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Mosh the polls : youth voters, popular culture, and democratic engagement
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- Creator
- edited by Tony Kelso and Brian Cogan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- xii, 259 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780739122303, 9780739122310, 9780739130469, 0739122304, 0739122312, 0739130463
- OCLC
- ocn244567175
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: At the intersection of politics and popular culture: over two hundred years of great entertainment / Tony Kelso and Brian Cogan -- Different experiences of young adults and other adults in mediated campaigns / Robert J. Klotz -- Links, chicks, blogs, banners: using the Internet for youth voter mobilization / Laura Tropp -- Rock the Vote: an insider's account of the 2004 campaign strategy / Aaron Teeter and Brandy Chappell -- "Comic elections and real news?" The Daily Show, satire, public discourse, and the new voter / Brian Cogan -- Lessons in appealing to the young non-voter: Michael Moore's Slackers Uprising Tour / Michael Grabowski -- Screening Abu Ghraib, reelecting the president: the symbolic politics of torture in fiction film and television, 2003-2005 / Marco Calavita -- Cast a vote, yo: targeting the hip-hop generation through popular culture / Tony Kelso -- Soft news and young voters: why they tune into it and what they get out of it / Xiaoxia Cao -- Thin democracy/thick citizenry: interactive media and its lessons for young citizens/consumers / Shawn McIntosh -- Just don't bother to vote or die, bitch! A giant douche, a turd sandwich, hardcore puppet sex, and the reinvention of political (un)involvement / Marc Leverette