[ecrea] New books: Political Communication and Social Theory // Political Emotions

We are pleased to announce that we have two new additions to the 
Communication list. Please keep reading to find out more and to order 
your copies today.

Political Communication and Social Theory
Aeron Davis, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

July 2010: 200pp : PB: 978-0-415-54713-0

Political Communication and Social Theory presents an advanced and 
challenging text for students and scholars of political communication 
and mass media in democracies. It draws together work from across 
political communication, media sociology and political sociology, and 
includes a mix of theoretical debate and current examples from 
several democratic media systems. Its wide ranging discussions both 
introduce and contest the traditional scholarship on a number of 
contemporary topics and issues.

At the same time, Political Communication and Social Theory also 
offers a fascinating investigation of the causes of crisis in 
established political and media systems. In today's democracies, 
trust in politicians, state institutions and mainstream media sources 
has dropped to a new low. The traditional business model that 
sustained journalism is failing and nations are struggling to respond 
to the existing global recession and impending environmental and 
resource crises. Drawing on interviews with over 100 experienced 
politicians, journalists and civil servants, Aeron Davis explores how 
the varied political actors and communicative processes, at the 
centre of UK democracy, may or may not be contributing to such crisis 
tendencies.

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Political Emotions
New Agendas in Communcication
Edited by Janet Staiger, Ann Cvetkovich, and Ann Reynolds

June 2010: 272pp : PB: 978-0-415-88055-8

Political Emotions explores the contributions that the study of 
discourses, rhetoric, and framing of emotion make to understanding 
the public sphere, civil society and the political realm. Tackling 
critiques on the opposition of the public and private spheres, 
chapters in this volume examine why some sentiments are valued in 
public communication while others are judged irrelevant, and consider 
how sentiments mobilize political trajectories.

Emerging from the work of the Public Feelings research group at the 
University of Texas-Austin, and cohering in a New Agendas in 
Communication symposium, this volume brings together the work of 
young scholars from various areas of study, including sociology, 
gender studies, anthropology, art, and new media. The essays in this 
collection formulate new ways of thinking about the relations among 
the emotional, the cultural, and the political. Contributors recraft 
familiar ways of doing critical work, and bring forward new analyses 
of emotions in politics. Their work expands understanding of the role 
of emotion in the political realm, and will be influential in 
political communication, political science, sociology, and visual and 
cultural studies.


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New Book:
Trans-Reality Television
The Transgression of Reality, Genre, Politics, and Audience.
Lexington. (Sofie Van Bauwel & Nico Carpentier eds.)
http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739131885
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