基本説明
Covers a broad range of common media and communications topics including: policy and regulation; media production and political economy; media-source relations and elite media management; cultures; ideologies and discourses; mediated politics and political communication; citizenship and mediated mobilizaton; new and alternative media; media audiences and effects.
Full Description
The Mediation of Power investigates how those in positions of power use and are influenced by media in their everyday activities. Each chapter examines this theme through an exploration of some of the key topics and debates in the field, including:
theories of media and power
media policy and the economics of information
news production and journalistic practice
public relations and media management
culture and power
political communication and mediated politics
new and alternative media
interest group communications
media audiences and effects.
The debates are enlivened by first-hand accounts taken from over 200 high-profile interviews with politicians, journalists, public officials, spin doctors, campaigners and captains of industry. Tim Bell, David Blunkett, Iain Duncan Smith, Simon Heffer, David Hill, Simon Hughes, Trevor Kavanagh, Neil Kinnock, Peter Riddell, Polly Toynbee, Michael White and Ann Widdecombe are some of those cited.
Contents
1. Introduction: Critical Engagements with Mediated Power 2. Media Policy: Communications and the Economic Inefficiencies of Market Liberalisation 3. Media Production: Discursive Practices, News Production and the Mobilisation of Bias in Public Discourse 4. Media Management and Public Relations: Public Media, Inter-Elite Conflict and Power 5. Culture, Discourse and Power: The Rediscovery of Elite Culture and Power in Media Studies? 6. Mediated Politics: The Mediation of Parliamentary Politics 7. New and Alternative Media: The Internet and the Parliamentary Public Sphere 8. Interest Groups and Mediated Mobilisation: Communications in the Make Poverty History Campaign (by Nick Sireau and Aeron Davis) 9. Media Audiences and Effects: The Question of the Rational Audience in the London Stock Exchange 10. Conclusions
