Political Science Media & Internet
Breaking News?
Politics, Journalism, and Infotainment on Quebec Television
- Publisher
- Les Presses de l’Université Laval, UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2018
- Category
- Media & Internet, Canadian, Media Studies
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774836852
- Publish Date
- Jan 2018
- List Price
- $125.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774836821
- Publish Date
- Jan 2018
- List Price
- $75.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774836838
- Publish Date
- Aug 2018
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
In the thousand-channel universe, politicians must find innovative ways to reach citizens via television. Viewership for news and current affairs television programs has dropped dramatically. Meanwhile, the rise of programming that blends information with entertainment – infotainment – on French Canadian television has provided new opportunities for today’s politicians. Breaking News? traces the development of infotainment and exposes the impact of these kinds of programs on modern political communication. Though not without its controversies, infotainment ultimately makes a positive contribution to democratic life by piquing the audience’s interest in public affairs and motivating it to pay more attention to political news in general.
About the authors
Frédérick Bastien's profile page
Kathe Roth was born in Montréal and now lives in Saint-Lazare, Québec. She has been a literary translator and editor for more than twenty-five years. Her work includes over thirty translated books and essays of literary non-fiction on various subjects, including art, architecture, economics, history, and sociology, as well as fiction. She was a finalist for the Governor General Award for literary translation in 1993 for “The Last Cod Fish” by Pol Chantraine. She is a member of the Literary Translators Association of Canada.
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