Author : Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135168024
This book explores the extent and circumstances under which the media affects public policy; and whether the political impact of the media is confined to the public representation of politics or whether their influence goes further to also affect the substance of political decisions.
Author : Des Freedman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745657214
The Politics of Media Policy provides a critical perspective on the dynamics of media policy in the US and UK and offers a comprehensive guide to some of the major points of debate in the media today. While many policymakers boast of the openness and pluralism of their media systems, this book exposes the commitment to market principles that saturates the media policy environment and distorts the development and application of democratic media policies. Based on interviews with dozens of politicians, regulators, special advisers, lobbyists and campaigners, The Politics of Media Policy considers how governments, civil servants and media corporations have shaped the drawing up of rules concerning a range of issues including: Media ownership Media content Public broadcasting Digital television Copyright Trade agreements affecting the media industries. The book identifies both the institutions and the arguments that dominate the development of these crucial media policies. It will be of interest to public policy and media professionals, researchers, activists and students indeed all those determined to understand and respond to the impact of neo-liberalism on the contemporary world.
Author : Maxwell McCombs
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745637132
Setting the Agenda describes the mass media’s significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action. Although Walter Lippman captured the essence of the media’s powerful influence early in the last century with his phrase, “the world outside and the pictures in our heads,” a detailed, empirical elaboration of this agenda-setting role of the mass media did not begin until the final quarter of the 20th century. In this comprehensive book, Maxwell McCombs, one of the founding fathers of agenda-setting tradition of research, synthesizes the hundreds of scientific studies carried out on this central role of the mass media in the shaping of public opinion. Across the world, the mass media strongly influences what the pictures of public affairs "in our heads" are about. The mass media also influences the very details of those pictures. In addition to describing this media influence on what we think about and how we think about it, Setting the Agenda also discusses the sources of these media agendas, the psychological explanation for their impact on the public agenda, and the subsequent consequences for attitudes, opinions and behaviour.
Author : Dr Caroline Kamau
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1472404343
Public policy thinking and implementation is both a process of intellectual thought and rationale for governing. This book examines public policy and the influence news media organizations have in the production and implementation of public policy. Part I assesses the impact of political philosophy on public policy thinking and further discusses the meaning of public policy in social democratic systems. It uses the riots that occurred across England in the summer of 2011 as a case-study to focus on how the idea of the ‘Big Society’ was regenerated by government and used as a basis for public policy thinking. Finally, it investigates how media organizations form news representations of public policy issues that seek to contextualize and reshape policy manufactured for public consumption. Part II provides a psychological exploration of the processes which explain the connection between the media, the public and policy-makers. Does the ‘common good’ really drive public policy-making, or can group processes better explain what policy-makers decide? This second part of the book explores how media workers’ professional identities and practices shape their decisions about how to represent policy news. It also shows how the public identities and corporate interests of media organizations shape their role as referees of public policy-making and how all this culminates in faulty decision-making about how to represent policy news, polarization in public opinion about particular policies, and shifts in policy-makers’ decisions.
Author : David Protess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134963718
The role of the news media in defining the important issues of the day, also known as the agenda-setting influence of mass communication, has received widespread attention over the past 20 years. Since the publication of McCombs and Shaw's seminal empirical study, more than one hundred journal articles and monographs have appeared. This collection exemplifies the major phases of research on agenda-setting: tests of the basic hypothesis, contingent conditions affecting the strength of this influence, the natural history of public issues, mass media influence on public policy, and the role of external sources from the president to public relations staffs on the news agenda.
Author : Stuart N. Soroka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108491340
A large-scale empirical investigation into the frequency and accuracy of media coverage of public policy.
Author : Judith Lichtenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521388177
These essays discuss US policy in regulating the media and the reconciliation of the First Amendment.
Author : Carl R. Ramey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780742555709
Looks at the transformation of government policy since 1980 that has lead to changes in electronic media. The author argues that Washington policymakers must scrap the old regulatory system and write a new policy script designed to guarantee a broadcast service that is free, and dedicated to serving Americans as citizens, not just as consumers.
Author : Econometric Society. World Congress
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2013-05-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107016045
The first volume of edited papers from the Tenth World Congress of the Econometric Society 2010.
Author : Amber E. Boydstun
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 022606560X
Media attention can play a profound role in whether or not officials act on a policy issue, but how policy issues make the news in the first place has remained a puzzle. Why do some issues go viral and then just as quickly fall off the radar? How is it that the media can sustain public interest for months in a complex story like negotiations over Obamacare while ignoring other important issues in favor of stories on “balloon boy?” With Making the News, Amber Boydstun offers an eye-opening look at the explosive patterns of media attention that determine which issues are brought before the public. At the heart of her argument is the observation that the media have two modes: an “alarm mode” for breaking stories and a “patrol mode” for covering them in greater depth. While institutional incentives often initiate alarm mode around a story, they also propel news outlets into the watchdog-like patrol mode around its policy implications until the next big news item breaks. What results from this pattern of fixation followed by rapid change is skewed coverage of policy issues, with a few receiving the majority of media attention while others receive none at all. Boydstun documents this systemic explosiveness and skew through analysis of media coverage across policy issues, including in-depth looks at the waxing and waning of coverage around two issues: capital punishment and the “war on terror.” Making the News shows how the seemingly unpredictable day-to-day decisions of the newsroom produce distinct patterns of operation with implications—good and bad—for national politics.
