Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 485 g
An Evaluation of the Political Public Sphere
Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 485 g
ISBN: 978-0-415-21279-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Journalism and Democracy challenges this orthodoxy, arguing instead for an alternative, more optimistic evaluation of the contemporary public sphere and its contribution to the political process. Brian McNair argues not only that the quantity of political information in mass circulation has expanded hugely in the late twentieth century, but that political journalism has become steadily more rigorous and effective in its criticism of elites, more accessible to the public, and more thorough in its coverage of the political process.
Journalism and Democracy combines textual analysis and extensive in-depth interviews with political journalists, editors, presenters and documentary makers. In separate chapters devoted to the political news agenda, the political interview, punditry, public access media and spin doctoring, McNair considers whether dumbing down is a genuinely new trend in political journalism, or a kind of moral panic, provoked by suspicion of mass involvement in culture.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Presse & Journalismus
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1 Journalism and Democracy; Chapter 2 The Political Public Sphere; Chapter 3 Policy, Process, Performance and Sleaze; Chapter 4 The Interpretative Moment; Chapter 5 The Interrogative Moment; Chapter 6 The Sound of the Crowd; Chapter 7 ‘Spin, Whores, Spin’; Chapter 8 The Media and Politics, 1992–97; Chapter 9 Political Journalism and the Crisis of Mass Representation;