Governments in many countries fear voting turnout and political engagement is in terminal decline, threatening the long-term legitimacy of the democratic process. Meanwhile definitions of politics and the public world are changing, while media formats are proliferating and media audiences fragmentin[...]
The growing public awareness of lifestyle risks associated with children's consumer empowerment is at the heart of this book which uses a comparative news analysis to compare the discursive politics surrounding the 'globesity pandemic' in North America and the UK. Focusing on the role that epidemiol[...]