Book Review: Digital Politics in Western Democracies – A Comparative Study

Author: Cristian Vaccari Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar How do the actors (e.g. candidates for elective office) in a political system communicate with their constituents (e.g. voters)? This book studies how such interaction occurs in today’s rapid pace of interpersonal and mass communication. This book can be very useful to students, practitioners, and scholars of political communication, party competition and organization, and the current media landscape The book is essentially a discussion of the production-presentation, on the one hand, and consumption on the other hand, of online content in seven countries – Australia, France,...

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