The studies in this volume conceptualize populism as a type of political communication and investigate it comparatively, focusing on (a) politicians' and journalists' perceptions, (b) media coverage, and (c) effects on citizens. This book presents findings from several large-scale internationally comparative empirical studies, funded by the European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST), focusing on communication and the media within the context of populism and populist political communication in Europe. The studies are based on comparative interview studies with journalists and politicians, a large-scale comparative content analysis, and a comparative cross-country experiment using nationally representative online-surveys over 15 countries. The book also includes advice for stakeholders like politicians, the media, and citizens about how to deal with the challenge of populist political communication. This enlightening volume is 'populist' in the best sense and will be an essential text for any scholar in political science, communication science, media studies, sociology and philosophy with an interest in populism and political communication. It does not assume specialist knowledge and will remain accessible and engaging to students, practitioners and policymakers. Chapter 1 and 12 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138392724_oachapter1.pdf https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138392724_oachapter12.pdf

In an increasing number of countries around the world, populist leaders, political parties and movements have gained prominence and influence, either by electoral successes on their own or by influencing other political parties and the national political discourse. While it is widely acknowledged that the media and the role of communication more broadly are key to understanding the rise and success of populist leaders, parties and movements, there is however very little research on populist political communication, at least in the English-speaking research literature. Originating from a research project funded by the European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST), this book seeks to advance this research. It includes examinations 24 European countries, and focuses on three areas within the context of populism and populist political communication: populist actors as communicators, the media and populism and citizens and populism.

Over time and across Western democracies, the media has become increasingly influential, and a great deal more political processes have become altered, shaped or structured by the media and the perceived need of individuals, organizations and social systems to communicate with or through the media. The key theoretical perspective to understand this process is mediatization. As a long-term process which has increased the importance of the media and their spill-over effects on political processes, institutions, organizations and actors, mediatization is one of the most important processes reshaping politics and transforming democracies across the Western world. While the theoretical perspective of mediatization has become increasingly popular in recent years, scholarly understanding of the mediatization process and its antecedents, consequences and contingencies are still hampered by unresolved questions and a lack of systematic empirical studies. This volume addresses this by bringing together contributions that analyze and investigate different facets of the mediatization of politics, making a significant contribution to our theoretical as well as empirical understanding of this process, and setting the agenda for further research. This book was originally published as two special issues, of Journalism Studies and Journalism Practice.

Comparing Political Journalism is a systematic, in-depth study of the factors that shape and influence political news coverage today. Using techniques drawn from the growing field of comparative political communication, an international group of contributors analyse political news content drawn from newspapers, television news, and news websites from 16 countries, to assess what kinds of media systems are most conducive to producing quality journalism. Underpinned by key conceptual themes, such as the role that the media are expected to play in democracies and quality of coverage, this analysis highlights the fragile balance of news performance in relation to economic forces. A multitude of causal factors are explored to explain key features of contemporary political news coverage, such as Strategy and Game Framing, Negativity, Political Balance, Personalization, Hard and Soft News Comparing Political Journalism offers an unparalleled scope in assessing the implications for the ongoing transformation of Western media systems, and addresses core concepts of central importance to students and scholars of political communication world-wide.

The Handbook of Comparative Communication Research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of comparative communication research. It fills an obvious gap in the literature and offers an extensive and interdisciplinary discussion of the general approach of comparative research, its prospect and problems as well as its applications in crucial sub-fields of communications. The first part of the volume charts the state of the art in the field; the second section introduces relevant areas of communication studies where the comparative approach has been successfully applied in recent years; the third part offers an analytical review of conceptual and methodological issues; and the last section proposes a roadmap for future research.

The Handbook of Comparative Communication Research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of comparative communication research. It fills an obvious gap in the literature and offers an extensive and interdisciplinary discussion of the general approach of comparative research, its prospect and problems as well as its applications in crucial sub-fields of communications. The first part of the volume charts the state of the art in the field; the second section introduces relevant areas of communication studies where the comparative approach has been successfully applied in recent years; the third part offers an analytical review of conceptual and methodological issues; and the last section proposes a roadmap for future research.

This volume assesses state of the art comparative political communication research and considers potential ways in which it could and should develop. Twenty experts from Europe and the United States offer a unique and comprehensive discussion of the theories, cases, and challenges of comparative research in political communication. The first part discusses the fundamental themes, concepts and methods essential to analyze the effects of modernization and globalization of political communication. The second part offers a broad range of case studies that illustrate the enormous potential of cross-national approaches in many relevant fields of political communication. The third part paves the way for future research by describing the most promising concepts and pressing challenges of comparative political communication. This book is intended to introduce new students to a crucial, dynamic field as well as deepening advanced students' knowledge of its principles and perspectives.

This volume assesses state of the art comparative political communication research and considers potential ways in which it could and should develop. Twenty experts from Europe and the United States offer a unique and comprehensive discussion of the theories, cases, and challenges of comparative research in political communication. The first part discusses the fundamental themes, concepts and methods essential to analyze the effects of modernization and globalization of political communication. The second part offers a broad range of case studies that illustrate the enormous potential of cross-national approaches in many relevant fields of political communication. The third part paves the way for future research by describing the most promising concepts and pressing challenges of comparative political communication. This book is intended to introduce new students to a crucial, dynamic field as well as deepening advanced students' knowledge of its principles and perspectives.

