Political Communication in Postmodern Democracy

MAUD ADRIAANSEN PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), the Netherlands TOM BAKKER PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), the Netherlands JAY BLUMLER Emeritus Emeritus Professor of Public Communication at the University of Leeds, UK HAJO G. BOOMGAARDEN Assistant Professor for Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands JELLE W. BOUMANS Graduate of the Research Master Programme in Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands ROBIN BROWN Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK VALENTINA CARDO Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Political, Social and International Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK STEPHEN COLEMAN Professor of Political Communication at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK JOHN CORNER Visiting Professor in the Institute for Communication Studies at the University of Leeds and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Liverpool, UK JOS DE BEUS Professor of Political Theory, Culture and History at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands CLAES DE VREESE Professor of Political Communication and Scientific Director of The Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR, the Netherlands MATHIJS ELENBAAS PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR),the Netherlands TODD GRAHAM Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Journalism Studies and Media, University of Groningen, the Netherlands ANKE KUIK Masters graduate in Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands DAVID MORRISON Professor of Communications Research at the Institute of Communications Studies, the University of Leeds, UK CHRIS PATERSON Lecturer in the Institute of Communications Studies of the University of Leeds, UK JUDITH STAMPER Principal Teaching Fellow in Broadcast Journalism at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK PHILIP VAN PRAAG Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Bachelor programme in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands LIESBET VAN ZOONEN Chair in Media and Communication at Loughborough University, UK RENS VLIEGENTHART Assistant Professor in Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), the Netherlands JANELLE WARD Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands SIMEON YATES Professor at Sheffield Hallam University, UK

List of Illustrations Foreword; J.Blumler Introduction; K.Brants & K.Voltmer PART I: NEW APPROACHES TO POLITICAL COMMUNICATION Audience democracy: an emerging pattern in post-modern political communication; J.de Beus Representation and mediated politics: representing representation in an age of iron; S.Coleman PART II: MEDIATIZATION – THE CHANGING POWER GAME BETWEEN POLITICS AND THE MEDIA Mediatization and news management in comparative institutional perspective; R.Brown Spin and political publicity: Effects on news coverage and public opinion; C.de Vreese & M.Elenbaas Changes in political news coverage: personalization, conflict and negativity in British and Dutch newspapers; R.Vliegenthart, H.G.Boomgaarden & J.W. Boumans A changing culture of political television journalism; J.Stamper & K.Brants A question of control: journalists and politicians in political broadcast interviews; K.Voltmer & K.Brants The elephant trap: politicians performing in television comedy; L.van Zoonen, S.Coleman & A.Kuik PART III: DE-CENTRALIZATION – NEW FORMS OF CITIZENSHIP AND POLITICAL COMMUNICATION Political consumerism as political participation?; J.Ward The new frontiers of journalism: citizen participation in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands; T.Bakker & C.Paterson The new cultural cleavage: immigration and the challenge to Dutch politics and media; P.Van Praag & M.Adriaansen The mediation of political disconnection; S.Coleman, D.Morrison & S.Yates 'Voting is easy, just press the red button': communicating politics in the age of Big Brother; V.Cardo What's reality television got to do with it? Talking politics in the net-based public sphere; T.Graham Afterword; J.Corner Index