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10 - “Old” Media, “New” Media, Hybrid Media, and the Changing Character of Political Participation

from II - Media Explosion, Knowledge as Power, and Demographic Reversals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

By
Michael Schudson  and
Gal Beckerman
Edited by
Thomas Janoski ,
Cedric de Leon ,
Joya Misra  and
Isaac William Martin
Thomas Janoski
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky
Cedric de Leon
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Joya Misra
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Isaac William Martin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Summary

What is the role of media, especially the news media, in influencing citizens’ political beliefs, values, and political or civic action?

Clearly, many people for several hundred years have believed the media to be powerful agents of political persuasion and instruments of political action. In the early United States, both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson wrote scathingly of the press because they thought it caused harm to government (Schudson 1998). In Europe as in North America, individuals founded news organizations to influence political outcomes.

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mediahybrid mediaparticipationinternettelevisioninstitutionscommunication
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The New Handbook of Political Sociology , pp. 269 - 289
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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