Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : making sense of politics; constructing political messages and meanings / Ann N. Crigler
  • The negotiation of newsworthiness / Timothy E. Cook
  • News, psychology, and presidential politics / Roderick P. Hart, Deborah Smith-Howell, and John Llewellyn
  • Constructing campaign messages and public understanding : the 1990 Wellstone-Boschwitz Senate Race in Minnesota / Dean Alger
  • The psychology of mass-mediated publics / W. Lance Bennett and John D. Klockner
  • Media discourse as a framing resource / William A. Gamson
  • Cognitive and affective dimensions of political conceptualization / Marion R. Just, Ann N. Crigler, and W. Russell Neuman
  • Constructing public opinion : the uses of fictional and nonfictional television in conversations about the environment / Michael X. Delli Carpini and Bruce A. Williams
  • Perceptions and conceptions of political media impact : the third-person effect and beyond / Richard M. Perloff
  • Media dependency and multiple media sources / August E. Grant
  • Whither research on the psychology of political communication? / Doris A. Graber.