Intimate Politics: Publicity, Privacy and the Personal Lives of Politicians in Media-Saturated Democracies

摘要

The presence of politicians' personal features in the media coverage of politics and the debate about how the media tend to obscure the borders between private and public spheres are not entirely new topics for political communication research, but James Stanyer's book Intimate Politics brings with it two interesting novelties, which simultaneously provide important advances in this area of study. The book contributes to the development of both the conceptualization and the operationalization of these issues.