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September 13, 2002

COMMUNICATION, SOCIETY AND POLITICS 13:21

Editors
W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington
Robert M. Entman, North Carolina State University

Editorial Advisory Board
Larry M. Bartels, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,
Princeton University
Jay G. Blumer, Emeritus, University of Leeds and University of Maryland
Daniel Dayan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, and
Department of Media & Communications, University of Oslo
DorisA.Graber, Department of Political Science,
University of Illinois at Chicago
Paolo Mancini, Istituto di Studi Sociali, Facolt`a di Scienze Politiche, Universit`a
di Perugia and Scuola di Giornalismo Radiotelevisiv, Perugia
Pippa Norris, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Barbara Pfetsch, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin f¨ur Socialforschung
Philip Schlesinger, Film and Media Studies, University of Stirling
David L. Swanson, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
Gadi Wolfsfeld, Department of Political Science and Department of
Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
John Zaller, University of California, Los Angeles

Politics and relations among individuals in societies across the world are being
transformed by new technologies for targeting individuals and sophisticated
methods for shaping personalized messages. The new technologies challenge
boundaries of many kinds – between news, information, entertainment, and
advertising; between media, with the arrival of the World Wide Web; and even
between nations. Communication, Society and Politics probes the political and
social impacts of these new communication systems in national, comparative,
and global perspective.

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