The New Media And Politics

The book makes a successful attempt to map the potentially transformativeeffects of new media on various aspects of political insitiutions and cultureboth at a ... » 

The book makes a successful attempt to map the potentially transformativeeffects of new media on various aspects of political insitiutions and cultureboth at a theorectical and empirical level. Barrie Axfords discussion of thechanging nature of political practice and technologies of politicalcommunication in relation to wider discourse of crisis is insightful and wellargued....This is a genuinely thought provoking and generally very well writtenbook. The book also works well by providing a potential basis for theoreticallyinformed future research in the field of political communication PoliticalTheoryExploring the theme of the putative transformation of political modernity underthe impact of new media this book adopts a questioning approach to the waysin which cultural and technological factors are affecting the temper ofpolitical life and reflects the variety of normative thinking about andempirical research on the changing character of politics in mediatizedcultures.New Media and Politics examines the extent to which commercial populism nowdominates electoral and other political discourses the ways in which thefunctions of leadership government and political parties are modified bydifferent forms of both old and new media the democratic or undemocraticimport of such changes and the ways in which the dominant territorial paradigmof politics is challenged by the space and time devouring capacities ofelectronic media. «