Download or read book Mediated Democracy written by Michael W. Wagner and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediated Democracy: Politics, the News, and Citizenship in the 21st Century takes a contemporary, communications-oriented perspective on the central questions pertaining to the health of democracies and relationships between citizens, journalists, and political elites. The approach marries clear syntheses of cutting-edge research with practical advice explaining why the insights of scholarship affects students’ lives. With active, engaging writing, the text will thoroughly explain why things are the way they are, how they got that way, and how students can use the insights of political communication research to do something about it as citizens.