Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early Knowledge -- Conventional Wisdom -- The Third Person -- The Evidence -- Rationality -- Hindsight -- Central Elements -- Conformity -- Spiral of Silence -- Major Dimensions -- Polls and News Coverage -- Contingent Conditions -- Psychological Mechanism -- Sherif, Asch, and Milgram -- Paradigms -- Implementation -- Outcomes -- Personal Experience -- Political Socialization -- Party Allegiance -- Social Influence -- Issue Voting -- Three Propositions -- Necessary Corrections -- Ambiguities -- Misapplication -- A Closer Look -- A Contrast -- Asch -- Sherif -- A Difficult Case -- Rethinking the Personal -- Conceptualization -- Historical Changes -- Journalistic Practices -- Psychological Processes -- Our Intentions -- Press and Public -- The New Media -- Three Factors -- First Things -- Contemporary Media -- Logic of Television -- Competition and Dissatisfaction -- Hostile Media -- Collective to Individual -- Horizon -- The Goods -- Under the Magnifying Glass -- Status -- Scandals and Missteps -- They're Off! -- Sound Bites -- Bias -- Civic Disenchantment -- On the Shelves -- Election Day -- Advertising -- Debates -- Narrative and Normalization -- Heterogeneous Faces -- Our Model -- Dropouts -- Republicans -- Democrats -- Independents -- Electoral Cycle -- Regularity -- The Unexpected -- Shifting Attention -- Nonvoting -- Social Structure -- Economics of Voting -- Searching for Information -- Media and Voting -- Commercials as Instruction -- Issues and Debates -- Interest and Motive.

"The media have a central role in modern politics in providing the information that individuals use to assess candidates and their platforms. Through selected coverage of poll information, political advertisements and political debates, and the coverage of political candidates, campaigns, and issues, media may influence public opinion." "The Psychology of Media and Politics discusses how this influence may occur and the impact of this influence on an individual's political impressions knowledge, and decisions. The book brings together information from a variety of fields, including communication, psychology, political science and sociology including a discussion of recent political phenomena and the implications for media and politics in the 21st century."--Jacket.