Authors: Katrin Voltmer
ISBN-13: 9780415459716, ISBN-10: 0415459710
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This book examines how political communication and the mass media have played a central role in the consolidation of emerging democracies around the world.
Covering a broad range of political and cultural contexts, including Eastern and Southern Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, this new volume investigates the problems and conflicts arising in the process of establishing an independent media and competitive politics in post-autocratic societies. Considering the changing dynamic in the relationship between political actors, the media and their audience, the authors of this volume address the following issues:
This book will be of great interest to all those studying and researching democracy and democratization, comparative politics, political communication, journalism, media and the Internet.
1 | The mass media and the dynamics of political communication in processes of democratization : an introduction | 1 |
2 | The role of the press in times of transition : the building of the Spanish democracy (1975-78) | 23 |
3 | 'In the name of democracy' : the paradox of democracy and press freedom in post-communist Russia | 42 |
4 | Conflicts of interest? : debating the media's role in post-apartheid South Africa | 59 |
5 | In journalism we trust? : credibility and fragmented journalism in Latin America | 76 |
6 | Old and new media, old and new politics? : on- and offline reporting in the 2002 Ukrainian election campaign | 92 |
7 | Electoral campaigning in Latin America's new democracies : the Southern Cone | 115 |
8 | Democratization and election campaigning in Taiwan : professionalizing the professionals | 133 |
9 | Where's the party? : television and election campaigns in Russia | 152 |
10 | The Internet in politics : democracy in e-government in Taiwan | 168 |
11 | Does 'trust' mean attention, comprehension and acceptance? : paradoxes of Russian viewers' news processing | 189 |
12 | Politics and the media in post-communist Russia | 210 |
13 | New democracies without citizens? : mass media and democratic orientations - a four-country comparison | 228 |
14 | Conclusion : political communication between democratization and the trajectories of the past | 246 |