Mosh the Polls (eBook, PDF)

Youth Voters, Popular Culture, and Democratic Engagement
Redaktion: Kelso, Tony; Cogan, Brian

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This timely, highly readable edited collection undertakes an interdisciplinary analysis of the innovative ways in which both the political process and the entertainment industry appeal to voters under the age of 30 and how the intended audience receives these endeavors. Along the way, contributors shed light on the state of the modern American political system and its relationship to entertainment and popular culture. By integrating academic investigations with a 'real-world' point of view, the essays in this collection present information in an engaging, accessible manner that will show readers how the articulation of youth culture has influenced the political engagement of young voters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216346623
• Artikelnr.: 75391373

Autorenporträt

Brian Cogan is associate professor in the Department of Communication Arts at Molloy College. Tony Kelso is associate professor of mass communication at Iona College.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Contents
Chapter 2 Foreword
Chapter 3 Introduction. At the Intersection of Politics and Popular
Culture: Over Two Hundred Years of Great Entertainment
Part 4 I. Setting the Stage
Chapter 5 1. Different Experiences of Young Adults and Other Adults in
Mediated Campaigns
Chapter 6 2. Links, Chicks, Blogs, Banners: Using the Internet for Youth
Voter Mobilization
Part 7 II. The Performance
Chapter 8 3. Rock the Vote: An Insider's Account of the 2004 Campaign
Strategy
Chapter 9 4. "Comic Elections and Real News?" The Daily Show, Satire,
Public Discourse, and the New Voter
Chapter 10 5. Lessons in Appealing to the Young Non-Voter: Michael Moore's
Slackers Uprising Tour
Chapter 11 6. Screening Abu Ghraib, Reelecting the President: The Symbolic
Politics of Torture in Fiction Film and Television, 2003-2005
Chapter 12 7. Cast a Vote: Yo: Targeting the Hip-Hop Generation through
Popular Culture
Part 13 III. Evaluating the Show
Chapter 14 8. Soft News and Young Voters: Why They Tune into It and What
They Get Out of It
Chapter 15 9. Thin Democracy/Thick Citizenry: Interactive Media and its
Lessons for Young Citizens/Consumers
Chapter 16 10. Just Don't to Vote or Die, Bitch! A Giant Douche, a Turd
Sandwich, Hardcore Puppet Sex, and the Reinvention of Political
(Un)Involvement
Chapter 17 Index
Chapter 18 About the Contributors