Mass Media, Politics and Democracy

2nd Edition

By: John Street

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Paperback | 9 December 2010 | Edition Number 2

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This widely used and popular text provides a broad-ranging analysis of the relationship between the media and politics, covering the representation of politics in the media, the political impact of the media, the regulation of the media and the current and potential place of mass media in democratic societies. Systematically revised and updated throughout, the new second edition is even more international in scope and includes substantial coverage of the mediatization of politics; of E-politics and governance; of current debates on media effects and framing; of the impact of reality TV and of issues raised by the reporting of war in Iraq.

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JOHN STREET is Professor of Politics, University of East Anglia, UK.

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Praise for the first edition: 'Stylish, readable and packed with telling examples from around the world, Mass Media, Politics and Democracy is wide-ranging in its coverage of different media and genres. In a world obscured by spin, soundbites and multivarious political conflict, John Street is an illuminating - and often entertaining - guide.' - Professor Douglas Kellner, UCLA

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Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Representing Politics
Political Bias	p. 21
Why does bias matter?	p. 24
Defining bias	p. 26
Types of bias	p. 29
The Bad News studies	p. 36
Manufacturing Consent	p. 40
Critiques of bias research	p. 42
Constructing reality?	p. 44
Conclusion	p. 46
Telling Tales: The Reporting of Politics	p. 49
Frames versus biases	p. 50
Producing news	p. 52
Genres and political coverage	p. 58
Telling political stories	p. 62
We the people	p. 69
Explaining political stories	p. 73
Conclusion	p. 75
It's Just for Fun: Politics and Entertainment	p. 77
Political satire: politics as deluded and corrupt	p. 81
Politics as conspiracy	p. 90
Entertainment as propaganda	p. 93
The politics of identity: from soap opera to sport	p. 95
Conclusion	p. 99
Media Effects	p. 101
Seeing is believing?	p. 105
Under the influence?	p. 107
Press and voting behaviour	p. 108
Television and voting behaviour	p. 112
Influence beyond the ballot box	p. 113
Elite effects	p. 118
Media consumption in context	p. 120
Conclusion	p. 127
The Political Economy of Mass Media
State Control and State Propaganda	p. 131
Systems of control	p. 133
Censorship	p. 135
Secrecy	p. 139
Propaganda	p. 140
Regulation	p. 146
Comparing media systems	p. 153
Conclusion	p. 157
Conglomerate Control: Media Moguls and Media Power	p. 159
Media empires	p. 161
Ownership and control	p. 167
The power of Rupert Murdoch	p. 167
Readers and viewers	p. 175
Advertisers	p. 177
Reconsidering media power	p. 180
Conclusion	p. 183
Watchdogs or Lapdogs? The Politics of Journalism	p. 185
The power of the spin doctor?	p. 187
The rise of churnalism	p. 191
Investigative journalism and the 'dumbing down' of news	p. 192
Models of journalism	p. 195
Conclusion	p. 206
Dream Worlds: Globalization and the Webs of Power	p. 209
Global players	p. 211
A history of the future	p. 213
Globalization or internationalization?	p. 218
Conglomerates, governments and identities	p. 220
Conclusion	p. 230
Mass Media and Democracy
Transforming Political Communication? The Rise of Political Marketing and Celebrity Politics	p. 235
Packaging politics	p. 237
Packaging techniques	p. 239
Arguing about marketing	p. 242
The rise of the celebrity politician	p. 244
The critique of celebrity politics	p. 248
In defence of celebrity politics	p. 250
Judging by appearance	p. 254
Politics as media performance	p. 256
Conclusion	p. 260
New Media, New Politics?	p. 261
Transforming politics? A five-step programme	p. 262
E-democracy: practice and promises	p. 265
The argument for e-democracy	p. 270
The argument against e-democracy	p. 271
New media and politics	p. 273
Conclusion	p. 282
Power and Mass Media	p. 283
Discursive power	p. 285
Access power	p. 287
Resource power	p. 288
Theories of media power	p. 289
Conclusion	p. 301
A Free Press: Democracy and Mass Media	p. 303
Liberal democracy and the free press	p. 305
The value of free speech	p. 308
The limits to free speech	p. 309
Free press/free market?	p. 311
Democratic regulation?	p. 315
Conclusion	p. 327
Conclusion	p. 329
Bibliography	p. 335
Index	p. 369
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