'Political Communication and Social Theory' presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies.  Meer

Based on unprecedented interviews with key figures, this book reveals how the Treasury has been the major institution driving socio-economic disparities in the UK, as well as the Brexit paralysis -- .  Meer

This book argues that it is the Treasury, more than any other institution, public or private, which is responsible for socio-economic disparities in the UK, as well as the Brexit paralysis.  Meer

The Mediation of Power investigates how those in positions of power use and are influenced by media in their everyday activities. Each chapter examines this theme through an exploration of some of the key topics and debates in the field, including: theories of media and power media policy and the economics of information news production and journalistic practice public relations and media management culture and power political communication and mediated politics new and alternative media interest group communications media audiences and effects.  Meer

The Mediation of Power investigates how those in positions of power use and are influenced by media in their everyday activities. Each chapter examines this theme through an exploration of some of the key topics and debates in the field, including: theories of media and power media policy and the economics of information news production and journalistic practice public relations and media management culture and power political communication and mediated politics new and alternative media interest group communications media audiences and effects.  Meer

Political Communication and Social Theory presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies.  Meer

Aeron Davis is the first to offer a general overview of therise and impact of professional public relations in Britain, stepping beyondthe status quo of 'spin doctors' and elections by also exploring the publicrelations activities of the corporate sector, the City, pressure groups, andthe trade union movement.  Meer

A timely and provocative exploration of contemporary political communication from a world-leading author team. In an age of "fake news" and Youtube algorithms it can be tempting to see politics as all mediation, but this book refocuses on the broader contexts or neoliberalism, elites, populism, activism and so on.  Meer

This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity.  Meer