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Can the American media be blamed for the transformation of an ideologically cohesive society into a segmented society of pleasure seekers, startups,and subcultures? This book aims to show how Israel's new television system affected the country's political culture during the 1990s.

This work analyzes and compares the use of communication strategies of presidents and their administrations during the television age of politics. In begins in 1961, and demonstrates that various factors can play a role in whether or not a president succeeds in controlling the political agenda.

Taking political scandal as the entry point, this book presents a study of comparative political communication. It explores themes such as how and why journalists construct their scandal stories, what kind of narratives were told, the impact of political scandal, and what, if anything, this tells readers about the putative power of the press.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the 1990 German national election marked the first time East Germans voted in a free national election since 1933. This book focuses on the last two months before election day and examines key questions about the content and effects of mediated information.

This text explores the side effects of a technologized society and asks if the way in which we ""do"" science may be changing the ways in which we are ""human"". Each topic addressed is preceded by an example from the ""real world"", and linked by an experimental approach to research methods.