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This unusual volume seeks to accomplish three related goals: * to
assess the extent and limits of media power in election campaigns *
to extend the concept of media agenda-setting to include the
contributions of powerful news sources in the process of election
agenda formation * to evaluate the impact of national system
variables (differences in political and media systems) on the
balance of party and media forces in the formation of campaign
agendas In the process, it searches for ways of measuring the
discretionary power of the media in electoral politics, testing
this in terms of the relative ability of journalists and
politicians to shape election campaign agendas.
Timely text authored by leading political communication scholars on
the effects of tCovid-19 on political communication. How
governments, journalists, and the public communicate is of interest
within the disciplines of political science, media studies,
communication studies, and journalism.
This unusual volume seeks to accomplish three related goals: * to
assess the extent and limits of media power in election campaigns *
to extend the concept of media agenda-setting to include the
contributions of powerful news sources in the process of election
agenda formation * to evaluate the impact of national system
variables (differences in political and media systems) on the
balance of party and media forces in the formation of campaign
agendas In the process, it searches for ways of measuring the
discretionary power of the media in electoral politics, testing
this in terms of the relative ability of journalists and
politicians to shape election campaign agendas.
Timely text authored by leading political communication scholars on
the effects of tCovid-19 on political communication. How
governments, journalists, and the public communicate is of interest
within the disciplines of political science, media studies,
communication studies, and journalism.
This is an important study of the crucial issue of alternatives in
commercial and public support of broadcasting in the U.S. and
Europe. The Peacock Committee on Financing the BBC, a committee
sponsored by the British government, commissioned Jay Blumler and
Tom Nossiter to investigate the impact of alternate ways of
financing the BBC on the range and quality of broadcasting. They
then commissioned papers on broadcasting financing in the United
States, Canada, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Sweden, Germany,
Australia, New Zealand, and Japan to answer the question: "Should
the BBC allow some commercial support in financing?" This is an
essential collection for broadcast policy-makers and researchers.
Relations between the public and holders of political authority are
in a period of transformative flux. On the one side, new
expectations and meanings of citizenship are being entertained and
occasionally acted upon. On the other, an inexorable impoverishment
of mainstream political communication is taking place. This book
argues that the Internet has the potential to improve public
communications and enrich democracy, a project that requires
imaginative policy-making. This argument is developed through three
stages: first exploring the theoretical foundations for renewing
democratic citizenship, then examining practical case studies of
e-democracy, and finally, reviewing the limitations of recent
policies designed to promote e-democracy and setting out a radical,
but practical proposal for an online civic commons: a trusted
public space where the dispersed energies, self-articulations and
aspirations of citizens can be rehearsed, in public, within a
process of ongoing feedback to the various levels and centers of
governance: local, national and transnational.
How does news circulate in a major post-industrial city? And how in
turn are identities and differences formed and mediated through
this circulation? This seminal work is the first to offer an
empirical examination, and trace a city's pattern of, news
circulation. Encompassing a comprehensive range of practices
involved in producing, circulating and consuming 'news' and
recognizing the various ways in which individuals and groups may
find out, follow and discuss local issues and events, The Mediated
City critiques thinking that takes the centrality of certain news
media as an unquestioned starting point. By doing so, it opens up a
discussion: do we know what news is? What types of media constitute
it? And why does it matter?
The chapters in this volume provide an excellent overview of the
diversity of comparative mass communication research being
conducted today. --Contemporary Sociology "Obviously, a "review"
cannot do justice to the depth of analysis reflected in each of the
individual exemplars. What this review can do, however, is to
assure potential readers that Comparatively Speaking generates
questions that should stimulate discussion among scholars. The
editors encourage other explorations of comparative research and,
indeed in their final chapter offer directions for future research.
Whether the questions raised focus on theory or methods,
Comparatively Speaking will no doubt prove useful to scholars with
various emphases in communication studies. The editors should be
commended for their quest to help generate at body of literature
directly connected to comparative research. And, the individual
authors should be commended for engaging in research that directly
relates to broader societal issues. This text will answer some
questions, but more importantly, it will raise questions, which
ultimately will stimulate discussion in this most important avenue
of research. Overall, this text most certainly provides the
groundwork for a generative approach to comparative studies."
--Jeanine Congalton, California State University, Fullerton
Comparative research challenges preconceptions about the universal
applicability of communication theories. By opening our eyes to
communication patterns and problems that may go unnoticed if
considering only one time or one place, comparative research forces
us to define boundaries of application for these theories. With a
wider awareness encouraged by this volume, we can explicitly or
implicitly construct larger scale theories within which variations
in time, space, and culture contribute. Inspired by the 1989
International Communication Association Conference, Comparatively
Speaking both demonstrates how comparative research can be done
successfully and provides a variety of analytical structures useful
for research and teaching. Exemplar chapters span the range of
communication research, from nonverbal expectancies to the
economics of media industries--across levels of analysis, and over
historical and individual-developmental time. Comparatively
Speaking presents the benefits, pitfalls, and trade-offs of
comparative research with wit and precision. Scholars and
professionals from popular culture, sociology, political science,
and all branches of communication will be stimulated to analyze
varying exemplars against each other using the analytic structures
of the editors and of the critics of comparative research.
Relations between the public and holders of political authority are
in a period of transformative flux. On the one side, new
expectations and meanings of citizenship are being entertained and
occasionally acted upon. On the other, an inexorable impoverishment
of mainstream political communication is taking place. This book
argues that the Internet has the potential to improve public
communications and enrich democracy, a project that requires
imaginative policy-making. This argument is developed through three
stages: first exploring the theoretical foundations for renewing
democratic citizenship, then examining practical case studies of
e-democracy, and finally, reviewing the limitations of recent
policies designed to promote e-democracy and setting out a radical,
but practical proposal for an online civic commons: a trusted
public space where the dispersed energies, self-articulations and
aspirations of citizens can be rehearsed, in public, within a
process of ongoing feedback to the various levels and centers of
governance: local, national and transnational.
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