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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415337798 ISBN 13: 9780415337793

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

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.

About this title

About the Author

Katrin Voltmer is Senior Lecturer of Political Communication at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415337798
• ISBN 13: 9780415337793
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Voltmer Katrin