The struggle over shaping the news / Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter -- Going public as political strategy : the Bush administration, an echoing press, and passage of the Patriot Act / David Domke, Erica S. Graham, Kevin Coe, Sue Lockett John, and Ted Coopman -- Manipulating the message in the U.S. Congress / Patrick J. Sellers -- Strategies of the American civil rights movement / Doug McAdam -- The Al Jazeera effect : how the new global media are reshaping world politics / Philip Seib -- A symbiotic relationship : bloggers and journalists / Richard Davis -- The politics of uncertainty : lobbyists and propaganda in early twentieth-century America / Christopher M. Loomis -- Mediating the public's influence on foreign policy / Robert M. Entman -- The real war will never get on television : an analysis of casualty imagery / Sean Aday -- Local media, public opinion, and state legislative policies: agenda setting at the state level / Yue Tan and David H. Weaver -- The soap opera path to health policy goals / May G. Kennedy, Ann O'Leary, Vicki Beck, Katrina Pollard, and Penny Simpson -- End of Television and foreign policy / Monroe E. Price -- What makes a communications regulator independent and why it matters / Irene Wu -- Communications policy and the public interest / Patricia Aufderheide -- The watchdog role of the press / W. Lance Bennett and William Serrin -- Terrorism, censorship, and the First Amendment / Doris A. Graber -- The news shapers : strategic communication as a third force in newsmaking / Jarol B. Manheim -- The internet and public policy / Helen Z. Margetts.

How information shapes political institutions / Bruce Bimber -- Documenting the persuasive power of the news media / Jonathan McDonald Ladd and Gabriel S. Lenz -- Why democracies need an unlovable press / Michael Schudson -- Political communication : old and new media relationships / Michael Gurevitch, Stephen Coleman, and Jay G. Blumler -- Losing the news : the future of the news that feeds democracy / Alex S. Jones -- What amateur journalism means for international affairs / Steven Livingston, Kaye Sweetser Trammell and David D. Perlmutter -- What moves public opinion? / Benjamin I Page, Robert Y. Shapiro, and Glenn R. Dempsey -- Disdaining the media : the American public's changing attitudes toward the news / Paul Gronke and Timothy Cook -- How soft news brings policy issues to the inattentive public / Matthew A. Baum -- News coverage effects of public opinion about crime / Frank D. Gilliam Jr. and Shanto Iyengar -- Wanted, dead or alive : media frames, frame adoption, and support for the war in Afghanistan / Jill A. Edy and Patrick C. Meirick -- Audience fragmentation and political inequality in the post-broadcast media environment / Markus Prior -- News and the visual framing of elections / Maria Elizabeth Grabe and Erik Page Bucy -- Learning about the Candidates / Darrell M. West -- The miscast institution / Thomas E. Patterson -- New media and the revitalization of politics / Rachel Gibson -- Electing the president 2008 : the insiders' view / Nicolle Wallace and Anita Dunn -- Open season : how the news media cover presidential campaigns in the age of attack journalism / Larry J. Sabato --