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The 2007 Doris Graber Book Award
Joseph N. Cappella and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, both professors in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, won the 2007 Doris Graber Book Award for the best book published in the field of political communication in the past ten years. They received the award for Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good (Oxford University Press, 1997).
In this book, Cappella and Jamieson develop a theoretical framework for studying how media framing, particularly strategy framing, activates political cynicism among the public. The authors draw on laboratory experiments and an innovative field experiment to test a range of hypotheses about the consequences of news frames that focus on the game of politics. Their results provide rich insights—and raise troubling questions—about the political role of the news media. The book has exerted a major impact on subsequent research, as evidenced by the hundreds of citations that it has received.
The members of the 2007 committee for the Graber Award were Paul Brewer (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Beth Leech (Rutgers University), and Kate Kenski (University of Arizona).
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