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Article: New Media and American Politics.(Review)
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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New Media and American Politics. By Richard Davis and Diana Owen. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 304p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
Richard Davis and Diana Owen draw from news accounts, interviews, content analyses, and surveys to assess countervailing arguments about the political role of new media. The authors develop two dimensions on which to define types of media. The first distinguishes between old information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as radio and television broadcasting, versus new ICTs, such as the Internet. The second dimension focuses on the use of old media "formats" (e.g., the network news anchor) versus new ...