Visual Culture and Public Policy: Towards a visual polity? (Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management)

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Synopsis
Traditionally, images have played an important role in politics and policy making, mostly in relation to propaganda and public communication. However, contemporary society is inundated with visual material due to the increasing ubiquity of media and visual technologies that facilitate the production, distribution and consumption of images in new and innovative ways. As such, a visual culture has emerged, and a number of authors have written on visual culture and the technologies which underlie it. However, a clear link to policy making is still lacking. This books links the emergence of this visual culture to policy making and explores how visual culture (and the growing number of technologies used to create and distribute images) influence the course, content and outcome of public policy making. It examines how visual culture and policy making in contemporary society are intertwined, elaborating concepts such as power, framing and storytelling. It then links this to technology, and the way this can enhance power, transparency, registration, surveillance and communication. Dealing with the entire cycle of public policy making, from agenda-setting, to policy design, decision making to evaluation, the book contains diverse international case studies including water management, risk management, live-stock diseases, minority integration, racism, freedom of speech, healthcare, disaster evaluation and terrorism.
Copyright:
2015

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
244 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317689553
Related ISBNs:
9781138023987, 9781315776132, 9781138497382
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Victor Bekkers, Rebecca Moody
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Language Arts, Communication, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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