… leadership in the Middle East, their ascendance in political and economic life is … of the news
media and information technology. As has often been remarked, the political borders in the …

… political modernity under the impact of new media and in the context of what some commentators
choose to call media … public sphere, definitions of political space and identities and the …

… Political science has never extended to the news media the … Journalism is a constituent of
political life that political … This is not to overlook a number of attemptsto nominate the media as …

… of the tangible applications of the new media. In fact, to fully grasp the role of the new
media within the broader communication process involving political citizens, we must put into …

… is changing, and at least appearing to democratize, the political process within the “already …
do not live in political democracies. A fifth political role of the new media is in the subversive …

… news journalism. According to this account, it is the failure of the established news media to
connect with the forms of `everyday politics’ … Despite these claims, the news media clearly …

… new media can provide a basis for reinvigorating one of the more established arenas of
conventional politics – … the new media in 2008 we introduce the idea of ‘citizen‐campaigner’ as a …

… ) by outlining some of the problems with the category of ‘new media’. First, much of the new
media we discuss is often not all that new – such as the internet, mobile phones and laptops. …

… The discussion about the opportunities of the new media for direct or representative democracy
… ; the media of leT are maturing and entering into the daily practice of the political system. …

… the inadequacies of traditional media pose serious problems for political discourse and …
new media make their contribution to the political process equally problematic. While new media …