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[ecrea] new book: Political Communication Online

Thu Oct 09 08:41:33 GMT 2014




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"Political Communication Online: Structures, Functions, and Challenges" - new book in the Routledge Series in Political Communication Research.

The impact of the Internet on political communication has been significant and multifaceted: it expanded the reach of political messages; opened the floodgates of decontextualization and intercultural misunderstanding; made room for new genres and forms; and allowed for the incorporation of every previously existing communication mode into complex multilayered documents. Political Communication Online places these developments in their social and media context, covers various disciplinary backgrounds and how they can contribute to a common understanding of the evolving online media landscape, and proposes a novel methodological tool for the analysis of political communication online. Seizov offers an approach that places context at the core of the theoretical and methodological discussion by discussing the traits of online communication that make it a unique communication environment. The book then brings together different disciplines which have important contributions for the study of political communication online but have not been integrated for this purpose so far, such as visual communication, multimodal research, and cognitive psychology. Seizov introduces the book's main theoretical and methodological contribution to multimodal document analysis, the annotation scheme "Imagery and Communication in Online Narratives" (ICON), and explores how the ICON approach works in practice. Taking four distinct genres of online political communication - news, election campaigns, NGOs, and social movements - the book presents the analyses of convenience samples from each of them in detail. This text features a comprehensive theoretical discussion of vital current developments in online political communication, places these developments in context, and couples that with a practical demonstration of the novel methodology it proposes.

Reviews
"This exploratory work proposes a multi-modal method - a fusion of prior approaches informed by linguistics, visual communication, and other disciplines -- for descriptive online content analysis. Simultaneously capturing visual and textual elements (and the relationships between them) is a promising development." -Patrick Meirick, University of Oklahoma

"Provides an interesting and comprehensive exploration of political communication as it evolves in concert with advances in communication technologies. This is an excellent volume for scholars interested in keeping apace of the current state and possible future of global political communication." -Brian Houston, University of Missouri

Find at: <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415737388/>


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Dr. Ognyan Seizov
Communication Science

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
University of Bremen

GW 2, Room A3460
Bibliothekstr. 1
28359 Bremen
Germany

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