Dr. Ben Epstein,
Associate Professor of Political Science at DePaul University, guests
to discuss the role of history in understanding contemporary political
communication.
We take a deep dive in Dr. Epstein’s book The Only Constant is Change: Technology, Political Communication, and Innovation over Time, published by Oxford University Press.
Dr.
Epstein explains how the development of newspapers, the radio, and
Internet fundamentally changed political communication practices for
political campagins, social movements, and interest groups. We then
discuss how television and social media were novel technologies for
their time, but did not fundamentally establish new political
communication orders.