Communicating power: Political consultants, symbolic production and media democracy

该项目将研究政治传播的专业化，特别关注政治顾问和传播专家在当代澳大利亚政治中的作用。主要的研究目的是确定和分析的参考框架和评价模式结构的政治顾问的工作。政治顾问将被分析为一个新的“象征性”的管理者和调解人在一个社会中，信息是关键的生产资源的子集。该项目将详细分析政治沟通的专业化如何改变网络社会中的代议制民主。

The project will investigate the professionalization of political communication with a specific focus on the role of political consultants and communication specialists in contemporary Australian politics. The principal research aim is to identify and analyse the frames of reference and evaluative modes structuring the work of political consultants. Political consultants will be analysed as a subset of new 'symbolic' managers and mediators in a society in which information is the key productive resource. The project will generate a detailed analysis of how the professionalization of political communication is transforming representative democracy in network society.