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The news about democracy : information crisis in american politics -- News stories : four information biases that matter -- Citizens and the news: public opinion and information processing -- How politicians make the news -- How journalists report the news -- Inside the profession : objectivity and political authority bias -- The political economy of news and the end of a journalism era -- All the news that fits democracy : solutions for citizens, politicians, and journalists

The relationship of participation in online communities to civic and political engagement.Young people today have grown up living substantial portions of their lives online, seeking entertainment, social relationships, and a place to express themselves. It is clear that participation in online communities is important for many young people, but less clear how this translates into civic or political engagement. This volume examines the relationship of online action and real-world politics. The contributors discuss not only how online networks might inspire conventional political participation but also how creative uses of digital technologies are expanding the boundaries of politics and public issues. Do protests in gaming communities, music file sharing, or fan petitioning of music companies constitute political behavior? Do the communication skills and patterns of action developed in these online activities transfer to such offline realms as voting and public protests? Civic Life Online describes the many forms of civic life online that could predict a generation's political behavior.ContributorsMarina Umaschi Bers, Stephen Coleman, Jennifer Earl, Kirsten Foot, Peter Levine, Kathryn C. Montgomery, Kate Raynes-Goldie, Howard Rheingold, Allen Schussman, Luke Walker, Michael Xenos

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

This article proposes a framework for understanding large-scale individualized collective action that is often coordinated through digital media technologies. Social fragmentation and the decline of group loyalties have given rise to an era of personalized politics in which individually expressive personal action frames displace collective action frames in many protest causes. This trend can be spotted in the rise of large-scale, rapidly forming political participation aimed at a variety of targets, ranging from parties and candidates, to corporations, brands, and transnational organizations. The group-based "identity politics" of the "new social movements" that arose after the 1960s still exist, but the recent period has seen more diverse mobilizations in which individuals are mobilized around personal lifestyle values to engage with multiple causes such as economic justice (fair trade, inequality, and development policies), environmental protection, and worker and human rights.

Ellen Mickiewicz has done an excellent job of presenting the key elements of our argument and empirical analysis about why the mainstream press proved incapable of independent news framing at critical junctures in the Iraq War. She then raises a series of excellent broader questions: What about the responsibility of government institutions to hold those in power accountable? What about the independent force of public opinion? Were earlier administrations as able to spin the press as successfully as the Bush administration? Each of these questions might well fuel a book. I can only address them briefly in this response.