Media, Politics and Democracy
3rd Edition
Published on 14. May 2021
260 pages
978-1-137-50125-7 (ISBN)
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Description
The third edition of?Media, Politics and Democracy?examines the fraught debate over media influence, who wields it and what effect social and traditional media has on what we think, how we behave, and how we vote. Charting the media conglomerates of old, the alarming rise of the Tech Giants in recent decades, concerns over 'fake news', and the use of social media by political candidates, this book places contemporary anxieties into historical context and compares the response to such issues across different states and societies. Using examples from around the world, Street tackles the changing nature of political communications and brings under scrutiny the question of how a democratic society can function alongside a democratic media.Suitable for students studying?Politics and the Media, Political Communications and other related fields.
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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-137-50125-7 (9781137501257)
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: Representing Politics
- 1. Political Bias
- Examples of media bias
- Bias matters
- Defining bias
- Types of bias
- Detecting bias
- Beyond bias
- Conclusion
- 2. Telling Tales: The Reporting of Politics
- Frames versus biases
- Producing news
- Creating the demand for news
- Genres and the representation of politics
- Telling political stories
- We the people
- Explaining political stories
- Conclusion
- 3. It's Just for Fun: Politics and Entertainment
- Representations of politics
- The politics of the fictional
- Politics as a joke
- Politics as conspiracy
- Entertainment as propaganda
- Entertainment as identity
- Conclusion
- 4. Media Effects
- Early claims of media manipulation
- Researching media's political effects
- Under the influence? Research findings
- Television and voting behaviour
- Social media and their political effects
- Influence beyond the ballot box and beyond the news
- Elite effects
- Media consumption in context
- Conclusion
- Part II: The Political Economy of Media
- 5. State Control and State Propaganda
- Systems of control
- Censorship
- Secrecy
- Propaganda
- Regulation
- Comparing media systems
- Conclusion
- 6. Conglomerate Control: Media Moguls and Media Power
- Media empires
- Does ownership of media conglomerates result in control over media content?
- The power of Rupert Murdoch
- Readers and viewers
- Advertisers
- Reconsidering media power
- Conclusion
- 7. Tech Giants and the Global Webs of Media Power
- The new media emperors
- Media go global
- Before the rise of the giants
- A history of the future
- Webs of power
- Conclusion
- 8. Watchdogs or Lapdogs? The Politics of Journalism
- The manipulative power of spin?
- The rise of churnalism
- The decline of investigative journalism
- Models of journalism
- Journalism in transition
- Conclusion
- Part III: Media and Democracy
- 9. Transforming Political Communication? From Political Marketing to Celebrity Politics
- Marketing politics
- Sales techniques: the elements of political marketing
- The rise of the celebrity politician
- The case of Donald Trump
- From performance to reception
- Celebrity politics and democratic politics
- Conclusion
- 10. Digital Media, Digital Politics?
- Transforming politics? A five-step programme
- Digital democracy or digital dictatorship?
- Conclusion
- 11. Power and Media
- Discursive power
- Access power
- Resource power
- Theories of media power
- Conclusion
- 12. A Free Press? Democracy and Media
- Liberal democracy and the free press
- The value of free speech
- The limits to free speech
- Free press/free market?
- Bias, impartiality and representativeness
- Access
- Journalism
- Public sphere and public service
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
