Bibliograph

Mediatization of politics, understanding the transformation of Western democracies, edited by Frank Esser, Jesper Strömbäck

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Mediatization of politics, understanding the transformation of Western democracies, edited by Frank Esser, Jesper Strömbäck

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mediatization of politics

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

865493583

Responsibility statement

edited by Frank Esser, Jesper Strömbäck

Sub title

understanding the transformation of Western democracies

Summary

"The first book-long analysis of the 'mediatization of politics', this volume aims to understand the transformations of the relationship between media and politics in recent decades, and explores how growing media autonomy, journalistic framing, media populism and new media technologies affect democratic processes. As politics becomes increasingly mediatized, the role of the media becomes more important in political processes, overlaying and subsuming political logic. This affects not only the presentational aspects of politics but, it is feared, also policymaking processes. This may in turn have far-reaching implications as to how well democracy works. Against this background, Mediatization of Politics brings together state-of-the-art chapters written by leading scholars in the field of political communication. It synthesizes relevant concepts and arguments, identifies core components of the mediatization paradigm, and sets the agenda for subsequent work on the changing relationship between media and politics in general, and on the mediatization of politics in particular"--, Provided by publisher

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