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A politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers and the political agenda itself are increasingly shaped by technology. |
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| Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, the internet, and other means of popular communication. |
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| Events purposely staged for the media that nonetheless look spontaneous. In keeping with politecs as theater, media events can be staged by individuals, groups, and govt officials, esp. presidents. |
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| Meetings of public offcials with reporters. |
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| The use of in-depth reporting to unearth scandals, scams, and schemes, which at times puts reporters in adversarial relationships with political leaders. |
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| Newspapers and magazines, as compared with broadcast media. |
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| Television and radio, as compared with print media. |
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| Newspapers published by massive media conglomerates that account for over 4/5 of the nation's daily newspaper circulation. |
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| specific locations from which news frequently emanates, such as congress or the white house. |
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| An inentional news leak for the purpose of assessing the political reaction. |
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| short video clips of approximately 15 seconds, typically all that is hown from a politician's speech or activities on they nightly television news. |
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| A shot of a person's face talking directly to the camera. Because this is visually unappealing, the major commercial networks rarely show a politician talking one-on-one for very long. |
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| The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics at the time. |
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| People who invest their political "capital" in an issue. |
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| Media programming on cable TV or the internet that is focused on one topic and aimed at a particular audience. |
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