Apprehending Politics

出版者:State Univ of New York Pr

作者:Calavita, Marco

页数:288

出版时间:2005-1

价格:$ 36.10

装帧:Pap

isbn号码:9780791462805

This groundbreaking book examines the significance of the news media for the political beliefs and behavior of contemporary Americans. Relying on original. In-depth interviews with members of the group known as Generation X, Marco Calavita analyzes the memories and understandings of these individuals' political development dating back to childhood. Specifically, he focuses on the developmental significance of new media engagement in the context of institutions and phenomena like family, peers, schooling, and popular culture. Calavita succeeds where others have failed at exploring the inevitably contextualized and ecological nature of individual political development, and the specific roles of new media in that development. "Apprehending politics illuminates the subtle but fundamental power of news media in who we are politically, and how we got that way.