Dhavan V. Shah

Battleground models Wisconsin's contentious political communication ecology: the way that politics, social life, and communication intersect and create conditions of polarization and democratic decline. Drawing from 10 years of interviews, news and social media content, and state-wide surveys, we combine qualitative and computational analysis with time-series and multi-level modeling to study this hybrid communication system – an approach that yields unique insights about nationalization, social structure, conventional discourses, and the lifeworld. We explore these concepts through case studies of immigration, healthcare, and economic development, concluding that despite nationalization, distinct state-level effects vary by issue as partisan actors exert their discursive power.

Did media coverage contribute to Americans' tendency to favor national security over civil liberties following the 9/11 attacks? How did news framing of terrorist threats support the expanding surveillance state revealed by Edward Snowden? Douglas M. McLeod and Dhavan V. Shah explore the power of news coverage to render targeted groups suspicious and to spur support for government surveillance. They argue that the tendency of journalists to frame stories around individual targets of surveillance - personifying the domestic threat - shapes citizens' judgments about tolerance and participation, leading them to limit the civil liberties of a range of groups under scrutiny and to support 'Big Brother'.

1 Communication, Consumers, and Citizens: Revisiting the Politics of ConsumptionDhavan V. Shah, Lewis A. Friedland, Chris Wells, Young Mie Kim, and Hernando Rojas2 The Personalization of Politics: Political Identity, Social Media, and Changing Patterns of ParticipationW. Lance Bennett3 The Politics of Consumer Debt: U.S. State Policy and the Rise of Investment in Consumer Credit, 1920-2008Louis Hyman4 Working-Class Cast: Images of the Working Class in Advertising, 1950-2010Erika L. Paulson and Thomas C. O'Guinn5 What Does It Mean to Be a Good Citizen? Citizenship Vocabularies as Resources for ActionKjerstin Thorson6 Sustainable Citizenship and the New Politics of ConsumptionMichele Micheletti and Dietlind Stolle7 Political Consumerism and New Forms of Political Participation: The Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale in ItalyPaolo R. Graziano and Francesca Forno8 Gender and Generation in the Social Positioning of TasteNam-Jin Lee, Christine L. Garlough, Lewis A. Friedland, and Dhavan V. Shah9 The Shifting Sands of Citizenship: Toward a Model of the Citizenry in Life PoliticsYoung Mie Kim10 Does Changing a Light Bulb Lead to Changing the World? Political Action and the Conscious ConsumerMargaret M. Willis and Juliet B. Schor11 Buying In to Social Change: How Private Consumption Choices Engender Concern for the CollectiveLucy Atkinson12 From Concerned Shopper to Dutiful Citizen: Implications of Individual and Collective Orientations toward Political ConsumerismMelissa R. Gotlieb and Chris Wells13 Examining Overconsumption, Competitive Consumption, and Conscious Consumption from 1994 to 2004: Disentangling Cohort and Period EffectsD. Jasun Carr, Melissa R. Gotlieb, Nam-Jin Lee, and Dhavan V. Shah14 Constructing Sustainable Consumption: From Ethical Values to the Cultural Transformation of Unsustainable MarketsDouglas B. Holt15 The Civic Consequences of "Going Negative" Attack Ads and Adolescents' Knowledge, Consumption, and ParticipationMing Wang, Itay Gabay, and Dhavan V. Shah16 Between Complacency and Paternalism: Ethical Controversies over Influencing Political and Consumer ChoiceThomas Hove17 Consuming Ourselves to Dearth: Escalating Inequality and Public OpinionLewis A. Friedland, Hernando Rojas, and Leticia Bode