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- Title
MORE ENGAGED BUT STILL UNINFORMED? 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION COVERAGE IN CONSUMER MAGAZINES POPULAR WITH YOUNG ADULTS.
- Authors
Mueller, James E.; Reichert, Tom
- Abstract
Given the upturn in young-voter turnout in 2004, this study updates an analysis of the 2000 election to determine if coverage in youth-oriented magazines remained superficial, strategic, and cynical. Quantity of coverage increased 69% over 2000 (coverage in Rolling Stone increased 300%) despite a decrease in women's magazines' coverage. There was no difference in the largely strategic, cynical, and biased coverage between the two elections. Despite a "wartime" election, the magazines rarely published stories focusing on the Iraq war. The study suggests that resurgent interest in politics among young people was not mirrored in popular magazines they read regularly.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MASS media &; teenagers; YOUTHS' periodicals; UNITED States presidential election, 2004; PERIODICALS &; society; MASS media &; children; MASS media &; culture; MASS media &; democracy; MASS media &; public opinion
- Publication
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2009, Vol 86, Issue 3, p563
- ISSN
1077-6990
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/107769900908600307