The dynamics of poiltical communication: Media and politics in a digital age (2nd ed.)

In fall, an ENORMOUSLY-REVISED second edition of my text, The dynamics of political communication: Media and politics in a digital age was published. I cannot emphasize enough how extensive these revisions were, both in response to my own sense that the first edition needed to be improved and blind reviewer comments obtained by the publisher. This was not the same book as the first, as a perusal of the two would make clear. The second edition reflected hours and hours and new writing galore on: the 2016 election and political communication; framing and Trump's appeals; normative theories, like deliberative democracy; discussion of applications to political communication of cultivation theory; agenda-building in a social media age, with new research; new sections on political campaign history and policy-making aspects of political communication; extensive research-based changes to discussion of news, the nominations, and political advertising in light of new studies and the 2016 campaign. I would say close to 70% of the 500-page 14-chapter book was changed over the course of my two years of working on it, especially given the electoral communication of 2016, culminating in the publication of the book in October, 2017, with a 2018 publication date.