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FDU PRESS
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| Consuming Politics: Jon Stewart, Branding, and the Youth Vote in America |
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Author - Dan Cassino and Yasemin Besen-Cassino
Publication Date - November 2009
Number of Pages - 261
ISBN #41453
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Price $54.50 - Price subject to change
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| Description |
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With an ongoing war overseas and the controversies of the Bush years, we might expect the young people of the 2000s to take to the streets as they did in the 1960s to vent their political frustrations at the failures of the political system. But the angry youth just isn't there any more.
In this book, the authors use a combination of methods to understand how young people in the early twenty-first century see the political world, and why they are choosing not to be engaged in it. Special attention is paid to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the one political outlet that young people of all political stripes can agree on. Minimizing academic jargon and translating statistics into plain language, Consuming Politics is accessible to anyone who wants to know what happened to the angry youth and what can be done about it.
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| Author/Editor Biographies |
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Dan Cassino received his Doctorate in Political Science from Stony Brook University in 2005. He subsequently worked at Princeton University before coming to Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research is mainly in political psychology, with an emphasis on how people perceive and evaluate political figures and parties. His work has appeared in Political Psychology and The Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality.
Yasemin Besen-Cassino received her Doctorate in Sociology from Stony Brook University in 2005. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. Her research focuses on young people as well as labor and gender issues and has been featured in journals such as Contexts and The Berkeley Journal of Sociology. She was previously the editor, with Michael S. Kimmel, of The Jessie Bernard Reader, published in 2008.
The couple lives in New Jersey.
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