The public in political communication. Its function; antecedents and consequences

Jay G. Blumler, Universidad de Oxford

Doctor in Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford (1962). In 1963 he joined the University of Leeds, where he was director of the Center for Research in TV until his retirement (1989). Professor emeritus at the University of Leeds and the American University of Maryland.
He is a board member of the International Communication Association; honorary chairman of the Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group; consultant to the Broadcasting Standards Commission; member of the Scientific Council of the European Institute for the Media and the Advisory Panel of the Hansard Society's e-Democracy Programme.
Among his publications are The Uses of Mass Communications (Sage, London, 1974); Communicating to Voters (Sage, London, 1983); and The Crisis of Public Communication (with Dennis Kavanagh and Michael Gurevitch), Routledge, London, 1995.