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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Representing Politics -- 1 Political Bias -- Why does bias matter? -- Defining bias -- Types of bias -- The Bad News studies -- Manufacturing Consent -- Critiques of bias research -- Constructing reality? -- Conclusion -- 2 Telling Tales: The Reporting of Politics -- Frames versus biases -- Producing news -- Genres and political coverage -- Telling political stories -- We the people -- Explaining political stories -- Conclusion -- 3 It's Just for Fun: Politics and Entertainment -- Political satire: politics as deluded and corrupt -- Politics as conspiracy -- Entertainment as propaganda -- The politics of identity: from soap opera to sport -- Conclusion -- 4 Media Effects -- Seeing is believing? -- Under the influence? -- Press and voting behaviour -- Television and voting behaviour -- Influence beyond the ballot box -- Elite effects -- Media consumption in context -- Conclusion -- Part II: The Political Economy of Mass 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 -- Ownership and control -- The power of Rupert Murdoch -- Readers and viewers -- Advertisers -- Reconsidering media power -- Conclusion -- 7 Watchdogs or Lapdogs? The Politics of Journalism -- The power of the spin doctor? -- The rise of churnalism -- Investigative journalism and the 'dumbing down' of news -- Models of journalism -- Conclusion -- 8 Dream Worlds: Globalization and the Webs of Power -- Global players -- A history of the future -- Globalization or internationalization? -- Conglomerates, governments and identities -- Conclusion -- Part III: Mass Media and Democracy.

Cover -- 1. Introduction: Politics and Mass Media -- 1.1. Setting the Stage -- 1.2. What this Thesis Addresses -- 1.3. Outline of the Thesis -- 2. Mediatization of Politics: Literature, Concepts, and Context -- 2.1. Mediation: The Mass Media as a Channel of Information -- 2.1.1. Political Communication in a Mediated Society -- 2.1.2. Mediation: The Media as a Neutral Channel? -- 2.2. Mediatization: The Mass Media as an Institutional Actor -- 2.2.1. Logics of the Mass Media -- 2.2.2. Logics of Politics -- 2.2.3. Globalization, Mediatization and Policy Decision-Making Processes -- 2.3. Context: The Political and the Media Systems in Switzerland -- 2.3.1. The Swiss Political System: Decision-Making Structures and Processes -- 2.3.1.1. Political Decision-Making Structures -- 2.3.1.1.1. The Government: Executive Power Sharing -- 2.3.1.1.2. The Parliament: Bicameralism and Multiple Parties -- 2.3.1.1.3. Polarization in a Multi-Party System -- 2.3.1.2. The Political Decision-Making Process -- 2.3.2. The Media System in Switzerland -- 2.3.2.1. Structural Aspects of the Media System in Switzerland -- 2.3.2.2. Transformation of the Swiss Media System -- 2.4. Summary: Mediatization in Switzerland? -- 3. Research Design: Analyzing the Mediatization of Political Decision-Making -- 3.1. Mediatization of Media Content and Political Actors -- 3.1.1. Mediatization and Media Effects Research -- 3.1.2. Mediatization and Level and Types of Political Conflict -- 3.2. Expectations for the Mediatization of Media Content -- 3.2.1. Expectations for the Coverage of Political Conflict -- 3.2.2. Expectations for the Coverage of Political Actors -- 3.2.2.1. Members of the Government and Members of Parliament -- 3.2.2.2. Center-Right and Pole Parties -- 3.2.2.3. Party Leaders, Committee Members, Seniority.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Then and Now: Comparative POV on Activist Media, by John D. H. Downing -- Introduction: InsUrgent Projections, by Chris Robé and Stephen Charbonneau -- I. US Radical Histories -- 1. Men and Dust, Labor Advocacy, and Alternative Film Distribution, 1939-1942 / Tanya Goldman -- 2. Subjugated Histories as Affective Resistance: US Abortion Documentaries, Middle-Class Resistance, and Botched Political Subjectivity / Angela Aguayo -- 3. Setting the Terms of Our Own Visibility: A Conversation between Sam Feder and Alexandra Juhasz on Trans Activist Media in the United States / Sam Feder and Alexandra Juhasz -- 4. Seeing What the Patrimony Didn't Save: Alternative Stewardship of the Activist Media Archive-A Conversation between Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr / Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr -- II. Indigenous Resistances and Indigenous Issues in Canada, the United States, and Australia -- 5. Coming to the Fire: Collaboration across Cultures in Media Activism / Sam Burch, Lisa Gye, Kristy-Lee Horswood, Daniel Marcus, and Oliver Vodeb -- 6. The Program(ming) Is Political: Documentary, Festivals, and the Politics of Programming / Ezra Winton -- 7. Mobilizing with Video in the Extractive Zone / Dorothy Kidd -- 8. Idle No More as Digital Nation / Kristi Kouchakji and Jason W. Buel -- 9. Letting It Seep In: Ojibwe Filmmaking Duo Adam and Zack Khalil Discuss Political Filmmaking as Covert Ops / Ezra Winton -- III. Community Media in the Americas and Asia -- 10. Media Activism through Community: A Case Study of Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources / Ruth Goldman -- 11. Community Organizing and Media Activism: The Case of v-artivist in Hong Kong / Chun Chun Ting -- 12. WhatsApp Messaging and Murder in Mexico / Kara Andrade.

