Apprehending Politics: News Media and Individual Political DevelopmentSUNY Press, 2005 M01 1 - 285 pages 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 news 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 news 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. |
Contents
Contemporary American Political Culture and News Media | 17 |
Portraits of Individual Political Development | 57 |
The Ecology of Individual Political Development | 127 |
The Contours of Ideology and Orientation | 189 |
Recontextualizing Politics and News Media | 223 |
Appendix One Methodological Issues | 233 |
Appendix Two Questionnaire For Participants | 243 |
Appendix Four Gauging Political Values and Beliefs | 249 |
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