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The sound bite society : how television helps the Right and hurts the Left / Jeffrey Scheuer. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, [(c)2001.Edition: Pbk. edDescription: 230 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415936624
  • 9780415936620
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HE8700.76.S686 2001
  • HE8700.76.U6.S328.S686 2001
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Contents:
The politics of electronic information The ascent of the electronic right Shouting heads: the language ot television Video games: television and reality Complexity and ideology Critical vision: television and the attentive society.
Abstract: It was once said that "all politics is local." But today, all politics is televisual. Candidates spend millions on TV ads. Most people get their news from TV's sound bites. Television doesn't just affect politics--it is politics. But how does that mega-medium shape our political ideas and values? In The Sound Bite Society, Jeffrey Scheuer argues that the rise of television is directly linked to the decline of the American left and the ascent of the "Electronic Right." Political argument has been simplified to quick, telegraphic TV sound bites which, he argues, inherently favor the right wing. Television's visual and rhetorical conventions are biased toward simplicity, Scheuer argues, making it the perfect vehicle for conservative messages advocating a simpler society and smaller government.
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Originally published as The sound bite society: television and the American mind. New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999.

The politics of electronic information The ascent of the electronic right Shouting heads: the language ot television Video games: television and reality Complexity and ideology Critical vision: television and the attentive society.

It was once said that "all politics is local." But today, all politics is televisual. Candidates spend millions on TV ads. Most people get their news from TV's sound bites. Television doesn't just affect politics--it is politics. But how does that mega-medium shape our political ideas and values? In The Sound Bite Society, Jeffrey Scheuer argues that the rise of television is directly linked to the decline of the American left and the ascent of the "Electronic Right." Political argument has been simplified to quick, telegraphic TV sound bites which, he argues, inherently favor the right wing. Television's visual and rhetorical conventions are biased toward simplicity, Scheuer argues, making it the perfect vehicle for conservative messages advocating a simpler society and smaller government.

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