European Mediaprovides a clear, concise account of the structures, dynamics and realities of the changing face of media in Europe. It offers a timely and illuminating appraisal of the issues surrounding the development of new media in Europe and explores debates about the role of the media in the formation of a European public sphere and a European identity. The book argues that Europe offers an ideal context for examining interactions between global, regional and national media processes and its individual chapters consider: the changing structure of the European media; the development of new media; the Europeanization of the media in the region; the challenges for the content; and audiences. Special emphasis is given to the transformation of political communication in Europe and the alleged emergence of a European public sphere and identity. European Media: Structures, Politics and Identityis an invaluable text for courses on media and international studies as well as courses dealing with European and national policy studies. It is also helpful to students, researchers and professionals in the media sector since it combines hard facts with theoretical insight.

People's perceptions of the attitudes and experiences of mass collectives are an increasingly important force in contemporary political life. In Impersonal Influence, Mutz goes beyond simply providing examples of how impersonal influence matters in the political process to provide a micro-level understanding of why information about distant and impersonal others often influence people's political attitudes and behaviors. Impersonal Influence is worthy of attention both from the standpoint of its impact on contemporary politics, and because of its potential to expand the boundaries of our understanding of social influence processes, and media's relation to them. The book's conclusions do not exonerate media from the effects of inaccurate portrayals of collective experience or opinion, but they suggest that the ways in which people are influenced by these perceptions are in themselves, not so much deleterious to democracy as absolutely necessary to promoting accountability in a large scale society

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- 1 Target Audience for the Toolkit -- 2 Media Development: A Key Part of Governance Reform -- 3 Grasping the Fundamentals: Building Blocks of an Independent Media Sector -- 4 From Assessment to Program Concept: Political Economy Analysis -- 5 From Concept to Design: Putting the Program Together -- 6 Other Factors to Consider -- 7 Monitoring and Evaluation: Finding What Works -- 8 Practical Considerations for Donors: Getting the Work Done -- 9 Resources -- Appendix A. Sample Assessment Questions -- Appendix B. Sample Indicators for Media Development Programs -- Appendix C. Sample Terms of Reference for Media Development Consultant -- Index -- Boxes -- 4.1. Priorities and Sequencing -- 4.2. Sample Optimal Programs for Media Reform -- 5.1. Building Media Infrastructure: Keep in Mind -- 5.2. Media Literacy: Keep in Mind -- 5.3. Professional Skills: Keep in Mind -- 5.4. Enabling Environment: Keep in Mind -- 5.5. Sustainability: Keep in Mind -- 6.1. Conflict and Postconflict Environments: Keep in Mind -- 6.2. Anticipating Change: Keep in Mind -- 8.1. Getting the Work Done: Keep in Mind -- Figures -- 4.1. Analytical Steps -- 4.2. Sample Stakeholder Map: Media Reform -- Tables -- 5.1. Permissive Environment: Program Components -- 5.2. Semi-Permissive Environments: Program Components -- 5.3. Nonpermissive Environments: Program Components.

Using a comparative approach, this book examines how political communication and the mass media have played an important role in the consolidation of democratic institutions.

The article attempts to show how the role of the mass media is changing in the field of politics today: it is no longer the institution that informs society or provides us with values and norms of behaviour and understanding, but itself becomes a political and ideological agent that exists in parallel with the political parties, competes with them and attempts to replace them in the political field. In modern society, the ideological expansion is only possible as media expansion. For this reason political parties or their ideologies compete today not only among themselves, but are also forced to compete with the mass media as a political power with an ideology of its own. Although it is hard to define (which is characteristic of the political structure of postmodern times), it influence on the society, its preferences in politics, and its choices of values is intensive and effective. As the mass media perceives its power and its new political and ideological opportunities, in the near future we will be forced to put up with it not only as the structure organising the flow of information, but also as an independent political agent with its own political interest, organization structure and interests directed at the processes of political decision- making, and not at the elucidation of those processes via the channels of information. In this way the mass media is changing and turning from a structure that represents the views and positions of the public into a structure that represents public interest in relation to power. It is becoming the key instrument in the organisation of political life and rendering meaning to it. At the same time the activity of the mass media arrests and paralyses the activity of the individual. People could themselves find out what the mass media provides, but at a considerably higher cost in time, energy and money. Thus the mass media deprives us of the will to learn and act independently. [.]

