Mediated politics : communication in the future of democracy / ed. by W.Lance Bennett, Robert M. Entman

A collection of 22 papers by American and European scholars who debated and discussed issues at workshops funded by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (University of Pennsylvania) and held in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia.

The public sphere and the Net : structure, space, and communication / Peter Dahlgren -- Promoting political engagement / William A. Gamson -- The Internet and the global public sphere / Colin Sparks -- Reporting and the push for market-oriented journalism : media organizations as businesses / Doug Underwood -- Political discourse and the politics of need : discourses on the good life in cyberspace / Don Slater -- Dividing practices : segmentation and targeting in the emerging public sphere / Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. -- Let us infotain you : politics in the new media environment / Michael X. Delli Carpini and Bruce A. Williams -- The future of the institutional media / Timothy E. Cook -- Reframing public opinion as we have known it / Robert M. Entman and Susan Herbst -- Political waves and democratic discourse : terrorism waves during the Oslo peace process / Gadi Wolfsfeld -- Monica Lewinsky and the mainsprings of American politics / John Zaller -- The big spin : strategic communication and the transformation of p