The Media and Political Process
by Eric LouwEdition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-03-12
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications Ltd
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Summary
This fully revised new edition of The Media and Political Process assesses the impact of spin doctoring and media activity in liberal democracies that are just as concerned with impression management and public relations as with policy. Political processes never stand still, and this revised second edition explores the mediatization of the political process in light of recent developments, from Vladimir Putin's growth into a political celebrity, to the activities of spin doctors in the 2008 US Presidential Elections.Â
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Politics: Image Versus Substance | |
| What is Politics? | |
| Politics: Hype and Substance | |
| The Media as a Power Resource | |
| The Game of Political Impression Management | |
| What is Media-ized Politics? | |
| Western Political Development: An Evolving Symbiosis of Media and Politics | |
| The Origins of Liberal Democracy | |
| The Early Anglo Model | |
| The Massification of Liberal Democracy | |
| Managing Democracy: Taming Western Publics | |
| The Media's Evolving Role in Liberal Governance | |
| Liberal Democracy and the Public Sphere | |
| Political Media Practice: An Outline | |
| From Fourth Estate to Sensationalized Watchdogism | |
| News as Entertaining Spectacle | |
| Constructing the News Window 1: Journalistic Practices | |
| Constructing the News Window 2: Choosing Sources | |
| Constructing the News Window 3: Newsroom Struggles | |
| Institutionalizing the Media-Politician Relationship | |
| Journalists: Watchdogs or Symbiotic Partners? | |
| Journalistic 'Power' | |
| Spin-doctoring: The Art of Political Public Relations | |
| The Rise of PR Professionals as Political Players | |
| Changes to the Political Process | |
| The Innovators of PR-ized Politics | |
| The Normalization of PR-ized Politics | |
| What is Political PR? | |
| The Tools of Political PR | |
| Selling Politicians and Creating Celebrity | |
| Constructing Celebrity | |
| The Game: Playing to a Televisual Audience | |
| Genres of Political Celebrity | |
| Selling Political Policies and Beliefs | |
| Worldviews | |
| Making Worldviews | |
| Popularizing Worldviews | |
| The Function of Worldviews | |
| Selling War/Selling Peace | |
| The Era of Mass Consent for Mass Killing | |
| Vietnam: A Televised Non-censored War | |
| The PR-ization of Warfare | |
| Nintendo Warfare | |
| The Iraq War | |
| Selling Peace | |
| The Media and Terrorism | |
| Terrorism as Communication | |
| Terrorist Audiences | |
| Fighting Terrorism | |
| Terrorism and the Media | |
| The Media and Foreign Relations | |
| The CNN Effect | |
| Foreign Policy Making: The Players | |
| The Media and Foreign Relations | |
| The Media-ized Dimension of Foreign Relations | |
| Conclusion: Searching for Answers (and Questions) | |
| What is Media-ization | |
| The Routines and Practices of Media-ized Politics | |
| Creating Hype Politics | |
| When Things Go Wrong for Spin-doctors | |
| Hype-Politics: A System in Trouble or a System Re-Inventing Itself? | |
| Is Media-ization Bad? | |
| Glossary | |
| References | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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