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Title Publicity and the Canadian state : critical communications perspectives / edited by Kirsten Kozolanka
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]

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Contents Introduction Communicating for Hegemony: The Making of the Publicity State in Canada / Kirsten Kozolanka -- Part One Political Communication: Media, State, Public Introduction. 1 Journalism, Corporate Media, and Democracy in the Digital Era / Frederick J. Fletcher -- 2 In Whose Interest? Government Communication and Public Accountability / Kirsten Kozolanka -- 3 Publics without Politics: Surplus Publicity as Depoliticization / Darin Barney
Part Two Publicity and the State Introduction. 4 The War on Ideas: From Hayek to Harper / Donald Gutstein -- 5 The Politics of Public Opinion / Paul Nesbitt-Larking -- 6 Taming the Untameable? Constraints and Limits on Government Advertising / Jonathan Rose -- 7 Political Funding Regimes and Political Communication / Robert Macdermid -- 8 Domestic Brand Politics and the Modern Publicity State / Richard Nimijean -- 9 Managing Information: Too Much Publicity, Not Enough Public Disclosure / Ken Rubin and Kirsten Kozolanka -- 10 Tracing and Tracking Privacy Discourses: The Audience as Commodity / Leslie Regan Shade and Tamara Shepherd
Part Three Beyond the Publicity State. Introduction -- 11 The Permanent Campaign Online: Platforms, Actors, and Issue-Objects / Greg Elmer, Ganaele Langlois, and Fenwick Mckelvey -- 12 The Role of Social Movements and Interest Groups / Miriam Smith -- 13 Reality Check: The Counterpublicity of Alternative Media / Herbert Pimlott -- 14 Publicity State or Democratic Media? Strategies for Change / Kathleen A. Cross, Robert A. Hackett and Steve Anderson
Summary Annotation Publicity pervades our political and public culture, but little has been written that critically examines the basis of the modern Canadian "publicity state." This collection is the first to focus on the central themes in the state's relationship with publicity practices and the "permanent campaign," the constant search by politicians and their strategists for popular consent. Central to this political popularity contest are publicity tools borrowed from private enterprise, turning political parties into sound bites and party members into consumers. Publicity and the Canadian State is the first sustained study of the contemporary practices of political communication, focusing holistically on the tools of the publicity state and their ideological underpinnings: advertising, public opinion research, marketing, branding, image consulting, and media and information management, as well as related topics such as election law and finance, privacy, think-tank lobbying, and non-election communication campaigns. Bringing together contemporary Canadian analysis by scholars in a number of fields, this collection will be a welcome new resource for academics, public relations and policy professionals, and government communicators at all levels
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Government publicity -- Canada
Communication in public administration -- Canada
Communication in politics -- Canada
Public relations and politics -- Canada
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Communication in politics
Communication in public administration
Government publicity
Public relations and politics
Canada
Form Electronic book
Author Kozolanka, Kirsten, 1953- author, editor.
ISBN 9781442669307
1442669306