Apprehending politics : news media and individual political development

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Title:

Author:

Calavita, Marco, 1970-

ISBN:

9780791462799

9780791462805

Personal Author:

Calavita, Marco, 1970-

Publication Information:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.

Physical Description:

p. cm.

Series:

SUNY series in communication studies

Series Title:

SUNY series in communication studies

Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. Contemporary American political culture and news media -- 3. Portraits of individual political development -- 4. The ecology of individual political development and news media : relationships, institutions, and culture -- 5. The contours of ideology and orientation -- 6. Conclusion : recontextualizing politics and news media -- App. 1. Methodological issues -- App. 2. Questionnaire for participants -- App. 3. Partial interview protocol -- App. 4. Gauging political values and beliefs and political and civic involvement/commitment -- App. 5. Tracking and analysis of news media sources.

Abstract:

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Press and politics -- United States.

Press -- Political aspects -- United States.

Press -- Social aspects -- United States.

Political socialization -- United States.

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Using penetrating, in-depth interviews, examines the individual political development of young adults in post-1960s America, and the roles that news media play in that development.

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 inevitably contextualized and ecological nature of individual political development, and the specific roles of news media in that development. Apprehending Politics illuminates the subtle but fundamental power of news media in who we are politically, and how we got that way.