Apprehending Politics - News Media and Individual Political Development (Hardcover, New)

This groundbreaking book examines the significance of the news media for the political beliefs and behavior of contemporary Americans. Relying on original, in-depth interviews with members of the group known as Generation X, Marco Calavita analyzes the memories and understandings of these individuals' political development dating back to childhood. Specifically, he focuses on the developmental significance of news media engagement in the context of institutions and phenomena like family, peers, schooling, and popular culture. Calavita succeeds where others have failed at exploring the inevitable contextualized and ecological nature of individual political development. "Apprehending politics illuminatesthe of news media in who we are politically, and how we got that way.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series in Communication Studies
Release date:	2006
First published:	2005
Authors:	Marco Calavita
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	292
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-6279-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
LSN:	0-7914-6279-X
Barcode:	9780791462799

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