Media, Politics and Democracy
Description
This text provides a broad-ranging analysis of the relationship between the media and politics. Systematically revised, this third edition embeds coverage of digital and social media throughout, questioning whether we can still plausibly speak of 'mass media', and includes substantial coverage of the emerging mediatization of politics perspective.
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John Street is a Professor of Politics at the University of East Anglia, UK. He has written extensively about the relationship between political communication, media and popular culture.
Content
Introduction.- PART I: REPRESENTING POLITICS.- Political Bias.- Telling Tales: The Reporting of Politics.- It's Just for Fun: Politics and Entertainment.- Media Effects.- PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MASS MEDIA.- State Control and State Propaganda.- Conglomerate Control: Media Moguls and Media Power.- Tech Giants and the Global Webs of Media Power.- Watchdogs or Lapdogs? The Politics of Journalism.- PART III: MASS MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY.- Transforming Political Communication? From Political Marketing to Celebrity Politics.- Digital Media, Digital Politics?.- Power and Mass Media.- A Free Press: Democracy and Mass Media.- Conclusion.