Author:
Newton, Kenneth, 1940- author.
ImprintBoulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2019.
Descriptionx, 277 pages ; 23 cm
Note:Surprising news -- Belief preservation -- Partisans and party identifiers -- When the public is not buying -- Personal knowledge and experience -- Political talk -- Trust and distrust -- Diffuse and subconscious media effects -- Public service and commercial television -- Hyperpluralism in the digital age -- Audience pluralism -- Explaining media political effects -- Postscript: what politicians should understand.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index.
Note:"What role do the media play in influencing political life and shaping public opinion and behavior? Do they support--or undermine--our democratic beliefs and institutions? Claims about the media's powerful influence are frequently made, but where is the evidence? Kenneth Newton scrutinizes these complex questions. Recognizing that differing forms of political communication have differing effects on differing people around the world, Newton goes further to ask why this occurs and how. The answers that he presents in Surprising News offer a deeply researched, enlightening challenge to conventional wisdom in this age of fake news, post-truth, and claims about how the new digital media have transformed politics." --Provided by publisher.
