Mass media, politics, and democracy /
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| Author / Creator: | Street, John, 1952- |
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001. |
| Description: | ix, 297 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4515867 |
Table of 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
- 9. Transforming Political Communication? The Rise of Political Marketing and Celebrity Politics
- Packaging politics
- Packaging techniques
- Arguing about marketing
- The rise of the celebrity politician
- The critique of celebrity politics
- In defence of celebrity politics
- Judging by appearance
- Politics as media performance
- Conclusion
- 10. New Media, New Politics?
- Transforming politics? A five-step programme
- E-democracy: practice and promises
- The argument for e-democracy
- The argument against e-democracy
- New media and politics
- Conclusion
- 11. Power and Mass Media
- Discursive power
- Access power
- Resource power
- Theories of media power
- Conclusion
- 12. A Free Press: Democracy and Mass Media
- Liberal democracy and the free press
- The value of free speech
- The limits to free speech
- Free press/free market?
- Democratic regulation?
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index