Traces the development, surveys the literature, and explores the impact of new technologies on the media landscape. Examines conceptual and practical aspects of life in an infromation society through 49 articles that explore the utopian promises of technology's true believers and the dystopian views[...]
Image Bite Politics is the first book to systematically assess the visual presentation of presidential candidates in network news coverage of elections and to connect these visual images with shifts in public opinion. Presenting the results of a comprehensive visual analysis of general election news[...]