The article attempts to show how the role of the mass media is changing in the field of politics today: it is no longer the institution that informs society or provides us with values and norms of behaviour and understanding, but itself becomes a political and ideological agent that exists in parallel with the political parties, competes with them and attempts to replace them in the political field. In modern society, the ideological expansion is only possible as media expansion. For this reason political parties or their ideologies compete today not only among themselves, but are also forced to compete with the mass media as a political power with an ideology of its own. Although it is hard to define (which is characteristic of the political structure of postmodern times), it influence on the society, its preferences in politics, and its choices of values is intensive and effective. As the mass media perceives its power and its new political and ideological opportunities, in the near future we will be forced to put up with it not only as the structure organising the flow of information, but also as an independent political agent with its own political interest, organization structure and interests directed at the processes of political decision- making, and not at the elucidation of those processes via the channels of information. In this way the mass media is changing and turning from a structure that represents the views and positions of the public into a structure that represents public interest in relation to power. It is becoming the key instrument in the organisation of political life and rendering meaning to it. At the same time the activity of the mass media arrests and paralyses the activity of the individual. People could themselves find out what the mass media provides, but at a considerably higher cost in time, energy and money. Thus the mass media deprives us of the will to learn and act independently. [.]

The article attempts to show how the role of the mass media is changing in the field of politics today: it is no longer the institution that informs society or provides us with values and norms of behaviour and understanding, but itself becomes a political and ideological agent that exists in parallel with the political parties, competes with them and attempts to replace them in the political field. In modern society, the ideological expansion is only possible as media expansion. For this reason political parties or their ideologies compete today not only among themselves, but are also forced to compete with the mass media as a political power with an ideology of its own. Although it is hard to define (which is characteristic of the political structure of postmodern times), it influence on the society, its preferences in politics, and its choices of values is intensive and effective. As the mass media perceives its power and its new political and ideological opportunities, in the near future we will be forced to put up with it not only as the structure organising the flow of information, but also as an independent political agent with its own political interest, organization structure and interests directed at the processes of political decision- making, and not at the elucidation of those processes via the channels of information. In this way the mass media is changing and turning from a structure that represents the views and positions of the public into a structure that represents public interest in relation to power. It is becoming the key instrument in the organisation of political life and rendering meaning to it. At the same time the activity of the mass media arrests and paralyses the activity of the individual. People could themselves find out what the mass media provides, but at a considerably higher cost in time, energy and money. Thus the mass media deprives us of the will to learn and act independently. [.]

"It is widely recognised that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the media to set the agenda for political discourse, propagate official policies, monitor public opinion, and rally regime support. State agencies in China control the full spectrum of media programming, either through ownership or the power to regulate. Political Communication in China examines the two factors which have contributed to the rapid development of media infrastructure in China: technology and commercialization. Economic development led to technological advancement, which in turn brought about the rapid modernization of all forms of communication, from 'old' media such as television to the Internet, cell phones, and satellite communications. This volume examines how these recent developments have affected the relationship between the CCP and the mass media as well as the implications of this evolving relationship for understanding Chinese citizens' media use, political attitudes, and behaviour. The chapters in this book represent a diverse range of research methods, from surveys, content analysis, and field interviews to the manipulation of aggregate statistical data. The result is a lively debate which creates many opportunities for future research into the fundamental question of convergence between political and media regimes. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Political Communication."--Publisher's website

It is in Mauritius that the first newspaper of the African continent was published. Annonces, Affiches et Avis Divers was created in 1773 by the French administration for the islands of Mauritius and Reunion. Since its independence from Britain in 1968, Mauritius has known a very rich media history with an impressive number of publications and a relatively good level of press freedom. However, many challenges remain. Confrontational episodes in the relationship of the local media with the political sphere, the rise of sensationalist journalism, increased concentration of ownership in the industry as well as market uncertainties have taken their toll on a profession which often prides itself in the defence of freedom of speech and democracy. The media conference jointly organised by UNESCO and the University of Mauritius in 2010 offered a singular opportunity � the first time ever in Mauritius � for media practitioners, regulators, lawyers, politicians, academics and civil society to discuss the state of the media as part of the country�s democratic systems. Media roles and functions, the legal and regulatory framework, self-regulation, market issues and new trends such as citizen journalism were thoroughly examined. This book brings together papers and conclusions from that conference. Whilst much ground has been covered especially since the emergence of private radio stations, much still needs to be done to move towards a true media democracy. The book points to media governance, access to information, training of and professionalism among media practitioners as areas of unfinished business. This is an invaluable contribution to on-going debates about press regulation, liberalisation of electronic media, new forms of journalism, continuous training and professionalization in Mauritius.