How Media Inform Democracy (eBook, PDF)

A Comparative Approach
Redaktion: Aalberg, Toril; Curran, James

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this timely book, leading researchers consider how media inform democracy in six countries - the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. Taking as their starting point the idea that citizens need to be briefed adequately with a full and intelligent coverage of public affairs so that they can make responsible, informed choices rather than act out of ignorance and misinformation, contributors use a comparative approach to examine the way in which the shifting media landscape is affecting and informing the democratic process across the globe. In particular, they ask:

• Can a comparative approach provide us with new answers to the question of how media inform democracy?
• Has increased commercialization made media systems more similar and affected equally the character of news and public knowledge throughout the USA and Europe?
• Is soft news and misinformation predominantly related to an American exceptionalism, based on the market domination of its media and marginalized public broadcaster?

This study combines a content analysis of press and television news with representative surveys in six nations. It makes an indispensable contribution to debates about media and democracy, and about changes in media systems. It is especially useful for media theory, comparative media, and political communication courses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136633829
• Artikelnr.: 38274556

Autorenporträt

Toril Aalberg is Associate Professor of Media Sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. James Curran is Director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre and Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is the author or editor of 20 books about the media, some in conjunction with others. These include Media and Democracy (Routledge, 2011), Media and Society, 5th edition (2010, Bloomsbury), Power Without Responsibility, 7th edition (with Jean Seaton, 2010, Routledge) and Media and Power (2002, Routledge), translated into five languages.

Inhaltsangabe

I: Introduction 1: How Media Inform Democracy: Central Debates
Toril Aalberg and James Curran 2: Research Design
Toril Aalberg
Zan Strabac and Tove Brekken II: How Media Provides Political Information 3: Media Systems and the Political Information Environment. A Cross-National Comparisons
Toril Aalberg
Peter van Aelst and James Curran 4: The Political Information Environment during Election Campaigns
Peter van Aelst
Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud and Toril Aalberg 5: News Substance: The Relative Importance of Soft and De-contextualized News
Tove Brekken
Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud and Toril Aalberg III: How Media Affects Public Knowledge And Perceptions 6: News Content
Media Use and Current Affairs Knowledge
James Curran
Sharon Coen
Toril Aalberg and Shanto Iyengar 7: Media
Political Trust and Political Knowledge: A Comparative Perspective
Kees Aarts
Audun Fladmoe and Jesper Strömbäck 8: Does Knowledge of Hard News go with Knowledge of Soft News? A Cross-National Analysis of the Structure of Public Affairs Knowledge
Kyu S. Hahn
Shanto Iyengar
Peter van Aelst and James Curran 9: Informed Citizens
Media Use and Public Knowledge of Parties Policy Positions
Anders Todal Jenssen
Toril Aalberg and Kees Aarts 10: The Financial Crises as a Global News Event: Cross-National Media Coverage and Public Knowledge of Economic Affairs
Jesper Strömbäck
Anders Todal Jenssen and Toril Aalberg 11: News Consumption and Public Opposition to Immigration across Countries
Zan Strabac
Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud and Anders Todal Jenssen 12: Conclusion
Toril Aalberg and James Curran