Typing Politics: The Role of Blogs in American Politics
Typing Politics: The Role of Blogs in American Politics
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政治打字：博客在美国政治中的作用
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10.5860/choice.47-2855
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发表时间：
2010
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3.6
通讯作者：
Cathy Packer
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* 类型政治：博客在美国政治中的作用。理查德·戴维斯纽约：牛津大学出版社，2009年。232页。十九块九毛五博客正在篡夺传统新闻精英的权力，并为以前闻所未闻的大众提供政治声音。对不对？理查德·戴维斯可不这么认为在打字政治：博客在美国政治中的作用，戴维斯仔细和令人信服的文件一个令人惊讶的有限的作用，为全国最阅读的政治博客。他的观点颇具煽动性，认为博客并不像博主们经常宣称的那样，代表着“一种独特的形式，以及对现有交流和政治体系的改革”。相反，戴维斯的结论是，博客已经与政治家和传统媒体建立了一种相互依赖的关系。本书的概念框架是事务性议程设置，戴维斯将其描述为“与其他参与者仅仅是媒体议程接收者的线性关系相比，议程设置过程在本质上更具事务性。精英、公众和媒体都参与了议程的制定。戴维斯利用对政治博客和精英媒体内容的定量和定性内容分析以及对传统记者和政治博客读者的调查结果来探索这一概念。如果一本200页的书不是你心目中的好书，别担心。戴维斯的背景分析为他的研究增加了一个有价值的理论组成部分，但并没有减损这本书的可读性。《打字政治》一书以一篇写得很好的政治博客十年之久的历史为开端。戴维斯特别关注阅读量最大的政治博客，包括每日科斯，Instapundit和赫芬顿邮报。(The戴维斯说，排名前十的政治博客拥有49%的政治博客读者。关于博客，有很多有趣的轶事，有些我很熟悉，有些我很陌生。然后，杨百翰大学政治学教授戴维斯探讨了博客作者、政治家和传统媒体之间仍在发展的关系。戴维斯以一种令人钦佩的不偏不倚的方式描述了这些群体是如何相互影响的。例如，他说，博客作者往往是第一个框架的新闻故事，因为博客有时可以更快地报告一个故事比传统媒体。这种模式有时也会被传统媒体采用。然而，接受调查的传统记者表示，虽然他们阅读政治博客，但他们很少依赖这些博客来获得故事想法或信息，因为他们认为这些博客有偏见和不准确。…
* Typing Politics: The Role of Blogs in American Politics. Richard Davis. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009. 232 pp. $19.95 pbk. Bloggers are usurping the power of traditional journalism elites and giving a political voice to the previously unheard masses. Right? Not according to Richard Davis. In Typing Politics: The Role of Blogs in American Politics, Davis carefully and convincingly documents a surprisingly limited role for the nation's most-read political blogs. His provocative thesis is that blogs do not represent a "distinctive form and a reform of the existing communications and political systems" as bloggers often claim. Rather, Davis concludes that blogs have developed a mutually dependent relationship with politicians and the traditional media. The conceptual framework for this book is transactional agenda setting, which Davis describes as the idea that "[rjather than a linear relationship in which other players are merely the receivers of media agendas, the agenda-setting process is more transactional in nature. Elites, the public, and the media all join in agenda setting." Davis explores that notion using the results of quantitative and qualitative content analyses of both political blogs and elite media content and surveys of traditional journalists and readers of political blogs. If a 200-page agenda-setting study is not your idea of a good read, don't worry. Davis' agenda-setting analysis adds a valuable theoretical component to his study but does not detract from the book's readability. Typing Politics begins with a well-written account of the decade-long history of political blogging. Davis pays special attention to the most-read political blogs, including Daily Kos, Instapundit, and The Huffington Post. (The top ten political blogs have 49% of political blog readership, Davis says.) There are many interesting anecdotes about blogging, some familiar but others new to me. Then Davis, a political science professor at Brigham Young University, explores the still-evolving relationships between bloggers, politicians, and the traditional media. In an admirably even-handed way, Davis describes how these groups do - and do not - influence one another. For example, he says bloggers often are the first to frame a news story because bloggers sometimes can report a story more quickly than the traditional media. That frame then sometimes is adopted by the traditional media. However, traditional journalists surveyed said that while they read political blogs, they seldom rely on them for either story ideas or information because they perceive the blogs as biased and inaccurate. …