The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media by Shapiro, Robert Y.; Jacobs, Lawrence R.;

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Publisher OUP Oxford
Date of Publication 19 May 2011

ISBN 9780199545636
Binding Hardback
No. of pages804 pages
Size 251x181x51 mm
Weight 1534 g
Language English

Short description:

With engaging new contributions from the major figures in the fields of the media and public opinion The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media is a key point of reference for anyone working in American politics today.

Long description:

Public opinion and the media form the foundation of the United States' representative democracy. They are the subject of enormous scrutiny by scholars, pundits, and ordinary citizens. This Oxford Handbook takes on the 'big questions' about public opinion and the media-both empirical and normative-focusing on current debates and social scientific research. Bringing together the thinking of a team of leading academic experts, its chapters provide a cutting assessment of contemporary research on public opinion, the media, and their interconnections. Emphasizing changes in the mass media and communications technology-the vast number of cable channels, websites and blogs, and the new social media, which are changing how news about political life is collected and conveyed-they describe the evolving information interdependence of the media and public opinion. In addition, the volume reviews the wide range of influences on public opinion, including the processes by which information communicated through the media can affect the public. It describes what has been learned from the latest research in psychology, genetics, and studies of the impact of gender, race and ethnicity, economic status, education and sophistication, religion, and generational change on a wide range of political attitudes and perceptions. The Handbook includes extensive discussion of how public opinion and mass media coverage are studied through survey research and increasingly through experiments using the latest technological advances.

The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics.

Featuring an excellent mix of established and emerging scholars, the volume's 43 chapters deftly summarize past research and, in many cases, propose intriguing, insightful directions for future inquiry...this is an essential addition to any university reference collection.

Part I Introduction
Informational Interdependence: Public Opinion and the Media in the New Communications Era
TheInternet and Four Dimensions of Citizenship
A Possible Next Frontier in Political Communication Research: Merging the Old with the New
Part II The Media
Foundations
Tocqueville's Interesting Error: On Journalism and Democracy
Partisans, Watchdog, and Entertainers: The Press for Democracy and Its Limits
The News Industry
What's Newsworthy: A View from the 21st Century
Soft News and The Four Oprah Effects
Measurement and Method
Exposure Measures and Content Analysis in Media Effects Studies
The Future of Political Communication Research: Online Panels and Experimentation
Effects
Public-Elite Interactions: Puzzles in Search of Researchers
Issue Framing
Campaigning, Debating, Advertising
Media Influences on Political Trust and Engagement
The Effect of Media on Public Knowledge
News Polls: Constructing an Engaged Public
Part III Public Opinion
Foundations
Democracy and the Concept of Public Opinion
Constructing Public Opinion: A Brief History of Survey Research
Critical Perspectives on Public Opinion
Measurement
The Accuracy of Opinion Polling and Its Relation to Its Future
Representative Sampling and Survey Non-Response
Instrument Design: Question Form, Wording and Context Effects
Micro-Level Frameworks
Political Cognition and Public Opinion
Emotion and Public Opinion
Prospect Theory and Risk Assessment
Connecting the Social and Biological Bases of Public Opinion
Attitude Organization in the Mass Public: The Impact of Ideology and Partisanship
The Pluralism of Public Opinion
Political Socialization: Ongoing Questions and New Directions
On the Complex and Varied Political Effects of Gender
The Contours of Black Public Opinion
Latino Public Opinion
Asian American Public Opinion
A Vine with Many Branches: Religion and Public Opinion Research (
Class Differences in Social and Political Attitudes in the United States
Knowledge, Sophistication, and Issue Publics
Part IV Issues and Politics
Public Opinion, the Media, and Economic Well-Being
Race, Public Opinion, the Media
Public Opinion, the Media, and Social Issues
Big Government and Public Opinion
Foreign Policy and Security
Public Opinion, Foreign Policy and the Media: Toward an Integrative Theory
Public Opinion, the Media, and War
The Media, Public Opinion, and Terrorism
V. Democracy Under Stress
The Democratic Paradox: The Waning of Popular Sovereignty and the Pathologies of American Politics
Index