Media, Politics and Democracy

ISBN-13: 9781137501240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 260 str.

John Street

Opis

This third edition 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.

Spis treści

Introduction.- PART I: REPRESENTING POLITICS.- Political Bias.- Telling Tales: The Reporting of Politics.- It's Just for Fun: Politics and Entertainment.- Media Effects.- PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MASS MEDIA.- State Control and State Propaganda.- Conglomerate Control: Media Moguls and Media Power.- Tech Giants and the Global Webs of Media Power.- Watchdogs or Lapdogs? The Politics of Journalism.- PART III: MASS MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY.- Transforming Political Communication? From Political Marketing to Celebrity Politics.- Digital Media, Digital Politics?.- Power and Mass Media.- A Free Press: Democracy and Mass Media.- Conclusion.

O autorze

John Street is a Professor of Politics at the University of East Anglia, UK. He has written extensively about the relationship between political communication, media and popular culture.

Blurb

Politics and media are so closely connected that it is impossible to think of one without the other. From arguments of bias and impartiality in news coverage, to how entertainment – whether Game of Thrones or The Thick of It – shapes our perception of the world and its political structures, it is clear that we cannot understand politics without media, or media without politics.

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.