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We would like to announce a new in paperback publication from UBC Press, which we hope will be of interest.

[CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 75]Breaking News?
 Politics, Journalism, and Infotainment on Quebec Television
Frédérick Bastien
Translated by Käthe Roth


http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/breaking-news-content

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.
Frédérick Bastien is a researcher of political communication, journalism, and methodology. Previously a professor of public communication at Université Laval, he is now an associate professor of political science at Université de Montréal. He is also associate director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship and a member of the Groupe de recherche en communication politique. He was the lead editor of Les Québécois aux urnes: les partis, les médias et les citoyens en campagne. The French version of this book, published by the Presses de l’Université Laval in 2013, was shortlisted for the Prix francophone from the Canadian Political Science Association and the Canada Prize in Social Sciences from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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UBC Press | Communication, Strategy, and Politics | August 2018 | 236pp | 9780774836838 | Paperback | £24.99*
*Price subject to change.

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