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| A politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers and the political agenda itself are increasingly shaped by technology. |
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| Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and other means of popular communication. |
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| Events purposely staged for the media that nonetheless look spontaneous. In keeping with politics as theater, media events can be staged by individuals, groups, and government officials, especially presidents. |
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| Meetings of public officials with reporters. |
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| The use of detective-like reporting to unearth scandals, scams, and schemes, putting reporters in adversarial relationships with political leaders. |
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| Newspapers and magazines, as compared with broadcast media. |
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| Television and radio, as compared with print media. |
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| By 1994, more than 80 percent of America’s daily papers were controlled by national and regional chains. |
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| programming on cable TV or the Internet that is focused on one topic and aimed at a particular audience. Examples include MTV, ESPN, and C-SPAN. |
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| Specific locations from which news frequently emanates, such as Congress or the White House. Most top reporters work a particular beat, thereby becoming specialists in what goes on at that location. |
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| An international news leak for the purpose of assessing the political reaction. |
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| Short video clips of approximately 15 seconds; typically all that is shown from a politician’s speech or activities on the nightly television news. |
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| A shot of person’s face talking directly to the camera. Because this is visually unappealing, the major commercial networks rarely show a politician talking one-on-one for very long. |
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| The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics at the time. |
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| People who invest their political “capital” in an issue. According to John Kingdom, a policy entrepreneur “could be in or out of government, in elected or appointed positions, in interest groups or research organizations.” |
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