Comparing Political Journalism is a systematic, in-depth study of the factors that shape and influence political news coverage today. Using techniques drawn from the growing field of comparative political communication, an international group of contributors analyse political news content drawn from newspapers, television news, and news websites from 16 countries, to assess what kinds of media systems are most conducive to producing quality journalism. Underpinned by key conceptual themes, such as the role that the media are expected to play in democracies and quality of coverage, this analysis highlights the fragile balance of news performance in relation to economic forces. A multitude of causal factors are explored to explain key features of contemporary political news coverage, such as Strategy and Game Framing, Negativity, Political Balance, Personalization, Hard and Soft News Comparing Political Journalism offers an unparalleled scope in assessing the implications for the ongoing transformation of Western media systems, and addresses core concepts of central importance to students and scholars of political communication world-wide.

Over time and across Western democracies, the media has become increasingly influential, and a great deal more political processes have become altered, shaped or structured by the media and the perceived need of individuals, organizations and social systems to communicate with or through the media. The key theoretical perspective to understand this process is mediatization. As a long-term process which has increased the importance of the media and their spill-over effects on political processes, institutions, organizations and actors, mediatization is one of the most important processes reshaping politics and transforming democracies across the Western world. While the theoretical perspective of mediatization has become increasingly popular in recent years, scholarly understanding of the mediatization process and its antecedents, consequences and contingencies are still hampered by unresolved questions and a lack of systematic empirical studies. This volume addresses this by bringing together contributions that analyze and investigate different facets of the mediatization of politics, making a significant contribution to our theoretical as well as empirical understanding of this process, and setting the agenda for further research. This book was originally published as two special issues, of Journalism Studies and Journalism Practice.

Nachdem komparative Ansatze in der Kommunikationswissenschaft lange vernachlassigt wurden, liegt mit diesem Band ein umfassender "State-of-the-Art"-Report der Politischen Kommunikation im internationalen Vergleich vor. Zwanzig Autoren aus Europa und den USA bieten einen systematischen Uberblick uber die wesentlichen Grundlagen, Anwendungsfelder und Perspektiven. Der Band dient sowohl zur Einfuhrung in die Thematik als auch zu deren Vertiefung.

Dieser Band fuhrt einerseits die Publikation "Eskalation durch Berichterstattung" von Brosius und Esser (1995) inhaltlich weiter. Andererseits gehen die Autoren in theoretischer, methodischer und landervergleichender Hinsicht vollig neue Wege und untersuchen funf verschiedene Effekttypen. Der Band zeigt die vielfaltige Bedeutung der Massenmedien fur das soziale Problem der Fremdenfeindlichkeit auf.
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Selten sind Journalisten so massiv mit den moeglichen negativen Konsequenzen ihrer Berichterstattung konfrontiert worden wie bei fremdenfeindlichen Straftaten. Der Umgang der Medien mit dem Thema Auslander und Asylbewerber und vor allem die Darstellung von fremdenfeindlichen Straftaten sind - auch innerhalb des Journalismus - scharf kritisiert worden. Der Band untersucht die Rolle der Medien bei der Verbreitung fremdenfeindlicher Straftaten seit der Wiedervereinigung. Anhand der Entwicklung von Zuwanderungszahlen, Bevoelkerungsmeinungen, Medienberichterstattung und Straftaten entwickeln die Autoren ein Eskalationsmodell der Gewalt. Vor allem die reflexhafte Reaktion des gesamten Mediensystems auf die besonders gewalttrachtigen Schlusselereignisse (Hoyerswerda, Rostock, Moelln und Solingen) hat eine Fulle von Nachahmungstaten hervorgerufen. Es werden Moeglichkeiten und Grenzen eroertert, wie Journalisten mit dem Thema umgehen koennen, ohne zur Verbreitung von Gewalt beizutragen.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Medienpsychologie, Note: 1,0, Universitat zu Koln (Institut fur Psychologie), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Sozialisation durch neue Medien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mit der Verbreitung der Internetnutzung haben sich neue Kommunikationsformen im virtuellen Raum entwickelt, die je nach Typ synchron oder asynchron sind. Bei vielen Menschen haben diese Formen rege Nutzung im Alltag zur Folge. So lost in vielen Fallen die E-Mail den traditionellen Brief ab und Uberseekonferenzen werden nicht langer per Telefon, vielmehr im Chat gefuhrt. Wahrend bei anderen Massenmedien die Rezeption eher passiv erfolgt, haben wir bei der Internetkommunikation aktive Anwender, die zur Konstruktion der medialen Inhalte beitragen. Alle netzbasierten Kommunikationsformen weisen spezielle Merkmale auf. Nach einer allgemeinen Darstellung der verschiedenen Kommunikationsformen der Faktor Anonymitat in der Kommunikationssituation diskutiert, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf den Bereich der Chats gelegt wird. Schwerpunktmassig werden die sprachlichen und nicht-sprachlichen Besonderheiten der Internetkommunikation aus linguistischer Sicht vorgestellt und in ihrer Funktion hinterfragt. Zudem wird der vieldiskutierten Frage nachgegangen, ob Internetkommunikation Isolation zur Folge hat. Es wird versucht, alle Punkte mit anschaulichen Beispielen zu belegen, so dass das Verhaltnis von theoretischen Aspekten und praktischen Anteilen ausgeglichen ist