After broadcast news: media regimes, democracy, and the new information environment

Abstract

1. Is there a difference between Tina Fey and Katie Couric?: policing the boundaries between news and entertainment 2. Media regimes and American democracy 3. And that's the way it (was): the rise and fall of the age of broadcast news 4. Political reality, political power and political relevance in the changing media environment 5. Politics in the emerging new media age: hyperreality, multiaxiality, and 'the Clinton scandals' 6. When the media really matter: coverage of the environment in a changing media environment 7. 9/11 and its aftermath: constructing a political spectacle in the new media environment 8. Shaping a new media regime.