Mass Media and Political Communication in New Democracies (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science: Vol. 42)

Synopsis

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 quality the reasons and consequences of persisting instrumentalization of the media by political actors the role of the media in election campaigns the way in which the citizens interpret political messages and the extent to which the media influence political attitudes and electoral behaviour the role of the Internet in building a democratic public sphere This book will be of great interest to all those studying and researching democracy and democratization, comparative politics, political communication, journalism, media and the Internet.

Copyright:

2005

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

240 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781134304950

Related ISBNs:

9780415337793, 9780203328668, 9780415459716

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

10/10/22

Copyrighted By:

Routledge

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Communication, Politics and Government

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Katrin Voltmer