Battleground: Asymmetric Communication Ecologies and the Erosion of Civil Society in Wisconsin

Battleground: Asymmetric Communication Ecologies and the Erosion of Civil Society in Wisconsin
ISBN-10
1108944191
ISBN-13
9781108944199
Series
Battleground
Category
Political Science
Pages
177
Language
English
Published
2022-08-04
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
Michael W. Wagner, Jon Pevehouse, Dhavan V. Shah

Description

Battleground models Wisconsin's contentious political communication ecology: the way that politics, social life, and communication intersect and create conditions of polarization and democratic decline. Drawing from 10 years of interviews, news and social media content, and state-wide surveys, we combine qualitative and computational analysis with time-series and multi-level modeling to study this hybrid communication system – an approach that yields unique insights about nationalization, social structure, conventional discourses, and the lifeworld. We explore these concepts through case studies of immigration, healthcare, and economic development, concluding that despite nationalization, distinct state-level effects vary by issue as partisan actors exert their discursive power.

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