Political Communication: A Critical Introduction
By (Author) Dr Heather Savigny
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Red Globe Press
2nd December 2016
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political campaigning and advertising
Media studies
323.6
Hardback
208
478g
This major international text introduces the key themes, issues and theoretical approaches in the field. A central concern is to put the politics back into the study of communication by posing key critical questions about power and ideology: what is being communicated, by whom, how, in whose interests, and with what effects and implications
Heather Savigny is Associate Professor in Politics & Gender at Bournemouth University, UK. Her most recent publication is in Feminist Media Studies (2016) and she has published and co-edited books with Palgrave, Continuum and Ashgate.