Processing Politics: Learning from Television in the Internet Age

by Doris A. Graber

Book Overview

How often do we hear that Americans are so ignorant about politics that their civic competence is impaired, and that the media are to blame because they do a dismal job of informing the public? Processing Politics shows that average Americans are far smarter than the critics believe. Integrating a broad range of current research on how people learn (from political science, social psychology, communication, physiology, and artificial intelligence),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226305767
• ISBN13: 9780226305769
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"