Includes bibliographical references and index.

Presidential Address / Kevin Coe -- The Power of Political Communication / Michael Tesler, John Zaller -- Political Advertising / Timothy W. Fallis -- Not a Fourth Estate But a Second Legislature / Roderick P. Hart, Rebecca LaVally -- Political Messages and Partisanship / Sharon E. Jarvis -- Political Campaign Debates / David S. Birdsell -- Civic Norms and Communication Competence: Pathways to Socialization and Citizenship / Dhavan V. Shah, Kjerstin Thorson, Chris Wells, Nam-jin Lee, Jack McLeod -- Selective Exposure Theories / Natalie Jomini Stroud -- The Hostile Media Effect / Lauren Feldman -- Taking Interdependence Seriously: Platforms for Understanding Political Communication / Robert Huckfeldt -- Disagreement in Political Discussion / Lilach Nir -- Collective Intelligence: The Wisdom and Foolishness of Deliberating Groups / Joseph N. Cappella, Jingwen Zhang, Vincent Price -- Political Discussion and Deliberation Online / Jennifer Stromer-Galley -- New Media and Political Campaigns / Diana Owen -- Candidate Traits and Political Choice / Bruce W. Hardy -- Communication Modalities and Political Knowledge / William P. Eveland, R. Kelly Garrett -- Framing Inequality in Public Policy Discourse: The Nature of Constraint / Oscar H. Gandy Jr. -- Niche Communication in Political Campaigns / Laura Lazarus Frankel, D. Sunshine Hillygus -- Online News Consumption in the United States and Ideological Extremism / Kenneth M. Winneg, Daniel M. Butler, Saar Golde, Darwin W. Miller III, Norman H. Nie -- Political Communication: Insights From Field Experiments / Donald P. Green, Allison J. Carnegie, Joel Middleton -- The Internal Dynamics and Political Power of Small Group Political Deliberation / John Gastil, Katherine R. Knobloch, Jason Gilmore -- Two-step Flow, Diffusion, and the Role of Social Networks in Political Communication / Brian G. Southwell -- The US Media, Foreign Policy, and Public Support for War / Sean Aday -- The Politics of Memory / Nicole Maurantonio -- The Functional Theory of Political Campaign Communication / William L. Benoit -- Creating the Hybrid Field of Political Communication: A Five-Decade-Long Evolution of the Concept of Effects / Kathleen Hall Jamieson -- Ethnography of Politics and Political Communication / Eeva Luhtakallio, Nina Eliasoph -- Theories and Effects of Political Humor: Discounting Cues, Gateways, and the Impact of Incongruities / Dannagal G. Young -- The Political Effects of Entertainment Media / Michael X. Delli Carpini -- Self-censorship, the Spiral of Silence, and Contemporary Political Communication / Andrew F. Hayes, Jörg Matthes -- Media Responsiveness in Times of Crisis / Carol Winkler -- The Media Agenda: Who (or What) Sets It? / David H. Weaver, Jihyang Choi -- Going Institutional: The Making of Political Communications / Lawrence R. Jacobs -- Press-Government Relations in a Changing Media Environment / W. Lance Bennett -- The Gatekeeping of Political Messages / Pamela Shoemaker -- Game versus Substance in Political News / Thomas E. Patterson -- Theories of Media Bias / S. Robert Lichter -- The State of Framing Research: A Call for New Directions / Dietram A. Scheufele, Shanto Iyengar -- Agenda-Setting Theory: The Frontier Research Questions / Maxwell McCombs, Sebastián Valenzuela -- A Typology of Media Effects / Shanto Iyengar -- The Media and the Fostering of Political (Dis)Trust / Michael Barthel, Patricia Moy -- Public and Elite Perceptions of News Media in Politics / Yariv Tsfati -- Uses and Gratifications / R. Lance Holbert -- Nowhere to Go / Elihu Katz -- Political Communication, Information Processing, and Social Groups / Nicholas A. Valentino, L. Matthew Vandenbroek -- Implicit Political Attitudes / Dan Cassino, Milton Lodge, Charles S. Taber -- Broadcasting versus Narrowcasting / Miriam J. Metzger -- Conditions for Political Accountability in a High-Choice Media Environment / Markus Prior -- Digital Media and Perceptions of Source Credibility in Political Communication / Andrew Flanagin, Miriam J. Metzger -- Affect and Political Choice / Ann N. Crigler, Parker R. Hevron -- How To Think Normatively About News and Democracy / Michael Schudson -- News Media as Political Institutions / Robert W. McChesney, Victor Pickard -- Music as Political Communication / John Street -- Journalism and the Public-Service Model / Stephen Coleman -- Political Communication: Then, Now, and Beyond / Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Kate Kenski -- The Shape of Political Communication / Jay G. Blumler -- The Political Uses and Abuses of Civility and Incivility / Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Allyson Volinsky, Ilana Weitz, Kate Kenski -- Freedom of the Press / Doris A. Graber -- Measuring Spillovers in Markets for Local Public Affairs Coverage / James T. Hamilton -- Comparative Political Communication Research / Claes H. de Vreese -- Cultivation Theory and the Construction of Political Reality / Patrick E. Jamieson, Dan Romer -- Political Communication: Looking Ahead / Kate Kenski, Kathleen Hall Jamieson.

An incisive, broad-based overview of political communication, the Oxford Handbook for Political Communication assembles the leading scholars in the field of political communication to answer the question: What do we know and need to know about the process by which humans claim, lose, or share power through symbolic exchanges? Its sixty-three essays address the following five themes: contexts for viewing the field of political communication, political discourse, media and political communication, interpersonal and small group political communication, and the altered political communication landscape.

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