucidate, and elaborate culture-specific and text-specific nuances of knowledge for women of color, queer/trans-people of color, and non-western people of color who have been marked as the Others

In times of emergency, communication plays a crucial yet problematic role. While this may seem obvious nowadays, even before the emergence of modern media, the methods of gathering, elaborating and transmitting information had a significant influence on the perception of risk and decision-making processes. The book examines how government bodies and different social actors handled emergencies in the Hispanic Monarchy, from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. It features case studies from the Hispanic Monarchy's European, American and Asian territories, exploring the narrative strategies used in news-sheets and gazettes, the impact of disasters on information networks, how they interacted with political and social dynamics, and the effect of conflicting interpretations of extreme events.

Introduction: Framing Reality: Power and Counterpower in the Age of Mediatization / Giovanni Ciofalo, Antonio Di Stefano and Silvia Leonzi -- Satire in Italy in the Post-Political Era / Silvia Leonzi -- The Cultivation of Power: Origins of Today's Media Industries, Politics, and Culture / Giovanni Ciofalo and Giada Fioravanti -- The Affective Imaginary of Social Media: Capitalism, Storytelling and Cultured Intermediation / Antonio Di Stefano -- Does Big Brother Exist? Communication, Power, Meanings, and Relations of Production / Marialuisa Stazio -- New Trends in Power and Communication: Features and Cruxes of Italian 'Five Star Movement' / Erica Antonini -- Shifting Climates of Opinion: The Strategies of British Think Tanks to Cope with, and Seize, the Economic Crisis of 2008 / Marcos González Hernando -- Between Diagnosis and Prognosis: Media 'Instruction Manuals' on Economic Crisi / Karol Franczak -- Crisi and the Information Economy: Re-Reading Herbert S. Schiller / Mandy D. Tröger.

With a communication-centered framework that brings together communication studies, sociology, and political science, this book explains how people adopt and maneuver mobile technologies as tactics of contention for political mobilization in contentious moments and everyday resistance in contemporary China.

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"--