Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: An Ontology of Hybridity
Chapter 2: All Media Systems Have Been Hybrid
Chapter 3: The Contemporary Contexts of Hybridity
Chapter 4: The Political Information Cycle
Chapter 5: Power, Interdependence, and Hybridity in the Construction of Political News: Understanding WikiLeaks
Chapter 6: Symphonic Consonance in Campaign Communication: Reinterpreting Obama for America
Chapter 7: Systemic Hybridity in the Mediation of the American Presidential Campaign
Chapter 8: Hybrid Norms in News and Journalism
Chapter 9: Hybrid Norms in Activism, Parties, and Government
Chapter 10: Donald Trump, the 2016 US Presidential Campaign, and the Intensification of the Hybrid Media System
Conclusion: Politics and Power in the Hybrid Media System
List of Interviews
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Andrew Chadwick is Professor of Political Communication in the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture and the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. He is the author of the award-winning book Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies, co-editor (with Philip N. Howard) of The Handbook of Internet Politics, and the founding editor of the OUP book series, Oxford Studies
in Digital Politics. http://www.andrewchadwick.com

Reviews

"This is an important book, already cited as seminal in the field of political communication."
-Choice
"...mandatory reading for any scholar of contemporary political communication"
-Political Communication
"...illuminating, reorienting, even analytically liberating."
-Political Science Quarterly
"...dizzyingly multidimensional..."
-Journalism
"...great insights, a highly enjoyable reading experience, and excellent research."
-Public Administration
"Chadwick's measured analytical approach is one of the book's great strengths."
-The International Journal of Press/Politics
"Chadwick approaches media with considerable theoretical nuance and a rigorously empirical sensibility a major contribution to advancing our understanding of media and politics."
-Social Forces
"This is an important and timely book will likely one day be measured by the weight of future scholarship that it inspires."
-Information Polity
"Chadwick's primary aim is to peel away the misbegotten dichotomies shaping so many current debates surrounding contemporary political communication and to present alternative frameworks that go beyond those dichotomies. In that aim, he is extraordinarily successful."
-Media, Culture, & Society
"Big theory for understanding a complex political media environment."
-The Journal of Politics
"...valuable, thought-provoking, and conceptually-compelling."
-Perspectives on Politics
"Having read this, many textbooks feel dated to me now. This volume describes the organization, logic, and function of contemporary media in immediate and engaging terms. It is a must read for all students of media, and interested parties in general."
-Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois Chicago