Mass Media and Political Communication in New Democracies e-bog
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This book examines how political communication and the mass media have played a central role in the consolidation of emerging democracies around the world.Covering a broad range of political and cultural contexts, including Eastern and Southern Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, this new volume investigates the problems and conflicts arising in the process of establishing an independent me...
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473,39 DKK
Forlag
Routledge
Udgivet
2 august 2004
Længde
240 sider
Genrer
Political structures: democracy
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781134304967
This book examines how political communication and the mass media have played a central role in the consolidation of emerging democracies around the world.Covering a broad range of political and cultural contexts, including Eastern and Southern Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, this new volume investigates the problems and conflicts arising in the process of establishing an independent media and competitive politics in post-autocratic societies. Considering the changing dynamic in the relationship between political actors, the media and their audience, the authors of this volume address the following issues:changing journalistic role perceptions and journalistic qualitythe reasons and consequences of persisting instrumentalization of the media by political actorsthe role of the media in election campaignsthe way in which the citizens interpret political messages and the extent to which the media influence political attitudes and electoral behaviourthe role of the Internet in building a democratic public sphereThis book will be of great interest to all those studying and researching democracy and democratization, comparative politics, political communication, journalism, media and the Internet.