Recent Titles in Political Communication

Battle of Symbols: Global Dynamics of Advertising, Entertainment and Media by John Fraim. Daimon Verlag: June 2003.

Communicating Terror: The Rhetorical Dimensions of Terrorism by Joseph S. Tuman. Sage: May 2003.

Democracy and the New Media by Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn. MIT Press: July 2003.

Democratic Phoenix: Reinventing Political America by Pippa Norris. Cambridge University Press.

Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies by James Watson and Anne Hill. Edward Arnold: July 2003.

Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty and the Internet Worldwide by Pippa Norris. Cambridge University Press.

Eloquent Images : Word and Image in the Age of New Media edited by Mary E. Hocks and Michelle R. Kendrick. MIT Press: July 2003.

The First Amendment and the Media in the Court of Public Opinion by David Yalof and Kenneth Dautrich. Cambridge University Press.

The Function of Newspapers in Society : A Global Perspective by Shannon E. Martin and David A. Copeland. Praeger Publishers: June 2003.

Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power by Bruce Bimber. Cambridge University Press.

JSTOR: A History by Roger C. Schonfeld. Princeton University Press: July 2003.

Mass Communication Research and Theory by Guido H. Stempel, David Weaver, and G. Cleveland Wilhoit. Allyn & Bacon: 2003.

Mass Media and Foreign Policy: Post-Cold War Crises in the Caribbean by Walter C. Soderlund. Praeger Publishers: July 2003.

Media Power, Media Politics by Mark J. Rozell. Rowman and Littlefield: May 2003.

Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror by Danny Schechter and Roland Schatz. Rowman and Littlefield: June 2003.

Mediating Media: Studies in Media, Religion, and Culture edited by Jolyon P. Mitchell and Sophia Marriage. T&t Clark, LTD: June 2003.

Movies and the Reagan Presidency: Success and Ethics by Chris Jordan. Praeger Publishers: June 2003.

Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa: Experiments in Democratic Persuasion by James L. Gibson and Amanda Gouws. Cambridge University Press.

Politics Moves Online: Campaigning and the Internet by Michael Cornfield. Priority: June 2003.

Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present
by David Culbert, David Welch, and Nicholas John Cull. ABC-CLIO: July 2003.

Setting the Agenda: The News Media and Public Opinion by Maxwell McCombs. Polity Press: June 2003.

Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States by Myra Marrx Ferree, William Anthony Gamson, Jurgen Gerhards, and Dieter Rucht. Cambridge University Press.

Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia by Michael S. Gorham. Northern University Press: June 2003.

Stealth Democracy: Americans’ Beliefs about How Government Should Work by John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse. Cambridge University Press.

Thinking About Political Psychology edited by James H. Kuklinski. Cambridge University Press.

Trauma and the Memory of Politics by Jenny Edkins. Cambridge University Press: July 2003.

Understanding the Media by Eoin Devereux. Sage: July 2003.

The Winning Message: Candidate Behavior, Campaign Discourse, and Democracy by Adam F. Smith. Cambridge University Press.

New Study Results:
Initial findings from the 2002 national survey of 1,149 U.S. journalists by David Weaver, Randal Beam, Bonnie Brownlee, Paul Voakes and G. Cleveland Wilhoit of Indiana University's School of Journalism are available online. This is the fourth large national telephone survey of U.S. journalists since Johnstone, Slawski and Bowman's 1971 study, and many of the findings are compared across all four studies. The study was funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.