Michael K. Baranowski

Navigating the News (eBook, ePUB)

A Political Media User's Guide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the book for anyone who aspires to the title "informed citizen." It clearly explains how political news works, how the media influences readers-and how to sort through it all to be a better, smarter consumer of political news. In a perfect world, political news would be objective and fact-based. Instead, it is biased and unreliable. This engaging book was written to help readers master the media. Combining insight and humor, it exposes the bias, irrationality, bad arguments, and misleading numbers that abound in political media. It shows readers how to take advantage of available news sources, and it guides them in developing the skills needed to sort through the flood of hype and misinformation. Specifically, the book examines types of political media and why it matters whether one gets political news from television, radio, newspapers, or the Internet, including social media. It discusses the latest developments in political behavior, economics, media studies, and neuroscience to explain why the political media does what it does to systematically distort consumers' view of politics-and it looks at ways consumers tend to be irrational in choosing and interpreting news. Finally, it offers concrete suggestions that will enable readers to become more critical of what they read, see, and hear.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216122029
• Artikelnr.: 68167995

Autorenporträt

Michael Baranowski, PhD, is associate professor of political science at Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ONE: Introduction to the News TWO: Types of Media THREE:
The Medium Matters FOUR: Bias FIVE: Irrationality SIX: Bad Arguments SEVEN:
Misleading Numbers EIGHT: "Survey Says .": Problems with Polls NINE: What's
in Your Cognitive Toolkit? TEN: Navigating the News Appendix: Political
Media Resources Selected Bibliography Index