TY - BOOK ID - 971066 TI - Processing politics : learning from television in the internet age. PY - 2001 SN - 0226305767 0226305759 9780226305769 0226924769 9780226924762 9780226305752 9780226305752 PB - Chicago University of Chicago DB - UniCat KW - Mass communications KW - Computer architecture. Operating systems KW - Political sociology KW - United States KW - Communication in politics. KW - Human information processing. KW - Television broadcasting of news KW - #SBIB:309H271 KW - #SBIB:309H1025 KW - #SBIB:309H402 KW - Politieke communicatie: toepassingsgebieden KW - Mediaboodschappen met een informatieve functie KW - Media en publiekgroepen: gebruik van de boodschap, effecten van de media, ... KW - Communication in politics KW - Human information processing KW - Information processing, Human KW - Bionics KW - Information theory in psychology KW - Perception KW - Political communication KW - Political science KW - Media en publiekgroepen: gebruik van de boodschap, effecten van de media, .. KW - Media en publiekgroepen: gebruik van de boodschap, effecten van de media, . KW - Media en publiekgroepen: gebruik van de boodschap, effecten van de media, KW - political, tv, online, digital, contemporary, modern, present day, poli sci, america, american, united states, usa, civic, ignorance, media, information, public, criticism, critics, research, social, psychology, communication, physiology, artificial intelligence, ai, learning, knowledge, cable, defense, democracy, broadcasting, puzzles, problems, brain, audiovisual, gutenberg. KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:971066 AB - How often do we hear that Americans are so ignorant about politics that their civic competence is impaired, and that the media are to blame because they do a dismal job of informing the public? Processing Politics shows that average Americans are far smarter than the critics believe. Integrating a broad range of current research on how people learn (from political science, social psychology, communication, physiology, and artificial intelligence), Doris Graber shows that televised presentations-at their best-actually excel at transmitting information and facilitating learning. She critiques current political offerings in terms of their compatibility with our learning capacities and interests, and she considers the obstacles, both economic and political, that affect the content we receive on the air, on cable, or on the Internet. More and more people rely on information from television and the Internet to make important decisions. Processing Politics offers a sound, well-researched defense of these remarkably versatile media, and challenges us to make them work for us in our democracy. ER -