Political communication and social theory - Davis, Aeron; Routledge (London). (London ; New York : Routledge, 2010)
Political Communication and Social Theory presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies. It draws together work from across political communication, media sociology and political sociology, and includes a mix of theoretical debate and current examples from several democratic media systems. Its wide ranging discussions both introduce and contest the traditional scholarship on a number of contemporary topics and issues. At the same time, Political Communication and Social Theory also offers a fascinating investigation of the causes of crisis in established political and media systems. In today’s democracies, trust in politicians, state institutions and mainstream media sources has dropped to new lows. The traditional business model that sustained journalism is failing and nations are struggling to respond to the existing global recession and impending environmental and resource crises. Drawing on interviews with over 100 experienced politicians, journalists and civil servants, Aeron Davis explores how the varied political actors and communicative processes, at the centre of UK democracy, may or may not be contributing to such crisis tendencies. [za Wydawcą]
In search of 'good' democracy: Comparing political and media systems // Citizens, political representation and parliamentary public spheres // Professionalised parties, the electoral mechanism and the new wave of party leaders: The rise of David Cameron // The production of policy and news: Liquid politics and the working cultures of new capitalism // Journalist-source relations, mediated reflexivity and the politics of politics // Celebrity politics, symbolic communication and media capital in the political field // New media and fat democracy: The paradox of online participation // Politics and communication between the national and the global: Determining boundaries and significance of 'international political communication' // Foireign policy-making, war and the disembedding of cosmopolitan elite networks: The case of Iraw 2003 // The 'crisis' of politics and communication in ageing democracies.
Bibliografia strony 164-187.
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Keywords: Komunikacja polityczna; Środki masowego przekazu; Opracowanie